• I am a voracious reader. I am also a moody reader for that reason I tend to read about 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:

    Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

    Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller

    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


    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

    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

     

     

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