I haven’t written much at all this year. I go through seasons where I need to listen more than I speak and read more than I write. While I haven’t been writing much, I have been reading more than ever. I have never been one to breeze through a novel in a couple of days. I envy those “speed readers.” But at my own pace and leisure, the number of books on my list has grown significantly over the last few years. I’ve already read more books this year than I did over the total course of last year.

Here are the voices to which I’ve been listening. Here are the lives I’ve been living. Here are the conversations into which I have entered.

  • The Battle of the Labyrinth, by Rick Riordan
  • Bringing Up Boys, by James Dobson
  • Ender’s Shadow, by Orson Scott Card
  • The Last Olympian, by Rick Riordan
  • What’s So Amazing about Grace? by Philip Yancey
  • Shadow of the Hegemon, by Orson Scott Card
  • The Lost Hero, by Rick Riordan
  • Twelve Ordinary Men, by John MacArthur
  • Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton
  • Odd Thomas, by Dean Koontz
  • The Son of Neptune, by Rick Riordan
  • Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs
  • The Giver, by Lois Lowry
  • Divergent, by Veronica Roth
  • Indescribable, by Lois Giglio and Matt Redman
  • The Mark of Athena, by Rick Riordan
  • The Irrational Atheist, by Vox Day
  • Dad Is Fat, by Jim Gaffigan
  • Hollow City, by Ransom Riggs
  • Darwin’s Black Box, by Michael Behe
  • The Fault in Our Stars, by John Greene
  • Shadow Puppets, by Orson Scott Card
  • The House of Hades, by Rick Riordan
  • Shadow of the Giant, by Orson Scott Card
  • Shadows in Flight, by Orson Scott Card
  • The Case for the Real Jesus, by Lee Strobel
  • The Canon, by Natalie Angier
  • Gathering Blue, by Lois Lowry
  • Letters from a Skeptic, by Gregory Boyd
  • Who Is This Man? by John Ortberg
  • Messenger, by Lois Lowry
  • Son, by Lois Lowry