Books Read 2022
January
1. The Story of Art, E. H. Gombrich
2. Drawing From Life, Clint Brown, Cheryl McLean
3. What Great Teachers Do Differently, Todd Whitaker
4. Figure Drawing for Artists, Steve Huston
5. Bargue Drawing Course, Charles Bargue
February
6. Freedom in the Modern World, John Macmurray
7. The Ginger Man, J. P. Dunleavy
8. Oil Painting Techniques and Materials, Harold Speed
9. The Presence of the Kingdom, Jacques Ellul
10. Imaginative Realism, James Gurney
March
11. A Manual of Oil Painting, John Collier
12. The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing, Anthony Ryder
13. The Student's Guide to Painting, Jack Faragasso
14. What Good Is Art?, Harold Speed
15. The Practice of Oil Painting, Solomon J. Solomon
April
16. Kierkegaard: A Short Introduction, Patrick Gardner
17. Kierkegaard For Beginners, Donald Palmer
18. Letters to Theo, Irving Stone
19. Lust for Life, Irving Stone
20. The Moon and Sixpence, W. Somerset Maugham
May
21. Kierkegaard, Josiah Thompson
22. Either/Or, Soren Kierkegaard
23. The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
24. A Theological Approach to Art, Roger Hazelton
25. Living Poetically, Sylvia Walsh
June
26. A Short Life of Kierkegaard, Walter Lowrie
27. Kierkegaard's Theory and Critique of Art, George Pattison
28. How the West Won, Robert Stark
29. Why Knowledge Matters, E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
30. Art and the Question of Meaning, Hans Kung
31. Repetition, Soren Kierkegaard
32. The Concept of Irony, Soren Kierkegaard
33. Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard
34. Ideas Have Consequences, Richard Weaver
July
35. The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk
36. The Courage To Be, Paul Tillich
37. Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell
38. Caffeine, Michael Pollan
August
39. A Political Philosophy, Roger Scruton
September
40. An American Tragedy, Theodore Deiser
41. Theology of Culture, Paul Tillich
October
42. Claiming Disability, Simi Linton
43. Art in a Democracy, Doug Blandy & Kristin G. Congdon
44. The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzenheitzen
45. The End of Christendom, Malcolm Muggeridge
46. Celebrating Pluralism, F. Graeme Chalmers
47. Waiting on God, Simone Weil
November
48. Art Synectics, Nicholas Roukes
49. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
50. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
51. The Aesthetic Experience, Jaques Maquet
52. Contemporary Art, Brandon Taylor
December
53. Fault Lines, Voddie Baucham, Jr.
54. Disestablishment A Second Time, James Skillen, Rockne McCarthy
55. The Death of Character, Hunter Davidson
56. A Defense of the Christian State, Stephen Perks
57. Becoming Whole, Brian Fikkert
58. Responsibility of the Artist, Jacques Maritain
59. Existential Social Work, Donald Krill
60. The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt