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Book Reviews - A Comprehensive Index by Category

This index lists all of the JwJ book reviews by category. We also provide a single listing of all reviews organized alphabetically by author. All reviews are by Daniel B. Clendenin except as noted.

Our four most recent book reviews

17 May 2015	Philip Kitcher, Life After Faith; The Case for Secular Humanism
10 May 2015	Garry Wills, The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis
3 May 2015	Lauren Winner, Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God
26 April 2015	Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction; An Unnatural History

Categories

Autobiography, Memoir
Biography
Theology and Religion
Church History
Biblical Studies
Spiritual Formation and Discipleship
History
Politics
Culture
Science, Science and Religion, Environment
Economics
Poetry, Art, Film, Literature, Photography and Music
Gender, Sexuality, HIV-AIDS
Fiction

Autobiography, Memoir

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Infidel..
- Nomad; From Islam to America, A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations.
Andre Agassi, Open; An Autobiography.
Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven; A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife.
Arthur J. Ammann, with Barbara McLennan, (in)Visible: From Obscure to Valuable.
Simon Armitage, Walking Home; A Poet's Journey.
Julian Barnes
- Levels of Life.
- Nothing to Be Frightened Of.
Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Harry Belafonte with Michael Shnayerson, Harry Belafonte: My Song
Bertice Berry, The Ties That Bind; A Memoir of Race, Memory, and Redemption.
Asia Bibi, Blasphemy: A Memoir. Sentenced to Death Over a Cup of Water.
Rick Bragg
- All Over But the Shoutin'.
- Ava's Man.

The Prince of Frogtown.

Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods.
Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Holy Hunger; A Woman's Journey from Food Addiction to Spiritual Fulfillment.
Will D. Campbell
- Brother to a Dragonfly.
- Forty Acres and a Goat: A Memoir.
Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise, editors, The Long Walk to Freedom; Runaway Slave Narratives.
Veronica Chater, Waiting for the Apocalypse; A Memoir of Faith and Family.
Joan Chittister, Called to Question; A Spiritual Memoir.
Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth and Karen Dillon, How Will You Measure Your Life?
Eric Clapton, Clapton: The Autobiography.
Lindsey Crittenden, The Water Will Hold You; A Skeptic Learns to Pray.
John Bul Dau with Michael S. Sweeney, God Grew Tired of Us; A Memoir.
Dieter Dengler, Escape from Laos.
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking.
Dion DiMucci with Mike Aquilina, Dion: The Wanderer Talks Truth; Stories, Humor & Music
Tina Fey, Bossypants
Suzanne Woods Fisher, Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World.
James Frey, A Million Little Pieces.
Alexandra Fuller, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness.
Nora Gallagher
- Practicing Resurrection; A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace.
- Things Seen and Unseen; A Year Lived in Faith.
Leymah Gbowee, with Carol Mithers, Mighty Be Our Powers, A Memoir: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War.
Dr. Glenn W. Geelhoed, with Patricia Edmonds, Gifts from the Poor; What the World's Patients Taught One Doctor About Healing.
Rob Gieselmann, A Walk Through The Churchyard; Toward a Spirituality of Christian Death.
Hank Haney, The Big Miss; My Years Coaching Tiger Woods.
Blaine Harden, Escape From Camp 14; One Man's Remarkable Odyssey From North Korea to Freedom in the West.
Christopher Hitchens, Mortality.
Rhoda Janzen, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress; A Memoir of Going Home.
Mildred Armstrong Kalish, Little Heathens; Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression.
Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna and Emily Holland, And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation
Mary Karr, Lit: A Memoir.
Mary-Ann Kirkby, I Am Hutterite.
David Koker, At the Edge of the Abyss; A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943–1944.
Brian Kolodiejchuk, ed., Mother Teresa; Come Be My Light; The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta".
Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith.
Eric Lax, Faith, Interrupted: A Spiritual Journey.
Charlie Louvin with Benjamin Whitmer, Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers.
Andrea D. Lyon, Angel of Death Row; My Life as a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer.
Karl Marlantes, What It Is Like To Go To War.
Tori Murden McClure, A Pearl in the Storm; How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean.
Frank McCourt, Teacher Man; A Memoir.
Andrew Meredith, The Removers: A Memoir.
Sara Miles
- City of God; Faith in the Streets.
- Jesus Freak; Feeding, Healing, Raising the Dead.

Take this Bread; A Radical Conversion.

