I have been keeping a list of readings (not periodicals, or web articles) for several years now. I read extensively before starting the list, but those readings are only recorded in my memory. Seeing my reading list might explain some of my interests and eccentricities.
2009 (So Far)
Following Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship; by N.T. Wright - November
Pagan Christianity? :exploring the roots of our church practices; by Frank Viola and George Barna - October
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society; by Lesslie Newbigin - October
Who Was Jesus?; by N.T. Wright - August
Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness; by Gerald M. Edelman - July
Disavowing Constantine: Mission, Church and the Social Order in the Theologies of John Howard Yoder and Jurgen Moltmann (A Radical Baptist Perspective on Church, Society and State); by Nigel Goring Wright - July
Wittgenstein’s Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers; by David Edmonds & John Eidinow - July
Metaphysics: Constructing a World View; by William Hasker - June
Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution; by André Trocmé - June
The Presence of the Kingdom; by Jacques Ellul - May
The Bookends of the Christian Life; by Jerry Bridges and Bob Bevington - April
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church; by N. T. Wright - April
Monument Rock; by Louis L’Amour - February
Sin Boldly: A Field Guide to Grace; by Cathleen Falsani - January
Christian Anarchy: Jesus' Primacy Over the Powers; by Vernard Eller - January
2008
Peacemaking Amid Political Revolution; by John Howard Yoder - December
The Limits of Obedience to Caesar: the Shape of the Problem; by John Howard Yoder - December
50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Should Know; by Ben Dupre - December
The Subversion of Christianity; by Jacques Ellul – November
History & Christianity; by John Warwick Montgomery - October
The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily; by Dino Buzzati - October
The Law of Love and the Law of Violence; by Leo Tolstoy - September
C.S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason; by Victor Reppert - September
Philosophy of Mind: Brains, Consciousness, and Thinking Machines; by Patrick Grim - August
I, Pencil; by Leonard E. Read - July
A Love Affair; by Dino Buzzati - June
Larger Than Life; by Dino Buzzati - June
Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear; by Scott Bader-Saye - June
William Blake: Visionary Anarchist; by Peter Marshall - May
Philosophy of Mind and the Christian; by Charles Taliaferro (from: Christian Theism and the Problems of Philosophy) - May
Alongside Night; by J. Neil Schulman - May
My Religion (The Wisdom of Tolstoi); by Leo Tolstoy - May
In Defense of Theology; by Gordon H. Clark - April
The Apostolic Preaching and its Developments; by C. H. Dodd - April
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War; by Max Brooks - April
The Great Divorce; by C.S. Lewis - March
The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God; by Dallas Willard - March
The Bible on the Life Hereafter; by William Hendriksen - January
2007
Survival and Disembodied Existence; by Terence Penelhum - December
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge; by Jean-François Lyotard - December
How Christians Made Peace With War: Early Christian Understandings of War; by John Driver - December
Artemis Fowl; by Eoin Colfer - November
The Reformers and Their Stepchildren; by Leonard Verduin - November
Nevertheless: The Varieties and Shortcomings of Religious Pacifism; by John Howard Yoder - October
The Facts on Islam; by John Ankerberg and John Weldon - October
A Better Hope: Resources for a Church Confronting Capitalism, Democracy, and Postmodernity; by Stanley Hauerwas - September
Mickelsson’s Ghosts; by John Gardner - September
Signs Amid the Rubble: The Purposes of God in Human History; by Lesslie Newbigin - August
The Rickety Bridge and the Broken Mirror: Two Parables of Paedobaptism and One Parable of the Death of Jesus Christ; by Hal Brunson - July
Pedro Páramo; by Juan Rulfo - June
Bagombo Snuff Box; by Kurt Vonnegut - June
The Tacit Dimension; by Michael Polanyi - May
5000 B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies; by Raymond Smullyan - April
The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories; by Horacio S. Quiroga - March
Christ and the Powers; by Hendrik Berkhof - March
The Powers That Be: Earthly Rulers and Demonic Powers in Romans 13.1-7; by Clinton D. Morrison – February
Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message; by Ravi Zacharias - February
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch; by Alexander Solzhenitsyn - January
The Gift of Death; by Jacques Derrida - January
The Fire that Ignites; by Tony Evans - January
An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land; by William Stringfellow – January
2006
Welcome to the Monkey House; by Kurt Vonnegut - December
The Gospel and the Greeks: Did the New Testament Borrow from Pagan Thought?; by Ronald H. Nash - December
The Powers That Be: Theology For A New Millennium; by Walter Wink - December
The Original Revolution: Essays on Christian Pacifism; by John Howard Yoder - November
The Book of Sand; by Jorge Luis Borges - October
Brodie’s Report; by Jorge Luis Borges - October
Christianity: A Total World and Life System; by Abraham Kuyper - October
Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? : Taking Derrida, Lyotard and Foucault to Church; by James K.A. Smith – September
The Purity Principle: God's Safeguards for Life's Dangerous Trails; by Randy Alcorn - September
The Clark – Van Til Controversy; by Herman Hoeksema - August
Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction; by Catherine Belsey - August
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology; ed. James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel - August
Spurgeon v. Hyper-Calvinism: The Battle for Gospel Preaching; by Iain H. Murray - July
Universal History of Infamy; by Jorge Luis Borges - July
The Trinity; by Gordon H. Clark - July
Exodus and Revolution; by Michael Walzer – June
The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933 - 1969; by Jorge Luis Borges - June
War: A Primer for Christians; by Joseph L. Allen - June
Anarchy and Christianity; by Jacques Ellul - June
Words in Genesis; by Isaac Asimov - May
What Would You Do?: A Serious Answer to a Standard Question; by John Howard Yoder, with Joan Baez, Tom Skinner, Leo Tolstoy and Others - May
The Politics of Jesus; by John Howard Yoder - May
A Private and Public Faith; by William Stringfellow - April
The Next Reformation: Why Evangelicals Must Embrace Postmodernity; by Carl Raschke - April
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation; by Lynne Truss - March
Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth; by Lesslie Newbigin - March
On Bullshit; by Harry G. Frankfurt - March
Introduction to Metaphysics; by Martin Heidegger - March
Existentialism: the philosophy of despair and the quest for hope; by C. Stephen Evans - March
The Tartar Steppe; by Dino Buzzati - February
Marx for Beginners; by Rius (Eduardo del Rio) - February
Heaven; by Randy Alcorn - February
Dinner With A Perfect Stranger: An Invitation Worth Considering; by David Gregory - January
What Saint Paul Really Said: Was Paul of Tarsus the Real Founder of Christianity?; by N. T. Wright - January
2005
Earth Abides; by George R. Stewart - December
Reasons for Living; by Dmitry Bakin - December
Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture; by Lesslie Newbigin - December
A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories; by Victor Pelevin - November
The Johannine Logos; by Gordon H. Clark - November
Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport: Making Connections in Today's World; by Richard J. Mouw - October
White Noise; by Don DeLillo - October
By What Standard? An Analysis of the Philosophy of Cornelius Van Til; by Rousas John Rushdoony - October
Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt and Certainty in Christian Discipleship; by Lesslie Newbigin - September
Hypocrisy: Moral Fraud & Other Vices; by James S. Spiegel - September
Catastrophe and Other Stories; by Dino Buzzati - September
A Godward Life; by John Piper - August
The Concept of God: An Exploration of Contemporary Difficulties with the Attributes of God; by Ronald H. Nash - August
The Doctrine of Endless Punishment; by W.G.T. Shedd - August
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum; by Heinrich Boll - August
To Tame A Land; by Louis L'Amour - August
Concerning the Teacher; by Aurelius Augustine – July
Blow-Up and Other Stories; by Julio Cortazar - July
Introducing Critical Theory; by Stuart Sim and Boren Van Loon - June
Waiting for the Barbarians; by J.M. Coetzee - June
The Present: The Gift that Makes You Happy and Successful at Work and in Life; by Spencer Johnson - May
Bartleby; by Herman Melville - May
Gogol's Wife & Other Stories; by Tommaso Landolfi - May
Words in Commotion and Other Stories; by Tommaso Landolfi – May
