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Reading List for 2012

January 18, 2012 by deanpsimmer Leave a Comment

This is my reading list for 2012. It has been updated as of 1 December. Those crossed out have been finished. I have been reading other books not on the list as well and the entire list of what I have read is on my 2012 Goodreads reading challenge page.

Abolition of Man – C.S. Lewis
Anglican Spiritual Tradition – Moorman
A Community of Character – Haerwas
The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor
Creed or Chaos? – Dorothy L. Sayers
Death and Life of Great American Cities – Jane Jacobs
Everything is Illuminated: A Novel – Jonathan Safran Foer
Fordlandia – Greg Grandin (holdover from 2011)
Frances Warde – Healy
Glorious Companions: Five Centuries of Anglican Spirituality – Schmidt
Grand Traverse: The Civil War Era – John C. Mitchell
Great Tradition – A Great Labor – Harrold and Williams
Here I Stand: a Life of Martin Luther – Bainton
Jesus Paul & the People of God – Perrin and Hays
Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity – Hooker
The Living Paul – Anthony Thiselton
The Lost Tools of Learning – Dorothy L. Sayers
Love in the Ruins – Walker Percy
Love’s Redeeming Work: The Anglican Quest for Holiness – Rowell, Stevenson and Williams
Of Mice and Men – Steinbeck
The Omnivore’s Dilemna – Michael Pollan (carryover from 2011)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Kesey
Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit – Thomas Segrue
The Orthodox Church – Timothy Ware
Pastor – Eugene Peterson
Politics of Cultural Despair – Fritz Stern
Resurrection and Moral Order – Oliver O’Donovan
Simple Church – Rainer & Granger
Slauterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
To Be a Pilgrim – Frederick Quinn
Ulysses Grant – Simpson
Urban Ministry – Conn
Vaclav Havel: Authorized Biography– Kriseová

War is a Force that Gives us Meaning – Chris Hedges
The Writing Life – Annie Dillard

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