Thursday, January 19, 2006

books I want to read

I think these will be easier to keep track of in a post than on the sidebar. :)


  • Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors

  • A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain

  • Blood and Roses

  • Salt: A World History

  • Aristotle's Children : How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages

  • Lollards and Reformers

  • Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired

  • William Tyndale: A Biography

  • The English Reformation Revised

  • Happiness: A History

  • Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War


  • A Poetic for Sociology

  • Geography of Nowhere

  • The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood

  • The Female Thing

  • Gender Advertisements

  • Sexual Revolution in Early America

  • The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the Word

  • The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith

  • Touchdown Jesus

  • Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto


  • The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

  • Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

  • Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?

  • Naming and Necessity


  • Relational Holiness: Responding To The Call Of Love

  • Evangelism & Theology in the Wesleyan Spirit

  • Grace Matters

  • Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism

  • Fundamentalism and American Culture

  • The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys

  • Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them

  • American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving

  • Thank You, St. Jude: Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes

  • A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow

  • Restless Souls : The Making of American Spirituality

  • Born Again And Again: Surprising Gifts Of A Fundamentalist Childhood

  • Alone With The Alone

  • The Alchemy of Happiness

  • The Courage To Be

  • Charles Wesley: A Reader

  • Who Is God In Three Persons

  • Purity of Heart

  • Bound Only Once

  • The God Who Risks: A Theology Of Providence

  • The Community of the Beloved Disciple

  • After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s


  • An Imaginary Tale

  • Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics

  • Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen

  • Chaos: Making a New Science

  • A History of Pi

  • Stumbling on Happiness

  • Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World

  • Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life

  • Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another

  • Earth: An Intimate History

  • Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements



  • Me Talk Pretty One Day

  • On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language

  • The Unprocessed Child: Living Without School


  • Jayber Crow

  • Godric

  • A Prayer for Owen Meany

  • Momento Mori

  • Father Melancholy's Daughter

  • A Flag for Sunrise

  • Quarantine

  • Gravity's Rainbow

  • The Tin Drum

  • The Clowns of God

  • At the Edge of the World

  • Song of Solomon

  • Continental Drift

  • Ironweed


  • Good Poems

  • Why I Wake Early

  • The Gift

  • The Love Poems of Rumi

  • Bells In Winter

  • Averno

  • The Book of Nightmares

  • The Wild God of the World

  • Sun Under Wood

  • The Sonnets

  • Cascadia
  • 2 comments:

    Mr. Miro said...

    I have a couple of these you can borrow (and probably don't have to worry about getting back to me anytime soon).

    BrianY said...

    I'll lend you _Wide as the Waters_ if you're ready to return _The World Turned Upside Down_.