David McGlynn, A Door in the Ocean; A Memoir.
Bill McKibben, Oil and Honey; The Education of an Unlikely Activist.
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran; A Memoir in Books.
Edoardo Nesi, Story of My People.
Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me; A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life.
Flannery O'Connor, A Prayer Journal.
Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow, The Last Lecture.
Erik Reece, An American Gospel; On Family, History, and the Kingdom of God.
Mark Richard, House of Prayer No. 2; A Writer's Journey Home.
Richard Rodriguez, Darling; A Spiritual Autobiography.
Kevin Roose, The Unlikely Disciple; A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University.
Roger Rosenblatt, Unless It Moves the Human Heart; The Craft and Art of Writing.
John Schwartz, Oddly Normal; One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality.
Åsne Seierstad, trans. by Ingrid Christopherson, The Bookseller of Kabul.
Sarah Sentilles, Breaking Up With God; A Love Story.
Robert C. Sibley, The Way of the Stars; Journeys on the Camino de Santiago.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, This Child Will Be Great.
Lewis B. Smedes, My God and I; A Spiritual Memoir.
Huston Smith, with Jeffrey Paine, Tales of Wonder, Adventures Chasing the Divine: An Autobiography.
Victoria Sweet, God's Hotel; A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine.
Barb Brown Taylor, Leaving Church; A Memoir of Faith.
George Tenet, At the Center of the Storm; My Years at the CIA.
Dang Thuy Tram, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace; The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram.
Ed Viesturs, with David Roberts, No Shortcuts to the Top; Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks.
Helga Weiss, Helga's Diary; A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp.
Elie Wiesel, Open Heart.
Garry Wills, Outside Looking In; Adventures of an Observer
Diane Wilson, Holy Roller; Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down Drag Out; Or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus.
Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss; Meditation of a Modern Believer.
Neil Young, Waging Heavy Peace.
Malala Yousafzai, with Christina Lamb, I am Malala; The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban.

Biography

Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia; War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Middle East.
Ian Brown, The Boy in the Moon; A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son.
Gerald F. Cox, The Radical Peasant.
Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton.
John Patrick Diggins, Why Niebuhr Now?
David Herbert Donald, Lincoln.
John Drury, Music at Midnight; The Life and Poetry of George Herbert.
Hans Conrad Fischer, Johann Sebastian Bach; His Life in Pictures and Documents, with CD.
Philip L. Fradkin, Wallace Stegner and the American West.
Amy Frykholm, Julian of Norwich, A Contemplative Biography.
Joakim Garff, Soren Kierkegaard; A Biography.
Warren Goldstein, William Sloane Coffin, Jr., A Holy Impatience.
Brad Gooch, Flannery; A Life of Flannery O'Connor.
Robert Hilburn, Johnny Cash: The Life.
Walter Isaacson
- Benjamin Franklin; An American Life.
- Steve Jobs.
Paul Johnson, Mozart: A Life.
Tracy Kidder
- Mountains Beyond Mountains; The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Change the World.
- Strength in What Remains.
Beverly Lowry, Harriet Tubman, A Biography.
Manning Marable, Malcolm X; A Life of Reinvention
Martin E. Marty, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Letters and Papers From Prison": A Biography
D.T. Max, Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story; A Life of David Foster Wallace.
James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln.
Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Malcolm Muggeridge, Something Beautiful for God; The Classic Account of Mother Teresa's Journey Into Compassion.
Charles Peters, Lyndon B. Johnson.
Michael Sims, The Story of Charlotte's Web; E.B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic.
Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World.
Jeanne Theoharis, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.
Augustine Thompson, Francis of Assisi; A New Biography.
Garry Wills, Augustine's "Confessions": A Biography

