2002
January
1 The Two Towers JRR Tolkien
2 Orthodoxy GK Chesterton
3 Christianity for Modern Pagans Peter Kreeft
4 Lost in the Cosmos Walker Percy
5 The Brethren John Grisham
6 ‘Tis Frank McCourt
7 Franny and Zooey JD Salinger
February
8 Too Christian Too Pagan Dick Staub
9 The Horse and His Boy CS Lewis
10 Farenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
11 American Pastoral Philip Roth
12 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard
13 Prince Caspian CS Lewis
14 Perelandra CS Lewis
15 Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
16 Voyage of the Dawn Treader CS Lewis
March
17 Light in the Shadow of Jihad Ravi Zacharias
18 Best Short Stories Dostoevsky
19 Long Journey Home Os Guiness
20 The Complete Stories Flannery O’Conner
21 Otherland Vol. 1 Tad Williams
22 Wild at Heart John Eldredge
23 Hollywood vs. America Michael Medved
24 The Temple George Herbert
April
25 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
26 An Altogether Different Language Anne Porter
27 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
28 The Restaurant at the end of the Universe Douglas Adams
29 Life the Universe and Everything Douglas Adams
30 So Long and Thanks for all the Fish Douglas Adams
31 Mostly Harmless Douglas Adams
32 The Mysteries of Pittsburgh Michael Chabon
33 Selected Poems TS Elliot
34 The Everlasting Man GK Chesterton
May
35 Mystery and Manners Flannery O’Conner
36 Bridges With Spirit Adam Voith
37 Teaching a Stone to Talk Annie Dillard
38 The Myth of Certainty Daniel Taylor
39 Soul Survivor Phillip Yancey
40 Art and the Bible Francis Schaffer
41 Brendan Frederick Buechner
42 Making Sense Out of Suffering Peter Kreeft
June
43 Wonder Boys Michael Chabon
44 Mere Christianity CS Lewis
45 The Four Loves CS Lewis
46 Grace at Bender Springs Vinita Hampton Wright
47 Till We Have Faces CS Lewis
48 Telling the Truth Frederick Buechner
49 The Great Divorce CS Lewis
July
50 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco
51 Philosophers Who Believe James Kelly Clark
52 Lion Country Frederick Buechner
53 About a Boy Nick Hornby
54 Selected Poetry WH Auden
55 Your God is Too Small JB Phillips
August
56 Up From Slavery Booker T Washington
57 Socrates Meets Jesus Peter Kreeft
58 How to be Good Nick Hornby
59 An American Childhood Annie Dillard
60 Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald
61 The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon
62 Open Heart Frederick Buechner
September
63 Sense and Sensuality Ravi Zacharias
64 East of Eden John Steinbeck
65 Love Covers Paul Billheimer
66 The Short Stories Earnest Hemingway
67 Holy the Firm Annie Dillard
68 Lord of the Flies William Golding
69 Love in the Ruins Walker Percy
70 The Divine Conspiracy Dallas Willard
October
71 White Noise Don Delillo
72 Free Bird Greg Garrett
73 The Silver Chair CS Lewis
74 Pensees Blaise Pascal
75 Summerland Michael Chabon
76 Empire Falls Richard Russo
77 The Consolation of Philosophy Boethius
78 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
79 The Last Battle CS Lewis
80 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
81 Shadow Puppets Orson Scott Card
November
82 Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safron Foer
83 Tally Ho the Fox Herb Hodges
84 The Heaven of Mercury Brad Watson
85 Orthodoxy G K Chesterton
86 The Muse Asylum David Czuchlewski
87 The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
88 The Christian Imagination ed. Leland Ryken
89 Peace Like a River Leif Enger
90 How to be Alone Jonathan Franzen
December
91 The Fellowship of the Ring JRR Tolkien
92 Signposts in a Strange Land Walker Percy
93 Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
94 Wise Blood Flannery O’Connor
95 Lancelot Walker Percy
96 Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut
97 The Two Towers JRR Tolkien
98 Goodbye, Columbus Phillip Roth
99 For the Time Being Annie Dillard
100 The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
101 Fear and Trembling Soren Kierkegaard
2003 reading list
January
1 Leaving Ruin Jeff Berryman
2 High Fidelity Nick Hornby
3 Me Talk Pretty Some Day Dave Sedaris
4 The Princess Bride William Goldman
5 Lullaby Chuck Palahniuk
6 How to Win the Culture War Peter Kreeft
7 Underworld Don DeLelillo
February
8 Rich Mullins: an arrow pointing to heaven James Bryan Smith
9 On the Road Jack Kerouac
10 About a Boy Nick Hornby
11 Love Feast Frederick Buechner
12 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers
13 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
March
14 Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow
15 Best of “The Public Square” Vol. 2 Richard John Neuhaus
April
16 Letters to a Young Conservative Dinesh D’Souza
17 Forbidden Knowledge Roger Shattuck
18 9 Stories JD Salinger
May
19 The Last Gentleman Walker Percy
20 The Place of the Lion Charles Williams
21 The Chosen Chaim Potok
June
22 Life of Pi Yann Martel
23 Making all Things New Henry Nouwen
24 The Air I Breathe Louie Giglio
25 Waking the Dead John Eldredge
August
26 The Second Coming Walker Percy
27 The Thanatos Syndrome Walker Percy
28 Recapture the Wonder Ravi Zacharias
29 Treasure Hunt Frederick Buechner
September
30 A Short Life of Kierkegaard Walter Lowrie
31 Timequake Kurt Vonnegut
32 I am one of you forever Fred Chappell
33 Holes Louis Sachar
October
34 The Moviegoer Walker Percy
35 Walking Across Egypt Clyde Edgerton
36 Cannery Row John Steinbeck
37 The Optimist’s Daughter Eudora Welty
38 Mike Nelson’s Movie Mega-Cheese Michael J Nelson
39 Screwtape Letters CS Lewis
40 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
41 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
42 Till We Have Faces CS Lewis
November
43 Peace like a River Lief Enger
44 Mike Nelson’s Death Rat Michael J Nelson
45 Songbook Nick Hornby
46 The Return of the King JRR Tolkien
December
47 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
48 In the Beauty of the Lilies John Updike
49 Rabbit Run John Updike
50 The End of Christendom Malcolm Muggeridge
2004
January
1 Patrick Stephen R Lawhead
2 Confessions of a 20th Century Pilgrim Malcolm Muggeridge
3 Big Fish Daniel Wallace
4 The Final Beast Frederick Buechner
February
5 The Message in the Bottle Walker Percy
6 Lost in the Cosmos Walker Percy
7 The Violent Bear It Away Flannery O’Connor
8 The Fourth Hand John Irving
March
9 My Name Is Asher Lev Chaim Potok
10 The World According to Garp John Irving
11 Fight Club Chuck Palanhiuk
12 Dog on the Cross Aaron Gwyn
13 The Second Coming Walker Percy
April
14 Selected Poems William Carlos Williams 5
15 The Habit of Being Flannery O’Connor
16 McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales Ed. by Michael Chabon
17 Bandits Elmore Leonard
18 Touch Elmore Leonard
19 Rum Punch Elmore Leonard
May
20 Godric Frederick Buechner
21 10 stories from “A Malamud Reader” Bernard Malamud
22 Sacred Dennis Lehane
23 Knowing God JI Packer
24 The White Bone Barbara Gowdy
25 A Drink Before the War Dennis Lehane
26 Gone, Baby, Gone Dennis Lehane
27 The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare
28 Orthodoxy GK Chesterton
June
29 Your God is too Safe Mark Buchanon
30 The Practice of the Presence of God Brother Lawrence
31 Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim David Sedaris
32 The Locklear Letters Michael Kun
July
33 The Normal Christian Life Watchman Nee
August
34 Leave it to Psmith PG Wodehouse
September
35 The correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy
36 The Magic Christian Terry Southern
37 Walker Percy: A Life Patrick Samway
October
38 Three Ted Dekker
39 Blue Like Jazz Donald Miller
40 Neuropolitics William Connelly
November
41 The Life You Save May be Your Own Paul Elie
42 Mr Paradise Elmore Leonard
43 The Storm Frederick Buechner
44 Searching for God Knows What Donald Miller
December
45 The Minority Report and other stories Phillip K Dick
46 The Inklings Humphrey Carpenter
47 the bad beginning lemony snicket
48 515 Readings: A Cyborg Manifesto donna haraway, 6 chapters from How We
Became Posthuman Katherine Hayles, 3 chapters from “Wonder and the Natural order” daston and parks. 2 chapters from Physics and Philosophy Werner Heisenburg
49 The Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem
50 Ariel Sylvia Plath
2005
January
1 Gun, With Occasional Music Jonathan Letham
2 The Polysyllabic Spree Nick Hornby
3 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
4 Incidents in the life of a slave girl Harriet Jacobs
5 The writing Life Annie Dillard
February
6 From the deep woods to civilization Charles Eastman
7 Black Boy Richard Wright
8 Lunch Poems Frank O’Hara
9 Inventing the Truth Ed. Zinser
10 One Writer’s Beginning Eudora Welty
11 An American Childhood Annie Dillard
March/April
12 Ararat Louise Gluck
13 The Desire to Heal Rafael Campo
14 Steal Away CD Wright
15 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
16 The Things They Carried Tim O’ Brien
17 The Night World and The Word Night Franz Wright
18 Walking to Martha’s Vineyard Franz Wright
19 Jesus Son Denis Johnson
May
20 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
21 Selections from: Wallace Stevens, WH Auden, Phillip Larkin, Elizabeth Bishop,
John Ashberry for a poetry class
22 Ignatius Rising Nevils and Hardy
23 Godric Frederick Buechner
June
24 The Moviegoer Walker Percy
July/August
