The following books were read by Doug in 2004. Only Doug is weird enough to keep a list of all the books he has read in a given year.
- The Lost Boy (David Pelzer)
- “With His Pistol In His Hand”: A Border Ballad and Its Hero (Amerigo Paredes)
- George Washington Gomez (Amerigo Paredes)
- The Mote in God’s Eye (Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle)
- I Kissed Dating Goodbye (Joshua Harris)
- Revolt in 2100 (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Handbook to Happiness (Charles R. Solomon)
- The Case for Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus (Lee Strobel)
- Glorious Appearing: The End of Days (Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins)
- The Last Juror (John Grisham)
- A Planet Called Treason (Orson Scot Card)
- Through a Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick)
- The Philip K. Dick Reader (Philip K. Dick)
- Galaxies Like Grains of Sand (Brian Aldiss)
- Prelude to Mars (Arthur C. Clarke)
- Have Space Suit – Will Travel (Robert A. Heinlein)
- Eternity Road (Jack McDevitt)
- Hackers (Steven Levy)
- The Tenth Justice (Brad Meltzer)
- Timescape (Ben Bova)
- The Tolkien Relation: A Personal Inquiry (William Bernard Ready)
- The Gripping Hand (Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle)
- Shadow of the Hegemon (Orson Scott Card)
- The Vortex Blaster (E.E. “Doc” Smith)
- Prey (Michael Crichton)
- Ender’s Shadow (Orson Scott Card)
- A Different Drummer: My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan (Michael K. Deaver)
- SSN (Tom Clancy)
- Saturday Nights at Seven: The Jack Benny Story (Jack Benny, Joan Benny)
- Vanished (Danielle Steele)
Danielle Steele?
I got it for free, and it involved a kidnapping. It wasn’t good enough to re-read, as I recall, or bad enough to throw away.
You’re not criticizing me for Glorious Appearing? (I have found the Left Behind series to be fun-but-shallow; they might be categorized as an adult Christian’s Hardy Boys- or Nancy Drew- level books.) What scares me is that so many people take them as factual. I’d love to bring some of the Bereans forward in time …
Ender’s Shadow, The Philip K. Dick Reader, A Case for Christ, and A Different Drummer were my favorites of the books I read in 2004.
Jack McDevitt’s Eternity Road was a re-read. I highly recommend his science fiction, although he tends to do poorly in the denoument, everything else is superior.