Annual Reading List 2010

Welcome to the Pastor's Annual Reading List. Reading is a Spiritual Discipline for me, that I use each year to grow personally,to relax, to wrestle with important questions, and inform my preaching. Have fun!

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Pastor’s Annual Reading List Pastor Harley Wheeler
February 2010-January 2011 Thompson UMC, Thompson, Ohio

Biblical Studies/Theology
Spiritual Authority – Watchman Nee
The Bondage of the Will – Martin Luther
The Death of the Messiah Volume 2 – Raymond Brown
Abraham – Bruce Feiler
Sermons of John Donne – edited by Theodore Gil
Sacred Songs from the Byzantine Pulpit – St. Romanos the Melodist
On the Life on Christ - St. Romanos the Melodist
The Works of John Wesley, Volume 1, Sermons 1-33
Outside the Gate – Roy I. Sano
The Poems of St. John of The Cross - translated by John Frederick Nims
God’s Secretaries, The Making of the King James Bible – Adam Nicolson
The Apochrypha
The Cotton Patch Version of Paul’s Epistles – Clarence Jordan
Biblical Expositions on Ephesians 1:3-6 – Stephen Manley
The Bible
God’s Word, Scripture, Tradition, Office – Joseph Ratzinger
The Temple of Jerusalem – Andre Parrot
Interpretations of Poetry and Religion – George Santayana
Wisdom in Israel – Gerhard Von Rad
John Wesley’s A Plain Account of Christian Perfection – annotated by Mark K. Olson
The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
Letters and Papers from Prison – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Book of Ruth, Commentary – Robert L. Hubbard
A Rumor of Angels – Peter L. Berger
The Psalms

Current Christian Thought: Apologetics, Ministry, Sermons and Devotional Literature
The Whimsical Christian – Dorothy Sayers
A Year With the Psalms – Eugene H. Peterson
The Gospel According to Tolkien – Ralph C. Wood
The Purpose- Driven Life – Rick Warren
Tell it to the Church – Buzzard Eck
Simply Christian – N.T. Wright
Inside Convoy of Hope’s Response to the Haiti Earthquake – Kirk Noonan
The Five Love Languages – Gary Chapman
Spiritual Entrepeneurs – Michael Slaughter
Respectable Sins – Jerry Bridges
Miracle in Darien – Bob Slosser
The Social Principles of the United Methodist Church
Thy Kingdom Come – Clayton Murray Westley
How to Reach Baby Boomers – William Easum
The Gifts of Christmas – Rachel Hartman
Wayfaring – Alan Jacobs
The Call to Action Steering Committee Report (& appendices)- UMC



Classics, Period and Curiosity Literature
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Little Men – Louisa May Alcott
Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Aesop’s Fables
Jo’s Boys – Louisa May Alcott
Twice Told Tales – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Cancer Ward – Alexander Solzhenitzen
Diaries 1910-1913 - Franz Kafka
Morgoth’s Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Metamorphoses – Franz Kafka
The Revolt of Angels – Anatole France
Lenin in Zurich – Alexander Solzhenitzen
A Little Hero – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Across the Miles – L.M. Montgomery
The Castle – Franz Kafka
Eight Plays From the Spanish Golden Age – translated by Walter Starkie
The Orestian Trilogy –Aeschylus
“The Doctor’s Dilemma “– George Bernard Shaw
An Old- Fashioned Girl – Louisa May Alcott
Farmer Giles of Ham – J.R.R. Tolkien
Almayer’s Folly – Joseph Conrad
Among the Shadows – L.M. Montgomery
Men and Women of Deep Piety – Clare McLeister
Cyrano De Begerac – Edmond Rostand
The Smith of Wotten Major – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Celebrated Jumping Frog and other Stories – Mark Twain
The Posessed – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Habit of Being – Flannery O’ Conner
Letter to His Father – Franz Kafka
The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’ Conner
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
The Aenied – Virgil
The House at Pooh Corner – A.A. Milne
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Stung with Love – Sappho
The Satires, Epigrams and Verse Letters of John Donne - edited by W. Milgate
Billy Budd – Herman Melville
God’s Minute – L.M. Carr





