Reading List

Welcome to the full list of books I’ve read since I began to keep track. The list is mostly just there for me, but I invite you to take a look below if you’re curious about what I’m currently reading and what all I’ve read.

Currently Reading

Have Read

The following are books that I’ve read from July 2021 onward, in order by most recently completed. A book's inclusion in this list does not represent an endorsement. It simply states that I have read and finished the named work. All additional notes and disclaimers can be found at the bottom of this page.

2024

• Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
  by J. Sakai

• Journeys to Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition
  by Bart D. Ehrman

• Polywise: A Deeper Dive into Navigating Open Relationships
  by Jessica Fern and David Cooley

• The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
  by Geza Vermes

• Kebra Nagast: Bilingual Edition, Classical Ethiopic-English
  by Carl Bezold

• Linguistics & Biblical Exegesis
  by Douglas Mangum and Josh Westbury

• Sing Me to Sleep
  by R.M. Virtues

• Social & Historical Approaches to the Bible
  by Douglas Mangum and Amy Balogh

• Die Griechische Daniel-Diegese**
  by Klaus Berger

• Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
  by Bart D. Ehrman

• Bleach: The Death Save The Strawberry
  by Tite Kubo and Makoto Matsubara

• Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
  by Jessica Fern

2023

• A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (and Some Bears)
  by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

• The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American
  by Andrew L. Seidel

• The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Volume Two: Expansions of the “Old Testament” and Legends, Wisdom and Philosophical Literature, Prayers, Psalms, and Odes, Fragments of Lost Judeo-Hellenistic Works
  by James H. Charlesworth

• The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts
  by Mark S. Smith

• The Arbatel of Magick: Of the Magic of the Ancients
  by Tarl Warwick

• 教えてゆか先生！日本語会話表現(Teach me Yuka Sensei! Japanese Conversational Phrases)
  by 村上由佳(Yuka Murakami)

• Kabbalah: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners Wanting to Understand Hermetic and Jewish Qabalah Along with the Power of Mysticism
  by Mari Silva

• Invention and Innovation, The Social Context of Technological Change 2: Egypt, the Aegean and the Near East, 1650-1150 B.C.
  by Janine Bourriau and Jacke Phillips

• The Ascension of Isaiah: Ge'ez-English Edition
  by Robert Charles

• Liber Salomonis: Sepher Raziel
  by Tarl Warwick

• The Apocryphal Third Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: or 3 Corinthians
  by CrossReach Publications

• The Chaldean Account of Genesis: The Creation, the Fall of Man, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel, the Times of the Patriarchs, and Nimrod; Babylonian Fables and Legends of the Gods
  by George Smith

2022

• Five Books of St. Irenaeus Bishop of Lyons: Against Heresies with the Fragments that Remain of His Other Works
  by John Keble

• Textual Criticism of the Bible, Revised Edition
  by Amy Anderson and Wendy Widder

• The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Volume One: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments by James H. Charlesworth

• State and Revolution
  by Vladimir Lenin

• The Corpus Hermeticum: Initiation Into Hermetics, The Hermetica of Hermes Trismegistus
  by G.R.S. Mead and John Michael Greer

• An Introduction to Ethiopic Christian Literature
  by J.M. Harden

• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
  by Malcolm Gladwell

• Broadcast News: Writing, Reporting, and Producing, 7th Edition
  by Frank Barnas

• Stories from Ancient Canaan, Second Edition
  by Mark S. Smith and Michael D. Coogan

• Anthropomorphisms in P: A Conference Paper
  by Michael S. Heiser

• Here I Stand
  by Paul Robeson

• The Old Testament Response to Pagan Divination: A Conference Paper
  by Michael S. Heiser

• The Very First Bible: Original Scriptures Transcribed by Marcion of Sinope in 144 A.D.
  by the Marcionite Christian Church

• Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of Animals and Plants that Time has Left Behind
  by Richard Fortey

• I'm Glad My Mom Died
  by Jennette McCurdy

• Thinking Clearly About the Jesus Family Tomb: A Conference Paper
  by Michael S. Heiser

• How Jesus Became God: the Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
  by Bart D. Ehrman

• The Divine Council in the Pentateuch: A Conference Paper
  by Michael S. Heiser

• Does Divine Plurality in the Hebrew Bible Demonstrate an Evolution From Polytheism to Monotheism in Israelite Religion?: A Conference Paper
  by Michael S. Heiser

• Are Yahweh and El Separate Deities in Psalm 82 and Deuteronomy 32?: A Conference Paper
  by Michael S. Heiser

• Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
  by Vladimir Lenin

• The Communist Manifesto
  by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

• War is a Racket
  by Major General Smedley D. Butler

• Books of the Ethiopian Bible Missing from the Protestant Canon
  by the Ethiopian Church

• Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures
  by Merlin Sheldrake

2021

• Dao De Jing in Clear English Including a Step-by-Step Translation
  by Jeff Pepper and Xiao Hui Wang

• ドラマの基本の書き方：映像ドラマとオーディオドラマ(How to Write the Foundation of a Drama: Visual Dramas and Audio Dramas)*
  by 森治美(Harumi Mori)

• Studio Television Production and Directing
  by Andrew Hicks Utterback

• No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
  by Reza Aslan

• The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts
  by Marvin W. Meyer and James M. Robinson

• The Talmud
  by H. Polano

• The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
  by Joseph Smith

• The Holy Kojiki Including the Yengishiki
  by Cosimo Classics

• Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World
  by Bruce Schneier

• The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
  by Eckhart Tolle

• Is This Wi-Fi Organic: A Guide to Spotting Misleading Science Online
  by Dave Farina

• The Clear Quran: A Thematic English Translation
  by Mustafa Khattab

• 嫌われる勇気：自己啓発の源流「アドラー」の教え(The Courage to be Disliked: The Basis of Self-Development, Teachings of Adler)*
  by 岸見一郎(Ichirou Kishimi) and 古賀史健(Fumitake Koga)

• Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
  by Reza Aslan

• Halo: Glasslands
  by Karen Traviss

(Due to the nature of some works, the names following the word “by” can be authors, editors, publishers, and/or translators. In the absence of a name, the publisher is credited.)
(Research papers are included in the list if they are sold individually as e-books or physical bound books.)
(A lack of page number on the “currently reading” list indicates a digital copy of the book without page numbers included.)
(*If a book from Japan is titled in its original language, it means that I read the book in Japanese and do not know the official English language title if there is one. In these cases, the translations in parentheses are my own.)
(**The book(s) tagged were unavailable in a language I can read, and were read via digital translation aid.)