Dave's Reading List 2007

So, last year, I (Dave) saw that another blogger friend of ours had compiled a list of all of the books that he had read for 2006. Thinking that it would be cool to keep track of what and how much I was reading, I decided to blatantly steal his idea for 2007.

I present to you my reading list for the last year. The following, then, is the list of all of the books that I finished reading in 2007, which means that it does not include articles read, parts of books that were never finished, and does include a few that were started the previous year and finally got done this past year.

Green books get a positive review, Red a negative, and Black are just neutral.

Personal
“The Ambler Warning” Robert Ludlum 632 pgs.
“Wicked” Gregory Maguire 409
“The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” L. Frank Baum 230
“Map of Bones” James Rollins 523
“The Worst Hard Time” Timothy Egan 330
“Velvet Elvis” Rob Bell 194
“The Story of Christianity” Justo Gonzalez 815
“The Grapes of Wrath” John Steinbeck 455
“Everybody Wants to go to Heaven, But Nobody Wants to Die” David Crowder & M. Hogan 262
“Flyboys” James Bradley 492
“Over the Edge of the World” Laurence Bergreen 420
“Brave New World” Aldous Huxley 323
“Rules” Cynthia Lord 200
“Land of Lincoln” Andrew Ferguson 280
“Guns, Germs, and Steel” Jared Diamond 440
“My Grandfather’s Son” Clarence Thomas 293
“The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid” Bill Bryson 268

Professional
“The Unquenchable Worshiper” Matt Redman 122
“Since Nobody’s Perfect… How Good Is Good Enough?” Andy Stanley 94
“Abraham” Bruce Fieler 224
“Keeping Hope Alive” Lewis Smedes 181
“How Can the Bible be Authoritative?” (Speech Manuscript ) N.T. Wright 40
“Shaped by God’s Heart” Milfred Minterea 188
“Who You Are When No One’s Looking” Bill Hybels 113
“Revolution of Character” Dallas Willard 190
“Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done” Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan 269
“Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport” Richard Mouw 127
“The Externally Focused Church” Rick Rusaw & Eric Swanson 220
“Leading Change” John P. Kotter 187
“Don’t Waste Your Life” John Piper 189
“A Work of Heart” Reggie Mc Neal 199
“Prayer: Does it Make Any Difference?” Phillip Yancey 334
“The Five Love Languages” Gary Chapman 203
“The Tipping Point” Malcom Gladwell 280
“What Every Sunday School Teacher Should Know” Elmer Towns 180
“What to Do When You Don’t Want to Go to Church” Peggy Sue Wells & Patt Palau 213
“Velvet Elvis” Rob Bell 194
“The 21rst Century Pastor” David Fisher 248
“The Present Future” Reggie McNeal 155

Totals for 2007: 10,716 pages, 39 books

For someone that grew up hating to read, I do feel pretty accomplished looking at a list like this. But, being in 2 different book reading groups tends to help.