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Monday, January 7, 2013

Great Reads from 2012


If you know me, you know I like to read and 2012 was a good reading year.  Here are my top reads from last year.

1.       N.T. Wright, When God Became King:  The Forgotten Story of the Gospels.  Wright reminds us that the Gospel is a much bigger story than just our personal salvation.  Jesus ushered in the Kingdom of God and we join with Him in Kingdom work right now.
2.      Shusaku Endo, Silence.  A novel about the martyrdom of the Japanese Christians in the 16th century as Japan sought to remove Christianity from their culture.
3.      James Ballanca and Ron Brandt, 21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn. A collection of articles by the leading reformers in education.  This book encapsulates many of the current strategies we are working toward at Shannon Forest Christian School.
4.      Linda Sue Parker, When My Name was Keoko.  The story of a young Korean girl growing up under Japanese occupation and forced to have a Japanese name.
5.      Daniel Kahneman.  Thinking, fast and slow.  We understand so little of how our brain works.  Kahneman, a Nobel laureate, presents a reader friendly synopsis of the best research on cognition.

In no order of significance, here the rest of my 2012 reading list.

Alcorn
Randy
The Grace and Truth Paradox
Bascomb
Neal
The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less than Four Minutes to Achieve It
Blevins
Win
Stone Song: A Novel of the life of Crazy Horse
Bridges
Jerry
The Discipline of Grace
Child
Lee
Tripwire
Child
Lee
Running Blind
Child
Lee
Echo Burning
Child
Lee
Without Fail
Child
Lee
Persuader
Child
Lee
Enemy
Child
Lee
One Shot
Child
Lee
The Affair
Child
Lee
The Hard Way
Child
Lee
Nothing to Lose
Child
Lee
Gone Tomorrow
Child
Lee
Worth Dying For
Collins
Suzanne
The Hunger Games
Collins
Suzanne
Girl on Fire
Collins
Suzanne
Mockingjay
Connelly
Michael
The Drop
David
Howarth
We Die Alone
Donovan
James
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn
Fin
Adharanand
Running With The Kenyans
Flynn
Vince
Kill Shot
French
Thomas
Zoo Story
Friedman
Edwin
Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
Gambetta
Vern
Athletic Development
Gordon
Noah
The Physician
Keller
Timothy
The Meaning of Marriage
Kinnaman
David
You Lost Me:  Why Young Christians are Leaving Church and Rethinking Faith
Kyle
Chris
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in US Military History
Lewis
CS
Mere Christianity
Lyons
Gabe
The Next Christians
Marzluff
John
Gifts of the Crow
Mills
Kyle
The Immortalists
Mistry
Rohinton
A Fine Balance
Parker
John
Again to Carthage
Pierce
Bill
Run Less, Run Faster
Prescott
Michael
Dangerous Games
Prescott
Michael
Mortal Fault
Richardson
Don
Peace Child
Robertson
David
Once They Moved like the Wind
Rollins
James
Altar of Eden
Stone
Irving
Men to Match My Mountains
Tribelhorn
Thomas
My Professor Says the Bible is a Myth
Tucker
Ross
The Runner's Body
Vigil
Joe
Road to the Top

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