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Posted by Paul on Jun 11, 2012 in Thoughts | 0 comments

The Preamble

Challenge Accepted. I’ve been challenged to read 100 books within the next three years starting right now. I’m going to attempt it. Small problem though… I’m not sure of 100 books worth reading. I need recommendations…

The List

Here’s what I have so far:

1. A Game of Thrones – George R.R. Martin
2. Assassin’s Of Alamut – James Boschert
3. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns – Frank Miller
4. Batman: The Killing Joke – Alan Moore and Brian Bolland
5. Beyond Opinion – Ravi Zacharias
6. Big Trouble – Dave Barry
7. Bonhoeffer – Eric Metaxas
8. Child of God – Cormac McCarthy
9. City of God – Saint Augustine
10. Critical Path – Dan Amrich
11. Deadly Viper Character Assassins – Mike Foster & Jud Wilhite
12. Dick Van Dyke: My Lucky Life In And Out Of Show Business – Dick Van Dyke
13. Diary of an Old Soul – George MacDonald
14. Dracula – Bram Stoker
15. Eight Amazing Engineering Stories – Bill Hammack
16. Fight Club: A Novel – Chuck Palahniuk
17. Following at a Distance – Kimberly Dunnam Reisman
18. Freedom of Simplicity – Richard J. Foster
19. Grimm’s Fairy Tales
20. Has Christianity Failed You? – Ravi Zacharias
21. Haunted: A Novel – Chuck Palahniuk
22. Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction Mark R. Laaser
23. Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther – Roland Herbert Bainton
24. How Should We Then Live? – Francis A. Schaeffer
25. Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography – Iain H. Murray
26. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
27. Machiavelli – Miles J. Unger
28. Passages – Brian Hardin
29. Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethis, Spirit – Joshua Foa Dienstag
30. The Abolition Of Man – C.S. Lewis
31. The Best of Poe – Edgar Allan Poe
32. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
33. The Case for Christianity – C. S. Lewis
34. The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson – Emily Dickinson
35. The Cost of Discipleship – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
36. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
37. The Five Love Languages of Children – Gary Chapman
38. The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
39. The Life and Times of Cotton Mather – Kenneth Silverman
40. The Light and the Glory – Peter Marshall & David Manuel
41. The Odyssey – Homer
42. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
43. The Sunset Limited – Cormac McCarthy
44. The Thirtieth Year: Stories by Ingeborg Bachmann
45. Tirant Lo Blanc – Joanot Martorell & Marti Joan de Galba
46. Until We Have Faces – CS Lewis
47. The World’s Last Night: And Other Essays – C. S. Lewis
48. Walt Disney Unofficial Biography – Bob Thomas
49. What Good Is God? – Phillip Yancey