Books I read in 2009

December 30th, 2009 | Comments (10) | Trackbacks (0) |

My library grows faster than my stack of completed books, a “problem” that I attempted to remedy once with the 30 pages per day project. I doubt I averaged 30 pages per day, but I knocked plenty of books off the list in 2009. Here they are:

  • Watch For The Light: Readings For Advent And Christmas [I gave two of these away during Advent]
  • Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson
  • A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson [Photo]
  • Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale by Frederick Buechner [Related blog post + photo]
  • On Religion by John Caputo [Photo]
  • Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
  • Transforming Christian Theology: For Church and Society by Philip Clayton
  • The Sacredness of Questioning Everything by David Dark
  • You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers [Related blog post - "My least favorite work by Eggers"]
  • Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
  • St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography by Philip Freeman
  • You Can Write!: The Inside Scoop on Publishing Your Nonfiction Book by Sheryl Fullerton
  • The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America by Steven Johnson [Related blog post - "Interesting but not incredible"]
  • Downtown Owl: A Novel by Chuck Klosterman
  • Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
  • Quantum : Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar
  • Theology and Culture: A Guide to the Discussion by D. Stephen Long
  • Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta [Photo]
  • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life by Donald Miller
  • Youth Ministry 3.0: A Manifesto of Where We’ve Been, Where We Are & Where We Need to Go by Mark Oestreicher
  • Relationships Unfiltered: Help for Youth Workers, Volunteers, and Parents on Creating Authentic Relationships by Andrew Root [Related blog post + interview with the author]
  • On Waiting by Harold Schweizer [Related blog posts one and two]
  • John the Baptist in the Gospel Tradition by Walter Wink

    • I’m currently reading Frederich Buechner’s Godric, which I hope to finish before the year is out. I should also mention that I’m 130 pages into Ched Myers’ momentous Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus for a weekly personal study with @bmick. At ten pages/week, we should finish it before the end of 2010.1

    1. Pronounced “twenty ten”, FYI. ↩

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    Dude, I’ve read 11 of your list, so we must have some similarly unique taste!

    Posted by marko on December 30, 2009

    Similarly awesome taste. :)

    Posted by Jake Bouma on December 31, 2009

    I'm reading You Shall Know Our Velocity by Eggers… I am stubbornly sticking with it. I am about 2/3 through. I've read What Is The What and was impressed with his writing. I am not so impressed with You Shall Know… I admire you for your ability to polish off books!

    Posted by John on January 17, 2010

    I'm reading You Shall Know Our Velocity by Eggers… I am stubbornly sticking with it. I am about 2/3 through. I've read What Is The What and was impressed with his writing. I am not so impressed with You Shall Know… I admire you for your ability to polish off books!

    Posted by John on January 17, 2010

    A Million Miles in a Thousand Years was my FAVORITE book of 2009. And that's saying a lot, because I also read all the Harry Potters in 2009.

    Posted by Molly Flinkman on February 6, 2010

    A Million Miles in a Thousand Years was my FAVORITE book of 2009. And that's saying a lot, because I also read all the Harry Potters in 2009.

    Posted by Molly Flinkman on February 6, 2010

    A Million Miles in a Thousand Years was my FAVORITE book of 2009. And that's saying a lot, because I also read all the Harry Potters in 2009.

    Posted by Molly Flinkman on February 6, 2010

    We're like twins separated at birth, yo. Bryson, Caputo, Eggers, Fullerton, and Krakauer? That's a little spooky. (Check out Krakauer's latest, too. It's lots better than Under the Banner.)

    Posted by Mike Stavlund on March 19, 2010

    We're like twins separated at birth, yo. Bryson, Caputo, Eggers, Fullerton, and Krakauer? That's a little spooky. (Check out Krakauer's latest, too. It's lots better than Under the Banner.)

    Posted by Mike Stavlund on March 19, 2010

    You say spooky, I say awesome.

    Posted by Jake Bouma on March 20, 2010

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