Thus Concludes 2024

Another reading year "in the books." This post recaps the year and presents what I consider the best of the bunch.

I read 60 books this year, totaling 15,271 pages—about 42 pages a day. My average rating was 90.6/100.

Of the 60 books, 0 were audiobooks, 0 were eBooks, and 4 were borrowed from the library or friends. By genre, I read 9 fantasy books, 17 on religion, 11 graphic novels, 5 literature, 12 Arthurian, and a smattering of others.

I chipped away at my 200-book American Reading List (presented in three parts: here, here, here) and read 4 titles on those lists. I revisited Arthurian works, as I intended this year. I looked at a lot of theology books to prepare for a Sunday school class I taught. And I kept my 'owned but unread' pile to a reasonable size.

Here are my top ten reads from this year:

Daniel Nayeri: Everything Sad is Untrue

Marilynne Robinson: Gilead

Michael Kruger: Canon Revisited

John Frame: The Doctrine of the Word of God

Peter Brown: The Wild Robot

Elissa Weichbrodt: Redeeming Vision

F.F. Bruce: The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?

Jason Reynolds: Long Way Down

Howard Pyle: The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur

C.S. Lewis: The Reading Life

On the whole, this was a good reading year. May 2025 bring further works of excellence. Happy reading!