Theology and Religion

Paul Alexander, Signs and Wonders; Why Pentecostalism is the World's Fastest Growing Faith.
Reza Aslan, No god but God; The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam.
Mahmoud M. Ayoub, Islam: Faith and History.
Jay Bakker, with Andy Meisenheimer, Faith, Doubt, and Other Lines I've Crossed Walking With the Unknown God.
Randall Balmer, Thy Kingdom Come; An Evangelical's Lament. How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America.
Bartholomew I, His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch, Encountering the Mystery; Understanding Orthodox Christianity Today.
Leonardo Boff, Francis of Rome and Francis of Assisi; A New Springtime for the Church.
W. David Buschart, Exploring Protestant Traditions; An Invitation to Theological Hospitality.
Paul-Gordon Chandler, Pilgrims of Christ on the Muslim Road; Exploring a New Path Between Two Faiths.
Harvey Cox
- The Future of Faith.
- When Jesus Came to Harvard; Making Moral Choices Today.
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (review by Martin Marty).
Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution; Reflections on the God Debate.
William Edgar, Reasons of the Heart; Recovering Christian Persuasion (guest review by Ray Cowan).
Richard Wightman Fox, Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession.
Sam Harris
- The End of Faith; Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason.
- Letter to a Christian Nation
Chris Hedges, I Don't Believe in Atheists.
Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great; How Religion Poisons Everything.
Robert Inchausti, Subversive Orthodoxy; Outlaws, Revolutionaries, and Other Christians in Disguise.
Philip Jenkins
- The New Faces of Christianity; Believing the Bible in the Global South.
- The Next Christendom; The Coming of Global Christianity.
Tony Jones, The New Christians; Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier.
Charles Kimball, When Religion Becomes Evil.
David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons, UnChristian; What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity..
Philip Kitcher, Life After Faith; The Case for Secular Humanism.
Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven; A Story of Violent Faith.
David Kuo, Tempting Faith; An Inside Story of Political Seduction.
Brian McLaren
- Finding Our Way Again; The Return of the Ancient Christian Practices.

A Generous Orthodoxy.

Richard Mouw
- The Smell of Sawdust; What Evangelicals Can Learn From Their Fundamentalist Heritage.
- Uncommon Decency; Christian Civility in an Uncivil World.
Mark A. Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis.
Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places; A Conversation In Spiritual Theology.
Stephen Prothero
- American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon.
- God is Not One; The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World — and Why Their Differences Matter.
Thom S. Rainer and Eric Geiger, Simple Church; Returning to God's Process for Making Disciples.
Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth.
Richard Rohr, Eager to Love; The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi.
Lamin Sanneh, Whose Religion is Christianity?The Gospel Beyond the West.
Christian Smith, How to Go from Being a Good Evangelical to a Committed Catholic in Ninety-Five Difficult Steps
Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers.
Huston Smith, The Soul of Christianity; Restoring the Great Tradition.
Phyllis Tickle, The Great Emergence; How Christianity is Changing and Why.
Daniel J. Treier, Introducing the Theological Interpretation of Scripture: Recovering a Christian Practice.
Steve Wilkens and Don Thorsen, Everything You Know About Evangelicals Is Wrong (Well, Almost Everything); An Insider's Look at Myths & Realities (guest review by Ray Cowan).N.T. Wright, Simply Christian; Why Christianity Makes Sense.
Garry Wills
- The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis.
- Why Priests? A Failed Tradition.
Brian Zahnd, A Farewell to Mars; An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace.

Church History

Gary A. Anderson, Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition.
Diana Butler Bass, A People's History of Christianity; The Other Side of the Story.
Peter Brown, Through the Eye of a Needle; Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD.
Carmen Acevedo Butcher, translator and editor, Hildegard of Bingen; A Spiritual Reader.
John Cassian (tr. by Boniface Ramsey)
- The Conferences.
- The Institutes.
G.W. Clarke, translation and introduction, The Octavius of Minucius Felix, no. 39, Ancient Christian Writers
John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent.
John J. Collins, The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography.
Michael Coogan, The Ten Commandments; A Short History of an Ancient Text.
Kate Cooper, Band of Angels; The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women.
Stephen Cox, American Christianity.
John Dougill, In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians; A Story of Suppression, Secrecy and Survival.
Eamon Duffy,
- Marking the Hours; English People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570.
- Ten Popes Who Shook the World.
Bart D. Ehrman and Zlatko Plese, The Apocryphal Gospels; Texts and Translations
Evagrius of Ponticus, The Praktikos and Chapters on Prayer.
Paula Fredriksen, Sin: The Early History of an Idea.
Charles Freeman, Holy Bones, Holy Dust; How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe
Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Moses.
Paul C. Gutjahr, The Book of Mormon, A Biography.
Thomas D. Hamm, Quaker Writings; An Anthology, 1650-1920
Jonathan Hill, What Has Christianity Ever Done For Us?
Alan Jacobs, The Book of Common Prayer, A Biography.
Philip Jenkins
- Laying Down the Sword; Why We Can't Ignore The Bible's Violent Verses.
- The Lost History of Christianity; The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia — and How It Died
Brent Landau, translation and introduction, Revelation of the Magi.
Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Christianity, The First Three Thousand Years.
- The Reformation.
- Silence, A Christian History.
George Marsden, A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards.
Martin Marty
- The Christian World; A Global History.
- Martin Luther.
Alister McGrath, Christianity's Dangerous Idea; The Protestant Revolution—A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First.
Cullen Murphy, God's Jury; The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World.
Elaine Pagels, Revelations; Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation.
Palladius, The Lausiac History.
Jaroslav Pelikan, Credo: Historical and Theological Guide to the Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition.
Norman Russell, tr., The Lives of the Desert Fathers (Historia Monachorum in Aegypto).
Christopher Tyerman, God's War; A New History of the Crusades.
Grant Wacker
- America's Pastor; Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation.
- Heaven Below; Early Pentecostals and American Culture.
Benedicta Ward (tr.), The Sayings of the Desert Fathers; The Alphabetical Collection.
Robert Louis Wilken
- The Christians as the Romans Saw Them.
- The Spirit of Early Christian Thought; Seeking the Face of God.
Garry Wills, Font of Life; Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism.
Jonathan Wright, Heretics; The Creation of Christianity from the Gnostics to the Modern Church.

