The Best Five Books I Read in 2011

The list someone, somewhere has been waiting for:


The End of Education by Neil Postman
According to Plan by Graeme Goldsworthy
Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto
The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman
Growing a Farmer by Kurt Timmermeister


I'm considering taking on the 52-Book Challenge again in 2012. What should be on my list? 

2 comments:

Curtis Winkle said...

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

Michelle Read said...

I'm thrilled with the farming recommendations!

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