2. to read and reread (by author)

My life is richer for having read these, probably many times.

Achebe, Chinua –  Things Fall Apart

Adams, Richard –  Watership Down

Alder, Mortimer, and Charles Van Doren –  How To Read a Book

Ambrose, Stephen E. –  Citizen Soldiers

Ambrose, Stephen E. –  Undaunted Courage

Anasi, Robert –  Gloves, The

Anderson, Hans Christian –  Anderson’s Fairy Tales

Augsberger, David –  Conflict Mediation Across Cultures

Augustine –  City of God, The

Augustine –  Confessions

Austen, Jane –  Pride and Prejudice

Bainton, Roland H. –  Here I Stand

Barnett, Lincoln –  Universe and Dr. Einstein, the

Barraclough, Geoffrey –  Introduction to Contemporary History, an

Bellow, Saul –  Seize the Day

Boethius –  Consolation of Philosophy, the

Bonheoffer, Dietrich –  Cost of Discipleship

Bowden, Mark –  Blackhawk Down

Brother Lawrence –  Practice of the Presence of God, the

Brown, Gillian and George Yule –  Teaching the Spoken Language

Brown, Larry –  Dirty Work

Brown, Larry –  Facing the Music

Brown, Larry –  Father and Son

Buck, Pearl S –  Good Earth, The

Bulgakov, Mikhail –  Master and Margarita, The

Bunyan, John –  Pilgrim’s Progress, a

Calvin, John –  Institutes of the Christian Relgion, The

Cameron, Euan –  European Reformation, the

Camus, Albert –  Stranger, the

Carr, Caleb –  Alienst, The

Celce –  Murcia, Marianne, ed. –  Teaching English as a Second of Foreign Language

Cervantes, Miguel de –  Don Quixote

Cesaire, aime –  Discourse on Colonialism

Chaucer, Geoffrey –  Tales of Canterbury, the

Chesterton, G.K. –  Everlasting Man, the

Chesterton, G.K. –  Father Brown

Chesterton, G.K. –  Father Brown, selected stories

Chesterton, G.K. –  Man Who Knew Too Much, The

Chesterton, G.K. –  Man Who Was Thursday

Chesterton, G.K. –  Manalive

Chesterton, G.K. –  Napoleon of Notting Hill

Chesterton, G.K. –  Orthodoxy

Chesterton, G.K. –  St. Francis of assisi

Cleary, Beverley –  Runaway Ralph

Collins, Max Allen –  Road to Perdition, The

Colson, Charles –  Body, The

Cornwall, Bernard –  Sharpe’s Eagle

Cornwall, Bernard –  Sharpe’s Tiger

Cornwall, Bernard –  Sharpe’s Trafalgar

Coupland, Douglas –  Eleanor Rigby

Coupland, Douglas –  Girlfriend in a Coma

Crabb, Larry –  Finding God

Crabb, Larry –  Inside Out

Crane and Edwards, trans. –  Grimms’ Fairy Tales

Crews, Harry –  Knockout Artist, The

cummings, e.e. –  Ninety –  five Poems

cummings, e.e. –  Seventy –  three Poems

Dante –  Divine Comedy, the

de Saint Exupery, antoine –  Wind, Sand and Stars

de St. Exupery, antione –  Night Flight

de St. Exupery, antoine –  Petit Prince, le (the little prince)

