Book List
(incomplete and in no particular order)
Present:
- Let Your Life Speak | Parker Palmer
- The Magnificent Defeat | Frederick Buechner
- The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell
- The Singer, The Song, The Finale | A Trilogy by Calvin Miller
Future:
- everything
Past: ( and recommended )
- Phantastes | George MacDonald
- Dubliners | James Joyce
- Between Night and Morn | Kahlil Gibran
- World Made By Hand | James Kunstler
- Moby Dick | Herman Melville
- Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community | Wendell Berry
- Technopoly | Neil Postman
- A Theory Of Everything | Ken Wilbur
- On Love and Other Difficulties | Rainer Maria Rilke
- Original Wisdom | Robert Wolfe
- The Kingdom Of God Is Within You | Leo Tolstoy
- The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck
- Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck
- Telling The Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale | Frederick Buechner
- The Myth Of A Christian Nation | Gregory A. Boyd
- The Gifts of the Jews | Thomas Cahill
- Man Without A Country | Kurt Vonnegut
- Ishmael | Daniel Quinn
- The History of Love | Nicole Krauss
- Orthodoxy | GK Chesterton
- No Man Is An Island | Thomas Merton
- The Story Of B | Daniel Quinn
- How The Irish Saved Civilization | Thomas Cahill
- Amusing Ourselves To Death | Neil Postman
- Soul Cravings | Erwin Raphael McManus
- The Screwtape Letters | CS Lewis
- Jesus For President | Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw
- Mere Christianity | CS Lewis
- The Problem of Pain | CS Lewis
- Jesus and Non-violence | Walter Wink
- The Violent Bear It Away | Flannery O’Connor
- The Great Divorce | CS Lewis
- The Abolition of Man | CS Lewis
- Till We Have Faces | CS Lewis
- Letters To A Young Poet | Rainer Maria Rilke
- Desire of the Everlasting Hills | Thomas Cahill
- Misquoting Jesus | Bart Ehrman
- The Victory of Reason | Rodney Stark
- The Technological Society | Jacques Ellul
- Hinds Feet On High Places | Hannah Hurnard
- Velvet Elvis | Rob Bell
- Blue Like Jazz | Donald Miller
- Building A Bridge to the 18th Century | Neil Postman
- Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene | Bart Ehrman
- Whats So Great About America | Dinesh D’souza
- God’s Politics | Jim Wallis
- Of Paradise and Power | Robert Kagan
- Wisdom of the Crowds | James Surowiecki
- The World Is Flat | Thomas L. Friedman
Here’s an idea: Create a booklist on your own blog, and tell me about it. I’ll link to your page here!
The BookRoll:
- Notes In The Sand
- Brittian Bullock
- Composition Number Eight
- Of Orphans and Assumptions
- Apparently noone else wants to play these little games we play?
Recommended Online Reading:
- Informing Ourselves To Death, a speech by Neil Postman, October 11, 1990




Hinds Feet On High Places | Hannah Hurnard – DEFINITELY ONE OF MY FAVORITES
Thomas L. Friedman -READ LONGITUDES AND LATITUDES: I THOUGHT IT WAS WELL WRITTEN, THOUGH I ONLY AGREED W/ BITS AND PIECES
Dinesh D’souza -HAVEN’T READ THE BOOK, BUT HEARD HIM SPEAK ONCE, INTERESTING GUY-INTERESTING INSIGHT INTO HIS OWN ETHNICITY
Ishmael | Daniel Quinn -LOOKS VERY INTERESTING TO ME, AFTER READING OVERVIEW…THINK I MIGHT LOOK INTO IT
THANKS FOR THIS!
[...] and what we’re reading right now. I thought it might be an interest for you out there to see my list, both past and present and maybe any particular comments I have on some of the books I’ve [...]
Ash- is Longitudes and Latitudes as long of a book as The World Is Flat was? Wow…. long book..
ok, so i might have to join this. i’ve done it before in one of the bazillion blogs i’ve had but are now permanently deleted in cyberspace because i continually change my mind about keeping them. glad to know there are still BOYS who read books!! =)
Longintudes and Latitudes is definitely a little shorter…it’s more of a series of articles he put together, so you can go back to it…and not have to read it straight through.
[...] a great review. Interested in more? Check into some more Postman books, there’s several on my book list that I would highly [...]
Ryan is reading desire of everlasting hills right now, too. I’m going to once he is done. Is it real good?
Yeah, I really want to read that one alot. Hopefully I’ll get it soon.
YES.
but first a stipulation-
‘the great divorce’ has one of my most favorite literal to visual scenes ever, even outside the scope of books! so i always have to ask others, what their favorite part of that book was, if there was one.
(and really, this stipulation is a lie, if you don’t have one or don’t want to answer, i’ll still partake in the book club! perhaps i’ll even share about my failed attempt at one too.. (just ask!).. and i’ll definately share my review on the one’s i’ve read listed above, and my fave great divorce scene, when i’ve more time!)
thanks, friend!
have you read “who’s afraid of postmodernism?” it’s short but amazing.
dear fellow book clubbers,
you have probably read this in your life.. if so, i recommend read it again, it’s *still* magical. if not, you should!
but don’t listen to me, see for yourself..
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/williams/rabbit/rabbit.html
(and the internet gains a point today ;) )
..and then share share share!
great list. know the books one has read. know the person. i likewise am a postman/berry/lewis/merton/ fan among others on your list.
fast-forward these to the front of your to-read list and you will not be disappointed.
City of Joy by Dominique Lappierre
The Lost Language of Plants by Stephen H. Buehner
and almost anything by Henri Nouwen.