Books I've Read: Interesting, informative, uplifting, or terrifying? You decide

If you're looking for thought-provoking books, here's my partial list. Bookmark and check back often — I'll be adding to it and linking to more complete reviews.

I have read a lot of books over the years, and I thought I’d share a running but partial list here. There’s no way this could ever be exhaustive, but I’ll try to make sure I hit the highlights, at least. I’ll write reviews for some of these books, and edit this page to link to them. You can even share your book suggestions in the comments.

Just because I’ve read it doesn’t mean I agree with it

I don’t limit myself to reading authors that share my own ideology or world view. You’ll find radically secular authors like Yuval Noah Harari here, as well as Biblical apologetics scholars like William Lane Craig. I think it’s good to challenge ourselves with other material, as long as our critical thinking faculties are strong enough to withstand horrible and sometimes seductive ideas from time to time. The value of that is in understanding what others think and why. I’ll learn something new in the process, and I can better influence others if I understand their thinking.

I do tend to read non-fiction, but there are a few notable exceptions in the list. Some of my all-time favorites are noted with the 👉🏻 emoji. This is usually (not always) determined by whether I’ve found it worth reading more than once.

Books I’ve read, in no particular order (yet)

• 👉🏻 The Bible ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Common Sense, by Thomas Paine ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari

• 👉🏻 1984, by George Orwell ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• 👉🏻 Moby Dick, by Herman Melville ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution, by Lee Smolin ⭐⭐⭐

• 👉🏻 The Devil and Karl Marx, by Paul Kengor ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Killing Jesus, by Bill O’Reilly ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Resistance (at All Costs), by Kimberly Strassell ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• In the Beginning Was Information ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Killing the Mob, by Bill O’Reilly ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Killing Kennedy, by Bill O’Reilly ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Hitler’s Last Days, by Bill O’Reilly ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Killing the Deep State, by Jerome R. Corsi PhD ⭐⭐⭐

• 👉🏻 Killing Lincoln, by Bill O’Reilly ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• 👉🏻 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, by Mark Twain ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Fallout, by John Solomon & Seamus Bruner ⭐⭐

• Deep Work, by Cal Newport ⭐⭐⭐

• The Plot Against the President, by Lee Smith ⭐⭐⭐

• Above the Law, by Matthew Witaker ⭐⭐⭐

• Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, by Tim Weiner ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Profiles in Corruption, by Peter Schweizer ⭐⭐⭐

• 👉🏻 Permanent Record, by Edward Snowden ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• 👉🏻 Permanent Coup, by Lee Smith ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• 👉🏻 Enemies: A History of the FBI, by Tim Weiner ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris

• 👉🏻 Inventing the AIDS Virus, by Dr. Peter Duesberg ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• 👉🏻 The End of Reason, by Ravi Zacharias ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Jesus Among Secular Gods, by Ravi Zacharias ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• The Big Lie, by Dinesh D’Souza ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• 👉🏻 Signature in the Cell, by Stephen C. Meyer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• On Guard, by William Lane Craig ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Keynes Hayek, by Nicholas Wapshott ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• The Road to Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• 👉🏻 End the Fed, by Ron Paul ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Fed Up, by Danielle DiMartino Booth ⭐⭐⭐

• 👉🏻 Reasonable Faith, by William Lane Craig ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• The 10x Rule, by Grant Cardone ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Master Successful Personal Habits, by Zig Ziglar ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• 👉🏻 Is God a Moral Monster?, by Paul Copan ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• No Excuses: The Power of Self-Discipline, by Brian Tracy ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• 👉🏻 Quantum Enigma, by Bruce Rosenblum & Fred Kuttner ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• How to Stay Motivated, by Zig Ziglar ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Stealing From God, by Frank Turek ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Love Wins, by Rob Bell ⭐⭐⭐

• Eat That Frog!, by Brian Tracy ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• The Love Dare, by Stephen Kendrick & Alex Kendrick ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• The Social Media Compendium, by Michael Ingram ⭐⭐⭐

• How Successful People Lead, by John C. Maxwell ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• The Great Controversy, by Ellen G. White ⭐⭐⭐

• The Case Against the Fed, by Murray N. Rothbard ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation, by Lynne Truss ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• A Generous Orthodoxy, by Brian D. McLaren ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Do you have thoughts about some of these books, or want to suggest a new one for my reading list? Please share it in the comments!