Biblical Studies

Timothy Beal, The Rise and Fall of the Bible; The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book.
Daniel Berrigan
- The Kings and Their Gods; The Pathology of Power.
- No Gods But One.
Harold Bloom, The Shadow of a Great Rock; A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible
Marcus Borg
- The Heart of Christianity; Rediscovering a Life of Faith.
- Jesus; Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary.
- The Last Week; A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalem.
Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan, The First Christmas; What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth.
Marc Zvi Brettler, Peter Enns, and Daniel J. Harrington, The Bible and the Believer; How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously.
Bertram D. Brochmann, The Art of Reading the Bible.
Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Christ's Passion, Our Passions; Reflections on the Seven Last Words from the Cross.
Bruce Chilton, Mary Magdalene; A Biography.
John Dominic Crossan, The Greatest Prayer; Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of the Lord's Prayer
Lori Anne Ferrell, The Bible and the People.
Mary Gordon, Reading Jesus; A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels.
Andrew Greeley, Jesus; A Meditation on His Stories and His Relationships with Women.
Jeffrey P. Greenman, Timothy Larsen, and Stephen R. Spencer, eds., The Sermon on the Mount Through the Centuries: From the Early Church to John Paul II (guest review by Ray Cowan).
Adam Hamilton, Making Sense of the Bible; Rediscovering the Power of Scripture Today.
Stanley Hauerwas
- Cross-Shattered Christ; Meditations on the Seven Last Words.
- Matthew; Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible.
Paul Johnson, Jesus: A Biography from a Believer.
Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst, editors, with additional commentary by Bart D. Ehrman, The Gospel of Judas.
Peter Leithart, 1&2 Kings; Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible.
Matthew Levering, Ezra and Nehemiah; Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible.
Jaroslav Pelikan
- Acts; Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible.
- Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages.
Michael L. Satlow, How the Bible Became Holy.
Frank Anthony Spina, The Faith of the Outsider; Exclusion and Inclusion in the Biblical Story.
John Shelby Spong, The Sins of Scripture; Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love.
Garry Wills
- What Jesus Meant.
- What Paul Meant.
- What The Gospels Meant.

Ben Witherington III, The Gospel Code; Novel Claims About Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Da Vinci.

Spiritual Formation and Discipleship

David Augsburger, Dissident Discipleship; A Spirituality of Self-Surrender, Love of God, and Love of Neighbor.
M. Craig Barnes, Searching for Home; Spirituality for Restless Souls.
Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis; Repainting the Christian Faith.
J. Brent Bill, Holy Silence; The Gift of Quaker Spirituality.
Bernard Brady and Mark Neuzil, A Spiritual Field Guide; Meditations for the Outdoors.
Walter Brueggemann,
- Prayers for a Privileged People.
- Spirituality of the Psalms.
Joan Chittister

