Nathan’s Reading List
I have discovered fiction to be as enlightening and useful as non-fiction. Truth is presented through many different forms and it has been my assessment that truth has been powerfully communicated through the novel, the poem, the short story. On reading books in general, I use C.S. Lewis’ Introduction to Athanasius’ “The Incarnation of the Word of God” as a guide. Legends are the branches of trees whose roots are firmly planted in the soil of truth.” A good book may be read more than once, and several of the titles below, I read over and over again. The author’s view and voice have a profound influence upon me, and I suppose, upon most readers. I have tried my best to keep my lists short and in no particular order of importance:
Books that I am currently reading:
“Out of the Silent Planet” C.S. Lewis
“The Shack”
“Rapture Ready,” Daniel Radosh
Reconciliation” Benazir Bhutto
Novels:
“The Power and the Glory,” Graham Greene (also, “The Complete Works of Graham Greene”)
“One Hundred Years of Solitude,” Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“The Scarlet Letter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Till We have Faces,” C.S. Lewis
“Space Trilogy,” C.S. Lewis
“The Name of the Rose,” Umberto Eco
“The Brothers Karamazov,” Dostoyevsky
“The Possessed,” Dostoyevsky
“The Hobbit,” J.R.R. Tolkien
“Les Miserables,” Hugo
“Red Badge of Courage,” Crane
“The Slave,” Singer
“Godric,” Beuchner
“The Books of Bebb,” Beuchner
“Brazil,” Updike
“Huckleberry Finn,” Twain
“Canterbury Tales,” Chaucer
“Lord of the Flies,” Golding
“Fahrenheit 451,” Bradbury
“Grapes of Wrath,” Steinbeck
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Stowe
“The Fountainhead,” Rand
“The Plague” Camus
Short Stories:
“The Minister’s Black Veil,” Hawthorne
“The Great Carbuncle,” Hawthorne
“The Most Dangerous Game,” Connell
“The Piece of String,” Maupassant
“The Necklace,” Maupassant
“The Cask of Amontillado,” Poe
“Lost Face,” London
“A Circle in the Fire,” O’Connor
“Revelation,” O’Connor
“A Good Man is Hard to Find,” O’Connor
“Everything that Rises Must Converge,” O’Connor
“The River,” O’Connor
“Gift of the Magi,” O. Henry
“The Complete Father Brown,” Chesterton
Poems and Collections of Poetry:
“Paradise Lost,” Milton
“Beowulf”
“Death be not Proud,” Donne
“Batter My Heart, Three Personed God,” Donne
“The Divine Comedy,” Dante
“Where the Sidewalk Ends,” collection by Silverstein
“Verses from 1929 on” Ogden Nash
“Complete Poems by Robert Frost”
“Ariel,” collection by Plath
“Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” T.S. Eliot
“The Waste Land,” T.S. Eliot
“The Hollow Men” T.S. Eliot
“The Sacrifice,” Herbert
“Upon the Burning of Our House on July 10, 1666,” Bradstreet
Plays:
“The Complete Works of Willian Shakespeare”
“The Oedipus Cycle,” Sophocles
“Murder in the Cathedral,” Eliot
“Death of a Salesman,” Miller
“Boys Next Door,” Griffin
“The Hairy Ape,” O’Neil
Essays and Lectures:
“Teaching a Stone to Talk,” Dillard
“The Common Man,” Chesterton
“What’s Wrong with the World,” Chesterton
“Orthodoxy,” Chesterton
“Essays by Emerson”
“The Discarded Image,” C.S. Lewis
“God in the Dock,” collection by C.S. Lewis
Christian Apologies:
“Mere Christianity,” C.S. Lewis
“Why I am a Christian, ” Stott
“Simply Christian,” Wright
“The Complete Works of Francis Schaeffer”
“Freedom of the Will,” Edwards
“Pensees,” Paschal
Christian Titles:
“The Next Christendom,” Jenkins
“Religious Affections,” Edwards
“Living in Christ’s Church,” Clowney
“The Knowledge of the Holy,” Tozer
The Virgin Birth of Christ,” Machen
“Lectures to My Students,” Spurgeon
“The Four Loves,” C.S. Lewis
“The Great Divorce,” C.S. Lewis
“The Screwtape Letters,” C.S. Lewis
“Confessions,” Augustine
“Practical Religion,” Ryle
“The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment,” Burroughs
“Outgrowing the Ingrown Church,” Miller
Systematic Theology:
“The Institutes of the Christian Religion,” Calvin
“Collected Works of John Murray”
“Systematic Theology,” Hodge
“Systematic Theology,” Berkhof
All volumes of B.B. Warfield
All volumes of Bavinck
Biblical Theology:
“Biblical Theology,” Vos
“Redemptive History and Biblical Interpretation,” Vos
“The Goldsworthy Trilogy”
(more to come… I can’t think anymore and so, I must read…)
