Challenge: 50 Books discussion

In the year 2007, I read 79 books.
In the year 2008, I read 100 books.
In the year 2009, I read 165 books.
In the year 2010, I read 145 books.
In the year 2011, as I began to start taking notes on a portion of my reading, I read 82 books.
In the year 2012, I read 62 books
In the year 2013, I read 90 books.
In the year 2014, I read 87 books.
Last year, in 2015, (having largely given up note-taking as I've returned to buying the majority of my reading), I read 126 books.

For this year, my official goal is to read 75 books. So far, I've completed one book:

1) Beginning to Pray by Anthony Bloom

2) An Introduction to God: Encountering The Divine in Orthodox Christianity by Andrew Stephen Damick

3) Articles of Faith, Articles of Peace: The Religious Liberty Clauses and the American Public Philosophy, edited by James Davison Hunter and Os Guinness

4) The Orthodox Way by Kallistos Ware

5) Saint Silouan the Athonite by Sophrony Sakharov

6) Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present by Michael B. Oren

7) Song of Songs by Richard S. Hess

8) Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith by Francis J. Beckwith

9) Wounded by Love: The Life and Wisdom of Elder Porphyrios by Elder Porphyrios

10) In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492-1783 by Mark A. Noll

11) The Juvenilization of American Christianity by Thomas Bergler

12) Mount Athos, Thessaly, and Epirus: A Diary of a Journey from Constantinople to Corfu by George Ferguson Bowen

13) The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption by Matt Chandler

14) Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe v. Wade by Daniel K. Williams

15) The Unbelievable Gospel: Say Something Worth Believing by Jonathan K. Dodson

16) With Pain and Love for Contemporary Man by Paisios of Mount Athos - finished while returning to Ouranoupoli from Mount Athos!

17) Laurus by Evgenij Vodolazkin

18) The Monks of Mount Athos: A Western Monk's Extraordinary Spiritual Journey on Eastern Holy Ground by M. Basil Pennington

19) Faith Under Fire: What the Middle East Conflict Has Taught Me about God by Andrew White

20) An American Son: A Memoir by Marco Rubio

21) Ministries of Mercy: The Call of the Jericho Road by Timothy Keller

22) Spiritual Awakening by St. Paisios of Mount Athos

23) The Christian Wallet: Spending, Giving, and Living with a Conscience by Mike Slaughter

24) Acts: An Exegetical Commentary: Volume 1: Introduction and 1:1-2:47 by Craig S. Keener

25) Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef

26) Sanctorum Communio: A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

27) The Cost: My Life on a Terrorist Hit List by Ali Husnain

28) The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church by Reggie McNeal

29) No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes by Anand Gopal

So, I've realized that I missed one back in February! I don't know how I neglected this, but the actual thirteenth book I read was Christian Criticisms, Islamic Proofs: Rashid Rida’s Modernist Defence of Islam, edited and translated by Simon A. Wood.

From February 8 onward, all other entries should have their numbers increased by one.

Thus, I've completed 30 books so far.

31) Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam

32) The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel E. Lieberman

33) The Lord's Prayer by Archimandrite George

34) Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World by Jeffrey Herf

35) Discipleship That Fits: The Five Kinds of Relationships God Uses to Help Us Grow by Bobby William Harrington and Alex Absalom

36) The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World's Most Notorious Atheist by Larry Alex Taunton

37) The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism by Abdulaziz Sachedina

38) Impossible Love: The True Story of an African Civil War, Miracles and Hope Against All Odds by Craig Keener and Médine Moussounga Keener

39) The Biggest Story: How the Snake Crusher Brings Us Back to the Garden by Kevin DeYoung

40) Conscience: What It Is, How to Train It, and Loving Those Who Differ by Andrew David Naselli and J. D. Crowley

41) The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God by Timothy Keller

42) Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes by Mary Eberstadt

43) The Audacious Ascetic: What the Bin Laden Tapes Reveal about Al-Qa'ida by Flagg Miller

44) Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard

45) The Blessing Of Blessings: Gregory of Narek's Commentary on the Song of Songs by Grigor Narekatsi

46) Political Church: The Local Assembly as Embassy of Christ's Rule by Jonathan Leeman

47) Delivered from the Elements of the World: Atonement, Justification, Mission by Peter J. Leithart

48) Activist Faith: From Him and For Him by Dillon Burroughs, Daniel Darling, and Dan King

49) The History of Islamic Political Thought: From the Prophet to the Present by Antony Black

50) Debating Moderate Islam: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West, edited by M.A. Muqtedar Khan