Contemporary Authors, Fiction, Humor, and drama
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
“He That Should Come’ – Dorothy Sayers
“The Devil to Pay’ – Dorothy Sayers
“Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” – Shakespeare
Eaters of the Dead – Michael Crichton
The Painted Drum – Louise Erdrich
The Investigations of Quentin Nickles – John Richard Wright
Dance of the Happy Shades – Alice Munro
“The Tragedy of Macbeth” – Shakespeare
The Rug Merchant – Meg Mullins
The Flight of the Phoenix – Elleston Trevor
The Gold Bat and other School Stories – P.G. Wodehouse
Dave Berry Slept Here! – Dave Berry
Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Mary Norton
I’ll Be Mature When I’m Dead – Dave Berry
Escape to Witch Mountain, Return from Witch Mountain – Aleckzander Key
The Harry Potter Series – J. K. Rowling
The Best of Saki – Hector Hugh Munro
Do Butlers Burgle Banks? – P. G. Wodehouse
Too Much Happiness – Alice Munro
The Paranoid’s Pocket Guide – Cameron Tuttle
Friendship, Hateship Courtship, Loveship, Marriage – Alice Munro
The Pearl – John Steinbeck
The Messiah of Morris Avenue – Tony Hengra
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
The Compleate Werewolf and other stories – Livio Fanzaga
Meet Mr. Mulliner – P.G. Wodehouse
Young Men in Spats – P.G. Wodehouse
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
Lineage and other stories – Bo Lozoff
The Nine Tailors – Dorothy Sayers
Incarceron – Catherine Fisher

Biography, History, Sciences, Social Science, Philosophy, and Politics
Flags of Our Fathers – James Bradley
Journals and other Documents on the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
Over the Edge of the World – Laurence Bergreen
When Hell Was in Session – Jeremiah Denton
Victorian America – 1876-1915 – Thomas J. Schlaeth
Islamic Imperialism – Efraim Karsh
To Try Men’s Souls – Newt Gingrich and William Forsteler
Forty Studies that Changed Psychology – Roger R. Hock
Hieronymus Bosch – Walter Bosing
The Murder of King Tut – James Patterson
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat – Oliver Sacks
Ghost Soldiers – Hampton Sides
Beyond Freedom and Dignity – B. F. Skinner
Crazy Bosses – Stanley Bing
Sun Tzu Was a Sissy – Stanley Bing
Western Europe in the Middle Ages – Joseph R. Strayer
Space, Time, Infinity – James S. Trefil
Bears of the World – Terry Domino
Captured by Indians – Mary Rowlandson
Unhappy, Far-off Things – Lord Dunsany
The Greatest Generation – Tom Brokaw
Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer


Poetry
Selected Poems – Christina Rosetti
“A Shropshire Lad” – A. E. Houseman
Collected Poems – A. E. Houseman
The Right Madness on Skye – Richard Hugo
A Hundred Verses From Old Japan – translated by William Porter
The Dream Keeper and other Poems – Langston Hughes
Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems – W.H. Auden
A Timbered Choir – Wendell Berry
Renascence and other poems – Edna St. Vincent Millay
Four Quartets – T.S. Eliot
Of Quarks, Quasars and other Quirks – collected by S. & J. Brewton and J. B. Blackburn
31 Letters and 13 Dreams – Richard Hugo
88 Poems – Ernest Hemingway
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” – Samuel Coleridge Taylor, illus. Gustave Dore`


Periodicals:
Each Issue of: “Good News”,”Scientific American”,” The Interpreter”,” East Ohio Joining Hands”,” “The City”(Houston Baptist University),”HSLDA Newsletter” ,“First Things”,” Lifewatch Journal” ”The Catalyst” from AFTE , The Kingdom Connection, Voice of the martyrs Newsletter, and American Heritage
Individual Issues of: Wired, May 2009, and Astronomy, July, 2010 & November 2010