John Chryssavgis, In the Heart of the Desert; The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers.
Norris J. Chumley, Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer; Experiencing the Presence of God and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of an Ancient Spirituality
Rodney Clapp, Tortured Wonders; Christian Spirituality for People, Not Angels.
Barbara C. Crafton, Jesus Wept: When Faith and Depression Meet.
Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time to Keep Silence.
Pope Francis, The Church of Mercy; A Vision for the Church.
David W. Gill, Doing Right: Practicing Ethical Principles.
Kathryn Greene-McCreight, Darkness Is My Only Companion; A Christian Response to Mental Illness.
Adam Hamilton, Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White.
Stanley Hauerwa, Living Gently in a Violent World; The Prophetic Witness of Weakness.
Roger Housden, Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living.
James M. Houston, Joyful Exiles; Life in Christ on the Dangerous Edge of Things.
William W. Klein, Become What You Are; Spiritual Formation According to the Sermon on the Mount.
Anne Lamott, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essentials of Prayer.
Jonathan Malesic, Secret Faith in the Public Square; An Argument for the Concealment of Christian Identity.
Brennan Manning, A Glimpse of Jesus; The Wisdom of Tenderness; and The Ragamuffin Gospel.
Donald McCullough, The Consolations of Imperfection; Learning to Appreciate Life’s Limitations.
Scot McKnight, The Jesus Creed; Loving God, Loving Others.
Thomas Merton, The Inner Experience; Notes on Contemplation.
Calvin Miller, The Path of Celtic Prayer; An Ancient Way to Everyday Joy.
Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus; Reflections on Christian Leadership.
Parker Palmer
- The Active Life; Wisdom for Work, Creativity, and Caring.
- A Hidden Wholeness; The Journey Toward an Undivided Life.
- Let Your Life Speak; Listening for the Voice of Vocation.
Reynolds Price, Letter to a Godchild (Concerning Faith).
Jana Riess, Flunking Sainthood; A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor.
Jason Brian Santos, A Community Called Taizé; A Story of Prayer, Worship and Reconciliation.
Ronald J. Sider
- The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience; Why Are Christians Living Just Like the Rest of the World?
- The Scandal of Evangelical Politics.
Barbara Brown Taylor
- An Altar in the World; A Geography of Faith.
- Learning to Walk in the Dark.
Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu, Made for Goodness, And Why This Makes All the Difference.
Rick Warren, The Purpose-Driven Life; What On Earth Am I Here For?.
Rowan Williams
- Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer.
- Tokens of Trust; An Introduction to Christian Belief.

Where God Happens; Discovering Christ in One Another.

History

Mark Adams, Turn Right at Machu Picchu; Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Bernard Bailyn, The Barbarous Years; The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600–1675.
Daniel James Brown, The Indifferent Stars Above; The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride.
Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms; The Rise and Fall of States and Nations.
Anthony Everitt, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome.
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering; Death and the American Civil War.
Mark Holborn and Hilary Roberts, The Great War; A Photographic Narrative.
John Lukacs, The Legacy of the Second World War.
Margaret MacMillan, Dangerous Games; The Uses and Abuses of History.
Jon Meacham

Samantha Power, A Problem From Hell; America and the Age of Genocide.
Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations; A People's History of the Third World.
Mitri Raheb, Faith in the Face of Empire; The Bible Through Palestinian Eyes..
Ethan Rarick, Desperate Passage; The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West.
David S. Reynolds, Mightier Than the Sword; "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the Battle for America
Randy J. Sparks, Where The Negroes Are Masters; An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade.
Elie Wiesel, Rashi.
Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns; The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States, 1492–Present

Politics

Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack; The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right.
Karima Bennoune, Your Fatwa Does Not Belong Here; Untold Stories From the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism.
Morris Berman, Dark Ages America; The Final Phase of Empire.
Gregory A. Boyd, The Myth of a Christian Nation; How the Quest for Political Power is Destroying the Church.
Noam Chomsky, Failed States; The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy.
Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy; Ordinary Lives in North Korea.
Larry Diamond, Squandered Victory; The American Occupation and The Bungled Effort To Bring Democracy To Iraq.
Peter Eichstaedt, Consuming the Congo; War and Conflict Minerals in The World's Deadliest Place
Mohamed ElBaradei, The Age of Deception; Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times
Deborah Ellis, Children of War; Voices of Iraqi Refugees.
Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.
Jacques Ellul and Patrick Troude-Chastenet, Jacques Ellul on Politics, Technology and Christianity.
Dexter Filkins, The Forever War.
Francis Fukuyama, America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy.
Peter W. Galbraith, Unintended Consequences; How War in Iraq Strengthened America's Enemies.
Gary Geddes, Drink the Bitter Root: A Search for Justice and Healing in Africa.
Peter Godwin, The Fear; Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe.
Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families; Stories From Rwanda.
Melissa Fay Greene, There Is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue Africa’s Children.
Michael Griffin and Jennie Weiss Block, eds., In the Company of the Poor; Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez.
Richard N. Haass, Foreign Policy Begins at Home; The Case for Putting America's House in Order.
Chris Hedges, War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.
Stephane Hessel, Time for Outrage: Indignez-vous!
Robert D. Kaplan, The Revenge of Geography; What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate.
Joshua Key as told to Lawrence Hill, The Deserter's Tale; The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq.
Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains; Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves.
Gwen Ifill, The Breakthrough; Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.
Chalmers Johnson
- Blowback; The Costs and Consequences of American Empire.
- Dismantling the Empire; America's Last Best Hope.
- Nemesis; The Last Days of the American Republic.
- The Sorrows of Empire; Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic.
Robert Kaplan
- Surrender or Starve; Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea.
- Warrior Politics; Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos.
Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky; Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.
Charles Marsh, Wayward Christian Soldiers; Freeing the Gospel from Political Captivity.
Barnaby Martin, Hanging Man; The Arrest of Ai Weiwei.
Jane Mayer, The Dark Side; The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals.
George McGovern and William R. Polk, Out of Iraq; A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now.
Martin Meredith, The Fate of Africa; From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair: A History of 50 Years of Independence.
Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools; Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Cullen Murphy, Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America.
Richard John Neuhaus, American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile.
George Packer, Assassins' Gate; America in Iraq.
William Pfaff, The Irony of Manifest Destiny; The Tragedy of America's Foreign Policy
Eugene Robinson, Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America.
David Rohde, Beyond War; Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East
Philippe Sands, Torture Team; Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values.
Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near; Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War.
Ari Shavit, My Promised Land; The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel.
David Livingstone Smith, The Most Dangerous Animal; Human Nature and the Origins of War.
Jason K. Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters; The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa.
Brian Steidle, The Devil Came on Horseback; Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur.
Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War; The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict.
William J. Stuntz, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice.
Anthony Swofford, Jarhead; A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles.
Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine; Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.
Brad Tyer, Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and The Burial of an American Landscape.
Gore Vidal, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace; How We Got To Be So Hated.
Jim Wallis, Gods's Politics; Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It; A New Vision for Faith and Politics in America.
Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo; A Letter From Haiti
Garry Wills, Bomb Power; The Modern Presidency and the National Security State.
Bill Wylie-Kellermann, ed., William Stringfellow, Essential Writings.
Fareed Zakaria
- The Future of Freedom; Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad.
- The Post-American World.

