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,
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
October 17, 2007 at 3:34 pm
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