DeCamillo, Kate –  Tale of Desperaux, The

Delillo, Don –  Americana

Delillo, Don –  Body Arist, The

Delillo, Don –  Cosmopolis

Delillo, Don –  Names, The

Delillo, Don –  Players, The

Delillo, Don –  Underground

Delillo, Don –  White Noise

Descartes –  Discours de la Methode

Diamant, Jared –  Guns, Germs, and Steele

Diaz, Junot –  Drowned

Dickens, Charles –  Christmas Carol, a

Dickens, Charles –  Great Expectations

Dickens, Charles –  Oliver Twist

Dickins, Charles –  Tale of Two Cities, a

Dickinson, Emily –  Selected Poems

Dillard, Annie –  Writing Life, The

Dostoevsky, Fyodor –  Brothers Karamazov, the

Dostoevsky, Fyodor –  Crime and Punishment

Dostoevsky, Fyodor –  Notes from the Underground

Dostoevsky, Fyodor –  The House of the Dead

DuBois, W.E.B. –  Souls of Black Folk, the

Eco, Umberto –  Kant and the Platypus

Eco, Umberto –  Name of the Rose, the

Einstein, albert –  Relativity

Eldridge, John –  Wild At Heart

Eliot, T.S. –  Four Quartets

Eliot, T.S. –  Wasteland, the and other poems

Elliot, Elizabeth –  Chance to Die, a

Elliot, Elizabeth –  Shadow of the almighty

Ellis, Bret Easton –  Glamorama

Ellis, Rod –  Study of Second Language Acquisition, the

Ellison, Ralph –  Invisible Man

Elmer, Duane –  Cross –  Cultural Conflict

Endo, Shisaku –  Samurai, The

Endo, Shisaku –  Silence

Faludi, Susan –  Stiffed

Faulkner, William –  As I Lay Dying

Faulkner, William –  Sound and the Fury, the

Fielding, Helen –  Bridget Jones Diary

Forster, E.M. –  Room with a View, a

Foster, Richard J. –  Prayer

Friedman, Thomas –  Lexus and the Olive Tree, The

Frost, Robert –  Poetry of Robert Frost, the

Gaiman, Neil –  American Gods

Gaiman, Neil –  Anansi Boys

Gaiman, Neil –  Caroline

Gaiman, Neil –  Neverwhere

Gaiman, Neil –  The Sandman vol 10: The Wake

Gaiman, Neil –  The Sandman vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes

Gaiman, Neil –  The Sandman vol. 3: Dream Country

Gaiman, Neil –  The Sandman vol. 4: Season of Mists

Gaiman, Neil –  The Sandman vol. 6: Fables and Reflections

Gaiman, Neil –  The Sandman vol. 7: Brief Lives

Gaiman, Neil –  The Sandman vol. 8: World’s End

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel –  Love in the Time of Cholera

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel –  One Hundred Years of Solitute

