Wednesday, December 30, 2015

The Books I Read in 2015 and My Top 10 of the Year

I said last year that my second book would be published this year.  It has not yet been published, but I have made a web site for it:  http://www.godhasabandonedamerica.com/

Here is the list of the top ten books I read in 2015 and a list of every book I read this year—sixty-nine books.


Top 10 of 2015

1. Altman—Kathryn Reed Altman and Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan

2. Remembering Who We Are

3. Lovely, Dark, Deep—Joyce Carol Oates

4. Jesus’ Son—Denis Johnson

5. The Unspeakable—Meghan Daum

6. Stealing America—Dinesh D’Souza

7. Things That Matter—Charles Krauthammer

8. Nothing Abides—Daniel Pipes

9. A Time for Truth—Ted Cruz

10. Sweet Freedom—Sarah Palin


The 69 books I read in 2015

1. Under the Skin—Michel Faber

2. Running Dog—Don DeLillo

3. Double Down—Mark Halperin and John Heilemann

4. Let the Great World Spin—Colum McCann

5. Altman—Kathryn Reed Altman and Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan

6. The Nightingale—Kristin Hannah

7. Jesus Prom—Jon Weece

8. Bias in the Booth—Dylan Gwinn

9. The Girl on the Train—Paula Hawkins

10. A Question of Upbringing—Anthony Powell

11. ‘Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry’—Colin Flaherty

12. Don’t Take My Lemonade Stand—Janie Johnson

13. Pigs Can’t Swim—Helen Peppe

14. All the Light We Cannot See—Anthony Doerr

15. Blood Feud—Edward Klein

16. Clinton Cash—Peter Schweizer

17. Rising to the Challenge—Carly Fiorina

18. Saturday Night Live—Alison Castle

19. The Naked Communist—W. Cleon Skousen

20. Surrounded by Friends—Matthew Rohrer

21. Country of Ghost—Gaylord Brewer

22. Split Season: 1981—Jeff Katz

23. The Silencing—Kirsten Powers

24. Lovely, Dark, Deep—Joyce Carol Oates

25. Remembering Who We Are

26. Jesus’ Son—Denis Johnson

27. Herzog—Saul Bellow

28. Abortion Free—Troy Newman & Cheryl Sullenger

29. Dragon’s Teeth—Upton Sinclair

30. Things That Matter—Charles Krauthammer

31. ¡Adios, America!—Ann Coulter

32. A Time for Truth—Ted Cruz

33. Go Set a Watchman—Harper Lee

34. Hillary Unhinged—Thomas Kuiper

35. 23 Anti-procrastination Habits—S.J. Scott

36. The First Family Detail—Ronald Kessler

37. Dragons of Dinosaurs?—Darek Isaacs

38. End of Discussion—Mary Katharine Ham and Guy Benson

39. Fanaticus—Justine Gubar

40. The Queen—Hugh Hewitt

41. Purity—Jonathan Franzen

42. It’s Not Over—Michelangelo Signorile

43. You’re Going to Be Dead One Day—David Horowitz

44. Scarlet Letters—Jack Cashill

45. A Divine Revelation of Satan’s Deceptions—Mary K. Baxter

46. Takedown—Paul Kengor

47. The Devil’s Pleasure Palace—Michael Walsh

48. The Eighth Kingdom—Perry Stone

49. The Marvels—Brian Selznick

50. The Atheist Who Didn’t Exist—Andy Bannister

51. The Poet’s Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire—Gaylord Brewer

52. Dreamers and Deceivers—Glenn Beck

53. Fool’s Talk—Os Guinness

54. God’s Crime Scene—J. Warner Wallace

55. The Unspeakable—Meghan Daum

56. Nothing Abides—Daniel Pipes

57. Juniors—Kaui Hart Hemmings

58. The Moor’s Account—Laila Lalami

59. Reasonable Faith—William Lane Craig

60. Blue Estate—Viktor Kalvachev and Kosta Yanev

61. Stealing America—Dinesh D’Souza

62. Sweet Freedom—Sarah Palin

63. VHS Video Cover Art—Thomas Hodge

64. Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims—Rush Limbaugh

65. Unlikeable—Edward Klein

66. The Clintons’ War on Women—Roger Stone and Robert Morrow

67. Chinese Propaganda Posters—Stefan R. Landsberger, Anchee Min, and Duo Duo

68. A Year in Photography

69. Between Riverside and Crazy—Stephen Adly Guirgis