Seth’s World View

What follows is a list of books that I have read since 2002.

February 2012
Word Pictures: Knowing God Through Story & Imagination – Brian Godawa

January 2012
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
What is Free Trade? (Sophismes) – Frederic Bastiat
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
A Retrospect – James Hudson Taylor
What’s Wrong with the World – G.K. Chesterton

December 2011
No Logo – Naomi Klein
The Child and the Curriculum – John Dewey
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Morals of Economic Internationalism – J.A. Hobson
Selected Essays – Karl Marx
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

November 2011
Mindstorms – Seymour Papert

October 2011
Nonprofit Sustainability – Jeanne Bell, Jan Masaoka and Steve Zimmerman
Write Good or Die – Scott Nicholson
Anarchism and Other Essays – Emma Goldman

September 2011
Heretics – G.K. Chesterton

August 2011
All Things Considered – G.K. Chesterton
Googled – Ken Auletta

July 2011
Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Civil Disobedience – Henry David Thoreau
Common Sense – Thomas Paine

June 2011
Building Social Business – Muhammad Yunus

May 2011
Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry – P.W. Singer
Teaching Reading to English Language Learners – Kristin Lems, Leah Miller & Tenena Soro
If You Want to Write – Brenda Leland
Serenity: Those Left Behind – Joss Whedon
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable – Seth Godin
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business – Jeff Howe
The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing our Culture – Andrew Keen
Serenity Found – Jane Espenson
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains – Nicholas Carr
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age – Clay Shirky
The Wisdom of Crowds – James Surowiecki
Saving the World at Work – Tim Sanders
How to Change the Word: Social Entreprenuers and the Power of New Ideas – David Bornstein
The Medium is the Massage – Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore
Despite Good Intentions: Why Development Assistance to the Third World has Failed – Thomas W. Dichter
Presentation Zen – Garr Reynolds

April 2011
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years – Donald Miller
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind – Mark Noll
Getting Started in Stock Investing and Trading – Michael Thomsett
Serenity: The Shepherd’s Tale – Zack Whedon
The History of Money – Jack Weatherford
Faith & Doubt – John Ortberg
How English Works: A Linguistic Introduction – Anne Curzan & Michael Adams
Serenity: Better Days – Joss Whedon

March 2011
Gangs of America: the rise of corporate power and the disabling of democracy – Ted Nace
Freedom – Daniel Suarez
Dead Aid – Dambisa Moyo
The Elusive Quest for Growth – William Easterly
Success on Your Certificate in English Language Teaching – Caroline Brandt
Punished by Rewards – Alfie Kohn
The Battle for Investment Survival – Gerald Loeb
Smarter than the Street – Gary Kaminsky

February 2011
A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty – George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
Reveille for Radicals – Saul Alinsky
A Fate Worse than Debt – Susan George
Where Keynes Went Wrong – Hunter Lewis
The Web of Debt – Ellen Hodgson Brown
Daemon – Daniel Suarez

January 2011
Introducing Keynesian Economics – Peter Pugh & Chris Garratt
Hoodwinked – John Perkins
Freefall – Joseph Stiglitz
Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Paulo Freire
The Myth of the Lazy Native – Syed Hussein Alatas
Hopes and Prospects – Noam Chomsky
Just Give Money to the Poor – Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos, and David Hulme
Capital, Volume 1 – Karl Marx
Culture Shock! Cambodia – Peter North
The Way We Never Were – Stephanie Coontz
When Corporations Rule the World – David Korten
Liberal Fascism – Jonah Goldberg
The Divine Right of Capital – Marjorie Kelly
Agenda for a New Economy – David Korten

December 2010
Joseph Stiglitz and the World Bank: The Rebel Within – Joseph Stiglitz
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man – John Perkins

November 2010
Bringing Community to the Adult ESL Classroom – Clarena Larrotta & Ann K. Brooks
ESL, EFL, & Bilingual Education – Lynn W. Zimmerman

October 2010
The Design of Everyday Things – Donald Norman
Whose Reality Counts? – Robert Chambers

September 2010
The Winds of Dune – Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Lies My Teacher Told Me – James W. Loewen

August 2010
Lords of Poverty – Graham Hancock
The White Man’s Burden – William Easterly
Helping People Help Themselves – David Ellerman
Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World – Arturo Escobar
Paul of Dune – Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

July 2010
Bad Science – Ben Goldacre
Half the Sky – Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl Wudunn
Reclaiming Development – Ha-Joon Change & Ilene Grabel
The Concept of Human Rights – Jack Donnelly
International Human Rights – Jack Donnelly

June 2010
Animal Farm – George Orwell
1984 – George Orwell
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Food Inc – Karl Weber
Understanding Power – Noam Chomsky
On Power and Ideology – Noam Chomsky

