Seth’s World View

Books I’ve read

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

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

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