A Year of Reading

One of my new year traditions is to look back at what I read in the last year — my goal was to read 30 books in 2020 and one impact of COVID/lockdown was that I managed to read (re-read in some cases) 51! An eclectic mix in here … (I’m kicking off 2021 by re-reading the The Lord of the Rings) …

  • Boothroyd, Basil, Philip: An Informal Biography (London: Longman, 1971)
  • Boreham, F. W., The Fiery Crags (London: The Epworth Press, 1928)
  • Boreham, F. W., Mushrooms on the Moor (New York: Abingdon Press, 1915).
  • Browning, Helen and Finney, Tim, Pig: Tales from an Organic Farm (London: Wildfire, 2018)
  • Butler, Joshua Ryan, The Skeleton’s in God’s Closet (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2014)
  • Carson, Rachel, The Sea Around Us (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018 [1950])
  • Conan Doyle, Arthur, The Complete Sherlock Holmes (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2015)
  • Crumley, Jim, The Nature of Summer (Salford: Saraband, 2020)
  • DeYoung, Kevin, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will (Chicago: Moody Publishing, 2009)
  • Durie, Mark, The Qur’an and Its Biblical Reflexes: Investigations into the Genesis of a Religion (Lanham, MA: Lexington Books, 2018)
  • Entwhistle, Matthew D., Millican Dalton: A Search for Romance and Freedom (Blackburn, Lancashire: Mountainmere Research, 2004)
  • Hixson, Elijah and Gurry, Peter J., Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism (Grand Rapids: IVP Academic, 2019)
  • Holland, Tom, Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind (London: Little, Brown, 2019)
  • Kane, Brendan, One Million Followers: How I Built a Massive Social Media Following in 30 Days (Dallas, TX: BenBella Books, 2018)
  • Keller, Timothy, On Death (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2020)
  • Lanier, Jaron, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now (London: Vintage Books, 2018)
  • Lencioni, Patrick, The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998)
  • Lennox, John C., 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Reflective, 2020)
  • Lennox, John C., Where is God in a Coronavirus World? (Epsom, UK: The Good Book Company, 2020)
  • Lewis-Strempel, John, The Private Life of the Hare (London: Doubleday, 2019)
  • Lister-Kaye, John, At the Water’s Edge: A Walk in the Wild (London: Canongate, 2010)
  • Lukianoff, Greg and Haidt, Jonathan, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (London: Penguin, 2019 [2018])
  • Milton, Giles, White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa’s One Million European Slaves (London: John Murray, 2004)
  • Oliver, Neil, The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places (London: Bantam Press, 2018)
  • Orr-Ewing, Amy, Where is God in all the Suffering? (Epsom, UK: The Good Book Company, 2020)
  • Pratchett, Terry, A Hat Full of Sky (London: Corgi Books, 2012)
  • Pratchett, Terry, Lords and Ladies (London: Corgi Books, 1993)
  • Pratchett, Terry, Moving Pictures (London: Corgi Books, 1991)
  • Pratchett, Terry, Soul Music (London: Victor Gollancz, 1994)
  • Pratchett, Terry, The Wee Free Men (London: Random House, 2003)
  • Qureshi, Nabeel, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity, 3rd Edition (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2018)
  • Reiss, Karina and Bkhakdi, Sucharit, Corona False Alarm? Facts and Figures (London: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020)
  • Reynolds, Gabriel Said, Allah: God in the Qur’an (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020)
  • Salway, Peter, Roman Britain: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984)
  • Scrivener, Glen, Reading Between the Lines, Volume 1: Old Testament Daily Readings (Leyland: 10Publishing, 2018)
  • Shepherd, Nan, The Living Mountain (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2011 [1977])
  • Shumack, Richard, Jesus Through Muslim Eyes (London: SPCK, 2020)
  • Skenazy, Lenore, Free Range Kids: How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts With Worry) San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010
  • Sowell, Thomas, Controversial Essays (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2002)
  • Sowell, Thomas, The Quest for Cosmic Justice (New York: Touchstone, 1999).
  • Stedman, Rick, 31 Surprising Reasons to Believe in God (Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 2017)
  • Steiger, Andy, Reclaimed: How Jesus Restores Our Humanity in a Dehumanized World (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2020)
  • Stone, Elaine Murray, Maximilian Kolbe: Saint of Auschwitz (New York: Paulist Press, 1997)
  • Strange, Daniel, Plugged In: Connecting Your Faith With What You Watch, Read, and Play (Epsom, UK: The Good Book Company, 2019)
  • Tarrants, Thomas A., Consumed by Hate, Redeemed by Love: How a Violent Klansman Became a Champion of Racial Reconciliation (Nashville, TN: Nelson Books, 2019)
  • Tolkien, J. R. R., The Hobbit (London: HarperCollins, 1999 [1937])
  • Tyler, Dominick, Uncommon Ground: A Word-Lover’s Guide to the British Landscape (London: Guardian Books, 2015)
  • Volf, Miroslav, Allah: A Christian Response (New York: HarperOne, 2011)
  • Wallace, David Foster, This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009)
  • Wright, Tom, God and the Pandemic: A Christian Reflection on the Coronavirus and Its Aftermath (London: SPCK, 2020)
  • Zacharias, Ravi and Murray, Abdu, Seeing Jesus from the East: A Fresh Look at History’s Most Influential Figure (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2020)

Dr. Andy Bannister is a popular speaker, author and broadcaster. Andy is the Director of Solas, an organisation that helps people think about the big questions of life. He speaks and teaches regularly throughout the UK, Canada, the USA, and the wider world on issues relating to faith, culture, politics and society. Andy holds a PhD in Islamic Studies and has published books on everything from Islam to atheism to communication.

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