May 2010
Walking on Water – Madeleine L’Engle

March 2010
Culture and Customs of Rwanda – Julius Adekunle
Culture and Customs of Uganda – Kefa M. Otiso
Careers in International Affairs – Maria Pinto Carland & Candace Faber
The Nonprofit Career Guide: How to Land a Job That Makes a Difference – Shelly Cryer
The Grown-Up’s Guide to Running Away from Home: Making a New Life Abroad – Rosanne Knorr
The Global Citizen: A Guide to Creating an International Life and Career – Elizabeth Kruempelmann
Getting Out: Your Guide to Leaving America – Mark Ehrman
The Gospel-Driven Life – Michael Horton

February 2010
First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria – Eve Brown-Waite
An Ordinary Man – Paul Rusesabagina
The Nonprofit Career Guide – Shelley Gryer
The New American Expat – William Russell Melton
Survival Kit for Overseas Living – L. Robert Kohls
Working World – Sherry L. Mueller & Mark Overmann

December 2009
God So Loves the City – Charles Van Engen & Jude Tiersma –

November 2009
Here Comes Everybody – Clay Shirky

September 2009
The Lord of the Films – J.W. Braun

August 2009
Christless Christianity – Michael Horton

June 2009
The Watchmen – Alan Moore

April 2009
Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich
Bait and Switched – Barbara Ehrenreich
V for Vendetta – Alan Moore

January 2009
Postmodern Times – Gene Edward Veith, Jr.

December 2008
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
Eyes Wide Open – William D. Romanowski
Battlestar Gallactica – Glen A. Larson & Robert Thurston
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories – Flanney O’Conner

November 2008
The Mind Changers: The Art of Christian Persuasion – Em Griffin

October 2008
The User is Always Right – Steve Mulder

May 2008
Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer

March 2008
Tender Warrior – Ste Weber
The Case Against Adolescence – Robert Epstein
Freedom of Simplicity – Richard Foster
Spiritual Direction and Meditation – Thomas Merton

February 2008
A Grief Observed – C.S. Lewis
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Philip K. Dick
The Divine Comedy: Inferno – Dante

December 2007
Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Miracle of Dialogue – Reuel Howe

November 2007
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
The Wounded Healer – Henri Nouwen

September 2007
Theology of Play – Jurgen Moltmann
Night – Elie Wiesel
Don’t Make Me Think – Steve Krug

August 2007
The Cluetrain Manifesto – Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger

July 2007
The Christian Imagination: G.K. Chesterton on the Arts – Thomas C. Peters
A New Kind of Christian – Brian McClaren

June 2007
The Gift of Art: The Place of the Arts in Scripture – Gene Edward Veith
Art and the Bible – Francis Schaeffer
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

May 2007
Caring enough to Confront – David Augsburger
The Prophetic Imagination – Walter Brueggemann

November 2006
Tribal Knowledge – John Moore
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting & Running a Coffee Bar – Susan Gilbert, W. Eric Martin, Linda Formichelli
ASP.NET 2.0 in 24 Hours – Scott Mitchell

July 2006
The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook – Bobby Owsinski

April 2006
Congratulations! It’s a Dog! – D. Caroline Coile
Shattered Dreams – Larry Crabb
Ruthless Trust – Brennan Manning
The Art of the Start – Guy Kawasaki

February 2006
A History of the World in 6 Glasses – Tom Standage

January 2006
Selling the Invisible – Harry Beckwith
The Invisible Touch – Harry Beckwith
Positioning – Al Ries & Jack Trout

December 2005
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser
Freedom from Fear – Neil Anderson & Rich Miller

November 2005
A Horse and His Boy – C. S. Lewis
Prince Caspian – C. S. Lewis
Voyage of the Dawn Treader – C. S. Lewis
The Last Battle – C. S. Lewis

October 2005
The Magician’s Nephew – C. S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis

August 2005
Never Eat Alone – Keith Ferrazzi
The Cashlow Quadrant – Robert Kiyosaki
One Up on Wall Street – Peter Lynch

July 2005
Rich Dad, Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki

June 2005
Brand Hijack – Alex Wipperfurth
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Search for Significance – Robert S. McGee

May 2005
A Wizard of Earthea – Ursula Le Guin
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov

April 2005
Midshipman’s Hope – David Feintuch
Challenger’s Hope – David Feintuch
Prisoner’s Hope – David Feintuch
Fisherman’s Hope – David Feintuch
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

September 2004
Dune: The Battle of Corrin – Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
The Pressure’s Off – Larry Crabb

August 2004
The Matarese Circle – Robert Ludlum
The Matarese Countdown – Robert Ludlum

