2017 Reading List

Books read and rated (1-5 stars) in roughly the order I read them:

1. Being Consumed, William Cavanaugh****
2. The Long Loneliness, Dorothy Day******
3. The Apprentice, Jacques Pepin*****
4. Scripture, Culture, & Agriculture, Ellen Davis***
5. 1984, George Orwell***
6. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce***
7. Hannah Coulter, Wendell Berry*****
8. The Promise of His Appearing: An Exposition of  II Peter, Peter Leithart**
9. The Pursuit of God, A.W. Tozer**
10. The Reckless Way of Love, Dorothy Day***
11. November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Five, Wendell Berry, illus. Ben Shahn***
12. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe**
13. A Wizard of Earthsea: Book One of the Earthsea Cycle, Ursula Le Guin****
14. The Tombs of Atuan: Book Two of the Earthsea Cycle, Ursula LeGuin****
15. The Art of the Commonplace, Wendell Berry****
16. The Supper of the Lamb, Robert Farrar Capon*****
17. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame****
18. A Pocketful of Poems: Vintage Verse, David Madden****
19. From Brokenness to Community, Jean Vanier***
20. The Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, T.S. Elliot, illus. Edward Gorey****
21. Poetry for Young People, William Carlos Williams, illus. Robert Crockett***
22. The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry, Wendell Berry*****
23. The Practice of the Presence, Brother Lawrence**
24. Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain***
25. The Trouble with Poetry, Billy Collins***
26. Early Poems, William Carlos Williams****
27. Strong is Your Hold, Galway Kinnell*****
28. Let Justice Roll Down, John M. Perkins****
29. A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver**
30. The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God, Rupert Sheldrake****
31. Pictures from Brueghel, William Carlos Williams***
32. Faithful and Virtuous Night, Louise Glück***
33. The Book of Nightmares, Galway Kinnell***
34. The Niagara River, Kay Ryan***
35. Poems, Emily Dickinson***
36. The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, Langston Hughes, illus. Brian Pinkney****
37. Broken Cup: Poems, Margaret Gibson****
38. Personalism, Emmanuel Mounier**
39. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard*****
40. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte****
41. Burn Lake, Carrie Fountain****
42. Nathan Coulter, Wendell Berry*****
43. Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke**
44. The Wild Iris, Louise Glück***
45. Good Poems, ed. Garrison Keillor****
46. Phantastes, George MacDonald****
47. Passionate Declarations, Howard Zinn***
48. The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry****
49. The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin*****
50. The Inimitable Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse*****
51. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates*****
52. The Everlasting Meal: Cooking With Economy and Grace, Tamar Adler*****
53. Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Annie Dillard, Thomas Merton, et al.***
54. Advent for Everyone, N.T. Wright***

Books started but not finished (yet):

1. The Farthest Shore, Book Three of the Earthsea Cycle, Ursula Le Guin
2. Devotional Classics, ed. Richard Foster & James Smith
3. A Celebration of Faith, Austin Farrer
4. Near Unto God, Abraham Kuyper
5. The Plague, Albert Camus
6. The Divine Comedy: 1 Hell, Dante Alighieri, Dorothy Sayers (translator)
7. The Mabinogion, Sioned Davies (translator)
8. Wise Words: Family Stories That Bring the Proverbs to Life, Peter Leithart
9. Love and Responsibility, Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II)
10. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking, Samin Nosrat