Currently Reading:
Love In The Ruins by Walker Percy
Selected Poems And Prose Of Paul Celan, translated by John Felstiner
Children of the Days by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Marc Fried
New Collected Poems by Wendell Berry
Recent Reading:
A House Of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde
L’Allegro & Il Penseroso by John Milton
Starting Out In The Evening by Brian Moore
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
Galaxy Love by Gerald Stern
The Golden House by Salmon Rushdie
Killing The Host by Michael Hudson
Crow Fair by Thomas McGuane
Split Rock by Holly Hodder Eger
The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho
In The Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
Dairy Of The Fall by Michael Laub
Harbingers by Jennifer Lagier
Landings by Andrena Ziwinsky
What They Wanted by Victor Henry
Dark & Twisty: A Twisted Anthology by Rachael McGrath
The Worth Of Women by Moderata Fonte
Our Animal by Meredith Stricker
Shadows by John Laue
Some of These Days by Robert King
Tales From the Forest’s Edge by John Van Hise IV
A Small Suitcase Of Russian Poetry translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky
Seeing by José Saramago
The Gospel According To Jesus Christ by José Saramago
Genesis by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Cedric Belfrage
Century Of The Wind by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Cedric Belfrage
Faces & Masks by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Cedric Belfrage
The Ancient Minstrel by Jim Harrison
No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein
Against Our Better Judgment by Alison Weir
The Dude and The Zen Master by Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman
A Life Of Adventure And Delight by Akhil Sharma
The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
4321 by Paul Auster
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Sailor Song by Ken Kesey
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Ojibwa Warrior by Dennis Banks with Richard Erdoes
Heirs To Forgotten Kingdoms by Gerard Russell
Of Time And The River by Thomas Wolfe
Other Books On My Shelves I Particularly Like (after the first few in no particular order):
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
In Search Of Lost Time Volumes I-VII by Marcel Proust
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
The Constant Gardener by John le Carre
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art by Madeleine L’Engle
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Jayne Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt by Chris Hedges
Family Life by Akhil Sharma
The Wild God Of The World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers, selected with an introduction by Albert Gelpi
An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Pleasures and Days by Marcel Proust
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen
How To Be Both by Ali Smith
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
The Trace by Forrest Gander
10:04 by Ben Lerner
The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
The Quest of the Historical Jesus by Albert Schweitzer
The Bells by Richard Harvell
A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Parrot & Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Peeling The Onion by Gunter Grass
Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott
Under The Dome by Stephen King
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Running The Rift by Naomi Benaron
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
To The End Of The Land by David Grossman
Lit by Mary Karr
The Soul of Politics by Jim Wallis
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
The Firm by John Grisham
In The Company Of Angels by Thomas E. Kennedy
Bloodroot by Amy Greene
The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard
Outsourced by R. J. Hillhouse
The Road Home by Jim Harrison
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Missing Person by Franz Kafka
The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini
The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Soul Making: The Desert Way of Spirituality by Alan W. Jones
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The House Made of Dawn poems by N. Scott Momaday
Pompey by Robert Harris
Seek My Face by John Updike
Meditations From A Moveable Chair: Essays by Andre Dubus
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
The Second Coming by Walker Percy
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Dalva by Jim Harrison
In The Beauty Of The Lilies by John Updike
No Man Is An Island by Thomas Merton
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson by Mitch Albom
American Dreams by Studs Turkel
The Box by Gunter Grass
Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges
Sunset Park by Paul Auster
Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
The Magus by John Fowels
Field Notes On Democracy by Arundhati Roy
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
A New Kind of Christianity by Brian McLaren
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
Sailing at Home Around the Room poems by Billy Collins
Nine Horses poems by Billy Collins
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
How (Not) To Speak Of God by Peter Rollins
The Color of Water: a black man’s tribute to his white mother by James McBride
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr
Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
The News From Paraguay by Lily Tuck
The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The World According to Garp by John Irving
City of Refuge by Tom Piazza
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
In The Bear’s House poems by N. Scott Momaday
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley
The Naïve And The Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk
Peace Like A River by Lief Enger
On Writing by Stephen King
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
The Fisher King by Paule Marshall
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Don’t Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Demented Chauffeur poems by Michael C. Ford
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Twenty Grand by Rebecca Curtis
The Magic of Saida by M. G. Vassanji
The Dream Detective poems by David Mills
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
Saving Jesus From The Church by Robin R. Meyers