Exegetical Fallacies; by D.A. Carson - May
Logical Criticisms of Textual Criticism; by Gordon H. Clark – May
Being Logical - A Guide to Good Thinking; by D.Q. McInerny - May
Ficciones; by Jorge Luis Borges - April
Chronicle of a Death Foretold; by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - April
The Mad Dog: Stories; by Heinrich Boll - March
Restless Nights: Selected Short Stories of Dino Buzzati; by Dino Buzzati - March
Hurtling Toward Oblivion; by Richard A. Swenson - March
Safely Home; by Randy Alcorn – March
Gordon H. Clark: Personal Recollections; edited by John W. Robbins - March
If on a winter's night a traveler; by Italo Calvino - March
A Christian View of Men and Things; by Gordon H. Clark - March
Cornelius Van Til The Man and the Myth; by John W. Robbins - March
Humanist Manifesto I and Humanist Manifesto II; edited by Paul Kurtz – February
Theory and Practice Concerning the Common Saying: This May Be True In Theory But Does Not Apply To Practice [1793]; by Immanuel Kant - February
Reason Within the Bounds of Religion; by Nicholas Wolterstorff - February
Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone [1793]; by Immanuel Kant - February
On Philosophical Style; by Brand Blanshard - February
Introducing Logic; by Dan Cryan, Sharron Shatil and Bill Mayblin - February
A Canticle for Leibowitz; by Walter M. Miller Jr. - February
A Short History of Existentialism; by Jean Wahl - January
The Treasure Principle; by Randy Alcorn - January
2004
Philosophers Who Believe: The Spiritual Journeys of 11 Leading Thinkers; edited by Kelley James Clark - December
Memoirs of a Lunatic; Leo Tolstoy - November
Confession; by Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy - November
A Correspondence; by Emil Brunner and Karl Barth - November
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch; by Leo Tolstoy - November
The Grand Demonstration: A Biblical Study of the So-Called Problem of Evil; by Jay Adams - November
Existentialism and Christian Belief: A Frank Appraisal of a Modern-Day Philosophy; by Milton D. Hunnex - November
The Forged Coupon; by Leo Tolstoy - November
Answer to Job; by C.G. Jung - November
Demian; by Hermann Hesse - October
Clark Speaks from the Grave; by Gordon H. Clark - October
Religion, Reason, and Revelation; by Gordon H. Clark - October
The Martyr of the Catacombs - September
Our Knowledge of God; by John Baillie – September
Don't Waste Your Life; by John Piper - August
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement; by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox - August
Logic; by Gordon H. Clark - August
Introduction to Philosophy: A Case Study Approach; by Jack B. Rogers and Forrest Baird - August
Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage; by Conrad Murrell - July
Can Man Live Without God; by Ravi Zacharias - July
Megamystery, The Called Out of God; by Conrad Murrell - June
The New Covenant; by Conrad Murrell - June
Wild at Heart (Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul); by John Eldredge - May
Night; by Elie Wiesel - May
Tommaso and the Blind Photographer; by Gesualdo Bufalino – April
The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christlike Balance; by Randy Alcorn – April
The Purity Principle: God's Safeguards for Life's Dangerous Trails; by Randy Alcorn - March
Scents of Wood and Silence: Short Stories by Latin American Women Writers; Ed. Kathleen Ross and Yvette E. Miller - March
Night's Lies; by Gesualdo Bufalino - March
The Keeper of Ruins; by Gesualdo Bufalino - March
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Anarchism But Were Afraid To Ask - March
The Return of Martin Guerre; by Natalie Zemon Davis - February
In Defense of Anarchism; by Robert Paul Wolff - February
Short Stories by Latin American Women - The Magic and the Real; Edited by Celia Correas De Zapata - February
Nausea; by Jean-Paul Sartre - February
Introducing Foucault; by Chris Horrocks and Zoran Jevtic - February
Continental Short Stories: The Modern Tradition; edited by Edward Mitchell and Rainer Schulte - February
Always Ready: Directions for Defending the Faith; by Dr. Greg L. Bahnsen - January
World War II - The Rest of the Story and How it Affects You Today; by Richard J. Maybury - January
2003
World War I - The Rest of the Story and How it Affects You Today; by Richard J. Maybury - December
Just Gaming; by Jean-Francois Lyotard - November
Poetry, Language, Thought; by Martin Heidegger - November
Desire in Language - A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art; by Julia Kristeva - October
