As promised, here is the list of books I want to read. Disclaimer: I have no intention of setting a time limit as to when I need to have all of these books completed. Of course, I want to read as many of them as I can; however, I tend to get distracted reading the books which the author includes in his references. Rabbit trails of books!
I also have a habit of re-reading and re-re-reading books that I've already completed. Such as Watership Down, which I just finished for the (probably) twentieth time since I was in elementary school.
Some of these titles have been on my need-to-read list for several years now (Grapes of Wrath). Several books I have read excerpts from in college or high school, but I want to read the book in its entirety (The Republic). Probably ninety percent of these books were recommended to me by my lovely friends : )
Anywho, here they are!
1. How to Read a Book = Mortimer J. Adler
2. The Christian, the Arts, and Truth: Regaining the Vision of Greatness = Frank Gaebelein
3. Modern Art and the Death of a Culture = Hans Rookmaaker
4. The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly about the Arts = Leland Ryken
5. The Christian Imagination: Essays on Literature and the Arts = Leland Ryken
6. Rainbows for the Fallen World: Aesthetic Life and Artistic Task = Calvin Seerveld
7. State of the Arts: From Bezalel to Mapplethorpe = Gene Edward Veith
8. It Was Good- Making Art to the Glory of God = Ned Bustard
9. The Christian Mind = Harry Blamires
10. Selected Essays = T. S. Eliot
11. The Uses of Enchantment = Bruno Bettelheim
12. How Poets Work = Don Patterson/Tony Curtis
13. What Is Art? = Leo Tolstoy
14. Essays in the Philosophy of Art = R. G. Collingwood
15. The Hero with a Thousand Faces = Joseph Campbell
16. The Republic = Plato
17. As a Man Thinketh = James Allen
18. The Grapes of Wrath = John Steinbeck
19. The Heart of Evangelism = Jerram Barrs
20. On Writing = Stephen King
21. Brat Farrar = Josephine Tey
22. The Essential Agrarian Reader = ?
23. Prospects for Growth: A Biblical View of Population, Resources, and the Future = E. Calvin Beisner
24. The Canterbury Tales = Geoffrey Chaucer (started to read)
25. The Moonstone: a Romance = Wilkie Collins
26. Poetry and Truth: From My Own Life = Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
27. About a Boy = Nick Hornby
28. Peter Wimsey = Dorothy Sayers
29. The Mind of the Maker = Dorothy Sayers
30. The Big Overeasy = Jasper Fforde
31. The Fifth Head of Cerberus = Gene Wolfe
32. The Magical Child = Joseph Chilton Pearce
33. Summerhill = A. S. Neil
34. Learning With Love = Suzuki
36. Seven Sins of Memory = ?
37. Your Brain on Music = ?
38. The Theory of Note Grouping = Thurman
39. Learning All the Time = John Holt
40. Educational Kinesiology = Paul Dennison
41. The Gift of Dyslexia = ?
42. Tour de Theory of Education = Jerome Bruner
43. Mastering Guitar Technique = Christopher Berg
44. Friends of Mine = Howard Gardner
45. Extraordinary Minds = Howard Gardner
46. The Human Achievement = Charles Murray
47. How the Irish Saved Civilization = Thomas Cahill
48.The Shelter of Each Other = Mary Pipher
49. The Sense of Wonder = Rachel Carson
50. Culture- Making = Andy Crouch
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6 comments:
Lyssa,
If it's my Mastering Guitar Technique that you put on your list, then I am honored to be included with such august company! (If there's another Christopher Berg who has written a book about classical playing, let me know… I should read it!)
BTW, it was Thomas Cahill who wrote How the Irish Saved Civilization.
Great list!
best,
Christopher Berg
You put down It was Good-Making Art to the Glory of God by Ned Bustard twice.
And The Seven Sins of Memory one is really interesting.
Not that I remember it much.
Thanks for the clarification, Christopher! Yes, it's your book I've been hoping to read; I just need to find a copy. Glad you like my book list!
Em, you are hilarious.
You can knock out As a Man Thinketh in a day! It's a great book. Go to www.thinkingisthelink.com for the audio or ebook versions (both free)!
I like your list...
Alyssa,
Towards a Theory of Education - Bruner (It was noisy that night).
Human Accomplishment: The pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 - Murray. (My bad. See: "Seven Sins of Memory")
I'd like to read a few of those also. Particularly the books dealing with the theology of Beauty.
Kevin
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