Tried With Fire

Here is the list of my favorite books for 2016 in the order read/listened. Not quite half of my total "reads" were audiobooks. I am a fast reader and often skim past details, so listening helps me pay better attention. I used to play it safe in my choices, but I am branching out. I want to be a sound thinker, and that won't happen if my ideas are not challenged. Some books were unexpected delights like "A Man Called Ove," which I got from Audible on a whim. Others were convicting, took me out of my comfort zone, and made me stop and ponder. The last three are still in progress, but they merit inclusion on this list. A Belief in a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion - Melvin J. Lerner Neither Complementarian Nor Egalitarian: A Kingdom Corrective to the Gender Debate - Michelle Lee-Barnewall Unashamed: Healing Our Brokenness and Finding Freedom from Shame - Heather Davis Nelson Left: The Struggle to Make Sense of Life When a Parent Leaves - Jonatha...

This is my tentative reading list, which is subject to change. I am hoping to go for quality reading rather than quantity. I also want to read for the joy of learning without the pressure of completing a certain number of books in a year. I've given up on book-buying moratoriums, but I will try to read books I already own or buy used books rather than new. For daily reading: The Valley of Vision , Arthur Bennett, editor.  A Scriptural Exposition of the Baptist Catechism , Benjamin Beddone.  On the doctrine of God: God Without Passions, A Reader, edited by Samuel Renihan. Historical sources supporting the doctrine of Divine Impassibility. God Without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Metaphysics of God's Absoluteness , James Dolezal. A defense of the doctrine of Divine Simplicity and critique of modern detractors. The Doctrine of God, Herman Bavinck. This is taken from the 2nd volume of Reformed Dogmatics. I found a used copy at Alibris.com for a grea...