Pastor Harley's Annual Reading list

Friends,
Reading and Study for me is a Spiritual Discipline, and the practice informs my preaching and ministry. Over the years, I have learned to read with Jesus, making a book a three way dialogue between the Lord, the author and myself.
One of the delightful things about reading as a spiritual exercise, is that you can indulge in a little bean counting and record keeping, so I have annual reading lists going back several years.
Below is my record from 2008.

You are invited to comment!

Pastor’s Annual Reading List Pastor Harley Wheeler
February 2008-January 2009 Thompson UMC, Thompson, Ohio


Biblical Studies:
The Bible (all of it)
Commentary on Proverbs and Ecclesiastes – R.B.Y. Scott
Endings – Morna Hooker
The Targum or Chaldee Paraphrase of the Song of Songs ed. Adam Clarke
Song of Songs Commentary – Marvin Pope
The Psalms in Israel’s Worship Vol.s I & II - Sigmund Monwinckel
How to Study the Bible – James L. Kugel
Biblical Interpretations in Preaching – Gerhard Von Rad
The Inspiration and Authority of Scripture – Rene’ Pache
The Book of Isaiah 1-39, Commentary – John N. Oswalt
The Book of Isaiah 40-66, Commentary, John N. Oswalt
On the Reliability of the Old Testament – K.A. Kitchener
The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel, Commentary – Keith W. Carley
Commentary on the Letter to the Ephesians – William Barclay
Commentary on the Letter to the Galatians – William Barclay
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses – Richard Bauckham
The Documentary Hypothesis – Umberto Cassuto
Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies – Craig Evans
Special Study in Zephaniah
Special Study in Ephesians 2



Classic Christian Authors:
The Works of John Wesley Vol. III, Sermons 71-114
The Works of John Wesley Vol.XI, The Appeals
The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
The Confessions – St. Augustine
Paradise Lost – John Milton
Paradise Regained – John Milton
The Selected Prose of John Milton ed. Cleanth Brooks
The Works of John Wesley Vol.IV, Sermons 115-151
Pensees’- Blaise Pascal




Current Christian Thought, Apologetics, Ministry, Sermons:
Guide To Christian Apologetics – Doug Powell
“Journal of Theology”, 2007 (Methodist Theological School in Ohio and United Seminary)
Faith Matters – Steve Klapp, Kristen Leverton, Angela Zizak of Christian Community
The Gospel of Life – John Paul II
Unleashing the Scriptures – Stanley Hauerwas
How to Develop a Tithing Church – Charlie Shedd
Coming Home – Frank Ramirez, (Christmas sermons on Haggai)
The Spirituality of the Cross – Gene Edward Keith Jr.
Pascal and Theology – Jan Miel
Three Simple Rules – Bishop Rueben Job
What’s So great About Christianity? – Dinesh D’Souza
Don’t Waste Your Life – John Piper
A Matter of Days – Hugh Ross
God and the Astronomers – Robert Jastrow
The Wealth Conundrum – Ralph Doudera
Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White – Adam Hamilton
Environmental Stewardship in the Judeo-Christian Tradition – The Acton Institute
What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew about Women – Dr. James Dobson
Matthew 27D, Sermons – Dr. Stephen Manley
Acts Chapter 2, Sermons – Dr. Stephen Manley
The New Consecration Sunday – Herb Miller
90 Minutes in Heaven – Don Piper
Women in Islam – P. Newton & M. Rafiqul Hazz
Faith and Reason; The Philosophy of Religion – Peter Kreeft
Suspicion and Faith – Marion Westphal
The Meaning of Jesus – Marcus Borg & N.T. Wright




Modern Christian Authors:
The Man Born to be King – Dorothy Sayer (drama)
Jesus Christ and Mythology – Rudolf Bultmann
The Tanglewood’s Secret – Patricia St. John
The Defendant – G.K. Chesterton
The Narnian – Alan Jacobs
Raids on The Unspeakable – Thomas Merton
The Shack – William Young
Full Pardon – Harry L. Greene
Christ the Lord, The Road to Cana – Anne Rice
They Found the Secret – V. Raymond Edman
How to Cope With Ten of Life’s Toughest Problems – Norman Vincent Peale
Inspiration From the Letters of Padre Pio, ed. Fr.Raniero Cantalamessa
First Light – Sue Monk Kidd
The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
Temptation and Triumph – Ernest S. Williams
Candles in the Dark – Amy Carmichael
Come Unto Me – James P. Gillo, M.D.
Fiction from Tegel Prison – Deitrich Boenhoffer
When You Rise Up – R.C. Sproul
The Illustrated London News 1914-1916(columns) – G.K. Chesterton
The Illustrated London News 1920-1922(columns) – G.K. Chesterton
The Heavenly Man – Brother Yun
The Light of Christmas – ed. Frances Bentano
Columns Illustrated London News, 1922, Hillaire Belloc


