Monday, December 21, 2009

Book List, 2010

Books about God
Celebration of Discipline, Richard Foster
See Yourself as God Sees You, Josh McDowell
The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonheoffer
Girl Meets God, Lauren Winner
The Reason for God, Tim Keller
Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton
With Christ in the School of Prayer, Andrew Murray
Searching for God Knows What, Donald Miller
Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott

Popular Culture
The Narcissism Epidemic, Jean Twenge & Keith Campbell
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
Hope's Edge, Francis Moore Lappé
This Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, Sandor Katz
In Praise of Slowness, Carl Honore
Guyland, Michael Kimmel
Disposable People, Kevin Bales

History/Culture
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, Philip Gourevich
India After Gandhi, Ramachandra Guha
A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn

Biography/Memoir
Dry, Augusten Burroughs
Things I've Been Silent About, Azar Nafisi
My Life in France, Julia Child

Travel Writing
I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson

Essay
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
Armageddon in Retrospect, Kurt Vonnegut

Poetry
Babel, Barbara Hamby
Lira Mistica, Santa Teresa y San Juan de la Cruz

Literature
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith
The Innocent, Ian McEwan
Redeeming Love, Francine Rivers
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery O'Connor
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon