Reading List
I’ve been happily enjoying a CS Lewis reading blitzkrieg. I’ve read or reread 6 of his books so far and right now am working on “Out of Silent Planet” and the rest of that trilogy. I feel like there are always way too many books that I want to read compared to how much time I have to read them. I wish I could devote a lot more time to it because I love reading and there’s a lot of books that have me interested. Yesterday I put together a list of some books that I hope to get to soon:
- The Pilgrim’s Regress – Lewis
- Phantom Tollbooth (Reread)
- Bambi vs. Godzilla (Reread)
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Chabon
- Freakonomics – Levitt and Dubner
- A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bryson
- No Logo – Klein
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Armitage
- The Secret History – Tartt
- Consider the Lobster – Wallace
- The Year of Magical Thinking – Didion
- Gilead – Robinson
- The Tipping Point – Gladwell
- The Road – McCarthy
- Life of Pi – Martel
- War and Peace – Pevear and Volokhonsky
- Bad Science – Goldacre
- White Teeth – Smith
- The Plot Against America – Roth
- Everything is Illuminated – Foer
- Eats, Shoots, and Leaves – Truss
- If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things – McGregor
- Blank Slate – Pinker
- The PowerBook – Winterson
- Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned – Tower
- The Ascent of Money – Ferguson
- The Carhullan Army – Hall
- Children of Men – James
- Traveling Mercies – Anne Lamott
I also recently got some great suggestions from friends on Facebook which I need to look up. Do you have any more suggestions of book I need to read? Or have you read any of these? Would you recommend them?
You need to read a book by Jonathan Kozol, any of them are good, Savage Inequalities or Amazing Grace are a little outdated but the facts continue (they’re about education)
Oh, and this one was just recommended by my friend David: Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
It’s been about a year and a half since I made this list…I thought I would make an update about what I’ve actually been able to read from the list. Here are the books that I’ve since read from this list:
The Pilgrim’s Regress – LewisBooks
Freakonomics – Levitt and Dubner
A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bryson
The Tipping Point – Gladwell
The Road – McCarthy
Life of Pi – Martel
The Plot Against America – Roth
Children of Men – James
And currently I’m reading:
Traveling Mercies – Anne Lamott
So, yeah, I surprised myself. I’m happy with the number of books from the list that I’ve actually gotten to. I’ve read other books too so I’d say so far, so good!