Here's a look at some of the favorite books I read in 2003. . .
My favorite:
Classic Novel(s) -- War and Peace and Anna Karenina, by Tolstoy
Modern Novel -- Dance, Dance, Dance, Haruki Murakami
Short Story -- Greenleaf, Flannery O'Connor
Poetry Collection -- Renascence and Other Poems, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Genre Fiction -- The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy
Essay -- Those Radical Chic Evenings, Tom Wolfe
Bible Reference Work -- The Gospel of John, D.A. Carson
Theological Work -- Christ of the Covenants, O. Palmer Robertson
Biography -- When Character Was King, Peggy Noonan
Modern History -- A Religious History of the American People, Sydney Ahlstrom
Ancient History -- On Sparta, Plutarch
Unified-Field Theory of Western Culture -- Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia
How-To Book -- Guerrilla Warfare, Che Guevara
Badly-Written Novel -- Across the River and Into the Trees, Ernest Hemingway
What were some of yours?
Posted by Discoshaman at décembre 18, 2003 04:04 AM | TrackBack
My reading is not nearly so organized as yours, but some of my favorite books this year were:
"The True Christian's Love to the Unseen Christ" - Thomas Vincent
"The Church in History" - B.K. Kuiper
"1984" - Orwell
"Brave New World" - Huxley
"Confessions" - Augustine (actually not quite finished with it yet)
"Today's Gospel:Authentic or Synthetic" - Walter Chantry
Posted by: David Rice at décembre 18, 2003 04:25 PMSo many to choose from, it's difficult...
CLASSIC NOVELS--
MODERN FICTION--Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
AUTOBIOGRAPHY--i>Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Cardinal John Henry Newman, or The Story of A Soul, St. Therese of Lisieux, The Shadow of His Wings, Fr. Gereon Goldmann
BIOGRAPHY--The Dumb Ox: The Life of St. Thomas Aquinas or St. Francis of Assisi, G.K. Chesterton
BADLY WRITTEN NOVEL--There are several I've read this year, but I'm not going to say in order not to embarrass the author
THEOLOGICAL WORK--Where to begin? A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture, Scott Hahn, or Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena, Ascent of Mt. Carmel, John of the Cross, Interior Castle, Theresa of Avila
POETRY COLLECTION--Collected Works of W.H. Auden and Collected Works of T.S. Eliot
I'm sure I'm leaving out many, many...
Posted by: Christine at décembre 18, 2003 04:40 PMMost of them are up on my site, with religous works coming in the next 2 days sometime.
Posted by: Paul Baxter at décembre 18, 2003 04:49 PMI had the privilege of taking a class with Dr. Robertson last year where he taught through that book. What a wonderful guy he is. Excellent book, too!
Posted by: John R. at décembre 18, 2003 09:16 PMEverything Dorothy Sayers, whom I just discovered this year. Favorite of hers: The Nine Tailors.
Posted by: Kelly at décembre 18, 2003 10:16 PMBiography - Man is Wolf to Man - Janusz Bardach; The Man Who Tried to Save the World - Scott Anderson.
Theology - A New Kind of Christian - Brian McLaren; Rumors of Another World - Philip Yancey; Attachments - Clinton & Sibcy; The Great Divorce - CS Lewis.
Phobias - The Culture of Fear - Brian Glassner.
Badly Written Novel - The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck.
Politics - Ambling Into History - Frank Bruni.
Posted by: Ben Shobert at décembre 19, 2003 12:18 AMKelly,
I *love* Dorothy Sayers. Isn't she wonderful? My husband & I made a snowman in my first year of law school, put a bowtie on him, stuck a cigar in his mouth and a brandy snifter in his hand, and named him Lord Wimsey. We have pictures to prove it.
Pax et bonum.
You'll have to wait until May for mine. I publish my list right before summer to give folks some ideas for their summer reading list.
Posted by: Rob Huffstedtler at décembre 19, 2003 05:13 PM