Books I read in 2009

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:

1. Watch For The Light: Readings For Advent And Christmas [I gave two of these away during Advent]
2. Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson
3. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson [Photo]
4. Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale by Frederick Buechner [Related blog post + photo]
5. On Religion by John Caputo [Photo]
6. Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan
7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
8. Transforming Christian Theology: For Church and Society by Philip Clayton
9. The Sacredness of Questioning Everything by David Dark
10. You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers [Related blog post - "My least favorite work by Eggers"]
11. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
12. St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography by Philip Freeman
13. You Can Write!: The Inside Scoop on Publishing Your Nonfiction Book by Sheryl Fullerton
14. 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"]
15. Downtown Owl: A Novel by Chuck Klosterman
16. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
17. Quantum : Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar
18. Theology and Culture: A Guide to the Discussion by D. Stephen Long
19. Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta [Photo]
20. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life by Donald Miller
21. Youth Ministry 3.0: A Manifesto of Where We’ve Been, Where We Are & Where We Need to Go by Mark Oestreicher
22. Relationships Unfiltered: Help for Youth Workers, Volunteers, and Parents on Creating Authentic Relationships by Andrew Root [Related blog post + interview with the author]
23. On Waiting by Harold Schweizer [Related blog posts one and two]
24. 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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