Reading list

There are many, many books that I feel like I “should” read, whether because I’ve heard other people enthuse about them, or they’re part of the literary canon. There are also many books that simply look interesting, and I’d quite like to read. And that’s just novels. This is a list, then, of Books I Would Like To Read. It’s not comprehensive, might get changed or added to, and you’d probably notice some glaring omissions straight away, were it not for the fact that you don’t know if I’ve read them already. Those marked as completed are those I’ve read since starting this page.

Novels (alphabetical by author’s surname)

  • The Handmaid’s Tale — Margaret Atwood (finished)
  • Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood (finished)
  • Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
  • A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess
  • A Man Called Thursday – G. K. Chesterton
  • Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad
  • Girlfriend in a Coma – Douglas Coupland (finished)
  • Hey Nostrodamus! – Douglas Coupland (finished)
  • Engleby – Sebastian Faulks
  • The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • A Room with a View — E. M. Forster
  • I’m the King of the Castle – Susan Hill
  • Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro (finished)
  • To Kill A Mockingbird — Harper Lee
  • Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
  • After Dark — Haruki Murakami (finished)
  • Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami (finished)
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
  • A Good Man Is Hard To Find – Flannery O’Connor
  • Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut (finished)
  • Brideshead Revisited — Evelyn Waugh (finished)

Christian books (in no real order)

  • The Cross of Christ — John Stott (finished)
  • A Call to Spiritual Reformation — Don Carson
  • Christ and Culture Revisited – Don Carson
  • Knowing God — J. I. Packer (part way there)
  • The Bondage of the Will — Martin Luther
  • Communion with the Triune God — John Owen
  • Religious Affections – Jonathan Edwards
  • Cinderella with Amnesia — Michael Griffiths
  • Total Church — Tim Chester and Steve Timmis (finished)
  • Worship Matters — Bob Kauflin
  • Future Grace — John Piper
  • The Pleasures of God — John Piper
  • Delighting in the Trinity — Tim Chester (finished)
  • You Can Change — Tim Chester (finished)
  • Let the Nations Be Glad! — John Piper
  • The God Who Is There — Francis Schaeffer
  • Escape From Reason – Francis Schaeffer (finished)
  • Gospel and Kingdom — Graeme Goldsworthy