I try to read as much as possible. It gets me off my phone and away from the television. I have read many books, mostly non-fiction, but I have made an effort to read some of the classics.
Here, I will introduce the book, give a short synopsis and rate the book on a five star scale. If the book really sucks, you won’t see it here so don’t expect to see a 1-star book.
I am adding this to really encourage myself to read, at least, a couple of books a month (preferably, one a week).
2023
The Art of Virtue by Benjamin Franklin (120 pages) – ****
The Maze by Nelson DeMille (420 pages) – ****
King Lear by William Shakespeare (174 pages) – *****
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (227 pages) – ****
Church of Cowards by Matt Walsh (208 pages) – ****
Don’t Burn This Country by Dave Rubin (240 pages) – ****
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (609 pages) – *****
Thomas Paine on Liberty: Common Sense and Other Writings (140 pages) – *****
Liberal Misery by Eddie Scarry (128 pages) – *****
Beyond Biden by Newt Gingrich (304 pages) – ****
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (234 pages) – *****
Washington on Leadership by George Washington (152 pages) – *****
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (208 pages) – *****
The Rational Bible: Genesis by Dennis Prager (548 pages) – *****
George Washington on Courage by George Washington (132 pages) – *****
The Gospel According to Satan by Jared C. Wilson (186 pages) – ****
Skeletons of the Zahara by Dean King (316 pages) – ****
Stolen Youth by Bethany Mandel & Karol Markowicz (259 pages) – *****
Thomas Jefferson on Freedom by Thomas Jefferson (139 pages) – *****
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (336 pages) – *****
Poor Richard’s Almanack by Ben Franklin (129 pages) – ***
You Can’t Joke About That by Kat Timpf (248 pages) – ***
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (544 pages) – *****
Leadership Lesson of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln (121 pages) – *****
The Rational Bible: Exodus by Dennis Prager (520 pages) – *****
When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives by Heather MacDonald (320 pages) – *****
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (326 pages) – *****
Laptop from Hell by Miranda Devine (224 pages) – ****
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (512 pages) – *****
The Nefarious Plot by Steve Deace (208 pages) – *****
Dark Future: Uncovering the Great Reset’s Terrifying Next Phase by Glen Beck (512 pages) – *****
Live Not by Lies by Rod Dreher (256 pages) – ****
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (462 pages) – *****
The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness by The Babylon Bee (208 pages) – *****
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (880 pages) – *****
The Thomas Sowell Reader by Thomas Sowell (464 pages) – *****
When Christmas Comes by Andrew Klavan (245 pages) – *****
Bible: Genesis (NKJV) (~76 pages) – *****
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (112 pages) – ***
The Bible: Exodus (124 pages)- *****
The Democrat Party Hates America by Mark Levin (400 pages) – *****
The Nefarious Carol by Steve Deace (112 pages) – *****
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Volume 1 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (615 pages) – *****
The Bible: Leviticus (89 pages) – *****
The Exorcist Tells His Story by Fr. Gabriele Amorth (210 pages) – ****
An Exorcist Explains the Demonic: The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels by Gabriele Amorth (145 pages) – ****
The Bible: Numbers (129 pages) – *****
The Bible: Deuteronomy (107 pages) – *****
Atheism Kills: The Dangers of a World Without God – and Cause for Hope: The Dangers of a World Without God — and Cause for Hope by Barak Lurie (382 pages) – *****
American Playbook: A Guide to Winning Back the Country from the Democrats by Clay Travis (304 pages) – *****
The Bible: Joshua (71 pages) – *****
The Gulag Archipelago – An Experiment In Literary Investigation Volume 2 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (663 pages) – *****
Statistics for 2023: 52 books, 14,798 pages