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Ted Schroder's Reading List 2011

  • Dear Friends,
  • This list is published as a resource to encourage you to read widely and deeply. May it stimulate your enjoyment and edification. I am happy to lend any title that I have retained in my library. Out of print titles may be found through www.abebooks.com.
  • Ted Schroder
    Amelia Island, Florida

  • I will never throw a book away, storing dog-eared paperbacks from school or college, year after year, stacked like hunting trophies on makeshift shelves in my rooms. For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at that time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur. Sting, Broken Music, 98
  • Contemporary literature remains one of the few refuges for sin. Novelists and short-story writers present human characters in all their complexity and realism, which unavoidably includes sin. Try to imagine a novel by Dostoyevsky, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, or John Updike - not to mention the entire genres of murder mysteries and legal thrillers - without a richly nuanced depiction of sin. Sin provides the hook, the pull that keeps a reader turning pages. Apart from sin and its consequences, fiction would read like a flat, deterministic tale of animal behavior. Philip Yancey, A Skeptic's Guide to Faith, 121
  • He was fascinated by the world and never got tired of learning more about it. He read hundreds of books a year on history, politics, religion, sports and anything else that picqued his interest. To do this, he had to be a fast reader, yet his retention of what he read was as amazing as his consumption. When I would ask him how, given the demands of his schedule and the amount of travel he did, not just professionally but as an avid sports fan, he would simply reply that he didn't need very much sleep. Jeffrey Bell on Bob Novak, Truth Seeker, WSJ, August 20, 2009

  1. The Crucifixion of Ministry, Andrew Purves, 2007
  2. Washington: A Life, Ron Chernow, 2010
  3. With Christ in the School of Prayer, Andrew Murray
  4. Encounter with Spurgeon, Helmut Thielicke, 1964
  5. The Hare with the Amber Eyes, Edmund De Waal, 2010
  6. For Self-Examination, Judge for Yourself!, Soren Kierkegaard
  7. The Prayer Life, Andrew Murray
  8. King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus, Timothy Keller, 2011
  9. Warranted Christian Belief, Alvin Plantinga, 2000
  10. A Late Lark Singing, F.W. Boreham, 1945
  11. The Gifts: A Story of the Boyhood of Jesus, Dorothy Clark Wilson, 1957
  12. Kierkegaard, Pietism and Holiness, Christopher B. Barnett, 2011
  13. The Fiery Crags, F.W. Boreham, 1929
  14. The High Tide of American Conservatism, Garland S. Tucker, III, 2010
  15. A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World, Paul E. Miller, 2009
  16. Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War, Wilfred Trotter, 1915
  17. The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture, David Mamet, 2011
  18. Saint Augustine, Garry Wills, 1999
  19. The Crystal Pointers, F.W. Boreham, 1925
  20. The Church Awakening: An Urgent Call for Renewal, Charles R. Swindoll, 2011
  21. Lean Ministry: Implementing Change in the 21st Century, Charles M. Duffert, 2011
  22. Prayer: Does it Make a Difference? Philip Yancey, 2006
  23. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1869
  24. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, Erik Larson, 2011
  25. On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
  26. Fuelling the Fire: Fresh Thinking on Prayer, Dennis Lennon, 2005v
  27. Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815, Stephen Budiansky, 2010
  28. The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal, 1976
  29. The Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayek, 1944
  30. House of Prayer No.2: A Writer's Journey Home, Mark Richard, 2011
  31. Why Jesus? William Willimon, 2010
  32. Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution, Charles Rappleye, 2010
  33. Time and Eternity: Uncollected Writings, Malcolm Muggeridge, ed. Nicholas Flynn, 2011
  34. Is Nature Enough? Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science, John F. Haught, 2006
  35. The One You Feed: The Hidden War for Control of Western Culture, Carson W. Bryan, 2011
  36. The Art of Dying: Living Fully Into the Life to Come, Rob Moll, 2010
  37. Sanctuary of the Soul: Journey in Meditative Prayer, Richard J. Foster, 2011
  38. Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis, L. Gregory Jones, 1995
  39. Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840
  40. Toxic Charity: How churches and charities hurt those they help (and to how to reverse it), Robert D. Lupton 2011
  41. The Lost Art of Praying Together: Rekindling Passion for Prayer, James Banks, 2009