JB's Challenge List for 2017

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In the year 2007, I read 79 books.
In the year 2008, I read 100 books.
In the year 2009, I read 165 books.
In the year 2010, I read 145 books.
In the year 2011, I read 82 books.
In the year 2012, I read 62 books
In the year 2013, I read 90 books.
In the year 2014, I read 87 books.
In the year 2015, I read 126 books.
And last year, in 2016, I read 113 books.

For this year, my official goal is to read 100 books. So far, I've completed one book:

1) The Sharia State: Arab Spring and Democratization by Bassam Tibi

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2) Old English Shorter Poems, Volume I: Religious and Didactic, edited/translated by Christopher A. Jones

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3) It's Dangerous to Believe: Religious Freedom and Its Enemies by Mary Eberstadt

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4) Cobb’s Ordeal: The Diaries of a Virginia Farmer, edited by Daniel W. Crofts

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5) The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 20: The "Miscellanies," 833-1152 by Jonathan Edwards

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6) The Theology Of Unity by Muhammad Abduh

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7) Juan de Segovia and the Fight for Peace: Christians and Muslims in the Fifteenth Century by Anne Marie Wolf

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8) A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back by Kevin Hazzard

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9) The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State by Graeme Wood

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10) The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 19: Sermons and Discourses, 1734-1738 by Jonathan Edwards

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11) The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg

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12) Islam and the Foundations of Political Power by Ali Abdel Razek

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13) Natural Rights and the Right to Choose by Hadley Arkes

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14) Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich

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15) Old English Shorter Poems, Volume II: Wisdom and Lyric, edited and translated by Robert E. Bjork

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16) Ruricius of Limoges and Friends: A Collection of Letters from Visigothic Gaul, translated by Ralph W. Mathisen

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17) Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law: Dhimmis and Others in the Empire of Law by Anver M. Emon

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18) The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 23: The "Miscellanies," 1153-1360 by Jonathan Edwards

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19) Armed State Building: Confronting State Failure, 1898-2012 by Paul D. Miller

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20) Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami

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21) The Journals and Papers of David Shultze, Vol. 1: 1726-1760 by David Shultze

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22) Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints, edited/translated by Mary Clayton

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23) Inside Stalin's Russia: The Diaries of Reader Bullard, 1930-1934 by Reader Bullard

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24) In the Shade of the Qur'an, Vol. 2: Surah 3 Al-'Imran by Sayyid Qutb

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25) The Fatherhood of God from Origen to Athanasius by Peter Widdicombe

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26) Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

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27) Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning by Justin Buckley Dyer

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28) Freedom of Expression in Islam by Mohammad Hashim Kamali

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29) Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949 by J. Otto Pohl

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30) The Complete Works of Rather of Verona, edited and translated by Peter L.D. Reid

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31) We Have No King But Christ': Christian Political Thought in Greater Syria on the Eve of the Arab Conquest by Philip Wood

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32) The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church by Vladimir Lossky

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33) The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 22: Sermons and Discourses, 1739-1742 by Jonathan Edwards

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34) Charles Borromeo: Selected Orations, Homilies and Writings by St. Charles Borromeo

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35) City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp by Ben Rawlence

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36) Silence by Shūsaku Endō

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37) Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration by Pope Benedict XVI

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38) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

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39) Toward a Global Civilization of Love and Tolerance by M. Fethullah Gülen

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40) Women and the Genesis of Christianity by Ben Witherington III

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41) Muslim-Christian Relations in Late Ottoman Palestine: Where Nationalism and Religion Intersect by Erik Freas

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42) Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving through Deep Difference by John D. Inazu

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43) Final Words from the Cross by Adam Hamilton

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44) Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection by Pope Benedict XVI

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45) Destroyer of the Gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World by Larry W. Hurtado

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46) The Journals and Papers of David Shultze, Vol. 2: 1761-1797 by David Shultze and edited by Andrew S. Berky

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47) Safe Haven?: A History of Refugees in America by David Haines

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48) A Place at the Table: 40 Days of Solidarity with the Poor by Chris Seay

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49) The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 16: Letters and Personal Writings by Jonathan Edwards

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50) The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam by Muhammad Iqbal