Arriving Somewhere

Back in ‘04 I started compiling a list of books that I had read. Here’s that year’s list with links to Amazon, alphabetical by title. The number represents my score for the book out of 5:

(0) despised it
(1) didn’t like it
(2) it was ok (think of this as a grade of a C)
(3) enjoyed it (grade B, I would recommend this book)
(4) loved it (grade A)
(5) brilliant

2004
20 books read on the year - not bad for me.

Five Stars
Three books won the coveted five star rating: The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (really a series, but they’re short enough to read all seven straight through) Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card, and Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. I highly recommend each of these if you haven’t already read them. I rarely re-read books, but I’m certain that I will read these again.

Non-Fiction
The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz (3)
Chechnya Diary by Thomas Goltz (4)
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis (3)
The First World War by John Keegan (4)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (2)
What Went Wrong? by Bernard Lewis (3)

Religion & Spirituality
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller (2)
A New Kind of Christian by Brian D. McLaren (3)
Science & Christianity: Four Views by Richard F. Carlson (4)

Science Fiction & Fantasy
Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card (4)
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis (3)

Other Fiction
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (2)
Megatokyo, Vol. 2 by Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston (4)