Garland, Alex –  Tesseract, The

Golding, William –  Lord of the Flies

Goldman, William –  Princess Bride, the

Greeley, Andrew –  Patience of a Saint

Greene, Graham –  Our Man in Havana

Greene, Graham –  Power and the Glory, the

Gregory, John Milton –  Seven Laws of Teaching, the

Gross, Robert a. –  Minutemen and Their World, the

Haddon, Mark –  Strange Case of the Dog in the Night, The

Halfstadter, Douglas –  Godel, Escher, Bach

Hauser, Thomas –  Year at the Fights, A

Hawking, Stephen –  Brief History of Time, a

Hawthorne, Nathaniel –  Scarlet Letter, the

Hawthorne, Nathaniel –  Twice Told Tales

Hempel, Amy –  dog of marriage, the

Hempel, Amy –  Reasons to Live

Hempel, Amy –  Tumble Home

Hempel, Carl –  Philosophy of Natural Science

Henry, O. –  Roads of Destiny

Hollister, C. Warren –  Medieval Europe

Hollister, Meyer, Leedom, and Spear –  Medieval Europe

Holmes, arthur F. ed. –  War and Christian Ethics

Hornby, Nick –  31 Songs

Hornby, Nick –  About a Boy

Hornby, Nick –  High Fidelity

Howatch, Susan –  Glittering Images

Hugo, Victor –  Hunchback of Notre Dame, the

Hugo, Victor –  Miserables, les

Huxley, alduous –  Brave New World, a

Ionesco, Eugene –  Bald Soprano, The

Ionesco, Eugene –  Chairs, The

Isaac, Rhys –  Transformation of Virginia, the

Jacobs, Jane –  Death and Life of Great american Cities, the

Johnson, Denis –  Already Dead

Johnson, Denis –  Resuscitation of a Hanged Man

Jones, Chris –  Falling Hard

Jones, Thom –  Pugilist at Rest, The

Jowett translation –  Works of Plato, the

Kafka, Franz –  Metamorphosis, the,  and Other Stories

Kafka, Franz –  The Castle

Kieckeffer, Richard –  Magic in the Middle ages

Kierkegard, Soren –  Concept of Anxiety, The

Kierkegard, Soren –  Either/Or

Kierkegard, Soren –  Fear and Trembling

Kierkegard, Soren –  For Self Examination

Kierkegard, Soren –  Judge For Yourself

Kierkegard, Soren –  Practice in Christianity

Kierkegard, Soren –  Provocations

Kierkegard, Soren –  Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing

Kierkegard, Soren –  Repitition

Kierkegard, Soren –  Sickness Unto Death,The

Kierkegard, Soren –  Works of Love

Krakauer, Jon –  Into the Wild

Kuhn, Thomas S. –  Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the

Ladefoged, Peter –  Course in Phonetics, a

Lahiri, Jhumpa –  interpreter of maladies

L’Amour, Louis –  Bendigo Schafter

L’Amour, Louis –  Comstock Lode

L’Amour, Louis –  Flint

L’Amour, Louis –  Jubal Sackett

L’Amour, Louis –  Last of the Breed

L’Amour, Louis –  The Daybreakers

L’Amour, Louis –  The First Fast Draw

L’Amour, Louis –  The Sackett Brand

L’Amour, Louis –  The Walking Drum

Lang, Andrew, ed. –  Blue Fairy Book, the and The Yellow Fairy Book

Lawhead, Stephen R. –  Albion Cycle, the

Lawhead, Stephen R. –  Byzantium

Lawhead, Stephen R. –  Taliesin

Lawrence, C.H. –  Medieval Monasticism

Le Carre, John –  Secret Pilgrim, The

LeCarre, John –  Absolute Friends

LeCarre, John –  Russia House, The

LeCarre, John –  Tailor, Tinker, Soldier, Spy

L’Engle, Madeleine –  Swiftly Tilting Planet, a

L’Engle, Madeleine –  Wind in the Door, a

Lewis, C.S. –  Abolition of Man, the

Lewis, C.S. –  Allegory of Love, the

Lewis, C.S. –  Discarded Image, the

Lewis, C.S. –  Experiment in Criticism, an

Lewis, C.S. –  Four Loves, the

Lewis, C.S. –  Great Divorce, the

Lewis, C.S. –  Grief Observed, a

Lewis, C.S. –  Last Battle, the

Lewis, C.S. –  Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the

Lewis, C.S. –  Mere Christianity

Lewis, C.S. –  Out of the Silent Planet

Lewis, C.S. –  Perelandra

Lewis, C.S. –  Pilgrim’s Regress, the

Lewis, C.S. –  Preface to Paradise Lost, a

Lewis, C.S. –  Prince Caspian

Lewis, C.S. –  Screwtape Letters, the

Lewis, C.S. –  Surprised by Joy

Lewis, C.S. –  That Hideous Strength

Lewis, C.S. –  Till We Have Faces

Lewis, C.S. –  Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”, the

Lewis, C.S. –  Weight of Glory and other Addresses, the

Lewis, Sinclair –  Babbit

MacDonald, George –  Light Princess and other fantasy stories, the

MacDonald, George –  Lilith

MacDonald, George –  Phantastes

MacDonald, George –  Princess and the Goblin, the

Markandaya, Kamala –  Nectar in a Seive

