These are the books I've read cover-to-cover so far this year. I'd love to discuss them if you've read them too, so feel free to drop me an email. I'm always open to suggestions too!
Crafting Secular Ritual // Jeltje Gordon-Lennox
Enfleshing Freedom // M. Shawn Copeland
Pure // Linda Kay Klein
Where the Crawdads Sing // Delia Owens
The Power // Naomi Alderman
Commonwealth // Anne Patchett
Her Body & Other Parties // Carmen Maria Machado
Little Fires Everywhere // Celeste Ng
2018 books:
Beyond God the Father // Mary Daly
The Hate U Give // Angie Thomas
Anamnesis as Dangerous Memory // Bruce Morrill
Pure Lust // Mary Daly
The Sun is Also a Star // Nicola Yoon
Encountering Christ in the Eucharist // Bruce Morrill
Sister Outsider // Audre Lorde
A Burst of Light // Audre Lorde
Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker // ed. Julie Enszer
The Parable of the Sower // Octavia Butler
The Parable of the Talents // Octavia Butler
Kindred // Octavia Butler
The Body Keeps the Score // Bessel van der Kolk
Dawn // Octavia Butler
Adulthood Rites // Octavia Butler
Imago // Octavia Butler
Slaughterhouse V // Kurt Vonnegut
2017 books:
Sexuality & the Black Church // Kelly Brown Douglas
The Courage to Be Queer // Jeff Hood
Sex/Gender: Biology in a Social World // Anne Fausto-Sterling
From Sin to Amazing Grace: Discovering the Queer Christ // Patrick Cheng
How to Survive a Plague // David France
Theology & Joy // Jurgen Moltman
Lust // Simon Blackburn
Pride // Michael Eric Dyson
Greed // Phyllis Tickle
Gluttony // Francine Prose
Sloth // Wendy Wasserstein
Envy // Joseph Epstein
Anger // Robert Thurman
Honoring the Body // Stephanie Paulsell
Sing, Unburied, Sing // Jesmyn Ward
The Dancing Wu Li Masters // Gary Zukav
2016 books:
Digital Paper // Andrew Abbot
Confessions // Augustine
Rahel Varnhagen // Hannah Arendt
Maus // Art Spiegelman
W, or the Memory of Childhood // George Perec
Fragments // Binjamin Wilkomirski
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings // Maya Angelou
The Autobiography of Malcolm X // Malcolm X & Alex Haley
Choosing my Religion // Stephen Dubner
On Communitarian Divinity // A. Okechukwu Ogbonnaya
Beyond Monotheism // Laurel Schneider
Poetics of the Flesh // Mayra Rivera
Cloud of the Impossible // Catherine Keller
Fingersmith // Sarah Waters
Rubyfruit Jungle // Rita Mae Brown
I, Rigoberta Menchú // Rigoberta Menchú
Earthy Mysticism // Tex Sample
Facing the Music // Jennifer Knapp
Brother West // Cornel West & David Ritz
The Night Circus // Erin Morgenstern
2015 books:
This is How You Lose Her // Juno Díaz
Wally the Skeptic // Karl Gutzkow
The Birth of Tragedy // Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals // Friedrich Nietzsche
Totem & Taboo // Sigmund Freud
Moses & Monotheism // Sigmund Freud
Wise Blood // Flannery O'Connor
Insurrection // Peter Rollins
Gilead // Marilynne Robinson
Human Sexuality // Dan Boone
Wolf in White Van // John Darnielle
Theology of Luck // Rob A. Fringer & Jeff K. Lane
The Anthropology of Performance // Victor Turner
Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice // Catherine Bell
Ritual and its Consequences // Adam Seligman, et al.
Ritual in its Own Right // ed. Don Hanelman & Galina Lindquist
Being as Communion // John Zizioulas
Go Set a Watchman // Harper Lee
2014 books:
On Liturgical Theology // Aidan Kavanaugh
Dynamics of Faith // Paul Tillich
On the Name // Jacques Derrida, ed. Thomas Dutoit ("Passions," "Sauf le nom," and "Khora")
Love's Work // Gillian Rose
Archive Fever // Jacques Derrida
Solar Barque // Anaïs Nin
Holy Things // Gordon Lathrop
The Non-Library // Trevor Owen Jones
The Story of Libraries // Fred Lerner
Our Enduring Values // Michael Gorman
Pigeon Feathers & Other Short Stories // John Updike
Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore // Robin Sloan
Cloud of the Impossible // Catherine Keller
2013 books:
Moonwalking with Einstein // Joshua Foer
The Idolatry of God // Peter Rollins
A People's History of Christianity // Diana Butler Bass
Word, Water, Wine and Bread // Will Willimon
Take This Bread // Sara Miles
On Religion // John Caputo
Clare of Assisi: The Letters to Agnes // Joan Mueller
Food & Faith // Norman Wirzba
Capitalism and Religion // Philip Goodchild
Living the Death of God // Thomas JJ Altizer
e-religion // Anastasia Karaflogka
Telling the Truth // Frederick Buechner
Christian Sacraments in a Postmodern World // Kenan Osborne
The Church & the Sacraments // Karl Rahner
Symbol & Sacrament // Louis-Marie Chauvet
Derrida & Theology // Steven Shakespeare
Insister of Jacques Derrida // Hélène Cixous
The Eucharist's Biographer // Albert Walsh
2012 books:
She Who Is // Elizabeth Johnson
Wildwood // Colin Meloy
The Hunger Games // Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire // Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay // Suzanne Collins
American Fascists // Christ Hedges
The Joy Luck Club // Amy Tan
Everything is Miscellaneous // David Weinberger
The Purity Myth // Jessica Valenti
The Unlikely Disciple // Kevin Roose
Wonder // RJ Palacio
The Fault in Our Stars // John Green
White Like Me // Tim Wise
That Holy Anarchist // Mark Van Steenwyk
Resident Aliens // Stanley Hauerwas & Will Willimon
Living on Hope While Living in Babylon // Tripp York
Power and Struggle // Gene Sharp
Anarchy and Christianity // Jacques Ellul
Electing Not to Vote // ed. Ted Lewis
Mrs. Dalloway // Virginia Woolf
A Year of Biblical Womanhood // Rachel Held Evans
2011 books:
Flesh of the Church, Flesh of Christ // J.M.R. Tillard
The Crucified God // Jürgen Moltmann
God for Us // Catherine Mowry LaCugna
Super, Natural Christians // Sallie McFague
With Burning Hearts // Henri Nouwen
Face of the Deep // Catherine Keller
Paul Among the Postliberals // Douglas Harink
Does God Suffer? // Thomas Weinandy
God & the Art of Happiness // Ellen Charry
Travels with Charley // John Steinbeck
Catcher in the Rye // JD Salinger
Violence // Slavoj Žižek
The Elegance of the Hedgehog // Muriel Barbery
The Pearl // John Steinbeck