Here’s what I read this year, alphabetized by last name:
- Genesis, translated by Robert Alter
- Exodus, translated by Robert Alter
- Leviticus, translated by Robert Alter
- Jonah, translated by Robert Alter
- On Revolution by Hanna Arendt (third read)
- Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson (second read)
- The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
- The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
- The Italian Renaissance by Kenneth R. Bartlett (lecture series)
- Frederick Douglas: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
- The God We Never Knew by Marcus J. Borg
- St. Thomas Aquinas by G. K. Chesterton
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle
- Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes what We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer l. Eberhardt
- Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
- Sovereignty: God, State, and Self by Jean Bethke Elshtain
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
- The Limits of History by Constantin Fasolt
- The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner
- Radical Prayer: Love in Action by Matthew Fox (lecture series) (second listen)
- The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
- Life in a Medieval Village by Frances and Joseph Gies
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
- Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism by Onur Ulas Ince
- The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas by Peter Kreeft (lecture series)
- The Platonic Tradition by Peter Kreeft
- Change the Story: Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth by David C. Lorten
- One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic: A History of the Church in the Middle Ages by Thomas F. Madden (lecture series)
- The Principles of Representative Government by Bernard Manin
- The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer
- The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O’Brian (fifth read)
- The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O’Brian (fifth read)
- The Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O’Brian (fifth read)
- The Letter of Marque by Patrick O’Brian (fifth read)
- The Far Side of the World by Patrick O’Brian (fifth read)
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell (two reads)
- The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
- Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times by David S. Reynolds
- God and the World of Signs: Trinity, Evolution, and the Metaphysical Semiotics of C.S. Pierce by Andrew Robinson
- Traces of the Trinity: Signs, Sacraments, and Sharing God’s Life by Andrew Robinson
- An Introduction to Greek Philosophy by David Roochnik (lecture series)
- College (Un)Bound by Jeffrey J. Selingo
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare (fourth and fifth reads)
- A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
- Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit
- Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World by Clive Thompson
- Phenomenology: The Basics by Dan Zahavi