Books Read 2008
70. Selected Poems - W.H. Auden 8/10
69. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories - Tim Burton 7/10
68. Voss - David Ives 7.5/10
67. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling 7.5/10
66. The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming - Lemony Snicket 7/10
65. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell 8.5/10
64. Amusing Ourselves To Death - Neil Postman 9.5/10
63. All of Us - Raymond Carver 7.5/10
62. Weather Central - Ted Kooser 7.5/10
61. 1 & 2 King (Brazos Theological Commentary) - Peter J. Leithart 8.5/10
60. If I Don't Know - Wendy Cope 4/10
59. Maxims - La Rochefoucauld 8/10
58. Getting Involved With God: Rediscovering the Old Testament - Ellen Davis 9/10
57. The Crucible - Arthur Miller 9/10
56. The Crock of Gold - James Stephens 9.5/10
55. How to Heal the Hurt by Hating - Anita Liberty 7.5/10
54. Austenland - Shannon Hale 7.5/10
53. The Mystic Masseur - V.S. Naipaul 8/10
52. Lying Awake (second time) - Mark Salzman 9/10
51. Interior Castle - Teresa of Avila 6/10
50. Exiles: A Novel - Ron Hansen 8.5/10
49. Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction - Christopher Butler 7.5/10
48. Subversive Orthodoxy: Outlaws, Revolutionaries, and Other Christians in Disguise - Robert Inchausti 10/10
47. What Saint Paul Really Said - N.T. Wright 8.5/10
46. The Old Testament: A Very Short Introduction - Michael Coogan 6/10
45. Belief in God in an Age of Science - John Polkinghorne 8/10
44. The Bhagavad-Gita 6.5/10
43. Barth for Armchair Theologians - John R. Franke 9/10
42. Wesley for Armchair Theologians - William J. Abraham 8.5/10
41. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger 7/10
40. Four Quartets - T.S. Eliot 9/10
39. Iron and Silk - Mark Salzman 8/10
38. Lying Awake - Mark Salzman 9/10
37. Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke 9.5/10
36. 20 Something Manifesto - Christine Hassler 7.5/10
35. Roman England: A Very Short Introduction - Peter Salway 7/10
34. The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction - John Blair 7/10
33. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams 9/10
32. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling 10/10
31. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz 8/10
30. A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry 9.5/10
29. A Very Long Engagement - Sebastian Japrisot 8.5/10
28. Coraline - Neil Gaiman 7/10
27. Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut 6/10
26. The Princess Bride - William Goldman 10/10
25. Night - Elie Wiesel 9/10
24. A Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Live the Bible as Literally as Possible
- A.J. Jacobs 8/10
23. Captain Alatriste - Arturo Perez-Reverte 7/10
22. The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama 8/10
21. Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller 7.5/10
20. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin Abbott 7/10
19. American Born Chinese - Guen Luen Yang 8/10
18. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 8.5/10
17. Russell Baker's Book of American Humor - Russell Baker 6/10
16. There's a Hair in My Dirt - Gary Larson 6/10
15. God's Silence - Franz Wright 7.5/10
14. I Am One of You Forever - Fred Chappell 9.5/10
13. An Honest Answer - Ginger Andrews 7.5/10
12. Hurricane Sisters - Ginger Andrews 8/10
11. Just People - Kathi Appelt 6.5/10
10. Good Poems for Hard Times - Garrison Keillor 9/10
9. Walking to Martha's Vineyard - Franz Wright 9.5/10
8. Flying at Night - Ted Kooser 8.5/10
7. Good Poems - Garrison Keillor 9/10
6. Eve's Diary - Mark Twain 9.5/10
5. The Blizzard Voices - Ted Kooser 7.5/10
4. Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters 7.5/10
3. Delights and Shadows - Ted Kooser 9.5/10
2. Twilight - Stephanie Meyer 5/10
1. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl 8/10
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posted by John Pierce @ 6:45 PM
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5 Comments:
Nice to see your reading list! You've always given such great book reccomendations, so I'm certainly interested in seeing you update this list in the future. I've thought about putting something similar togther, but I never seem to get around to it!
I read Man's Search for Meaning last semester. I embarassed to say that I hadn't heard of it before I picked it up. While it certainly wasn't uplifting reading, it really made me think. It's hard to find books that do that, eh?
Hope all is well!
Em
Really? Only 8/10 for the Kite Runner? Maybe I grade easier than you do. You are, after all, a schoolteacher now. :)
Hey Emily,
Yep, Hosseini would only have gotten a 'B' in my junior English class. Heck, my classroom's tougher than anything in that novel. :)
No, I just think all the hype hurt it for me. The bar had been set too high, and it was a good book, but it just didn't blow me away. I do think I'll read Hosseini's second novel though, when I get a chance. I've not heard as much good about it, so it's probably worse, and I'll probably like it better anyway. So it goes.
Maybe it was because I listened to it on audio CD instead of reading it, but I really felt like I was there as the story unfolding. The author read it, and he even had an authentic accent. Plus, I read it (or listened to it) before all the hype.
A Thousand Splendid Suns is one of the next ones on my list too, so we'll see about that.
No matter how many books I read, I can't seem to keep up with you. You have officially doubled my count, by the way. Grrr...
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