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
Home by Toni Morrison
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Shadow of Sirius poems by W. S. Merwin
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Selected Poems of W. H. Auden edited by Edward Mendelson
Volt by Alan Heathcock
Halflife poems by Meghan O’Rourke
Secret Son by Laila Lalami
Doolally poems by Ken B. Whitley
Apocalyptic Swing poems by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis by Chris Williams
Preliminary Report poems by Jon Davis
The Agriculture Hall of Fame by Andrew Malan Milward
Bone Light poems by Orlando White
Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences by Lawrence Weschler
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco
Saving Daylight poems by Jim Harrison
Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Kahn: A Man to Match His Mountains by Eknath Easwaran
The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium by Walter Wink
Becoming An Ally: Breaking the Cycle of Oppression in People by Anne Bishop
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
I know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an introduction by J.D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy translated by Richard Pevear and Larrisa Voloknonsky
Staying Alive by Vandana Shiva
Breakfast At Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
Stone Upon Stone by Wieslaw Mysliwski
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Voloknonsky
Earth Democracy by Vandana Shiva
Bacacay by Witold Gombrowicz
San Miguel by T.C. Boyle
When The Killing’s Done by T.C. Boyle
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
Theologies of Religions by Paul F. Knitter
Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Challenging Christian Zionism edited by Naim Ateek, Cedar Duaybis, and Maurine Tobin
As Resident Aliens by Kathleen Kern
Getting In The Way edited by Trisha Gates Brown
Aleph by Paulo Coelho
The Great Leader by Jim Harrison
Plan Be by Dave Andrews
Buffalo Shout, Salmon Cry edited by Steve Heinrichs
We Are The Pharisees by Kathleen Kern
Wet My Mouth With Honey, The Sequel by Eleanor B. Taylor
South of Broad by Pat Conroy
The Unlimited Rumi compiled by Coleman Barks and Michael Green
On the blue shore of silence poems by Pablo Neruda
Neruda’s Garden: An Anthology of Odes by Pablo Neruda
History of Marfa and Presidio County Volumes I,II, and III by Claudia Thompson (v.III also by Claudia S. O’Connor)
Revolutionary Mexico by John Mason Hart
The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce compiled by Ernest Jerome Hopkins
Poems of Ambrose Bierce edited by M.E Grenader
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Madonna on the Moon by Rolf Bauerdick
My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Hotel Savoy by Joseph Roth
Drown by Junot Diaz
Winter Investments by Daryl Scroggins
This Is Not The Way We Came In by Daryl Scroggins
In The Land of No Right Angles by Daphne Beal
Seasick by Alanna Mitchell
As Texas Goes… by Gail Collins
The Gospel of Rutba by Greg Barrett
The Gospel of Judas edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst
The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Arcadia Project: Postmodern Pastoral poems edited by Joshua Corey and G.C. Waldrep
Signs of Live poems by Valerie A. Szarek
When Angels Are Born poems by Ron Starbuck
King Me poems by Roger Reeves
Sum Of It All: Selections and New Work lyrics by K.B. Whitely
His Day Is Done: A Neslon Mandela Tribute by Maya Angelou
E.E. Cummings Complete Poems 1904-1962 edited by Geroge James Firmage
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson edited by Thomas Johnson
Ask Me poems by William Stafford
New Texas poems edited by Laura Payne Butler and Nelson Sager
Crush poems by Richard Siken
Susquehanna poems by G.C. Waldrep
Circadian poems by Joanna Klink
Raptus poems by Joanna Klink
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse
The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chevez and the Farmworkers Movement by Susan Ferriss and Ricardo Sandoval
Midnight In Mexico by Alfredo Corchado
The Barbarian Nurseries by Hector Tobar
Naked Spirituality by Brian McLaren
August: Osage County a play by Tracy Letts
Ed King by David Gutterson
The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes
Destiny and Desire by Carlos Fuentes
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Create Space for Peace by Gene Stoltzfus
World Without End by Ken Follett
Chango’s Beads And Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
In Harm’s Way: A History of Christian Peacemaker Teams by Kathleen Kern
Salvation Boulevard by Larry Beinhart
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
The O’Briens by Peter Behrens
A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer
A Place In Time by Wendell Berry
and the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Son by Philipp Meyer
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato
On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets And Politics Hasn’t Learned About Serving The Common Good by Jim Wallis
hopes and prospects by Noam Chomsky
Bridge To Wonder: Art as a Gospel of Beauty by Cecilia Gonzales-Andrieu
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate by Naomi Klein
The Sounds of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
J.D. Salinger by Kenneth Slawenski
Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year by Tavis Smiley
Photographs Taken At One-Hour Intervals During A Walk
From Galveston Island To The Far West Texas Town of Marfa by Joshua Edwards
TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
Wet My Mouth With Honey by Eleanor B. Taylor
Love Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Voloknonsky
The Complete Plays: Anton Chekhov translated by Laurence Senelick
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems by Wendell Berry
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Barkskins by Annie Proulx
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
For A Little While by Rick Bass
Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
Big Sur And The Oranges Of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
Stanzas In Meditation by Gertrude Stein
A History of Loneliness by John Boyne
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell
What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford edited by Michael Wiegers
Room by Emma Donoghue