Wednesday, January 21, 2009

My Life's Running Book List

I love books. They are a refuge to me from the day. Typically, I've read books around our apartment randomly choosing whatever suits my fancy at the moment, but now I've decided to get organized because I want to get to the end of some books. So here's my list that I plan to add to and finish for the next lifetime or so: (Also, if you have a similar list or are inspired to make one please share it!)

Have and want to read
1. Flowers in the Dust Bin (with music) by James Miller
2. House of God by Samuel Shem
3. Oxford American, Nat Geo, and Smithsonian Magazines
4. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Need to Finish List
1. Under the Banner of Heaven by Krakauer
2. Evil and the Justice of God by NT Wright
3. Orthodoxy by Chesterton
4. Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
5. On Doctoring by Reynolds
6. History of Medicine by Porter, Gordon, and Duffin (3 volumes)
7. American Mania by Whybrow
8. On Presbyterianism by Lucas
9. Rediscovering Jesus by Muggeridge
10. Don’t Know Much about the Civil War by Kenneth Davis

Don’t Have but Want to Read List
1. Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity by Harry Bruinius
2. The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S. Collins
3. In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
4. Bioethics: An Anthology by Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer
5. The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature by Peter Singer
6. Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine by Roy Porter
7. Salvador Dali by Salvador Dali and Luis Romero
8. Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by Ralph C. Wood
9. The Feminization of American Culture by Ann Douglas
10. Eiger Dreams by Krakauer
11. Christian Origins and the Question of God 3 Volumes of by NT Wright
12. Fast Food Nation by Linklater
13. Dr. Zhivago by Pasternak
14. The Shack by William Young

Author List
1. Edwin C. Hui
2. Wendell Berry
3. Dorothy Sayers
4. Alvin Plantiga
5. Michael Polyani
6. Kurt Vonnegut
7. Fyodor Dostoeovsky

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