This is some of my recent reading from the past couple years with the most recently read listed first. I excluded poetry/short-stories and such. Most of my reading is fiction, but I read theology, biography, and adventure literature. I enjoy history, especially political/military history from the 18th and 19th centuries, and I love well-written books on the age of discovery and exploration. Is there any thing more adventurous than travel when technology existed to get you almost anywhere in the world, but made no promises about getting you back?
All books not considered Fiction/Literature are marked with *.
The Ginger Man - JP Donleavy
*Missoula - Jon Krakauer
*Dying Out Loud - Shawn Smucker
The Dark Tower - Stephen King
The Song of Susannah - Stephen King
The Wolves of the Calla - Stephen King
*Chasing the Dragon - Jackie Pullinger
*A Tale of Three Kings - Gene Edwards
*American Sniper - Chris Kyle
Cobra Gamble - Timothy Zahn
Cobra Slave - Timothy Zahn
*Walking From East to West - Ravi Zacharias
Cobra Guardian - Timothy Zahn
Cobra Alliance - Timothy Zahn
*The Explicit Gospel - Matt Chandler
*The New Covenant - Robert E Coleman
Wizard and Glass - Stephen King
The Wastelands - Stephen King
*The Insanity of God - Nik Ripkin
*Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior is Changing Everything - Robert Reilly
*Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus - Nabeel Qureshi
*Love Hunger - David Kyle Foster
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
*A Man on the Moon - Andrew Chaiken
*Sex, Dating, and Relationships - Gerald Hiestand, Jay Thomas
*The Question of God - Armond Nicoli
*A Heart for Freedom - Chai Ling
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Nathan Coulter - Wendell Berry
*Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape - Jenna Miscavige Hill
*Persecuted: the Global Assault on Christians - Paul Marshall
*A Severe Mercy - Sheldon VanAuken
The Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
*C.S. Lewis: A Life - Alistair McGrath
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
*God on Campus - Trent Sheppard
The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R Tolkien
*Wolf Willow - Wallace Stegner
*The Abolition of Man - C.S. Lewis
*The Green Berets - Robin Moore
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Hannah Coulter - Wendell Berry
*Young Men and Fire - Norman Maclean
Full Dark, No Stars - Stephen King
*The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang
*Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
*The Devil in Pew Number Seven - Rebecca Nichols Alonzo
*Ecology of a Cracker Childhood - Janisse Ray
Father Elijah - Michael O'Brien
*Crescent & Star - Stephen Kinzer
Jayber Crow - Wendell Berry
*Three Cups of Deceit - Jon Krakauer
*The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid - Pat Garrett
*Death in the Long Grass - Peter Capstick
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
*The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom
Luka and the Fire of Life - Salman Rushdie
*The Explicit Gospel - Matt Chandler
*Adrift - Stephen Callahan
*Mountain Rain - Eileen Crossman
The Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
*Lost in the Jungle - Yossi Ghinsberg
Deliverance - James Dickey
*Two Year's Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana, Jr
That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis
*Blind Man's Bluff - Sherry Sontag
The Wind Through the Keyhole - Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King
*Spain - A History - Raymond Carr
*The Expedition of the Donner Party - Elizabeth Poor Donnor Houghton
*The Gathering of Zion - Wallace Stegner
*Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey
The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett
*I Dared Call Him Father - Bilquis Sheikh
*Christianity and Islam in Spain - Charles Reginald Haines
*Son of Hamas - Mosab Hassan Yousef
*More than a Dream - Mohammad Al-Hallaaj
*Drinking the Sea at Gaza - Amira Hass
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Ron Hansen
*Epicenter - Joel Rosenberg
The Satanic Verses - Salmon Rushdie
*Black Mass - Dick Lehr
*Whose Child Is This? - Bill Wilson
*The Heavenly Man - Paul Hattaway
Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
*Discover the Keys to Staying Full of God - Andrew Wommack
The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis
*Skeletons on the Zahara - Dean King
The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John Le Carre
*How the Irish Saved Civilization - Thomas Cahill
Shalimar the Clown - Salman Rushdie
*The Myth of a Christian Nation - Gregory Boyd
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rawling
*Blood Brothers - Elias Chacour
*Light Force - Brother Andrew
*Lords of the Earth - Don Richardson
The Real Cool Killers - Chester Hines
*Answering Islam - Norman Geisler/Abdul Saleeb
Pick Up - Charles Willeford
Slow Walk in a Sad Rain - John McAfee
*The Prodigal God - Timothy Keller
*The Crescent Through the Eyes of the Cross - Nabeel Jabbour
*Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
*Bridges to Islam - Phil Parshall
The Ox-Bow Incident - Walter Van Tillman Clark
The Day of the Locust - Nathaniel West
*My Year Inside Radical Islam - Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
The Big Rock Candy Mountain - Wallace Stegner
*Sniper One - Dan Mills
Cobra Strike - Timothy Zahn
Cobra - Timothy Zahn
*Seven Doors to Islam - John Renard
The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis
*Tea with Hezbollah - Ted Dekkar/Carl Medearis
*Islam: The Religion and the People - Bernard Lewis
'Salem's Lot - Stephen King
*The Holiness-Pentecostal Movement in the United States - Vinson Synan
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
Down There - David Goodis
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Acceptance World - Anthony Powell
A Buyer's World - Anthony Powell
The Cardinal of the Kremlin - Tom Clancy
*Where Men Win Glory - Jon Krakauer
*Jerusalem 1913 - Amy Dockser Marcus
Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham
*Come Be My Light - Brian Kolodiejchuk and Mother Teresa
*The Costly Call - Emir Fethi Caner
*Bringing Up Boys - James Dobson
*Married to a Martyr - Johnathan Carswell
Trinity - Leon Uris
Perelandra - C.S. Lewis
Absalom! Absalom! - William Faulkner
House Made of Dawn - N. Scott Momaday
The Big Clock - Kenneth Fearing
*The Bounty - Caroline Alexander
I Married a Dead Man - Cornell Woolrich
Herzog - Saul Bellows
*The Philosophy of Sin - Oswald Chambers
Gone Baby Gone - Dennis LeHane
A Question of Upbringing - Anthony Powell
Crossing to Safety - Wallace Stegner
The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
*An Experiment in Criticism - C.S Lewis
Nightmare Alley - William Lindsay Gresham
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
*All Things Wise and Wonderful - James Herriot
The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
Thieves Like Us - Edward Anderson
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Big Money - John Dos Passos
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
*Napoleon - Felix Markham
*1776 - David McCollough
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
From Here to Eternity - James Jones
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Horace McCoy
Pigs Have Wings - P.G. Wodehouse
The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
1919 - John Dos Passos
Light in August - William Faulkner
The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
Judgment Day - James T. Farrell
The Shack - William Young
The 42nd Parallel - John Dos Passos
The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan - James T. Farrell
*Same Kind of Different As Me - Denver Moore, Ron Hall
Midnight's Children - Salmon Rushdie
Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
Young Lonigan - James T. Farrell
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
The Magus - John Fowles
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
*Bruchko - Bruce Olsen
The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
*Sea of Glory - Nathaniel Philbrick
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
Sophie's Choice - William Styron
*In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thorton Wilder
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
So Brave, Young and Handsome - Leif Enger
Schindler's List - Thomas Keneally
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis
The Dark Tower - Stephen King
My Antonia - Willa Cather
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Song of Susannah - Stephen King
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
*Spiritual Leadership - Henry Blackaby
Wolves of the Calla - Stephen King
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
A Death in the Family - James Agee
The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullars
Harry Potter: The Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Ulysses - James Joyce
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Lolita - Vladimer Nabokov
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Eighth Day - Thornton Wilder
King Lear - William Shakespeare
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
Candide - Voltaire
The Spectator Bird - Wallace Stegner
*Baffled to Fight Better - Oswald Chambers
Andersonville - McKinlay Kantor
*Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
*The Peoples of the British Isles - Stanford Lehmberg
The Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellows
*The Crisis of Islam - Bernard Lewis
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Cider House Rules - John Irving
Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
*Alive - Peirs Paul Ried
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiel Hammett
Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux
Bastard Out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
Paco's Story - Larry Heineman
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima
Grendel - John Gardner
Wizard and Glass - Stephen King
*Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence
The Wastelands - Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
The Gunslinger - Stephen King
*Notes on a Small Island - Bill Bryson
*Heavier than Heaven - Charles Cross
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
*A Room Full of Mirrors - Charles Cross
Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
*The Story of My Life - Farah Ahmedi
*Whose Land, Whose Promise? - Gary Burge
Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
*Mozart - Marcia Davenport