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Book List

The following is a list of books I’ve read since 2005. For the books I’m currently reading, see the sidebar.

The grades posted next to each book title reflect my personal enjoyment and satisfaction derived from the book. A book that I consider enlightening and exciting to read receives a higher grade than one I find boring, uninformative, or poorly written. Thus, the grades are (naturally) entirely subjective, based not upon how well the author accomplished his/her task, but how much I personally gained from it.

Completed (most recently read books at top):

2010:

My heavy involvement in the U.S. Senate election cycle left me no time to read in the first half of 2010. Here’s to hoping that the latter half is different.

• Mockingjay (B+)
• Catching Fire (A-)
• The Hunger Games (B+)
• The Forgotten Immigrant (D)
• Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century (A+)

2009:

• End the Fed (A+)
• The Lord’s Way (B+)
• The Coming Aristocracy (B-)
• As A Man Thinketh (A+)
• Man’s Search for Meaning (A+)
• Satan’s War on Free Agency (A+)
• Alas, Babylon (B+)
• Lucifer’s Hammer (C+)
• One Second After (B+)
• 1776 (A)
• John Adams (A+)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (B-)
• The Scarlet Letter (B+)
• Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (A-)

2008:

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin (A)
• The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works—and How It’s Transforming the American Economy (A-)
• Approaching Zion (A)
• The Case Against the Fed (A-)
• The Great and Terrible, Vol. 6: Clear As the Moon (A-)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (B-)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew (B-)
• The Communist Manifesto (C-)
• The Kite Runner (B)
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time (A+)
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythin (B-)
• The Infinite Atonement (A+)
• Not a Zero-Sum Game (A+)
• The Price: The True Story of a Mormon Who Defied Hitler (A)
• God Wants a Powerful People (B)
• Northanger Abbey (D)
• Presidents and Prophets (B)
• The Great and Terrible, Vol. 5: From the End of Heaven (A)
• A Nation of Sheep (A+)
• The Revolution: A Manifesto (A+)
• The Great Prologue (B-)
• The Federalist Papers (A+)
• Among the Barons (Shadow Children #4) (B)
• Among the Impostors (Shadow Children #2) (B-)
• Among the Hidden (Shadow Children #1) (B)
• Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse (A+)
• A Thomas Jefferson Education (A)
• The Chosen (C)
• King Lear (F)
• Economic Sophisms (A+)
• Wuthering Heights (D)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (A)
• Selected Essays on Political Economy (A)
• What is Seen and What is Not Seen (A)
• Standing for Something (A)
• The Screwtape Letters (C+)
• Prophetic Statements on Food Storage for Latter-day Saints (A)
• The 5000 Year Leap (B+)

2007:

• To Your Tents, O Israel… (C+)
• The Naked Capitalist (A)
• The Great and Terrible, Vol. 4: Fury & Light (A)
• The Great and Terrible, Vol. 3: The Second Sun (A)
• The Great and Terrible, Vol. 2: The Great and Terrible, Vol. 2: Where Angels Fall (A-)
• The Great and Terrible, Vol. 1: Prologue, The Brothers (B)
• The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (A-)
• Financial Armageddon (Michael Panzner) (A-)
• The Free Capitalist Primer (A)
• Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution & Religion (A+)
• The Fountainhead (B)
• The Moral Basis of a Free Society (A+)
• The Law (A)
• An Enemy Hath Done This (A-)
• A Foreign Policy of Freedom (A+)
• Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa (A)
• Propaganda (B)
• Rights of Man (B-)
• The Peacegiver (A+)
• Leadership and Self-Deception (A)
• Financial Armageddon (David Draughon) (A)
• Brave New World (C-)
• How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok (A+)
• Prophecy: Key to the Future (A)
• Six Events (A+)
• Awakening to Our Awful Situation (A+)
• Hiding in Plain Sight: Unmasking How Secret Combinations Operate in the Last Days (C)
• Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (A+)
• Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks its Own Laws (A)

2006 and before:

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (A)
• Atlas Shrugged (A)
• None Dare Call It Conspiracy (B+)
• Animal Farm (A-)
• Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (A-)
• Fahrenheit 451 (B+)
• 1984 (A+)
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (A)
• American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation (B+)
• Understanding Your Divine Nature (B+)
• Godless (B)
• Let Freedom Ring (C+)
• Believing Christ (A)
• Following Christ (A)
• Faith Precedes the Miracle (B)
• Work and the Glory (series) (B)
• Fire of the Covenant (B)
• The Kingdom and the Crown (series) (A)
• Prelude to Glory (series) (A+)
• Children of the Promise (series) (C+)
• Jesus the Christ (A+)

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