Books I Read in 2019

Bookshelves in Larry McMurtry’s Archer City Home. Copyright © 2019 by Shade Deggs.

Books are the greatest of companions. Reading is a disease with me.

Theodore Roosevelt

These are the books I read in 2019—some for work, some for pleasure, all to learn something I didn’t know before. (Not ranked, listed in order read.)

Keep reading my friends.

1. Last Call for Liberty: How America’s Genius for Freedom has Become Its Greatest Threat, Os Guinness

2. Frontier Forts of Texas, Bill O'Neal

3. True Courage: Emboldened by God in a Disheartening World, Steve Farrar

4. Why We Pray, William Philip

5. The Church Awakening: An Urgent Call for Renewal, Charles R. Swindoll

6. The Revelation of John, vol. 1, William Barclay

7. Make Your Own Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life … and Maybe the World, William H. McRaven

8. Persuasion, Jane Austen

9. A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean

10. Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde, John Boessenecker

11. Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West, Larry McMurtry

12. 6666: A Portrait of a Texas Ranch, Wyman Meinzer and Henry Chappell

13. Dare to Desire: An Invitation to Fulfill Your Deepest Dreams, John Eldredge

14. The Dream Giver, Bruce Wilkinson

15. On the Meaning of Sex, J. Budziszewski

16. Presidio, Randy Kennedy

17. A Mile Above Texas, Jay B. Sauceda

18. A Book About the Making of Lonesome Dove, John Spong

19. Grant, Ron Chernow

20. The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis, Alan Jacobs

21. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, David McCullough

22. I Give You Texas! 500 Jokes of the Lone Star State, Boyce House

23. Tall Talk from Texas,Boyce House

24. Life on the Texas Range, Erwin E. Smith and J. Evetts Haley

25. Alamo Heights, Scott Zesch

26. On Democracy, E.B. White

27. One Nation Under God: His Rule Over Our Country, Tony Evans

28. The Revelation of John, vol. 2, William Barclay

29. Revelation, John F. Walvoord

30. The Book of Revelation, Robert H. Mounce

31. Insights on Revelation, Charles R. Swindoll

32. A Place Called Heaven for Kids: 10 Exciting Things About Our Forever Home, Robert Jeffress (Robin Crouch and Lisa Reed)

33. Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, Jim Mattis (Bing West)

34. A Cowboy’s Guide to Life, Texas Bix Bender

35. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry

36. Suffering: Gospel Hope When Life Doesn’t Make Sense, Paul David Tripp

37. What It Is Like to Go to War, Karl Marlantes

38. Coming Home to the Father Who Loves You, Robert Jeffress

39. The Cowboy Boot: History, Art, Culture, Function, David R. Stoecklein

40. Wayne and Ford: The Films, the Friendship, and the Forging of an American Hero, Nancy Schoenberger

41. Carpe Diem Redeemed: Seizing the Day, Discerning the Times, Os Guinness

42. Killing Giants, Pulling Thorns, Charles R. Swindoll

43. Slaying the Giants in Your Life, David Jeremiah

44. Getting Through the Tough Stuff, Charles R. Swindoll

45. Choose Your Attitudes, Change Your Life, Robert Jeffress

46. Hope for the Hurting, Charles R. Swindoll and Derrick G. Jeter