Reading List (2012)
January:
1. Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire
2. Mysterium Paschale: The Mystery of Easter
3. Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
4. I Am a Follower: The Way, Truth, and Life of Following Jesus
5. Out of Babylon
6. The Sabbath
7. Job: And Death No Dominion
8. How to Go from Being a Good Evangelical to a Committed Catholic in Ninety-Five Difficult Steps
9. Love Alone Is Credible
10. The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited
February:
11. Orthodoxy
12. Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis
13. The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins
14. Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
March:
15. Silence
16. Evangelical Theology: An Introduction
17. Housekeeping: A Novel
18. Be Not Afraid: Facing Fear with Faith
19. Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance Into Jerusalem To The Resurrection
20. What Episcopalians Believe: An Introduction
21. To the Heart of the Mystery of Redemption
22. Writing in the Dust: After September 11
April:
23. Waiting for God
24. Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction (Making of the Christian Imagination)
25. The Joy of Knowing Christ: Meditations on the Gospels
May:
26. Walden and Civil Disobedience
27. All Quiet on the Western Front
28. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
29. Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between
June:
30. When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays
July:
31. The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age
32. All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
33. Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
34. Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College - Doug Lemov
August:
35. The Writing Life - Annie Dillard
36. T. S. Eliot: Collected Poems, 1909-1962
37. Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands - Michael Chabon
38. Farther Away: Essays
39. Letters to a Young Calvinist: An Invitation to the Reformed Tradition - James K.A. Smith
40. Rework
41. Flannery O’Connor: The Cartoons
42. Selections from The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse, 1926-1938 (Volume 1)
43. The Secret Garden
44. Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor
45. Thinking Like Your Editor
46. Art, the Arts, and the Great Ideas
September:
47. Selections from Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays
48. Selections from The Letters of T.S. Eliot: Volume 1: 1898-1922, Revised Edition
49. Bible Road: Signs of Faith in the American Landscape
50. When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God
51. Thirst: Poems
52. The Searchers: A Quest for Faith in the Valley of Doubt
53. Selected Poems
54. The Moviegoer
55. The Jewish Gospels
56. Words Made Fresh: Essays on Literature and Culture
October:
57. Beautiful Ruins: A Novel
58. Believer, Beware: First-person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith
59. A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband “Master”
November:
60. Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom
61. Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
62. Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
December:
63. Beauty Will Save the World: Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age
64. The Best American Essays 2012 (The Best American Series)
65. Font of Life: Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism (Emblems of Antiquity)
66. Unapologetic
67. To a God Unknown
68. Christ the Stranger: The Theology of Rowan Williams