Classics, Period, and Curiousity Literature :
The Lord of The Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Uncle’s Dream – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Epic of Gilgamesh – trans. Stephen Mitchell
A Voyage to Arcturus – David Lyndsey
50 Great Essays – ed. Houston Peterson
“The Suppliant Maidens,” “Persians,” Prometheus Bound,”” Seven Against Thebes” - Aeschylus (drama)
The Gitagovinda, or The Song of Jaya Deva(Hindu texts)ed. Adam Clarke
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carrol
“Pygmalion” – Bernard Shaw (drama)
The Eternal Husband – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“A Winter’s Tale” – William Shakespeare (drama)
The Double – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” – William Shakespeare (drama)
The Friend of the Family – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In the Midst of Life – Ambrose Bierce
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
The Homecoming of Beornth – trans. And intro by J.R. R. Tolkien
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo - trans. And intro by J.R. R. Tolkien
A Murder, A Mystery, and a Marriage – Mark Twain
Short Fiction of the 17th Century – ed. Charles C. Mish
The Life of Our Lord – Charles Dickens
The Death of Arthur – Sir Thomas Mallory
The Life and Morals of Jesus – Thomas Jefferson
Lilith – George MacDonald
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Cry, The Beloved Country – Alan Paton
Heidi – Johanna Spyri
I Dare You! – William Danforth
When You Call on the Sick – Russell Dicks
A Pocket Story of John Wesley – Charles A. Sauer




Contemporary Authors, Fiction, Humor and Drama:
The Children of Hurin – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Tolkien Reader – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Ceasar and Cleopatra” – George Bernard Shaw (drama)
Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
The Dante Club – Matthew Pearl
Guerilla – Lord Dunsany
The History of the Millenium(so far) – Dave Barry
More Letters from a Nut – Ted L. Nancy
The Henry Reed Series – Keith Robertson
Anthem - Aynn Rand
Humor of the American Cowboy – Stan Heig
Lavinia – Ursula K. LeGuin
Schott’s Original Miscellany – Ben Schott
The Birdman and the Lap Dancer – Eric Hanson
The Story Girl, The Golden Road – L.M. Montgomery
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night - The Best of the Bulver-Lytton Bad Writing Contest
The Portable Curmudgeon – ed. Jon Winokus
Armmageddon Revisted – Kurt Vonnegaut
Notebooks 1935-1942 – Albert Camus
“Rhinoceros” and other Plays” – Ionesco
Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, Emily’s Quest – L.M. Montgomery
Siddartha – Herman Hesse
The Martha in the Mirror – Justin Richards
Giraffe – J.M. Ledgard
“The Glass Menagerie” – Tennessee Williams(drama)
“Major Barbara” – George Bernard Shaw(drama)
The Adventures of Father Brown – G.K. Chesterton
Self Portrait – Kahlil Gibran
The Broken Wings – Kahlil Gibran
The Lump of Coal – Lemony Snickett
The Tales of Beedle the Bard – J. K. Rowling
The Atlas of Middle-Earth – Karen Wyth Fonstad
Island of the Aunts – Ella Ibbotsen
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegaut
She – H. Rider Haggard



Biography,History, Sciences, Social Science, Philosophy, Politics
The Rebel – Albert Camus
The Bottom Billion – Paul Collier
A Contract With The Earth – Newt Gingerich
What Jane Austen Ate, What Charles Dickens Knew – Daniel Pool
In Praise of Predjudice – Theodore Dalrymple
The World of the Huns – Otto J. Maenchen
The Mountain People – Colin Turnbull
Ethics Journal, July 2004 – University of Chicago Press (Symposium on Terrorism)
Imaginative Horizons – Vincent Crapanzano
Religious Literacy – Stephen Prothero
Decline of the English Murder and other Essays – George Orwell
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns – Robert Jungk
Thrace and the Thracians – Alexander Fol & Ivan Marazov
An Appeal to Reason – Nigel Lawson
The Rise of the Global Civil Society – Don Eberly
Coincidentally – George W. Rutler
Human Dignity and Bioethics – President’s Council on Bioethics
Godless – Ann Coulter
Culture Making – Andy Crouch
The Parakeet Handbook – Annette Wolton & Immanuel Birmelin
The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz
Ethical Issues in Marriage and Sexuality – lectures, Bioethics Seminar at Franciscan University of Steubenville



Poetry:
Collected Poems – John Donne
Bed Riddance – Ogden Nash
Gentlemen, the King – John Oxenham
Collected Short Poems – John Milton
The Classic Hundred Poems – ed. William Harmon


Periodicals:
Each Issue of: “Good News”,” Biblical Archaeology Review”,”Scientific American”,” The Interpreter”,” East Ohio Joining Hands”,”Asbury Herald”(Asbury Seminary), “The Table”(Ashland Seminary) ,”Panorama” (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary) “The City”(Houston Baptist University),”HSLDA Newsletter”,” Lifewatch Journal”,” Touchstone”,” First Things.”
Individual Issues of Astronomy Magazine, April and July 2008