Thursday, December 29, 2016

The Books I Read in 2016 and My Top 10 of the Year

God Has Abandoned America (the website) has expired and the ebook still has not been published.  I didn't read as many books as usual because I became a teacher in August; that has kept me too busy to read as much as before.  I read forty-four books this year.  Here's my top 10 and the list of the forty-four:

My top 10 of 2016

1. The Age of Miracles--Karen Thompson Walker
2. Movie Freak--Owen Gleiberman
3. Never Trust a Liberal Over 3-Especially a Republican--Ann Coulter
4. I Want My MTV--Rob Tannenbaum and Craig Marks
5. The Snapping of the American Mind--David Kupelian
6. The Babylon Code--Paul McGuire and Troy Anderson
7. VJ--Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and Martha Quinn with Gavin Edwards
8. The People Vs. Barack Obama--Ben Shapiro
9. Zero K--Don DeLillo
10. Esau Rising--Bill Cloud

The 44 books I read in 2016

1. God's Unwelcome Recovery--Sean Oliver-Dee
2. The Babylon Code--Paul McGuire and Troy Anderson
3. Thrown under the Omnibus--P.J. O'Rourke
4. A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka--Lev Golinkin
5. Me Before You--Jojo Moyes
6. Movie Freak--Owen Gleiberman
7. What If America Were a Christian Nation Again?--D. James Kennedy with Jerry Newcombe
8. The Snapping of the American Mind--David Kupelian
9. So Sad Today--Melissa Broder
10. Never Trust a Liberal Over 3-Especially a Republican--Ann Coulter
11. The People Vs. Barack Obama--Ben Shapiro
12. The Age of Miracles--Karen Thompson Walker
13. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges--Nathan Englander
14. Why Are We in Vietnam?--Norman Mailer
15. Gathering Prey--John Sandford
16. I Want My MTV--Rob Tannenbaum and Craig Marks
17. The Deception of Martial Arts and Yoga--Frederick R. Grigg
18. VJ--Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and Martha Quinn with Gavin Edwards
19. The Sympathizer--Viet Thanh Nguyn
20. Debunking Human Evolution Taught in Our Public Schools--Daniel A. Biddle, David A. Bisbee, & Jerry Bergman
21. You Will Be Made to Care--Erick Erickson and Bill Blankschaen
22. The Killing of Osama Bin Laden--Seymour M. Hersh
23. Get in Trouble--Kelly Link
24. LaRose--Louise Erdrich
25. Zero K--Don DeLillo
26. There Goes My Social Life--Stacey Dash
27. With My Eyes Wide Open--Brian "Head" Welch with Carol Traver
28. Chappaquiddick Tragedy--Donald Frederick Nelson
29. Esau Rising--Bill Cloud
30. The Girls--Emma Cline
31. The Geography of Madness--Frank Bures
32. The Intelligent Conversationalist--Imogen Lloyd Webber
33. Crisis of Character--Gary J. Byrne
34. It IS About Islam--Glenn Beck
35. Happy, Happy, Happy--Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach
36. How the Dead Dream--Lydia Millet
37. Buffalo Before Breakfast--Mary Pope Osborne
38. Tigers at Twilight--Mary Pope Osborne
39. Dingoes at Dinnertime--Mary Pope Osborne
40. Tonight on the Titanic--Mary Pope Osborne
41. The Names--Don DeLillo
42. Light in August--William Faulkner
43. Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims--Clyde Robert Bulla
44. The Bad Guys: Episode 1--Aaron Blabey