History: In the Garden of Beasts Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
Christianity: The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Mark A. Noll The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell Christianity and Culture by T.S. Elliot Saving Leonardo by Nancy Pearcey Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God by Paul Copan
Culture, Politics, and Education: Minority Report by Carl Trueman The Unaborted Socrates: A Dramatic Debate on the Issues Surrounding Abortion by Peter Kreeft The Social Animal by David Brooks Merchants of Culture by John B. Thompson Technopoly by Neil Postman Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman The Closing of the American Mind by Alan Bloom The Reason for Sports by Ted Kluck The Vintage Guide to Classical Music by Jan Swafford The Education of Children by Desiderius Erasmus
Fiction: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach Watt by Samuel Beckett The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
Farming: Bringing It To the Table by Wendell Berry The Backyard Homestead by Carleen Madigan The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball
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Here's my 2012 list so far.
History:
In the Garden of Beasts Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
Christianity:
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Mark A. Noll
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Christianity and Culture by T.S. Elliot
Saving Leonardo by Nancy Pearcey
Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God by Paul Copan
Culture, Politics, and Education:
Minority Report by Carl Trueman
The Unaborted Socrates: A Dramatic Debate on the Issues Surrounding Abortion by Peter Kreeft
The Social Animal by David Brooks
Merchants of Culture by John B. Thompson
Technopoly by Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
The Closing of the American Mind by Alan Bloom
The Reason for Sports by Ted Kluck
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music by Jan Swafford
The Education of Children by Desiderius Erasmus
Fiction:
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Watt by Samuel Beckett
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
Farming:
Bringing It To the Table by Wendell Berry
The Backyard Homestead by Carleen Madigan
The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball
I'm thrilled with the farming recommendations!
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