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Books I’ve read in 2021

A few years ago a friend suggested a goal (not so much a resolution) to read at least twelve books a year. That’s basically one per month. I adopted the same approach. When I say “read” I mostly mean listened to the audio book. But, I thought I’d write this post to capture the Books I’ve read in 2021.

1. Bible – A number of years ago I used a daily devotion to read through the Bible in two years. After doing that for about six years (three times through the Bible) I decided I should read through the Bible every year. I have now adopted a method where I read through the Proverbs, Psalms and Gospel of John each month, and the rest of the 63 books of the Bible once during the year. I am on pace to complete this. If you’d be interested in receiving a daily email with the reminders to read the Bible please let me know.
2. The Bible from 30,000 Feet – For the past couple of years I have been reading this wonderful book by Skip Heitzig a chapter a week during the year. Again, I am on pace to complete this by the end of 2021. My daily emails also include reminders for the weeks reading, or a link to watch the sermons in his sermon series on this.
3. Texit, by Daniel Miller – the author asks this interesting question “knowing now what you know about the Federal government, would you vote to join it? If not, why would you vote to stay?” Mr Miller takes the reader through a history lesson of the nation of Texas, the State of Texas and what it means to be a republic. Texit is not about succession. It is about leaving the union and reasserting itself as a sovereign nation. He covers the process and answers many questions and objections. This is an important book not only for all Texans, but also all American’s
4. Texas Five Star Plan: Replacing Politicians with Patriots, by Robert West – are you frustrated with the state of our government? Me too! The problem is that come November, unless you vote for the other party, which probably won’t fit any of your beliefs, you are out of options. The author presents a clear cut method to primary incumbents with patriots who subscribe to a simple core of principals. Another must read for Texans. But those from other states will learn a lot too!
5. Shadow of the Almighty, by Elisabeth Elliot – one Sunday our pastor suggested reading books by missionaries and then quoted something from Elisabeth Elliot. I found this gem in the Audible Plus catalog.
6. Social Media Marketing for Beginners 2022, by Chandler Miller and Donald Preace
7. Inconvenient Facts, by Gregory Wrightstone – the author was a guest on the Candace show. With so much talk about global warming, green energy, etc this is a relevant topic. Unfortunately for the left, if you arm yourself with the material in this book, you’ll realize how weak their arguments really are.
8. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, by Jaron Lanier – Lanier was interviewed in the documentary The Social Dilemma. Here he expands on those thoughts and paints a picture of what social media is and why you as a “user” are not the customer. Reading this was one of the steps to lead me to write this article and sign off of Facebook.
9. Master Plan of Evangelism, by Robert Coleman
10. Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam, by Vivek Ramaswamy
11. The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America’s Institutions Against Dissent, by Ben Shapiro
12. The Sprout Book: Tap into the Power of the Planet’s Most Nutritious Food, by Doug Evans. I heard the author interviewed by Rip Esselstyne on the Engine 2 podcast. Since I am growing Sprouts and Microgreens for Texoma Micro and selling them at Farmers Markets I was keenly interested in more information on this subject.
13. Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, by Michael Knowles. This book is so good that even through it was number one upon release, the New York Times refused to recognize it on their best seller list! A must read to understand how words we use all the time are being repurposed to mean something else entirely.
14. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, by Jordan Peterson – what started out as a post of fifty some odd items on Reddit became a book. Now there is a sequel also, which I have on my future reading list. It’s a great read. But if you want to simply know the 12 rules you can go here.
15. Praying the Bible, by Donald S. Whitney – I read this book in 2020, and then read it again in 2021. Yes, it’s that good. Simple, yet deep. I’ll probably read it again next year too! If you’d like a free synopsis you can check out this series of BLOG posts.
16. Exodus, by Skip Heitzig – This is a sermon series I listened to on Audible
17. Matthew, by Skip Heitzig – this is a sermon series I listened to on Audible
18. The Urban Farmer, by Curtis Stone – another book that I listened to again in 2021.
19. The Alzheimer’s Solution, Dean Sherzai and Ayesha Sherzai – does Alzheimer’s or dementia run in your family? Would you like to minimize your chances of being impacted by this dreadful disease? Then this is a must listen/read. 2021 was the second time through this book for me!

In addition to completing the books above, the following are in progress:

1. A History of the American People, by Paul Johnson – there is so much in the news that is a false narrative of American history that I wanted to better understand how the nation truly came to be. This audio book is 45+ hours. I’m a little over ten hours into it. So probably won’t complete it until early 2022.
2. The Rodal Book of Composting, by Grace Gershuny and Deborah Martin
3. Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt

So what about you? Did you read any of the books I’ve read? Have you read any good books lately? Got and recommendations for me to consider in 2022? Please comment below.