2007 Summer Reading List

To respond to one of my faithful reader's questions, here is my summer reading list. I chose 12 books from various arenas, and I'm pretty excited about the many pages ahead. We'll see come September how many I actually get through:

1. A Generous Orthodoxy: Brian McLaren (Already done! See post below.)

2. Man's Search for Meaning: Victor Frankl (I just finished this one and will be writing about it soon.)

3. The Chronicles of Narnia: C.S. Lewis (I'm LOVING re-reading these books and am currently on 6 of 7.)

4. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare: Stephen Greenblatt

5. To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian: Stephen E. Ambrose (Two books with "Stephen" as authors, and they even spell it the right way!)

6. The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life: Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray. (This well-documented and often-sited book comes in at 900 pages. While it covers much more than the idea of race and intelligence, this controversial area is what it is most known for.)

7. Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys: Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson

8. Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity: Ronald J. Sider

9. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness: Kay Redfield Jamison (The classic book on bipolar disorder [manic-depressive disorder] written by a leading scholar in the area who shares her personal experience with the disorder.)

10. The Real Face of Atheism: Ravi Zacharias

11. Surrendering to Marriage: Husbands, Wives, and Other Imperfections: Iris Krasnow

12. Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith: Rob Bell

That's a lot of reading, with many more books waiting in the wings. I better get started. Happy June!