What I read in 2012:
The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions—Marcus J. Borg and N. T. Wright
Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today—N. T. Wright
See Me Naked: Stories of Sexual Exile in American Christianity—Amy Frykholm*
Lady Chatterley’s Lover—D. H. Lawrence
The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture—Christian Smith*
On Chesil Beach—Ian McEwan
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt—Caroline Preston
The Night Circus—Erin Morgenstern
Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis—Lauren Winner
The Lover’s Dictionary—David Levithan
Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons—Frederick Buechner
My Father’s Tears and Other Stories—John Updike
The Archivist—Martha Cooley
Rumors of Peace—Ella Leffland
The Restless Heart: Finding Our Spiritual Home in Times of Loneliness—Ronald Rolheiser
Be Not Afraid: Facing Fear with Faith—Samuel Wells
Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son—Anne Lamott
A Grief Observed—C. S. Lewis
The Bluest Eye—Toni Morrison
The Old Man and the Sea—Ernest Hemingway
Nine Stories—J. D. Salinger
The Obamas—Jodi Kantor
Mandate to Difference: An Invitation to the Contemporary Church—Walter Brueggemann
A People’s History of World War II—ed. by Marc Favreau
The Sea is My Brother—Jack Kerouac
An Altar in the World—Barbara Brown Taylor
Take This Bread—Sara Miles
The Presidents Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity—Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy*
Housekeeping—Marilynne Robinson
Are You My Mother?—Alison Bechdel
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?—Jeanette Winterson
Leaving Church—Barbara Brown Taylor
What I read in 2011:
Cannery Row—John Steinbeck
A Poetry Handbook—Mary Oliver
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea—Barbara Demick*
Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House—Sally Bedell-Smith
Cathedral—Raymond Carver
The Gifts of Imperfection—Brene Brown
After Dark—Haruki Murakami
Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing—Roger Rosenblatt
after the quake—Haruki Murakami
The Fates Will Find Their Way—Hannah Pittard
I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame—Brene Brown
The Ninety-Third Name of God—Anya Krugovoy Silver
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life—Anne Lamott*
Wise Blood—Flannery O’Connor
Anna Karenina—Leo Tolstoy*
Hiroshima in the Morning—Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Palo Alto—James Franco
The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation—Bill Morgan
Horoscopes for the Dead—Billy Collins
Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty—Tony Hoagland
Love Wins—Rob Bell
Art and Fear—David Bayles
The Partly Cloudy Patriot—Sarah Vowell
The Civil War: A Concise History—Louis P. Masur
The Silent Land—Graham Joyce
Bossypants—Tina Fey
Once Was Lost—Sara Zarr
Unfamiliar Fishes—Sarah Vowell
The Poisonwood Bible—Barbara Kingsolver
Maggie Cassidy—Jack Kerouac
The Use and Abuse of Literature—Marjorie B. Garber
The Return of the Prodigal Son—Henri Nouwen*
Maine—Courtney J. Sullivan
Faith—Jennifer Haigh*
Reflections on the Psalms—C. S. Lewis
The Art of Reading Scripture—Richard B. Hays
A Man Without a Country—Kurt Vonnegut
Fahrenheit 451—Ray Bradbury
Waiting for God—Simone Weil
The Help—Kathryn Stockett
We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction—Nic Sheff
The Poetry of Rilke—Rainer Maria Rilke*
To Have and Have Not—Ernest Hemingway
Let Your Life Speak—Parker Palmer
Mrs. Dalloway—Virginia Woolf
Beauty Will Save the World—Gregory Wolfe
South of the Border, West of the Sun—Haruki Murakami
Bright’s Passage—Josh Ritter
No Man Is an Island—Thomas Merton*
Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words—Jay Rubin
Mariette in Ecstasy—Ron Hansen
Sinners Welcome—Mary Karr
Ruthless Trust—Brennan Manning
The Things They Carried—Tim O’Brien*
Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness—Joshua Wolf Shenk
All is Grace—Brennan Manning
Essential Keats—John Keats
Tender is the Night—F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Missing of the Somme—Geoff Dyer
Seriously…I’m Kidding—Ellen DeGeneres
A Short Autobiography—F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Book Thief—Markus Zusak
The Forgotten Waltz—Anne Enright
Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament—Ellen F. Davis*
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose—Flannery O’Connor
1Q84—Haruki Murakami
Simply Jesus—N. T. Wright
Four Quartets—T. S. Eliot
Jacqueline Kenning: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy—Edited by Caroline Kennedy
* denotes favorite