Martin, James Kirby & Mark Edward Lender –  Respectable army, a

Martin, Valerie –  Property

McCarthy, Cormac –  All The Pretty Horses

McCarthy, Cormac –  Road, The

McInerey, Jay –  Bright Lights, Big City

McInerey, Jay –  Brightness Falls

McKeon, Richard, ed. –  Introduction to Aristotle

Melville, Herman –  Moby Dick

Miller, Arthur –  Death of a Salesman

Miller, Frank –  Batman: Return of the Dark Night

Milne, a.a. –  Winne –  The –  Pooh

Milton, John –  Paradise Lost

Molliere –  Bourgeois Gentilhomme, le

Moore, Alan –  V for Vendetta

Moore, Alan –  Watchmen, The

Morrison, Toni –  Beloved

Morrison, Toni –  Bluest Eye, the

Muhaney, C.J. –  Humility

Myers, Bryant –  Walking With The Poor

Nouwen, Henri –  Return of the Prodigal, the

Orwell, George –  Nineteen Eighty –  four

Otto, Rudolf –  Idea of the Holy, the

Palahniuk, Chuck –  Fight Club

Palahniuk, Chuck –  Lullaby

Palahniuk, Chuck –  Survivor

Pascal, Blaise –  Pensees

Percy, Walker –  Last Gentleman, The

Percy, Walker –  Love in the Ruins

Percy, Walker –  Moviegoer

Petersen, Jim –  Living Proof

Piper, John –  Desiring God

Piper, John –  God is the Gospel

Piper, John –  Let the Nations Be Glad

Piper, John –  Pleasures of God, the

Piper, John –  Sex and the Supremacy of Christ

Piper, John –  When I Don’t Desire God

Proulx, Annie –  Shipping News, the

Puzo, Mario –  Godfather, The

Remnick, David –  King of the World

Remnick, David –  Resurrection

Rostand, Eduard –  Cyrano de Bergerac

Rowlings, J.K. –  Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince

Rowlings, J.K. –  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Sachar, Louis –  Holes

Sacks, Oliver –  Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, the

Sayers, Dorothy –  Strong Poison

Sayers, Dorothy –  Unnatural Death

Schulberg, Budd –  Sparring With Hemingway

Shakespeare, William –  Hamlet

Shakespeare, William –  Henry V

Shakespeare, William –  King Lear

Shakespeare, William –  Macbeth

Shakespeare, William –  Midsummer Night’s Dream, a

Shakespeare, William –  Othello

Shakespeare, William –  Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare, William –  Tempest, the

Shelley, Mary –  Frankenstein

Smith, Zadie –  White Teeth

Snicket, Lemony –  Austere Academy, The

Snicket, Lemony –  Bad Beginning, The

Snicket, Lemony –  End, The

Snicket, Lemony –  Ersatz Elevator, The

Snicket, Lemony –  Grim Grotto, The

Snicket, Lemony –  Hostile Hospital, The

Snicket, Lemony –  Penultimate Perile, The

Snicket, Lemony –  Reptile Room, The

Snicket, Lemony –  Slippery Slope, The

Snicket, Lemony –  Vile Village, The

Snicket, Lemony –  Wide Window, The

Solzhenitsyn, alexandr –  Day in the Life of Ivan Illych, A

Steinbek, John –  Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, The

Steinbek, John –  Cannery Row

Steinbek, John –  East of Eden

Steinbek, John –  Grapes of Wrath

Steinbek, John –  Of Mice and Men

Steinbek, John –  Pearl, The

Steinbek, John –  Red Pony, The

Steinbek, John –  Travels with Charley

Thomas, Dylan –  Collected Poems

Tolkien, J.R.R. –  Hobbit, the

Tolkien, J.R.R. –  Lord of the Rings, the

Tolstoy, Leo –  Anna Karenina

Tolstoy, Leo –  Death of Ivan Ilych and other stories, the

Tolstoy, Leo –  War and Peace

Tomine, Adrian –  Summer Blonde

Toole, F.X. –  Million Dollar Baby

Whitman, Walt –  Leaves of Grass and selected prose

Wilde, Oscar –  Portrait of Doirian Gray, The

Winter, Ralph ed. –  Perspectives on the World Christian Movement

Wodehouse, P.G. —  Carry On, Jeeves

Wodehouse, P.G. –  Code of the Woosters, The

Wodehouse, P.G. –  Right Ho, Jeeves

Wolfe, Tom –  Bonfire of the Vanities

Wolfe, Tom –  Electric Kool –  aid acid Test, The

Wolfe, Tom –  From Bauhaus to Our House

Wolfe, Tom –  Hooking Up

Wolfe, Tom –  I am Charlotte Simmons

Wolfe, Tom –  Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamlined Baby, The

Wolfe, Tom –  Man in Full, a

Wolfe, Tom –  Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine

Wolfe, Tom –  Painted Word, The

Wolfe, Tom –  Radical Chic and Mau-Mauling the Flak Catchers

Wolfe, Tom –  Right Stuff, The

Wright, Richard –  Black Boy

Yancey, Philip –  The Jesus I Never Knew

Yeats, William Butler –  Eleven Plays of William Butler Yeats