3) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig

2) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

1) 1771 by David McCullough

2005

Obviously, I lost track of books read somewhere in 2004 and didn't keep up at all in 2005. But I am proud to say that, as of 12/13/2005, I have finally completed the Patrick O'Brian series of naval books - all twenty of them. And I promise that in 2006, I will be more obsessive compulsive and keep a worthy list and post it here.

Books read in 2004:

37) The Bible

36) The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki

35) Soul Survivor by Philip Yancey

34) Treason's Harbor by Patrick O'Brian

33) The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian

32) Longitudes and Attitudes by Thomas Friedman

31) The Servant by James C. Hunter

30) Jesus, CEO by Laurie Beth Jones

29) The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman

28) Hannibal: One Man Against Rome by Charlton Griffin

27) The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian

26) The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom

25) Why People Believe Wierd Things by Michael Shermer

24) My Life by Bill Clinton.

23) The Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian

22) Around the World in Eighty Days by Michael Palin

21) Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

20) The Prayer Matrix by David Jeremiah

19) The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris

18) St. Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton

17) The Life of Pi by Yan Martel

16) Walden Pond by Ralph Waldo Emerson

15) Self-Reliance & Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

14) Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian

13) Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian

12) H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian

11) Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian

10) Getting Things Done by David Allen

9) The Giver by Lois Lowry

8) Lake Woebegone 1956 by Garrison Keillor

7) Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

6) What's So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey

5) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

4) God's Man in Texas by David Rambo

3) Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

2) Amazing Grace by Kathleen Norris

1) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig

Books read in 2003:

51) Rumors of Another World by Philip Yancey

50) Reaching for the Invisible God by Philip Yancey

49) The Dream of Reason by Anthony Gottlieb

48) The Matrix and Philosophy by William Erwin, editor

47) Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

46) Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose

45) Harry Potter and the Sorcer's Stone by J. K. Rowling

44) Thomas Jefferson by Joyce Appleby

43) Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese

42) Hard Laughter by Ann Lamotte

41) Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

40) Rooster Creek Girl Runs Away by Shawna Lee Hopkins

39) Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson

38) Bird by Bird by Anne Lamotte

37) Spirits in the Field by Bruce Hopkins

36) Living History by Hillary Clinton

35) Natural Church Development by Christian A. Schwarz

34) The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre

33) The Sky Is Falling by Sidney Sheldon

32) Detachment Bravo by Richard Marcinko

31) Net Force by Tom Clancy

30) Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer

29) Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

28) Linked by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

27) Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

26) Lusitania by Diana Preston

25) Raving Fans by Ken Blanchard & Sheldon Bowles

24) Fish Sticks by Lundin, Christensen and Paul

23) Fish Tales by Lundin, Christensen and Paul

22) The New Testament: A Student's Introduction by Stephend L. Harris

21) Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House tapes, 1964-65, by Michael Bleschloss

20) Fish! by Lundin, Paul and Christensen

19) The Stone-Campbell Movement by Leroy Garrett

18) The Greatest Secret in the World by Og Mandino

17) The Sea Wolf by Jack London (again)

16) Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (twice)

15) Religion, Scriptures and Spirituality by Charles Adams and Walter Harrelson

14) Life of Pi by Yann Martel (twice)

13) Reading the Bible Again for the First Time by Marcus J. Borg

12) Truman by David McCullough

11) Ulysses by James Joyce

10) Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison

9) Prey by Michael Crichton

8) The Principles and Objects of the Religious Reformation by Robert Richardson

7) Far Appalachia by Noah Adams

6) Three Junes by Julia Glass

5) The Lotus and the Cross: Jesus Talks with Buddha by Ravi Zacharias

4) Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

3) The Men We Long to Be by Stephen B. Boyd

2) Wild at Heart by John Eldredge

1) The Bible - I read through the Bible again as my first book of the year.

Books read in 2002:

A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

A Time to Be Born - A Time To Die by Robert L. Short

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

American Pastoral by Phillip Roth

Crusade by Rick Atkinson

From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun

John Adams by David McCullough

Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot by Richard M. Restak

Nothing Like It in the World by Stephen Ambrose

Red Rabbit by Tom Clancey

Sea Biscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

The Bible Jesus Read by Philip Yancey

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

The Riddle of the Compass by Amir D. Aczel

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris

The Sea Wolf by Jack London

The Shipping News by E. Annie Prouix

The Wild Blue by Stephen Ambrose

Why People Belive Wierd Things by Michael Shermer

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig