Rating 100 Books I’ve Read This Year

2018 has already been my reading-est year ever. I’ve made a dedicated effort to read as often as possible. I’ve done some of this by waking up at 5 A.M. to stay on schedule with my wife who worked some early morning nursing shifts at the hospital.

Many book reviews, particular of Christian (or “Christian”) books give glowing endorsements. But not all books can be great. Probably an honest review of books would give ratings that fit a bell curve. But, that would only be if books were chosen at random. Since I have chosen to read books that I have some expectation of liking, it is no surprise that my ratings are more of a positive-shifted bell curve.

I strongly recommend reading the books which I’ve given 10/10, and I recommend considering to read those which I’ve given scores of 9/10 and 8/10. The books I’ve rated lower might have some value to you depending on your interests.

10/10

Theological Roots of Pentecostalism by Donald W. Dayton 10/10

A Church You Can See by Dennis Bills 10/10

Race over Grace by Charles Roberts 10/10

Attack on Everest by Hugh Ruttledge 10/10

A Reverence for Wood by Eric Sloane 10/10

Creative Historical Thinking by Michael J. Douma 10/10

9/10

Education, Christianity, and the State by J. Gresham Machen 9/10

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert by Rosaria Butterfield 9/10

Pat Robertson, A Warning to America by John Robbins 9/10

Scriptural Form of Church Government by C. C. Stewart 9/10

The Truth About Christian Science by James H. Snowden 9/10

Facing Up by Bear Grylls 9/10

Absolute Predestination by Jerome Zanchius 9/10

Christianity at the Crossroads by Michael Kruger 9/10

Corrupting the Word of God by Hanko and Hoeksema 9/10

Migration of Birds by Frederick C. Lincoln 9/10

For a Testimony by Bruce Hunt 9/10

Christian Reconstruction by Michael J. McVicar 9/10

The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough 9/10

Melanchthon The Quiet Reformer by Clyde Manschrek 9/10

8/10

Princeton Seminary by James Moorhead 8/10

Can the Orthodox Presbyterian Church be Saved by John Robbins 8/10

Jonathan Edwards by Iain Murray 8/10

The Gospel Comes With a Housekey by Rosaria Butterfield 8/10

The Great Evolution Mystery by Gordon Rattray Taylor 8/10

Can the Presbyterian Church in America by Saved by Sean Gerety 8/10

Strangers in Zion by William R. Glass 8/10

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 8/10

The Perfect Rule of the Christian Religion by John Howard Smith 8/10

12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson 8/10

Children of Doom by John W. Drakeford 8/10

The Gospel Truth of Justification by David Engelsma 8/10

7/10

Henry J. Kuiper by James A. DeJong 7/10

The Emperor Has No Clothes by Stephen M. Cunha 7/10

John Gerstner by Jeffrey S. MacDonald 7/10

Hell on Trial by Robert A. Peterson 7/10

The Man Who Moved a Mountain by Richard C. Davis 7/10

The Unlisted Legion by Jock Purves 7/10

The Final Word by O. Palmer Robertson 7/10

The People’s History of Presbyterianism by Robert P. Kerr 7/10

Presbyterians by George P. Hays 7/10

United Presbyterians by William J. Reid 7/10

The Presbyterian Standards by James Beattie 7/10

Prophecy and the Church by Oswald T. Allis 7/10

Samuel Davies by Dewey Roberts 7/10

Reasonable Faith by William Lane Craig 7/10

Intellectuals by Paul Johnson 7/10

An Introduction to Christian Apologetics by E. J. Carnell 7/10

Repentance by Charles Walker 7/10

6/10

History of the Presbyterian Church by Charles Hodge 6/10

Dispensationalism by Keith Mathison 6/10

The History Behind the RPCES by George Hutchinson 6/10

Letters of Francis Schaeffer ed. Lane Dennis 6/10

Fair Sunshine by Jock Purves 6/10

The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant 6/10

Letters from the Front ed. Barry Waugh 6/10

Thomas Jefferson’s Military Academy by Robert M. S. McDonald 6/10

Singing the Songs of Jesus by Michael Lefebvre 6/10

A Digest of the Records of the GA of the PCUSA, 1820 6/10

Songs of Zion by Michael Bushell 6/10

Instrumental Music by John Lafayette Girardeau 6/10

5/10

Letters of A. W. Pink 5/10

For Me to Live is Christ by Davis A. Young 5/10

The Death of a Church by Carl McIntire 5/10

The New Haggadah 5/10

Chosen by God by R. C. Sproul 5/10

Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by J. I. Packer 5/10

Getting the Message by Dan Doriani 5/10

No Final Conflict by Francis Schaeffer 5/10

Finding a Pastor by Joel Hathaway 5/10

Naming the Elephant by James Sire 5/10

Choosing the Good Portion ed. Clawson and Olinger 5/10

The Church Before the Watching World by Francis Schaeffer 5/10

Why Do They Dress That Way by Stephen Scott 5/10

The PCA Book of Church Order 5/10

4/10

Westminster Assembly by Robert Letham 4/10

Summoning Up Remembrances by Henry Stob 4/10

The God Who Shows Himself by Carl Henry 4/10

Openness Unhindered by Rosaria Butterfield 4/10

Her Hand in Marriage by Douglas Wilson 4/10

The Marrow Controversy and the Seceder Tradition 4/10

The Basis of the Christian Faith by Floyd Hamilton 4/10

The Creative Gift by H. R. Rookmaaker 4/10

Christianity and Philosophy by Arthur P. Holmes 4/10

A Guide to Fervent Prayer by A. W. Pink 4/10

Exclusive Psalmody by Brian Schwertley 4/10

3/10

Children of the Reformation by Marian M Schoolland 3/10

The Search for Salvation by David F. Wells 3/10

Why I am Not an Arminian by Robert Peterson 3/10

Creation Regained by Albert Wolters 3/10

2/10

McCheyne and Burns by James Alexander Stewart 2/10

Ecclesia Lutherana by Joseph Seiss 2/10

The Gospel as Taught by Calvin by R. C. Reed 2/10

The Infallible Word by Stonehouse and Woolley 2/10

Pleading for a Reformation Vision by David Calhoun 2/10

High Calvinism by Sonny Hernandez 2/10

1/10

The Complete Husband by Lou Priolo 1/10

The Lifegiving Parent by Clay and Sally Clarkson 1/10

The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum by R.J. Rushdoony 1/10

0/10

Seeing Christ in All of Scripture 0/10