On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness; by Jacques Derrida – October
Intellectual Courage; by Jacques Derrida - October
White Mythology; by Jacques Derrida - October
Differance; by Jacques Derrida - October
Derrida and the End of History; by Stuart Sim - October
The Post-Colonial Critic - Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues; by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - October
A Teachers Introduction to Deconstruction; by Sharon Crowley - September
The Pleasure of the Text; by Roland Barthes - September
The Resistance to Theory; by Paul deMann - September
Critical Practice; by Catherine Belsey - September
Introducing Heidegger; by Jeff Collins and Howard Selina - August
The Great Gatsby; by F. Scott Fitzgerald - August
Chris Chrisman Goes to College...and faces the challenges of relativism, individualism and pluralism; by James W. Sire - July
Introducing Derrida; by Jeff Collins and Bill Mayblin - July
The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus; by Christopher Marlowe - July
The On-Purpose Person - Making Your Life Make Sense; by Kevin W. McCarthy - July
The Word of God and the Mind of Man - The Crisis of Revealed Truth in Contemporary Theology; by Ronald H. Nash - June
The Fall; by Albert Camus - June
Habits of the Mind (Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling); by James W. Sire - May
On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons; by John A. Broadus - May
The Sabbath Syllogism - Matthew 12:1-8 (Are We Bound by Moral Law to Observe a Sabbath Day?); by Harvey Bluedorn - May
The Logical Defense of the Faith (Christian Apologetics in One Lesson); by Harvey Bluedorn - May
The Strenuous Life; by Theodore Roosevelt – May
Why I Am Not A Pacifist (An Essay) - by C.S. Lewis - April
The Wisdom of Ancient Rome; Compiled by Benoit Desombres – April
The Essence of Human Nature; by Mark P. Cosgrove - April
Sacred Marriage; by Gary Thomas - March
Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex); by Sophocles - March
Faith & Reason - Searching for a Rational Faith; by Ronald H. Nash - March
He Is There and He Is Not Silent; by Francis A. Schaeffer - February
Selected Essays from "Ideas and Opinions;" by Albert Einstein - February
The God Who Is There; by Francis A. Schaeffer - February
The Hobbit (or There and Back Again); by J.R.R. Tolkien - February
The Lost Dimension in Religion (An Essay); by Paul Tillich - February
Return to Reason; by Kelly James Clark – February
The Consequences of Ideas; by R.C. Sproul – January
The Art of War; by Sun Tzu - January
Moses In The Millennium (An Appraisal of Christian Reconstructionism); by John Zens - January
Escape from Reason; by Francis A. Schaeffer - January
What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy; by Thomas Nagel - January
Why I Believe in God; by Cornelius Van Til - January
The Problems of Philosophy; by Bertrand Russell – January
2002
Notes From Underground; by Fyodor Dostoevsky - December
When A Baby Dies - Answers to Comfort Grieving Parents; by Ronald H. Nash - December
Everyman's Battle; by Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker, with Mike Yorkey - November
A Call to the Ministry (a sermon); by C.H. Spurgeon - November
The Last Battle; by C.S. Lewis - November
Dialogue Between A Priest And A Dying Man; by Marquis de Sade - November
The Brothers Karamazov; by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Translated by Constance Garnett) - November
The Silver Chair; by C.S. Lewis - October
Advice to Christian Philosophers; by Alvin Plantinga - October
The Wall and Other Stories; by Jean-Paul Sartre - October
Existentialism and Human Emotions; by Jean-Paul Sartre - October
The Story of Philosophy; by Will Durant - September
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; by C.S. Lewis - September
Prince Caspian; by C.S. Lewis - August
The Pressure's Off; by Larry Crabb - July
The Problem of Pain; by C.S. Lewis - July
God and the Philosophers: the Reconciliation of Faith and Reason; edited by Thomas V. Morris - June
The Enemy Within (Straight Talk about the Power and Defeat of Sin); by Kris Lundgaard - June
Fear And Trembling; by Soren Aabye Kierkegaard - May
A Third Testament; by Malcolm Muggeridge - May
Philosophy For Beginners; by Richard Osborne - April
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare; by G. K. Chesterton – March
In Defense of the New Covenant: A Theological Response to Richard Barcellos' Book "In Defense of the Decalogue: A Critique of New Covenant Theology"; by Mike Adams - March
