2009 Reading List
January 2nd, 2009
I will occasionally pull a book off the shelf that isn’t on the following list, but my aim is to get through all of these books (and hopefully more) in 2009. I tried to stick to the Lewis Rule that “after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. If that is too much for you, you should read one old one to every three new ones.” I think I did okay. I have an even split between old and new. Although, technically the Allan Bloom collection is “old” since it starts from Chaucer, but I’ll count it in the new.
“Old” Books
- Augustine – Confessions
- Athanasius – On the Incarnation
- Plato – Thaeatetus, Republic
- George MacDonald – Lilith
- Malory – Le Morte Darthur
- Cervantes – Don Quixote
- Francis Bacon – The New Organon
- Aristotle – Nichomachean Ethics
“New” Books
- Laurence Bonjour – In Defense of Pure Reason
- Emil Brunner – Dogmatics
- Meg Meeker – Boys Should Be Boys
- Karen Marie Yust – Real Kids Real Faith
- C.S. Lewis – Miracles
- C. Behan McCullagh – The Truth of History
- Harold Bloom – The Best Poems of the English Language
- Alvin Plantinga – Warranted Christian Belief