Howard Zinn
- The Bomb.

The Historic Unfulfilled Promise (foreword by Matthew Rothschild).

General Tony Zinni and Tony Koltz, The Battle for Peace; A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose.

Culture

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow; Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers; Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity.
Marcus J. Borg, Speaking Christian; Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power, and How They Can Be Restored.
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything.
David Brooks, On Paradise Drive; How We Live Now (And Always Have) In The Future Tense.
Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.
Laura L. Carstensen, A Long Bright Future; An Action Plan for a Lifetime of Happiness, Health, and Financial Security.
Jeff Chu, Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America.
David R. Dow, Things I've Learned From Dying; A Book About Life.
Dave Eggers,
- The Circle
- Zeitoun.
Will Ellsworth-Jones, Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall.
David Finkel, Thank You For Your Service.
Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit.
George Friedman, The Next 100 Years; A Forecast for the 21st Century.
Paul Froese and Christopher Bader, America’s Four Gods: What We Say About God — and What That Says About Us
Becky Garrison, Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church; Eyewitness Accounts of How American Churches Are Hijacking Jesus, Bagging the Beatitudes, and Worshipping the Almighty Dollar.
Atul Gawande,
- Being Mortal; Medicine and What Matters in the End.
- The Checklist Manifesto; How to Get Things Right.
Peter H. Gleick, Bottled and Sold; The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water.
Michelle Goldberg, Kingdom Coming; The Rise of Christian Nationalism.
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Worse Than War; Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity.
Raymond G. Gordon, Jr., ed., Ethnologue: Languages of the World.
Paul Greenberg, Four Fish; The Future of the Last Wild Food.
Chris Hedges
- Empire of Illusion; The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle.

Losing Moses On The Freeway; The 10 Commandments In America.

Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump; The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy With Autism.
Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty, Eleven Rings; The Soul of Success.
Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?
David A. Kessler, The End of Overeating; Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite.
Russell King, et al., People on the Move; An Atlas of Migration.
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life.
Phil Klay, Redeployment.
Jonathan Kozol, Fire in the Ashes; Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America.
Peter Kramer, Against Depression.
Jaron Lanier
- Who Owns the Future?
- You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto.
Madeline Levine, The Price of Privilege; How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids.
Gordon Livingston, M.D., Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart – Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now.
Wendy Lustbader, Life Gets Better; The Unexpected Pleasures of Growing Older.
Gabe Lyons, The Next Christians; The Good News About the End of Christian America. How a New Generation is Restoring the Faith.
Evgeny Morozov, To Save Everything, Click Here; The Folly of Technological Solutionism.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Face on Your Plate; The Truth About Food.
Christopher McDougall, Born to Run; A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen.
Tracie McMillan, The American Way of Eating.
Michael Moss, Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us.
Robert O'Harrow, Jr., No Place to Hide.
Fred Pearce, Confessions of an Eco-Sinner; Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff.
Karl Pillemer, 30 Lessons for Living; Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans.
Mary Pipher, The Green Boat; Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture.
Sylvia Plath, Ariel, the Restored Edition; A Facsimilie of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement.
Michael Pollan
- Food Rules; An Eater's Manual.
- In Defense of Food; An Eater's Manifesto.
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.
Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays.
Richard Rohr, Falling Upward; A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life.

