I am a voracious reader. I am also a moody reader for that reason I tend to read about 5 to 10 books at a time. I am beginning this page with the current books I am reading. I am not suggeting I like these books, or they are great books, but that they gained my interest enough to get me to read them.

Here is what I am currently reading:

Primer on Postmodernism by Stanley Grenz

Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan

The Wisdom of Tenderness by Brennan Manning

 

Here are books that changed my life:

Literature:

The Brother's Karamazov by F. Dostoevsky

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Chosen by Chaim Potok

Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

The Odyssey and Iliad ( I am a huge fan of mythology in general)

Philosophy:

Apology by PLATO
Candide by Voltaire
The Poetics by Aristotle
Beyond Good and Evil by Neitszche
Pensees by Pascal
Ecclesiastes from the Old Testament of the Bible
Confessions by Augustine
Purity of the Heart Is to Will One Thing by Kierkegaard
Song of Solomon from The Old Testament of the Bible
Modern Man In Search of a Soul by Carl Gustav Jung
The Dialogic Imagination by Mikhail Bakhtin
Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida
Being and Time by Heidegger
Truth and Method by Gadamer
Critique Of Pure Reason
by Immanuel Kant,

  Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle,
The Republic by Plato,
  The Joyful Wisdom by Friedrich Nietzsche,
  Being And Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre,
  The World As Will And Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer,
  Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill,
 Collected essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson,
 Collected essays of Michel de Montaigne,
  A Treatise Of Human Nature by David Hume.
The Nature Of The Gods by Cicero,
Treatise Concerning The Principles Of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley,
  Dialogues Concering Natural Religion by David Hume,
  Groundwork For The Metaphysic Of Morals by Immanuel Kant,
  Phaedrus by Plato,
  Metaphysics by Aristotle,
  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke,
  De Rerum Natura by Lucretius,
  Anything by Pythagoras.

 

SOCIAL COMMENTARY:

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

Urban Tribes by Ethan Watters

The Cultural Creatives

Bowling Alone

Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein

Anything by Jonathan Kozol

 

Metaphysical:

Mere Christianity by  CS Lewis

Surprised by Hope by NT WRIGHT

The Raggamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning

The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis

Ruthless Trust by Brennan Manning

Dangerous Wonder by Mike Yaconelli

The Idea of the Holy by Rudolph Otto

Generous Orthodoxy by Brian McLaren

The Reformation of the Heart by Dallas Willard