In Defense of the Decalogue: A Critique of New Covenant Theology; by Richard C. Barcellos - March
Bringing Up Boys; by James C. Dobson Ph.D. - February
2001
Ten Secrets for the Man in the Mirror (Startling Ideas About True Happiness); by Patrick Morley - November
Fidelity; What it means to be a One-woman Man; by Douglas Wilson - November
Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant (Rich Dad Poor Dad Part II); by Robert T. Kiyosaki - September
As I Lay Dying; by William Faulkner - September
Ape and Essence; by Aldous Huxley - August
Waiting for Godot; by Samuel Beckett - August
Rich Dad, Poor Dad; by Robert T. Kiyosaki - August
The Horse and His Boy; by C.S. Lewis - August
Written on the Heart - The Case for Natural Law; by J. Budziszewski - July
The Magician's Nephew; by C.S. Lewis - June
Who Moved My Cheese?; by Spencer Johnson M.D. - June
How to Read Slowly - Reading for Comprehension; by James Sire - May
Classical Education & The Home School; by Douglas Wilson, Wesley Callihan, and Douglas Jones - April
The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution; by Roger Williams – April
Biblical Economics in Comics; by Vic Lockman - April
Common Sense; by Thomas Paine - April
The Clipper Ship Strategy for Success in Your Career, Business and Investments; by Richard J. Maybury - March
The Money Mystery; by Richard J. Maybury - March
Evaluating Books - What Would Thomas Jefferson Think About This?; by Richard J. Maybury - March
Ancient Rome - How It Affects You Today; by Richard J. Maybury - March
Are you Liberal, Conservative, or Confused?; by Richard J. Maybury - February
Whatever Happened to Justice; by Richard J. Maybury - February
The E-Myth Revisited; by Michael E. Gerber - February
Uncle Eric talks about Personal, Career and Financial Security; by Richard J. Maybury - February
Homosexuality and the New Testament; What the New Testament Really Teaches; by Harold E. Brunson - February
The Greatest Thing in the World; by Henry Drummond - January
Distinctive Baptist Principles; by Benajah Harvey Carroll (B.H. Carroll) – January
2000
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?; - by Richard J. Maybury - December
War in Heaven; by Charles Williams - November
Your Child's Profession of Faith; by Dennis Gundersen - November
The Goal, A Process of Ongoing Improvement; by Eliyahu M. Goldratt - November
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; by C.S. Lewis - September
The Genealogy of Morals; by Friedrich Nietzsche - August
Theodicy: Abridgement of the Argument Reduced to Syllogistic Form; by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - June
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories; by Franz Kafka - June
Genesis in Space and Time; by Francis A. Schaeffer - June
Candide; by Voltaire - June
The Picture of Dorian Gray; by Oscar Wilde - May
Philosophy: The Basics; by Nigel Warburton - April
The Inklings; by Humphrey Carpenter - April
You & the Police!; by Boston T. Party - March
Anthem; by Ayn Rand - March
The Communist Manifesto; by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - March
Tablets of Stone; by John G. Reisinger - March
The Law; by Fredric Bastiat - February
The Plague; by Albert Camus - February
A Texas Ranger; by N.A. Jennings - January
War Party; by Louis L'amour – January
1999
Telling Yourself the Truth; by William Backus & Marie Chapian - December
The Gunfighter - Man or Myth?; by Joseph G. Rosa - December
The Earps of Tombstone; by Douglas D. Martin - as reported by the Early Editors of the Tombstone Epitaph - November
The Gunfighters; by the editors of Time Life Books - November
True Grit; by Charles Portis - September
The Man in the Mirror; by Patrick Morley - September
The Gunfighters; by Lea F. McCarty - August
Brave New World; by Aldous Huxley - August
Faith Works; by John MacArthur - July
Reforming Marriage; by Douglas Wilson - July
Honey for a Child's Heart; by Gladys Hunt - June
The Island of Dr. Moreau; by H. G. Wells - May
Heart of Darkness; by Joseph Conrad - May
John Ploughman's Talk; by Charles Haddon Spurgeon - April
Lord of the Flies; by William Golding - April
The Pearl; by John Steinbeck - April
The Code of Hammurabi; Trans. by L.W. King - March
The Hot Zone; by Richard Preston - March
The Last Days According to Jesus; by R.C. Sproul - February
The Consolation of Philosophy; by Ancius Boethius - February
Love Must be Tough; by James Dobson - January
Blind Man's Bluff; by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew - January