Amartya Sen, Identity and Violence; The Illusion of Destiny.
Karen Stabiner, The Empty Nest; 31 Parents Tell the Truth About Relationships, Love, and Freedom After the Kids Fly the Coop.
Anne Thompson, The $11 Billion Year; From Sundance to the Oscars, An Inside Look at the Changing Hollywood System.
Miroslav Volf, A Public Faith; How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good
David Foster Wallace
- Both Flesh and Not; Essays.
- Infinite Jest.
Karl Weber, editor, Waiting for Superman; How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.
Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikitani, Beyond the Impossible.
Lauren Winner, Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God.

Science, Science and Religion, Environment

Ruth Bancewicz, editor, Test of Faith; Spiritual Journeys with Scientists.
Michael Benson, Far Out; A Space Time Chronicle.
Francis Collins, The Language of God; A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief in God.
Jared Diamond, Collapse; How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Science vs. Religion; What Scientists Really Think.
Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers; How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth.
Jonathan Foer, Eating Animals.
Francis Fukuyama, Our Posthuman Future; Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolutio
Owen Gingerich, God's Universe.
J. Allan Hobson, Dreaming; An Introduction to the Science of Sleep.
Max Jammer, Einstein and Religion.
Woodeene Koenig-Bricker, Ten Commandments for the Environment; Pope Benedict XVI Speaks Out for Creation and Justice.
Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction; An Unnatural History.
Mario Livio
- Brilliant Blunders; From Darwin to Einstein — Colossal Mistakes By Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe.
- Is God a Mathematician?
Kenneth Miller, Finding Darwin's God.
National Academies Press, Science and Creationism: A View From the National Academy of Sciences.
National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine, Science, Evolution, and Creationism.
Ronald L. Numbers, editor, Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths About Science and Religion.
John Polkinghorne, Science and Religion in Quest of Truth.
Marilynne Robinson, Absence of Mind; The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self
Peter Rogers and Susan Leal, Running Out of Water: The Looming Crisis and Solutions to Conserve Our Most Precious Resource.
Joan Roughgarden, Evolution and Christian Faith; Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist.
Oliver Sacks, The Mind's Eye
Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience; A Personal View of the Search for God.
Edward O. Wilson
Herman Wouk, The Language God Talks; On Science and Religion.

Economics

Amy Chua, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability.
Paul Collier
- The Bottom Billion; Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It.
- The Plundered Planet; Why We Must — and How We Can — Manage Nature for Global Prosperity
Judith M. Dean, Julie Schaffner, and Stephen L.S. Smith, editors, Attacking Poverty in the Developing World; Christian Practitioners and Academics in Collaboration.
William Easterly, The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (guest review by Julie Schaffner, Visiting Associate Professor of International Economics in the Fletcher School at Tufts University).
Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power; Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor.
Thomas L. Friedman
- Hot, Flat, and Crowded; Why We Need a Green Revolution —and How It Can Renew America.

The World is Flat; A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.

Douglas A. Hicks, Money Enough; Everyday Practices for Living Faithfully in the Global Economy.
Michael Lewis, The Big Short; Inside the Doomsday Machine.
Roger Lowenstein, The End of Wall Street.
Bill McKibben
- Deep Economy; The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.
- Eaarth; Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.
Robyn Meredith, The Elephant and the Dragon; The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us.
Jeffrey Sachs
- Common Wealth; Economics for a Crowded Planet.

The End of Poverty; Economic Possibilities for Our Time.

Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can't Buy; The Moral Limits of Markets.
David Shipler, The Working Poor; Invisible in America.
Gabriel Thompson, Working in the Shadows; A Year of Doing the Jobs [Most] Americans Won't Do.
World Resources Institute, Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Synthesis. A Report of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
Muhammad Yunus
- Banker to the Poor; Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty.
- Creating a World Without Poverty; Social Business and the Future of Capitalism.

