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, 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.
In the year 2015, I read 126 books.
In the year 2016, I read 113 books.
In the year 2017, I read 153 books.
In the year 2018, I read 100 books.

And this year, knowing I have some especially dense tomes on my plate (and a wife to wed), I'll take on a sensible goal of 80.

I can begin now:

1) Christ in the Psalms by Patrick Henry Reardon

JB wrote: "And this year, knowing I have some especially dense tomes on my plate (and a wife to wed), I'll take on a sensible goal of 80."

Ooh, sounds like a big year! Good luck on all of it!

Thanks, Tiffany!

2) Interpreting Revelation and Other Apocalyptic Literature: An Exegetical Handbook by C. Marvin Pate

3) The Letters of Gregory the Great, vol. 1: Books 1-4 by Pope St. Gregory I and translated by John R. C. Martyn

4) Exposition of the Apocalypse by Tyconius of Carthage

5) Writing Biography: Historians and Their Craft, edited by Lloyd E. Ambrosius

6) A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission Around the Table by Tim Chester

7) The Book of Revelation in Christological Focus by Dan Lioy

8) The Czech Reader: History, Culture, Politics, edited by Jan Bažant, Nina Bažantová, and Frances Starn

9) Revelation and the End of All Things by Craig R. Koester

10) The Didascalia Apostolorum: An English Version with Introduction and Annotation, by Alistair Stewart-Sykes

11) Greek Commentaries on Revelation by Oecumenius and Andrew of Caesarea; translated by William C. Weinrich and edited by Thomas C. Oden

12) Revelation Through the Centuries: The Apocalypse to Jesus Christ by Judith L. Kovacs and Christopher Rowland

13) Latin Commentaries on Revelation, edited and translated by William C. Weinrich

14) On the Liturgy, Volume II: Books 3-4 by Amalar of Metz

15) On the Genre and Message of Revelation by Bruce J. Malina

16) Crusade and Christendom: Annotated Documents in Translation from Innocent III to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291, edited by Jessalynn Lea Bird, et al.

17) Apocalypse and Allegiance: Worship, Politics, and Devotion in the Book of Revelation by J. Nelson Kraybill

18) The Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Book of Revelation by Richard Bauckham

19) The Heliand: The Saxon Gospel, translated by G. Ronald Murphy

20) Collected Essays, vol. 5: Religion and Public Reasons by John Finnis

21) Piers Plowman: A Modern Verse Translation by William Langland and translated by Peter Sutton

22) The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting by Colin J. Hemer

23) Polycarp's Epistle to the Philippians and the Martyrdom of Polycarp: Introduction, Text, and Commentary by Paul Hartog

24) Comfort and Protest: The Apocalypse from a South African Perspective by Allan Aubrey Boesak

25) Luther's Works, vol. 42: Devotional Writings I by Martin Luther

26) The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History by Stephan Talty

27) Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It by James D. Ciment

28) Navigating the Book of Revelation: Special Studies on Important Issues by Kenneth L. Gentry Jr.

29) The Acts of the Christian Martyrs, edited by Herbert Anthony Musurillo

30) The Gospel of Matthew Through New Eyes, vol. 1: Jesus as Israel (Matthew 1-12) by Peter J. Leithart

31) The Use of Zechariah in Revelation by Marko Jauhiainen

32) Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination by Eugene H. Peterson

33) Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism, vol. 1: From Herodotus to Plutarch, edited by Menahem Stern

34) Buddhism: A Christian Exploration and Appraisal by Keith Yandell and Harold Netland

35) The Letters of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury by Lanfranc

36) A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign by Edward J. Larson

37) Evangelical Action!: A Report of the Organization of the National Association of Evangelicals for United Action, edited by Harold John Ockenga, et al.

38) Nicholas Mesarites: His Life and Works in Translation, translated by Michael Angold

39) The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin

40) The Fall Of The Byzantine Empire: A Chronicle by George Sphrantzes, 1401-1477 by George Sphrantzes

41) Scorn for the World: Bernard of Cluny's De Contemptu Mundi : The Latin Text with English Translation and an Introduction by Bernard of Cluny

42) The Choice Between Two Cities: Whore, Bride, And Empire In The Apocalypse by Barbara R. Rossing

43) Revelation by Craig S. Keener

44) Revelation by Grant R. Osborne

45) Revelation by Joseph Mangina

46) Revelation by Peter S. Williamson

47) Imperial Cult and Commerce in John's Apocalypse by J. Nelson Kraybill

48) Beyond the Modern Age: An Archaeology of Contemporary Culture by Bob Goudzwaard and Craig G. Bartholomew

49) St. Gregory Thaumaturgus: Life and Works (Fathers of the Church) by Gregory Thaumaturgus and translated by Michael Slusser