25 Tales of the Kingdom David and Karen Mains
Tales of the resistance
Tales of the Restoration
26 God’s New Creation Jack Taylor
27 Mystic River Dennis Lehane
28 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
29 Jesus’ Son Denis Johnson
30 Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem
31 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone JK Rowling
SEPTEMBER
32 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets JK Rowling
33 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azcaban JK Rowling
34 Angels Denis Johnson
35 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire JK Rowling
36 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince JK Rowling
37 Amnesia Moon Jonathan Lethem
38 Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell Susanna Clark
39 Stargirl Jerry Spinelli
40 Intruder in the Dust William Faulker
41 City Primeval Elmore Leonard
OCTOBER
42 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
November
43 The Knowledge of the Holy AW Tozer
44 Cuba Libre Elmore Leonard
45 A Supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again David Foster Wallace
December
46 Franny and Zooey JD Salinger
47 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
48 Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card
49 Speaker for the dead Orson Scott Card
50 foucault for beginners
2006
1 She’s Come Undone Wally Lamb
2 Total Truth Nancy Pearcy
3 Glitz Elmore Leonard
4 Resusitation of a hanged man Denis Johnson
Feb.
5 On the Road with the Archangel Frederic Buechner
6 The disappointment artist Jonathan Lethem
7 THe 3 stigmata of Palmer Eldrich Philip K Dick
8 Brighton Rock Graham Greene
9 The power and the glory Graham Greene
10 American Gods Neil Gaiman
11 catch 22 Joseph Heller
March
12. The man in the High Castle Philip K Dick
13 Milkweed Jerry Spinelli
14 Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
15 Neverwhere Neil Gaiman
16 As She Climbed Across the Table Jonathan Lethem
17 Coraline Neil Gaiman
18 Walking from East to West Ravi Zacharias
19 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy
20 A Reader’s Manifesto B Myers
21 Good Omens Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett
April
22 Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman
23 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
24 Spirits Rebellious Kahlil Gibram
25 To Hate Like this is to be happy forever Will Blythe
26 Smoke and Mirrors Neil Gaiman
27 The Beforelife Franz Wright
May
28 Lolita Vladamir Nabokov
29 first 4 Sandman Graphic novels Neil Gaiman
30 God’s Silence Franz Wright
31 Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem
32 Bone (the complete one volume) Jeff Smith
June
33 The Man Who Was Thursday GK Chesterton
34 The Fifth Head of Cerberus Gene Wolfe
35 Rorschach Test Franz Wright
36 the second four Sandman Graphic novels Neil Gaiman
37 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare
38 The rest of the Sandman stuff
(the last 2 graphic novels, Endless Nights
the Death Graphic novels and dream hunters) Neil Gaiman
39 late wife Claudia Emerson
40 The Club of Queer Trades GK Chesterton
41 July, July Tim O’Brien
42 The Hot Kid Elmore Leonard
43 The Wooden Sea Jonathan Carroll
July
44 Bones of the Moon Jonathan Carroll
45 Sleeping in Flame Jonathan Carroll
46 Girl in Landscape Jonathan Lethem
47 Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
48 The Moviegoer Walker Percy
August
49 Watchmen Alan Moore
50 Portable Blake (480 pages at least) William Blake/ ed. Alfred Kazin
51 On Wollstonecraft Patricia A Johnson
52 Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman
53 utopia Thomas More
54 Utopia Thomas More
September
55 The Wrongs of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft
56 Selections for Eng. 550 (historical stuff and Wordsworth)
57 The Apology for Poetry Philip Sydney
58 Out of Sight Elmore Leonard
59 Fragile Things Neil Gaiman
October
60 Lots of Coleridge for Eng. 550 and some extra and selected readings on slavery
61 Fiskadoro Denis Johnson
62 The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Name of the World Denis Johnson
64 Mansfield Park Jane Austen
65 Bend Sinister Vladimir Nabokov
66 Housekeeping Vs. The Dirt Nick Hornby
November/December
67 Frankenstein Mary Shelley
68/69 The Sandman Graphic Novels Neil Gaiman
70 Mathilda Mary Shelley
71 The Cenci Percy Shelley
72 most of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and
Don Juan for class Byron
73 American Gods Neil Gaiman
74 Darkly Dreaming Dexter Jeff Lindsay
75 6 Scholarly articles about Coleridge and Wordsworth
76 The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories by Gene Wolfe
77 There are Doors Gene Wolfe
