Reading List

Ah yes. Summer is almost here, so I must post my "Summer Reading List 2009". Instead of the various categories I've done before, I'm going to make this a rather pragmatic reading list. PLEASE leave comments with further reading suggestions!

What I Will Actually Attempt To Read This Summer:

I'm attempting to do a themed summer, with the theme being "C.S. Lewis". My goal is to read as many of his major works that I haven't read already. These are not in any particular order (so if you have suggestions as to which ones to start with, please leave them!)

-The Problem of Pain (I've already begun reading this)
-The Great Divorce
-Till We Have Faces
-The Four Loves
-Miracles
-The Abolition of Man
-Surprised by Joy
-The Space Trilogy


Books That I Have Started Reading and Need To Finish:

-The Great Restoration - Meic Pearse
-Searching for God Knows What - Donald Miller
-The Double - Jose Saramago
-Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
-The Rest is Noise - Alex Ross
-The Seuss, The Whole Seuss and Nothing But The Seuss - Charles D Coben
-What To Listen for in Music - Aaron Copland
-David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
-Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
-I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like -Mardy Grothe


The Rest of the List (or, Books That I Still [Shamefully] Need to Read)

Part One: Books That Are Lonely On My Bookshelf
-Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
-Split Ends - Kristin Billerbeck
-Silas Marner - George Eliot
-Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
-C.S. Lewis - Sam Wellman
-The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other stories - Robert Louis Stevenson
-Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
-Roots - Alex Haley
-Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaske

Part Two: EMW Leftovers
-The Divine Comedy - Dante
-Confessions - St. Augustine
-The Age of Reason - Meic Pearse

Part Three: Books I Just Need To Read
-Pilgrim's Progress - Bunyan
-Escape from Reason -Francis Schaeffer
-Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
-The Jesus I Never Knew - Philip Yancey
-Institutes of the Christian Religion- Calvin
-The Prince -Machiavelli
-The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
-Faust - Goethe