What Are You Reading?
While looking at my friend Chenoa’s blog last night I came across a post of 100 books, some of which she has read and some of which she intends to read. It made me think about the many books on my shelves and about which ones I have enjoyed or valued along my life’s journey so far. Here is a list of the one’s I could think of in no particular order. I hope some of you will share your own favorites. I can always use recommendations!
For The Life of the World by Alexander Schmemann
A Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson
After Christendom by Stanley Hauerwas
Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard
Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic by Reinhold Niebuhr
God’s Human Face by Christoph Schonborn
The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton
God In Search of Man by Abraham Joshua Heschel
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Memory for Wonders by Mother Veronica Namoyo
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Homilies on the Song of Songs by St. Bernard of Clairvaux
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip by George Saunders
New Seeds of Contempation by Thomas Merton
Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Dakota by Kathleen Norris
The Complete Walker IV by Colin Fletcher Chip Rawlins
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Paul Elie
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor
In the Parish of the Poor by Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Mama Makes Up Her Mind by Bailey White
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr.
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
A Harsh and Dreadful Love by William Miller
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Habit of Being by Flannery O’Connor
The Meaning of Icons by Leonid Ouspensky Vladimir Lossky
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Personalism by Emmanuel Mounier
The Third MIracle by Richard Vetere
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
The Teaching of Contempt, Christian Roots of Anti-Semitism by Jules Isaac
About The Author
Fr. Alexander’s “For the Life of the World” – truly one of the best and most helpful books I’ve ever read.
Actually there are a couple of others here which I’ve read and enjoyed, too.
I’ve only recently discovered your blog – but enjoy it. Thanks for your work here.
Well, look at that! I could have saved myself some time by just coming here to your blog! This is a wonderful list, which includes many of my favorites (Great Divorce, Holy the Firm, Till We Have Faces, For the Life of the World)! Really, thanks for posting this. I will refer to it often.
Thanks Mollie! Hope you are well.