Book List for 2013

**  This list is  partial, more to  be added until I reach  100  **

Livy  The Early History of Rome

Gene Veith    Postmodern Times

Ngugi wa Thiong’o    A Grain of Wheat

Edward Bellamy Looking Backward

 

Chris Mooney    Unscientific America, How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future

G.K. Chesterton   Orthodoxy

Charles Dickens   Great Expectations

Jeremiah Burroughs    The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

T.S. Eliot     Murder in the Cathedral

Dorothy Sayers    Letters to a Diminished Church

Brian Fikkert     When Helping Hurts:  How to Alleviate Poverty….

Andrew Breitbart    Righteous Indignation

F. Scott Fitzgerald   The Great Gatsby

Jay Richards     Money Greed and God

Hernando de Soto     The Mystery of Capital

Ernest Hemingway      For Whom the Bell Tolls

N. D.  Wilson   Notes From the Tiltawhirl

Victor Hugo      Les Miserables

Ray Bradbury……something

Sun Tzu     The Art of War

Peter Hitchens   The Rage Against God

Paul Johnson Modern Times:  The World from the Twenties to the Nineties

Martin Luther Basic Theological Writings

Peter Leithart   The Baptised Body

John Knowles A Separate Peace

Charles Lamb        The Essays of Elia

A Year of Learning Dangerously

 

Nicholas Monsarrat The Cruel Sea

Flannery O’Connor   The Violent Bear it Away

Alan Paton   Cry the Beloved Country OR   Too Late the Phalarope

Ahdaf Souef   The Map of Love

Chimenanda Ngozi  Half of a Yellow Sun

Sarah Block   When Your Parent Moves In:  Every Adult Child’s Guide….

 Neiderhaus etc.    Together Again A Creative Guide to Successful Multigenerational Living 

 

Chaim Potok The Promise

Chinua Achebe   Things Fall Apart

Upton Sinclair The Jungle

Robert Lewis Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Irving Stone   Lust for Life

Herman Wouk The Cain Mutiny

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Audio book List…..because there’s no way I can sit still to read all this stuff:

(these are all repeats, and all worth repeating)

Herodotus, and the Iliad and the Odyssey

Liberal Fascism

Paradise Lost

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And these are some which I know I will be reading aloud, and I’m padding the list because I am shameless. 

Haaran and Poland   Famous Men of Greece   and Famous Men of the Middle Ages

Kate DiCamillo   The Tale of Desperaux

Norton Juster    The Phantom Tollbooth

Douglas Wilson  My Life For Yours

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