July 2004
The Pidgeon History of New Zealand – Michael King
Peter Jackson – Ian Pryor

May 2004
Wait for Me – Rebecca St. James
The New Man – Thomas Merton

April 2004
20,000 Leagues under the Sea – Jules Verne
Anne of Green Gables – L. M. Montgomery
Anne of Avonlea – L. M. Montgomery

March 2004
The Princess Bride – William Goldman
Out of the Silent Planet – C.S. Lewis
From the Earth to the Moon – Jules Verne

February 2004
Disappointment with God – Philip Yancey
Planet of the Apes – Pierre Boulle

January 2004
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
e – Matt Beaumont
The Poet’s Handbook – Judson Jerome

December 2003
Farenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Dune: The Machine Crusade – Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Reader’s Guide to the Silmarillion – Paul Kocher
The Song of Middle-Earth – David Harvey
Robert Laidlaw: A Man for our Time – Ian Hunter

October 2003
Dune: House Corrino – Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

September 2003
Dune: House Harkonnen – Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Shadow of the Hegemon – Orson Scott Card
Shadow Puppets – Orson Scott Card
Animal Farm – George Orwell
New Zealand – Carol Ann Gillespie
Eye – Frank Herbert
A Heart for God – Rebecca Manley Pippert
Finding Hope Again: Overcoming Depression – Neil Anderson & Hal Baumchen

August 2003
Xenocide – Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind – Orson Scott Card
The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories – Philip K. Dick
Dune: House Atreides – Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad – Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

July 2003
God’s Smuggler – Brother Andrew
Speaker for the Dead – Orson Scott Card

May 2003
Finding God – Larry Crabb

April 2003
The Mystery of God’s Will – Chuck Swindoll
The Packing Book – Judith Gilford
Traveling Smart – Carolyn Hayes Uber
Traveler’s Tool Kit – Rob Sangster

March 2003
Walking the Bible – Bruce Feiler
Living Above the Level of Mediocrity – Chuck Swindoll

January 2003
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century – Tom Shippey
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe – Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything – Douglas Adams
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish – Douglas Adams
Mostly Harmless – Douglas Adams

December 2002
Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien

November 2002
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Entertainment in the Cyber Zone – McGowan & McCullaugh
The Church of Irresistible Influence – Robert Lewis
Newsletter Sourcebook – Mark Beach & Elaine Floyd

October 2002
The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien
Four Souls – Peterson, Kronberg, Medefind, Sklar
Becoming a Desktop Publisher – Bill Harris
Color – Carlson, Malina, Fleishman

September 2002
The River Why – David James Duncan
1984 – George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Brave New World Revisisted – Aldous Huxley
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities – Philip K. Dick
Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow – Orson Scott Card
No Compromise – Melody Green

August 2002
100 Best Nonprofits to Work For – Leslie Hamilton & Robert Tragert
Watching America – S. Robert Lichter, Linda S. Lichter, & Stanly Rothman
Writing the Journey Journal – Susan Laubach
The Outward Bound Backpacker’s Handbook – Glenn Randall
The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Power of One – Bryce Courtenay

July 2002
The Hero with a Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell
The Ragamuffin Gospel – Brennan Manning
Arcadia – Tom Stoppard
Just Generosity – Ron Sider
Discovering Your Natural Talents – John Bradley & Jay Carty

June 2002
The Five Myths of Television Power – Douglas Davis
Outgrowing the Inward Church – C. John Miller
A Force More Powerful – Peter Ackerman & Jack Duvall
Graceful Simplicity – Jerome M. Segal
Mediaspeak – Donna Woolfolk Cross
Lead Us Into Temptation – James B. Twitchell
The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis

April 2002
Rich Mullins: His Life and Legacy – James Bryan Smith
Risking – David Viscott, M.D.
Inside Out – Larry Crabb
Mustard Seed versus McWorld – Tom Sine
Postmodern Pilgrims – Leonard Sweet
Walking on Water – Madeleine L’Engle
Stepping Out: A Guide to Short Term Missions – YWAM
Your Mission, Should You Accept It – Stephen Gaukroger
No Turning Back – George Verwer
A Cup of Coffee at the Soul Cafe – Leonard Sweet
The Prayer of Jabez – Bruce Wilkinson

March 2002
Imagine – Steve Turner
Wild at Heart – John Eldredge
How To Get Your e-Book Published – Richard Curtis
Running Things – Phillip Crosby

February 2002
Children of Dune – Frank Herbert
Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien
Dreamers Never Sleep – Pat Mesiti
Marathon! – Jeff Galloway

January 2002
Dune – Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah – Frank Herbert
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Windows 2000 Server Study Guide – Syngress Media