Reading List

Thanks Jay

Fiction:
A Place on Earth by Wendell Berry (less a novel than a brilliantly crafted painting in words)
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis (Lewis's "myth retold" and by his own account the best thing he ever did. I read this book at least once every other year)
All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren (the prose is so good you feel llike you're eating it)
Go Down Moses by William Faulkner
The Sound & the Fury by William Faulkner
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Bear by Faulkner (feel like you stepped through the page into a created world)
Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
Phantastes by George MacDonald
You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
The Web & the Rock by Thomas Wolfe
The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway
Ulysses by James Joyce
All Quiet on the Western Front by Eric Maria Remarque
The Rabbit Angstrom Trilogy by John Updike
The Lord of the Rings & Unfinished Tales by JRR Tolkien (yes it's very nerdy, but Tolkien invented a whole culture in his head)

Philosophy:
God & Other Minds by Alvin Plantinga
God, Freedom, & Evil by " "
Posterior Analytics by Aristotle
Frederick Copleston's History of Philosophy series (very well written)



Closer to the present
--Jon Dryden
--Alexander Pope
--William Wordsworth
--S.T. Coleridge
--A.E. Houseman
--Sigfried Sassoon
--Walter De La Mare

Contemporary:
--Galway Kinnell
--Wendell Berry (even better poet than novelist)
--Susannah Childress

Memoirs/Biography
Means of Ascent by Robert Caro (about Lyndon Johnson)
Witness by Whitaker Chambers
Sandy, A Life for God by Leighton Ford
With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa (enlisted man's memoir from WW2 Pacific theater)