My 2014 Reading List

Sadly, one of the things I sacrifice when writing, is reading. Ironic, huh? By the paltry size of these lists, you can see I’m not a prolific reader. Or maybe I was just writing a lot. Either way, I still managed to settle down long enough to consume the following fare. For whatever reason, when I’m writing fiction I prefer reading non-fiction. Which is one of the reasons my 2014 list is weighted towards non-fiction. In no particular order…

FICTION:

• Something from the Nightside (Nightside, Book 1), by Simon R. Green
• The Reapers are the Angels, by Alden Bell
• The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All: Stories by Laird Barron
• Kill the Dead: A Sandman Slim Novel, by Richard Kadrey
• Arthur Machen Collected Works: 23 Tales of Horror & Other Fiction Short Stories, by Arthur Machen
• Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2) by Jim Butcher
• Hellboy, Vol. 4: The Right Hand of Doom Paperback, by Mike Mignola

 NON-FICTION:

• Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting, by W. Scott Poole
• Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing, by Melissa Mohr
• Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint, by Andrew R. Chesnut
• Can We Still Believe the Bible?: An Evangelical Engagement with Contemporary Questions, Craig Blomberg
• Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen, by Douglas E. Cowan
• The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation, by Michael Medved
• 13 Things that Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time, by Michael Brooks
• Renaissance: The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times, by Os Guinness
• The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, by Steven Pressfield
• Same-Sex Marriage: A Thoughtful Approach to God’s Design for Marriage, by Sean McDowell and John Stonestreet
• The Dore Gallery: His 120 Greatest Illustrations (Dover Pictorial Archives), by Gustave Doré
• Faith and Doubt, by John Ortberg
• The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, by Timothy Keller
• Calvin vs. Wesley: Bringing Belief in Line with Practice, by Don Thorsen
• Your Life as Story, by Tristine Rainer

My favorites of 2014:

FICTION: The Reapers are the Angels and Arthur Machen’s Collected Works.

NON-FICTION: Can We Still Believe the Bible?, Holy Sh*t, and The Reason for God.