In light of yesterday’s post, here are my “A +” rated
non-fiction books I’ve read over the past twelve years, grouped broadly by
topic:
Religion
The Dolorous Passion
of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by Anne Katherine Emmerich
The Journey, by Billy Graham
Believing is Seeing, by Michael Guillen
Jesus Shock, by Peter Kreeft
Come Meet Jesus, by Father Cedric Piscegna
The Divine Exchange
and Ultimate Security, by Derek
Prince
The Life of Christ,
by Bishop Fulton Sheen
What On Earth Am I
Here For? and The Purpose-Driven Life,
by Rick Warren
Autobiography of a
Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda
Philosophy
The Golden Sayings of
Epictetus, by, yes, you guessed it, Epictetus
The Doctrine of
Awakening, by Julius Evola
Science and Math
Prime Obsession,
by John Derbyshire
Mathematical Mysteries,
by Claude Clawson
Seven Brief Lessons on
Physics, by Carlo Rovelli
History
History of Ancient
Egypt, by Bob Brier
Sports
Watching Baseball
Smarter, by Zach Hample
Civil War
A Short History of the
Civil War, Never Call Retreat, and
A Stillness at Appomattox, by Bruce
Catton
The Red Badge of
Courage, by Stephen Crane (technically fiction but really about the Battle
of Chancellorsville)
Killing Lincoln,
by Martin Dugard (and some guy named Bill O’Reilly)
Gods and Generals
and The Last Full Measure, by Jeff
Shaara
Pickett’s Charge,
by George R. Stewart
Lincoln and His
Generals, by T. Harry Williams
World War II
The Guns at Last Light,
by Rick Atkinson
Commander-in-Chief,
by Eric Larrabee
Pearl Harbor: From
Infamy to Greatness, by Craig Nelson
The Longest Day,
by Cornelius Ryan
Self-Help
The 10X Rule, by
Grant Cardone
Old School Grit,
by Darrin Donnelly
How to Teach Your
Children Shakespeare, by Ken Ludwig
The War of Art and
The Warrior Ethos, by Steven
Pressfield
The Science of Getting
Rich, by Wallace Wattles
Discipline Equals
Freedom, by Jocko Willink
In these dozen years I’ve also read the King James bible
cover-to-cover – Genesis to Revelation, and how does one grade that? In my
notes I gave every book of the Bible an “A”, though some books struck a deeper
chord with me than others – Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, Matthew, John, Romans,
James, the Apocalypse, for example. Additionally, I’ve read some Biblical books
in other translations – the Douay-Rheims and the Challoner version of the D-R.
These books could also obviously be “graded” an A+, but for the fact that they
last raised goose bumps on my arms during my first read-through, back in 1992.
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