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