Updated Summer Reading List
So, I’ve been packing up my books for the move in a few weeks so I’ve set aside an assortment of books that I intend to read this summer before school starts. I had hoped to write a post about disorientation & weariness in American life but I’m simply lacking inspiration today…it’s been that way all week. So, sans inspiration, here’s a list of books I’m hoping to read this summer.
- My Beautiful Idol by Pete Gall
- Free to Be Bound by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
- The End of Religion by Bruxy Cavey
- The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer
- Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright
- Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction by Rodney Clapp
- Everything Must Change by Brian McLaren
- Ideology, Culture & the Process of Schooling by Henry Giroux
- The Christ-Haunted Landscape by Susan Ketchin
- The Divine Milieu by Teilhard de Chardin
- The Need for Roots by Simone Weil
- The Future of Faith in American Politics by David Gushee
- Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
- Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind
- Dogmatics in Outline by Karl Barth
- The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard
- Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
- Something by both W.H. Auden & Dorothy Sayers (respectively) - Any suggestions?
- Various issues of Paste Magazine & the Oxford American
I’m certain that I won’t finish all of these but I will do my best. I’m hoping to finish up A Secular Age by Charles Taylor by the end of August. Any thoughts on other books to ad to the mix? I hope to have a more substantive post later this week.
Grace & peace,
A.T.
if you read 18 books this summer, i’ll… i dont know what i’ll do, but good luck! you have inspired me to post my reading list…
Wow, Andrew, that’s a lot of stuff! I’m impressed. I’ve been trying like crazy to read just one or two books a month, depending on the month.
Thanks for linking my blog and saying hello. I apologize for the delay in saying hi back!
Blessings!
Well, like I said, it’s probably not all going to get read…but hey, aspirations are important, right?
So you totally need to read Take This Bread by Sara Miles. Have I given you a copy yet? If not, I shall!
Wow. That’s ambitious. I tend to be reading many (not that many) books at once.. but tend to not finish but one or two of them. I’ve read about 1/4 of surprised by hope. It’s pretty amazing. Have you read Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann? It’s pretty tight.