These are the books I’d like to read this year.  I’ve never made a specific list like this before.  This list is dependent on being able to inter-library loan most of these, my changing moods, and varying interests as the year progresses.  Nonetheless, this is a good guide for me instead of just choosing books willy-nilly like I normally do.  And, maybe this year I will actually remember a few titles of books I’ve actually read this way.  Grand total? 93

Recommended by Friends:

1.      The Practice of Prophetic Imagination – Brueggemann

2.      Disruptive Grace: Reflections on God, Scripture, and the Church – Brueggemann

3.      Who Are You, My Daughter? – Ellen Davis

4.      If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence And Spirit – Brenda Ueland

5.      David Swartz, The Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism

6.      N.T. Wright, The Kingdom New Testament.

7.      Christian Smith, et al., Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood.

8.      Deborah Feldman, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of Hasidic Roots.

9.      Ross Clifford, Philip Johnson, The Cross is Not Enough: Living as Witnesses to the Resurrection

10.  T.M. Luhrmann, When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God

11.  Graham Hill, Salt, Light and a City: Introducing Missional Ecclesiology.

12.  James E. Atwood, America and Its Guns: A Theological Expose

13.  Pete Enns and Jared Byas –  Genesis for Normal People

14. Bittersweet by Shawna Niequist
15. Bread and Wine by Shawna Niequist

16.  Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

17.  This Ordinary Adventure: Settling Down Without Settling by Christie Jeske

18.  Practicing the Presence of People by Mike Mason

19.  The Way of the Heart by Henri Nouwen

20.  Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter’s Dictionary Frederick Buechner

21.  The Hungering Dark Frederick Buechner

22.  The Divine Conpiracy by Dallas Willard

23.  The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy Sayers

24.  An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor

25.  I Sold My Soul on eBay by Hemant Mehta

26.  No Man Is An Island by Thomas Merton

27.  Invitations from God: Accepting God’s Offer to Rest, Weep, Forgive, Wait, Remember and More – Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

28.  The Just Church – Jim Martin

29.  Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit – Barry Estabrook

30.  Anatomy of a Disappearance -Hisham Matar

 

Posts that gave me lists to steal from: Scot McKnight, Brenna, Kelley, and Ed’s We’re Booked series.

 

My Amazon list:

1.      Unladylike: Resisting the Injustice of Inequality in the Church – Pam Hogeweide

2.      Graceful (For Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life – Emily P. Freeman

3.      Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life – Lois Tverberg

4.      Church Behind the Wire: A Story of Faith in the Killing Fields – Barnabas Mam

5.      Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?: Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World –  Brian D. McLaren

6.      Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion –  Gregory Boyle

7.      Hazardous by Ed Cyzewski

8.      The Violence of Love – Oscar A. Romero

9.      Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels – Kenneth E. Bailey

10.  A Little F’d Up: Why Feminism Is Not a Dirty Word –  Julie Zeilinger

11.  Down We Go: Living Into the Wild Ways Of Jesus – Kathy Escobar

12.  Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India- Miranda Kennedy

13.  Man and Woman, One in Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Paul’s Letters – Philip Barton Payne

14.  The Beauty of God: Theology and the Arts –  Daniel J. Treier

15.  The Handmaid’s Tale –  Margaret Atwood

16.  The Complete Stories –  Flannery O’Connor

17.  Waiting for God-  Simone Weil

18.  The Year of Magical Thinking –Joan Didion

19.  Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life  – Kathleen Norris

20.  Late Nights on Air – Elizabeth Hay

21.  As for Me and My House –  Sinclair Ross

22.  Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse: The True Story of a Woman Who Risked Everything to Bring Hope to Afghanistan- Suraya Sadeed

23.  Three Women of Herat: A Memoir of Life, Love and Friendship in Afghanistan – Veronica Doubleday

24.  Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan And How We Escaped to Freedom – Sulima and Hala

25.  The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir – Farah Ahmedi

26.  The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India  – Siddhartha Deb

27.  Leaving India: My Family’s Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents-  Minal Hajratwala

28.  Daughter of the Ganges: A Memoir – Asha Miro

29.  Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World-  Tracy Kidder

30.  The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures – Anne Fadiman

31.  The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe – Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

32.  The Saffron Kitchen –  Yasmin Crowther

33.  Wild Decembers – Edna O’Brien

34.  Toxic Charity: HowChurchesand Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It) Robert D. Lupton

35.  Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith Barbara Brown Taylor

36.  The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection by Robert Farrar Capon

37.  The Art of Eating M. F. K. Fisher

38. Unique: Telling Your Story in the Age of Brands and Social Media by Phil Cooke
39. To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others by Daniel H. Pink
40. Heroes and Monsters: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be Human by Josh James Riebock
41. Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation by Frederick Buechner
42. Fundamorphosis: How I Left Fundamentalism But Didn’t Lose My Faith by Robb Ryerse
43. The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis and Life in the Kingdom by Jamie Arpin-Ricci
44. The End of Evangelicalism? Discerning a New Faithfulness for Mission: Towards an Evangelical Political Theology by David E. Fitch

Books I own:

1. Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament -Peter Enns
2. Bible Made Impossible, The: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture – Christian Smith
3. The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief – Francis S. Collins
4. The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins– Peter Enns
5. The Crowd, The Critic, and The Muse by M. Gungor
6. A Year inProvence- Peter Mayle
7. In This House of Brede – Rumer Godden
8. Till We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis
9. The Philosophy of Tolkien – Peter Kreeft
10. Lost in the Cosmos – Walker Percy
11. We Can’t Go Home Again – Max Dubinsky
12. The Hole in the Gospel – Richard Stearns
13. The Flower and the Nettle – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
14. Come Alive – Elora Nicole
15. Brothers K
16. Don Quixote
17. The Great Gatsby
18. A Passage to India- E.M. Forster
19. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad