What I’m Reading

September 21, 2007

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Currently reading:

Two Treatises of Government, John Locke

Recently finished:

A History of Reading, Alberto Manguel

Candide, Voltaire

Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

John Adams, David McCullough

In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Michael Pollan

Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev

Kellogg on Marketing, ed. Dawn Iacobucci

Dubliners, James Joyce

The Kite Runner, Khaled Husseini

Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be, Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

The Philosophy of Nietzsche, Rex Welshon

On the Genealogy of Morality, Friedrich Nietzsche

As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

Have You Fired Someone Lately?, Bob Pritchett

The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

Absalom! Absalom!, William Faulkner

Geology and Geomorphology of Western Whatcom County, Don J. Easterbrook

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, Neil Shubin

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

A Secular Age, Charles Taylor

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe

War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy (trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)

2007

Stories, Anton Chekhov (trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)

Losing Moses on the Freeway: The Ten Commandments in America, Chris Hedges

How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, Pierre Bayard

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert D. Putnam

Pragmatism, William James

Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol

Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy

Master and Man, Leo Tolstoy

In A Different Voice, Carol Gilligan

The Evolution of Useful Things, Henry Petroski

Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond

Prayer and Temperament, Chester P. Michael and Marie C. Norrisey

Notes From Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Stages of Faith, James Fowler

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker

Confessions, St. Augustine

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline, Lisa Margonelli

Reading the Bible With the Damned, Bob Ekblad

Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes, Kenneth Bailey

Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation, Miroslav Volf

Poet and Peasant: A Cultural-Literary Approach to the Parables in Luke, Kenneth Bailey

Stiff, Mary Roach

How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter, Sherwin Nuland

The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion

John Locke and the Ethics of Belief, Nicholas Wolterstorff

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke

Drink: A Social History of America, Andrew Barr

The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins

The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker

The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World, Michael Pollan

Other Favorites:

Simulacra and Simulation, Jean Baudrillard

The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures, Jean Baudrillard

A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

The Life and Times of the Thunderbold Kid: A Memoir, Bill Bryson

The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin

The Sacred Santa: Religious Dimensions of Consumer Culture, Dell Dechant

The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade, Thomas Lynch

Life of Pi, Yann Martel

Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller

Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Kathleen Norris

1984, George Orwell

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Steven Pinker

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, Steven Pinker

Words and Rules, Steven Pinker

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan

Gilead, A Novel, Marilynne Robinson

The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Though, Marilynne Robinson

The Evolution-Creation Struggle, Michael Ruse

The Art of Worship, Greg Scheer

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, Gary Schmidt

East of Eden, John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

Girl Meets God: A Memoir, Lauren Winner

Real Sex, Lauren Winner

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