My personal goal for 2008 is to read 30 books (in addition to the books chosen by a small group I participate in; who’s titles are denoted below with “.5″).
This list was modified on May 25th, 2008.
Complete:
1: The Irresistible Revolution, Shane Claiborne [Blog One | Blog Two]
1.5: The Shack
2: Everything Must Change
3: How (Not) to Speak of God
4: Life After Church
4.5: Divine Nobodies, Jim Palmer (Epinoia: April)
5: Wikinomics, Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams
Currently Reading:
6: Here Comes Everybody*, Clay Shirky
Next Up (rough order, subject to change)
7: Jesus for President, Shane Claiborne & Chris Haw
7.5: The Wisdom of Tenderness*, Brennan Manning (Epinoia: June)
8: The New Christians, Tony Jones
9: Out of Our Minds*, Ken Robinson
10: Memo to the President Elect*, Madeleine Albright
11: The Art of Racing in the Rain
12: All the Sad Young Literary Men
13: The Pirate’s Dilemma, Matt Mason
14: The Big Switch, Nicholas Carr
15: Nineteen Eighty-Four
16: Jennifer Government
17: Company
18: The Book of Dave, Will Self
19: Love Monkey, Kyle Smith
20: Dreams from My Father*, Barack Obama
21: Jesus Wants to Save Christians*, Rob Bell & Don Golden
22: Let Story Guide You
23: The Uprising*, David Sirota
24: Nerds, David Anderegg
25: The Starfish and the Spider
26: How Starbucks Saved My Life
27: My Seasons, Bob Welch
28: Three Cups of Tea
29: Windy City*, Scott Simon
30: Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
There are plenty more books on my reading list, but these are the books I’ve committed to read this year. If you have any suggestions for books I should add, feel free to send me an email. Any books listed above with the star symbol (*) are books I do not yet own, so if you’re in a giving mood feel free to buy me a book off this list, or my larger Amazon wishlist! Also, if you are an author or publisher and you’d be interested in sending me an advance copy of a book to read and review on this blog, you can contact me by email.
Looking ahead:
The following list of titles are books I’d like to read, possibly this year should I beat my goal, or there’s always next year.
Culture:
The Assault on Reason*, Al Gore
Banker to the Poor*, Muhammad Yunus
Memoir/Biography:
Eight Men Out, Eliot Asinof
The Teammates, David Halberstam
A Long Way Gone*, Ishmael Beah
Clemente, David Maraniss
Einstein on Politics*, David E. Rowe
Bowerman and the men of Oregon, Kenny Moore
Fiction:
Heroes: Saving Charlie*, Aury Wallington
Religion:
The New Conspirators*, Tom Sine & Shane Claiborne
Searching for God Knows What, Donald Miller
Surprised by Hope*, N.T. Wright
The Secret Message of Jesus, Brian McLaren
The New Friars*, Scott A. Bessenecker
Why We’re Not Emergent*, Kevin DeYoung
The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoffer
The Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning
The Rabbi’s Heartbeat*, Brennan Manning
A Christianity Worth Believing*, Doug Pagitt
Wide Open Spaces*, Jim Palmer
Submerge*, John B. Hayes
Christianity’s Dangerous Idea, Alister McGrath