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Currently reading:

1. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

Recently Finished:

1. Utopia, Thomas More
2. Che, John Lee Anderson
3. Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford History of the United States), Gordon S. Wood
4. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace
5. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
6. Consider the Lobster and Other Essays, David Foster Wallace
7. A Saga of Sugar, Being a Story of the Romance and Development of Beet Sugar in the Rocky Mountain West, Fred G. Taylor
8. Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala, Daniel Wilkinson
9. Salvador, Joan Didion
10. The White Album, Joan Didion
11. Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954, Piero Gleijeses
12. Slouching Toward Bethlehem, Joan Didion
13. Simply Christian, N.T. Wright
14. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace
15. Religious Affections, Jonathan Edwards
16. Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Stephen E. Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer
17. Bech: A Book, John Updike
18. From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 (Oxford History of the United States), George C. Herring
    Reviews:
    Foreign Affairs
    New York Times
19. Animal Farm, George Orwell
20. Justice: Rights and Wrongs, Nicholas Wolterstorff
21. The Reason for God, Tim Keller
22. Tell It Slant, Eugene Peterson
23. Toward the End of Time, John Updike
24. Istanbul: Memories and the City, Orhan Pamuk
25. Jonathan Edwards: A Life, George Marsden
26. Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
27. Beloved, Toni Morrison
28. Rabbit at Rest, John Updike
29. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, David McCullough
30. Beet Sugar in the West: A History of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1891-1966, Leonard J. Arrington
31. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
32. The Story of Banking in Whatcom County, Keith Murray
33. Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
34. American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Alan Taylor
35. Rabbit is Rich, John Updike
36. Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore (Oxford History of the United States), James T. Patterson
37. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
38. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, by Eric Foner
39. Rabbit Redux, by John Updike
40. The Plague, by Albert Camus
41. The Great Depression and its Fifty Year Shadow, by Phyllis W. Bultmann
42. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (Oxford History of the United States), James T. Patterson
43. Slavery and the Bible, Philip Schaff
44. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
45. Pacific Northwest Weather, Cliff Mass
46. In the Beauty of the Lilies, John Updike
47. Faith and Doubt, John Ortberg
48. Rabbit, Run, John Updike
49. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
50. Snow, Orhan Pamuk
51. Lectures on Calvinism, Abraham Kuyper
52. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States), James M. McPherson
53. Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
54. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States), Robert Middlekauff
55. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
56. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War: 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States), David M. Kennedy
57. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
58. Pyromarketing, Greg Stielstra
59. Outliers, Malcom Gladwell

2008:

1. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
2. On Writing Well, William Knowlton Zinsser
3. Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
4. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
5. The Tipping Point, Malcom Gladwell
6. The Magician’s Nephew, C.S. Lewis
7. Truman, David McCullough
8. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says about Us), Tom Vanderbilt
9. Reformed Dogmatics, Vol. 1: Prolegomena, Herman Bavinck
10. Original Sin, Alan Jacobs
11. The Fourth Corner: Highlights from the Early Northwest, Lelah Jackson Edson
12. Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States), Daniel Walker Howe
14. The History of the Bellingham Bay and British Columbia Railroad in Whatcom County, Washington, Garrett Martin
15. Home, Marilyn Robinson
16. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life, Robert Bellah
17. The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
18. Saint Maybe, Anne Tylor
19. 1776, David McCullough
20. The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
21. Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars, Cynthia Gorney
22. The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
23. Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
24. Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America, Harvey Levenstein
25. Common Sense, Thomas Paine
26. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
27. The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800, Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick
28. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
29. Two Treatises of Government, John Locke
30. A History of Reading, Alberto Manguel
31. Candide, Voltaire
32. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
33. John Adams, David McCullough
34. In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Michael Pollan
35. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
36. Kellogg on Marketing, ed. Dawn Iacobucci
37. Dubliners, James Joyce
38. The Kite Runner, Khaled Husseini
39. Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be, Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
40. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
41. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
42. The Philosophy of Nietzsche, Rex Welshon
43. On the Genealogy of Morality, Friedrich Nietzsche
44. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
45. Have You Fired Someone Lately?, Bob Pritchett
46. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
47. Absalom! Absalom!, William Faulkner
48. Geology and Geomorphology of Western Whatcom County, Don J. Easterbrook
49. Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, Neil Shubin
50. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
51. A Secular Age, Charles Taylor
52. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
53. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy (trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)

2007

1. Stories, Anton Chekhov (trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
2. Losing Moses on the Freeway: The Ten Commandments in America, Chris Hedges
3. How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, Pierre Bayard
4. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert D. Putnam
5. Pragmatism, William James
6. Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
7. Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy
8. Master and Man, Leo Tolstoy
9. In A Different Voice, Carol Gilligan
10. The Evolution of Useful Things, Henry Petroski
11. Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris
12. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
13. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
14. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond
15. Prayer and Temperament, Chester P. Michael and Marie C. Norrisey
16. Notes From Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
17. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
18. Stages of Faith, James Fowler
19. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
20. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
21. The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker
22. Confessions, St. Augustine
23. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
24. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
25. Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline, Lisa Margonelli
26. Reading the Bible With the Damned, Bob Ekblad
27. Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes, Kenneth Bailey
28. Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation, Miroslav Volf
29. Poet and Peasant: A Cultural-Literary Approach to the Parables in Luke, Kenneth Bailey
30. Stiff, Mary Roach
31. How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter, Sherwin Nuland
32. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
33. John Locke and the Ethics of Belief, Nicholas Wolterstorff
34. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke
35. Drink: A Social History of America, Andrew Barr
36. The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
37. The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker
38. 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

If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino

The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin

Reaching Out without Dumbing Down, Marva Dawn

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

Course in General Linguistics, by Ferdinand de Saussure

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

Life of Pi, Yann Martel

Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller

Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, Nathan Bierma

Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Mark Noll

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

Worship Seeking Understanding, John D. Witvliet