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In the year 2007, I read 79 books.
In the year 2008, I read 100 books.
In the year 2009, I read 165 books.
In the year 2010, I read 145 books.
In the year 2011, I read 82 books.
In the year 2012, I read 62 books.
In the year 2013, I read 90 books.
In the year 2014, I read 87 books.
In the year 2015, I read 126 books.
In the year 2016, I read 113 books.
In the year 2017, I read 153 books.
In the year 2018, I read 100 books.
In the year 2019, I read 102 books.
In the year 2020, I read 64 books.
In the year 2021, I read 117 books.

After an extremely difficult 2020, I'd like to think my reading discipline rebounded at least somewhat well in 2021 - it was definitely a success by the standards I'd set for myself. Without falling prey to hubris, I'd like to raise my hopes for the year to come. Since I'll likely encounter my share of distractions and discouragements, I'll take that into account and content myself with the modest challenge of 80 books this year.

So far, I've completed one:

1) Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt by Charles R. Geisst

80 is still an amazing goal! Congrats, too, on 2021 getting back to normal for you.

Happy reading in 2022!

2) Christ Unfurled: The First 500 Years of Jesus's Life by David Vincent Meconi

3) The Disciples' Prayer: The Prayer Jesus Taught in Its Historical Setting by Jeffrey B. Gibson

4) The Awe-Inspiring Rites of Initiation: The Origins of the R.C.I.A. by Edward Yarnold

5) Introduction to Mariology by Manfred Hauke

6) Essays on Halakhah in the New Testament by Bernard S. Jackson

7) On Earth as in Heaven: The Lord's Prayer from Jewish Prayer to Christian Ritual by David K. Clark

8) Knighton's Chronicle, 1337-1396 by Henry Knighton, and edited/translated by G. H. Martin

9) Writings on Church and Reform by Nicholas of Cusa and edited/translated by Thomas M. Izbicki

10) Catechism of the Catholic Church by the Catholic Church

11) Choosing Forgiveness: Unleash the Power of God's Grace by Fr. Thomas Berg and Timothy Lock

12) Sin: A History by Gary A. Anderson

13) Do This, Remembering Me: The Spiritual Care of Those with Alzheimer's and Dementia by Colette Bachand-Wood

14) When You Pray: An Analysis of the Our Father by Richard Klaver, O.S.C.

15) The Lord's Prayer: Seven Homilies by Washington Gladden

16) The Lord's Prayer: A Guide to Praying to Our Father by Wesley Hill

17) The Lord's Prayer by Gerald O'Collins

18) The Lord's Prayer by Jean-Marie Lustiger

19) The Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down: The Lord's Prayer as a Manifesto for Revolution by R. Albert Mohler Jr.

20) Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia (Advances in Psychotherapy - Evidence-Based Practice) by Benjamin T. Mast and Brian P. Yochim

21) The Inquisitor's Guide: A Medieval Manual on Heretics by Bernard Guidoni and edited/translated by Janet Shirley

22) Information: A Very Short Introduction by Luciano Floridi

23) Translated Christianities: Nahuatl and Maya Religious Texts by Mark Z. Christensen

24) Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation by Robert Bartlett

25) The Letters of Catherine of Siena (Vol. 1) by St. Catherine of Siena and translated by Suzanne Noffke

26) Homilies on Genesis and Exodus by Origen of Alexandria and translated by Ronald E. Heine

27) Early French Reform: The Theology and Spirituality of Guillaume Farel by Jason Zuidema and Theodore Van Raalte

28) The Commentaries of Origen and Jerome on St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians by Ronald E. Heine

29) Truth is a Synthesis: Catholic Dogmatic Theology by Mauro Gagliardi

30) Finding Grace in the Face of Dementia by John T. Dunlop

31) My Journey Into Alzheimer's Disease by Robert Davis

32) "Each Man Cried Out to His God": The Specialized Religion of Canaanite and Phoenician Seafarers by Aaron Jed Brody

33) Regnum Caelorum: Patterns of Millennial Thought in Early Christianity by Charles E. Hill

34) Commentaries, Volume 1: Books I-II by Pope Pius II, and edited by Margaret Meserve and Marcello Simonetta

35) Politicizing the Bible: The Roots of Historical Criticism and the Secularization of Scripture, 1300-1700 by Scott W. Hahn and Benjamin Wiker

36) From Eden to Babel: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis 1-11 by Donald E. Gowan

37) Nineveh, the Great City: Symbol of Beauty and Power, edited by Lucas P. Petit and Daniele Morandi Bonacossi

38) Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East by Martti Nissinen

39) A Time to Mourn, a Time to Dance: The Expression of Grief and Joy in Israelite Religion by Gary A. Anderson

40) The Raging Torrent: Historical Inscriptions from Assyria and Babylonia Relating to Ancient Israel by Mordechai Cogan

41) Freedom beyond Forgiveness: The Book of Jonah Re-examined by Thomas M. Bolin

42) Forgiveness in a Wounded World: Jonah's Dilemma by Janet Howe Gaines

43) A Gracious and Compassionate God: Mission, Salvation, and Spirituality in the Book of Jonah by Daniel C. Timmer

44) Jonah: A Discourse Analysis of the Hebrew Bible by Kevin J. Youngblood

45) A Young Dutchman Views Post-Civil War America: Diary of Claude August Crommelin by Claude August Crommelin and edited by Augustus J. Veenendaal Jr. and H. Roger Grant

46) Gregory of Tours: Glory of the Confessors by St. Gregory of Tours and translated by Raymond Van Dam

47) Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War by Lisa Brooks

48) The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff

49) Philo of Alexandria, vol. 1: On the Account of the World's Creation Given by Moses; Allegorical Interpretation of Genesis II-III (Loeb Classical Library 226) by Philo of Alexandria