Friday, December 29, 2017

Top 8 Agatha Christie Books Read in 2017















  1. Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
  2. And Then There Were None (1939)
  3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
  4. The A.B.C. Murders (1936)
  5. 4.50 From Paddington (1957)
  6. The Pale Horse (1961)
  7. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (1975)
  8. Hallowe'en Party (1969)

Top 15 Books by C. S. Lewis Read in 2017














  1. The Great Divorce (1945)
  2. Letters of C. S. Lewis (1966)
  3. Mere Christianity (1952)
  4. The Four Loves (1960)
  5. The Screwtape Letters (1942)
  6. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)
  7. The Horse and His Boy (1954)
  8. The Magician's Nephew (1955)
  9. Prince Caspian (1951)
  10. The Silver Chair (1953)
  11. On Stories and Other Essays on Literature (1982)
  12. God in the Dock (1970)
  13. The Dark Tower and Other Stories (1977)
  14. Spirits in Bondage (1919)
  15. Spenser's Images of Life (with Alistair Fowler) (1967)

Top 15 Books Read in 2017 about C. S. Lewis and/or One or More Inklings

  1. C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table - James T. Como
  2. The Christian World of the Hobbit - Devin Brown
  3. Bringing Narnia Home - Devin Brown
  4. The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle - Colin Duriez
  5. The Heroes of Tolkien - David Day
  6. The Wisdom of the Shire - Noble Smith
  7. Through Joy and Beyond - Walter Hooper
  8. A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War - Jospeh Loconte
  9. The Pilgrim's Guide: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness - David Mills
  10. C. S. Lewis: Through the Shadowlands - Brian Sibley
  11. The Most Reluctant Convert - David C. Downing
  12. C. S. Lewis: Images of His World - Douglas Gilbert & Clyde S. Kilby
  13. The Lion's World - Rowan Williams
  14. C. S. Lewis: Christian and Storyteller - Beatrice Gormley
  15. C. S. Lewis: An Apologist for Education - Louis Markos


Top 40 Books Read in 2017 (Excluding C. S. Lewis and Agatha Christie)


  1. The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton
  2. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
  3. Right Ho, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
  4. The Return of the King - J. R. R. Tolkien
  5. The Sacrament of Evangelism - Jerry Root & Stan Guthrie
  6. Parnassus On Wheels - Christopher Morley
  7. Dancing on the Head of a Pen - Robert Benson
  8. The Flying Inn - G. K. Chesterton
  9. One for the Books - Joe Queenan
  10. The Place of the Lion - Charles Williams
  11. The Golden Key - George MacDonald
  12. The Ballad of the White Horse - G. K. Chesterton
  13. Defiant Joy: The Remarkable Life & Impact of G. K. Chesterton - Kevin Belmonte
  14. Letters to Heaven: Reaching Beyond the Great Divide - Calvin Miller
  15. All Hallows' Eve - Charles Williams
  16. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
  17. Cupside Down - Terry Cliett
  18. The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
  19. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  20. Thrones, Dominations - Dorothy L. Sayers & Jill Paton Walsh
  21. A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
  22. The Divine Comedy I: Hell - Dorothy L. Sayers
  23. The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library - Alice Kimberly
  24. Striding Folly - Dorothy L. Sayers
  25. The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
  26. Clouds of Witness - Dorothy L. Sayers
  27. Quest for Celestia - Steven James
  28. 84, Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
  29. Chivalry - Zach Hunter
  30. King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table - Roger Lancelyn Green
  31. Lilith - George MacDonald
  32. The Lair of the White Worm - Bram Stoker
  33. Descent into Hell - Charles Williams
  34. The Bookshop Book - Jen Campbell
  35. Saint Francis of Assisi - G. K. Chesterton
  36. Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham - J. R. R. Tolkien
  37. Poor Folk - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  38. Four Quartets - T. S. Eliot
  39. De Doctrina Christiana - St. Augustine
  40. The Pastor as Scholar & The Scholar as Pastor - John Piper & D. A. Carson

December Reading


  1. The Epistle to the Galatians - Ronald Y. K. Fung
  2. Galatians - Richard N. Longenecker
  3. Galatians - Douglas J. Moo
  4. The Epistle to the Galatians - F. F. Bruce
  5. Galatians - R. Alan Cole
  6. The Epistle to the Galatians - Floyd E. Hamilton
  7. Galatians and You - C. Norman Bartlett
  8. The Glory of Galatians - Fred M. Wood
  9. Galatians: Saved by Grace - Thomas Lea
  10. Spurgeon Commentary: Galatians - Elliot Ritzema
  11. Galatians - Martin Luther
  12. Galatians - John MacArthur
  13. Exploring Galatians - John Phillips
  14. The NIV Application Commentary: Galatians - Scot McKnight
  15. The New American Commentary: Galatians - Timothy George
  16. Galatians - J. Vernon McGee
  17. The Place of the Lion - Charles Williams
  18. The Christian World of the Hobbit - Devin Brown
  19. Christ-Centered Exposition: Exalting Jesus in Galatians - David Platt and Tony Merida
  20. The Lion's World - Rowan Williams
  21. The Pale Horse - Agatha Christie
  22. The Heroes of Tolkien - David Day
  23. A Year with C. S. Lewis