Following is a list of reccomended books. Note that a reccomendation should not be understood as an endorsement. In other words, I may even disagree with the book on a fundamental level, but still believe it is worth reading.
This page will be continuously updated.
The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor, Flannery O’Connor
Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor
The Violent Bear it Away, Flannery O’Connor
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
Jayber Crow, Wendel Berry
The Imitation of Christ, Thomas A’Kempis
Ten Things I Wish Jesus Never Said, Victor Kuligin
The Wasteland and Other Poems, TS Eliot
The Collected Poetry of Thomas Merton, Thomas Merton
Paradise Lost, John MIlton
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Generous Orthodoxy, Brian McLaren
Church:Reimagined, Doug Paggit
Pagan Christianity?, Frank Viola and George Barna
The Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis
The Arrival, Shaun Tan
Blankets, Craig Thompson
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury
Faranheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis
The Great Divorce, CS Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet, CS Lewis
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
Franny and Zooey, JD Salinger
Nine Stories, JD Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, JD Salinger
Chronicles, Bob Dylan
Armageddon in Retrospect, Kurt Vonnegut
The Myth of a Christian Nation, Gregory Boyd
The Sermon on the Mount, John Stott
Mystery and Manners, Flannery O’Connor
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
Humility, CJ Mahaney
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
Evangelism for the Fainthearted, Floyd Schneider
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, JI Packer
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches, Robert Webber, ed.
The Church in Emerging Culture, Leonard Sweet, ed.
A New Kind of Christian, Brian McLaren
Quimby Mouse, Chris Ware
Creature Tech, Doug Tennapel
Reimagining Church, Frank Viola
Organic Church, Neil Cole
Surprised By Hope, NT Wright
The Big Book of Hell, Matt Groening
Organic Leadership, Neil Cole
The Politics of Jesus, Yoder
The Forgotten Ways, Alan Hirsch
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Book of the Dun Cow, Wannegrin
Slapstick, Kurt Vonnegut
Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut
Iblogo Dei 
June 9, 2008 at 12:08 am
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
June 13, 2008 at 12:00 am
I wish I had never read Jayber Crow, because now I can’t read it for the first time again.
Give me a novel to read, will you? I’m starving.
September 4, 2008 at 2:38 pm
hey, I know it’s not really in the line with Theology or Philosophy, but check out this book, it’s been helping me address things more analytically, and put my thoughts in much better order and I’m doing my reading, and to be a much more proactive recipient.
It’s “Asking the Right Questions”, by M. Neil Browne. Not saying you need a lesson in critical thinking, but take a look at it. It’s a bit repetitive, and definitely not a hugely difficult read (I read it in a night, and that’s ME!), but it might help you with how you teach others to analyze what they’re looking at, and what they’re being told. I think that’s a part of the problem with a lot of people that believe entirely, fervently, and wholeheartedly in the last book they looked through.