Poetry, Art, Film, Literature, Photography and Music

James Allen, Hilton Als, Congressman John Lewis, and Leon F. Litwack, Without Sanctuary; Lynching Photography in America.
Maya Angelou, Mother; A Cradle to Hold Me.
Wendell Berry
- Given: Poems
- Leavings: Poems
- New Collected Poems.
Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba, editors, American Religious Poems, An Anthology.
Scott Cairns
- Compass of Affection; Poems New and Selected.
- Endless Life; Poems of the Mystics .
- Idiot Psalms: New Poems.
James A. Connor, The Last Judgment; Michelangelo and the Death of the Renaissance.
Esther de Waal, editor, The Celtic Vision; Prayers, Blessings, Songs and Incantations from the Gaelic Tradition.
Edwina Gateley,
- Soul Whispers.

There Was No Path, So I Trod One

Lorrie Goldensohn, editor, American War Poetry; An Anthology.
Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World; How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare.
Ron Hansen, Exiles.
Jennifer L. Holberg, ed., Shouts and Whispers; Twenty-One Writers Speak About Their Writing and Their Faith.
Jay Hopler and Kimberly Johnson, editors, Before the Door of God; An Anthology of Devotional Poetry.
Harlan Hubbard, The Woodcuts of Harlan Hubbard, with a foreword by Wendell Berry.
Alan Jacobs, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction.
Robert Johnston, Useless Beauty; Ecclesiastes through the Lens of Contemporary Film.
Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd, Good Prose: The Art of Non-Fiction.
Michael Kimmelman, The Accidental Masterpiece; On the Art of Life and Vice Versa.
Denise Levertov
- Collected Poems.
- The Stream and the Sapphire; Selected Poems on Religious Themes.
Edmund Morris, Beethoven; The Universal Composer.
Les Murray, Killing the Black Dog, A Memoir of Depression.
Mary Oliver
- Swan; Poems and Prose Poems.
- Thirst.
- A Thousand Mornings: Poems.
Camille Paglia, Break, Blow, Burn; Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Pictures of God; Rilke's Religious Poetry.
Charles Henry Rowell, editor, Angles of Ascent; A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry.
Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia; Tales of Music and the Brain.
Don Share and Christian Wiman, The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine.
Jeffrey Spier, editor, Picturing the Bible; The Earliest Christian Art.
Alice Walker, The World Will Follow Joy; Turning Madness Into Flowers.
Christian Wiman, Once in the West: Poems.
Elizabeth Zelensky and Lela Gilbert, Windows to Heaven; Introducing Icons to Protestants and Catholics.

Gender, Sexuality, HIV-AIDS

Karen Ande (photography) and Ruthann Richter (text), with a foreword by Peter Piot, Face to Face; Children of the AIDS Crisis in Africa.
Greg Behrman, The Invisible People; How the US Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time.
Jennifer Finney Boylan, She's Not There; A Life in Two Genders.
Timothy Bradshaw, ed., The Way Forward? Christian Voices on Homosexuality and the Church.
James Childs, editor, Faithful Conversation; Christian Perspectives on Homosexuality.
Carol Curoe and Robert Curoe, Are There Closets in Heaven? A Catholic Father and a Lesbian Daughter Share Their Story.
Helen Epstein, The Invisible Cure; Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS.
Donna Freitas, The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy.
Mitchell Gold, editor, with Mindy Drucker, Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America.
Jennifer Wright Knust, Unprotected Texts; The Bible's Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire.
Donald E. Messer, Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence; Christian Churches and the Global AIDS Crisis.
Gene Robinson, In the Eye of the Storm; Swept to the Center By God.
Dorothy Sayers, Are Women Human?
Abraham Verghese, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS.
Dan O. Via and Robert A.J. Gagnon, Homosexuality and the Bible; Two Views.
Mel White, Stranger at the Gate; To Be Gay and Christian in America.

Fiction

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah: A Novel.
Sinan Antoon, The Corpse Washer.
Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending: A Novel.
Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest.
Wendell Berry, A Place in Time; Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership.
Amy Brill, The Movement of Stars.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist.
Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her.
Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King.
Paul Harding, Tinkers.
Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior.
Anne Lamott, Imperfect Birds: A Novel.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road.
Alice McDermott, Someone: A Novel.
Ian McEwan, The Children Act; A Novel.
Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon.
Lydia Munn and Heather Munn, How Huge the Night.
Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds; A Novel.
Anne Rice,
- Called Out of Darkness; A Spiritual Confession.
- Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt.
Marilynne Robinson
- Gilead.
- Home.
- Lila.
Philip Roth, Nemesis.
Stephen Sangirardi, Life on the Planet: 7 Stories.
George Saunders, Tenth of December: Stories.
Wm. Paul Young, in collaboration with Wayne Jacobsen and Brad Cummings, The Shack; Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity.

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