Reading Lists by You

Here are lists that were submitted to me by readers. If you would like to add something to this list, feel free to do so in the comments!

(Crossed-out books are ones I’ve read. Click on them to go to my review of that book, if I’ve reviewed or discussed it.)

1. A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn (skimmed, not read in full, maybe will read it all later)
2. A Short History of Buddhism – Edward Conze
3. A Wizard of Earthsea / The Tombs of Atuan / The Farthest Shore – Ursula K. LeGuin
4. Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
5. Ad Infinitum : a biography of Latin / Nicholas Ostler
6. Adam Bede by George Eliot
7. After the Ecstasy, The Laundry – Jack Kornfield
8. Agamemnon by Aeschylus
9. All is change : the two-thousand-year journey of Buddhism to the West / Lawrence Sutin
10. America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, and the Revolutionary Election of 1800 – Bernard A. Weisberger
11. American Shaolin : flying kicks, buddhist monks, and the legend of iron crotch : an odyssey in the new China – Matthew Polly
12. An American Tragedy or Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
13. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
14. anything by Katherine Anne Porter
15. anything by Rosemary Sutcliff, especially The Eagle of the Ninth, The Lantern Bearers, and Sword at Sunset
16. anything by Thomas Hardy
17. Born to run : a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen / Christopher McDougall
18. Buddhism without beliefs : a contemporary guide to awakening – Stephen Batchelor
19. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
20. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
21. Cave in the snow : Tenzin Palmo’s quest for enlightenment / Vicki Mackenzie
22. Collapse – Jared Diamond
23. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
24. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
25. Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty
26. D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Women in Love.
27. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
28. Designing Social Inquiry
29. Destiny disrupted : a history of the world through Islamic eyes /Tamim Ansary
30. Dreams From My Father – Barack Obama
31. Essential Judaism – George Robinson (it’s hard to have questions left after this book)
32. Everything Is Miscellaneous – David Weinberger
33. Franz Kafka: The Judgment. A Hunger Artist. The Metamorphosis.
34. George Bernard Shaw: The Devil’s Disciple. Man and Superman. Saint Joan. (or any others)
35. God is not great : how religion poisons everything – Christopher Hitchens
36. Guns, Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond
37. Hans Jakob Christofel von Grimmelshausen: Simplizissimus.
38. Hitler, A Study In Tyranny by Alan Bullock
39. Homer: Iliad. Odyssey.
40. How the Swans Came to the Lake – Rick Fields
41. In search of Zarathustra : the first prophet and the ideas that changed the world / Paul Kriwaczek (*awesome*)
42. Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism / by John Powers
43. J. Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust, Part I.
44. Jean Racine: Phaedra.
45. John Keats: The Eve of St. Agnes.
46. La espiritualidad de la Cruz
47. Leo Tolstoy: The Three Hermits. The Death of Ivan Ilich.
48. Lies My Teacher Told Me
49. Longitude – Dava Sobel
50. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
51. Lucretius: On the nature of Things (especially “Against the Fear of Death”)
52. Lysistrata by Aristophanes
53. Misquoting Jesus : the story behind who changed the Bible and why – Bart D. Ehrman
54. Momo – Michael Ende (fiction–fricking phenomenal book)
55. New Testament, Red Letter Edition: Epistle of James. Anything in red.
56. Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince.
57. Nine-Headed Dragon River / Peter Mathiessen
58. No god but God : the origins, evolution, and future of Islam – Reza Aslan
59. Nonviolent Communication – Marshall Rosenberg
60. Old Testament: Genesis (especially the Story of Joseph). Song of Solomon. Esther. Hosea.
61. One dharma : the emerging Western Buddhism / Joseph Goldstein
62. Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
63. P. Ovidius Naso: Amores. The Metamorphoses. (I’ve read both in part, will finish later)
64. Papal sin : structures of deceit / Garry Wills
65. Plato: Apology of Socrates.
66. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
67. San Manuel, Bueno, Martyr by Unamuno
68. Shakespeare: The Tempest. Romeo and Juliet. Julius Caesar. Sonnets.
69. Sophocles: Antigone. Oedipus the King.
70. Still Alive by Ruth Kluger
71. Sync : the emerging science of spontaneous order – Steven Strogatz
72. T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
73. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
74. The Big Oyster / The Basque History of the World / Cod / Salt – Mark Kurlansky
75. The Catholic imagination / Andrew Greeley
76. The crusades, Christianity, and Islam / Jonathan Riley-Smith
77. The Cry and the Covenant by Morton Thompson
78. The Diary of Anne Frank
79. The Divine Comedy. (Inferno) by Dante Alighieri
80. The empty mirror; experiences in a Japanese Zen monastery / Janwillem van der Wetering
81. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
82. The Gnostic Gospels – Elaine Pagels
83. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
84. The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay)
85. The inheritance of Rome : a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 / Chris Wickham
86. The lost gospel : the book of Q & Christian origins / Burton L. Mack
87. The Nag Hammadi Library in English
88. The night of the gun / David Carr
89. The Omnivore’s Dilemma & In Defense of Food – Michael Pollan
90. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
91. The power of Babel : a natural history of language / John H. McWhorter
92. The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott
93. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
94. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
95. The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
96. The Stranger by Albert Camus
97. The Waters of Siloe / Thomas Merton (beautiful book about Benedictine history and practice)
98. The wisdom of crowds – James Surowiecki
99. The world without us – Alan Weisman
100. Why I am a Catholic / Garry Wills
101. Wolfram von Eschenbach: Parzival.
102. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
103. Boys Adrift by Dr. Sax
104. Girls on the Edge by Dr. Sax
105. anything by Charles Spurgeon
106. Shepherding a Child’s Heart by Tedd Tripp
107. Wisdom and Eloquence by Robert Littlejohn and Charles T. Evans
108. The Young Peacemaker: Teacher Manual
109. Engaging God’s World by Cornelius Plantinga
110. The Power of Our Words by Paula Denton
111. Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs by Emerson Eggerichs
112. God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? by John C. Lennox
113. Teach Like a Champion by by Doug Lemov and Norman Atkins
114. Energizers! 88 Quick Movement Activities That Refresh and Refocus by Susan Lattanzi Roser
115. 99 Activities and Greetings by Melissa Correa-Connolly
116. Raising a Modern-Day Knight by Robert Lewis
117. Teach Them Diligently: How to Use the Scriptures in Child Training by Louis PaulPriolo
118. Tabletalk series by Ligonier Ministries and R.C. Sproul
119. Matched by Ally Condie
120. The Third by Abel Keogh