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My Journey of Spiritual Reading

2012 Book List

CLASSICS

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Walden by Henry David Thoreau

BIOGRAPHY
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
The Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton 

MISCELLANEOUS
How the Irish Saved Civilization 
by Thomas Cahil
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

CURRENT FICTION
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
Mockingjay 

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The Giver by Lois Lowry

DEVOTIONAL
The Divine Hours: Prayers for Summertime by Phyllis Tickle
The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
A Testament of Devotion by Thomas R. Kelly 

HISTORY
A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow by David L Chappell
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
Raven: The Untold Story of Rev. Jim Jones and His People by Tim Reiterman

April 1865 by Jay Winik

THEOLOGICAL/PHILOSOPHICAL
Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing by Soren Kierkegaard
On the Incarnation by St. Athansius
Unspoken Sermons Vol. 1

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
For Common Things by Jedediah Purdy

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