Recent Readings,
C. N. Riviere
last updated 5 March 2009
2009
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, vol. 1
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Meditations on Psalms (ed. Edwin Robertson)
- Søren
Kierkegaard, Johannes Climacus, or De omnibus dubitandum est. A Narrative
2008
- Josephus, The Jewish War (c. 75)
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, November 1916
- C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, August 1914
- John Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
- William Doyle, The Oxford History of the French Revolution
- Ellis Brotzman,
Old Testament Textual
Criticism: A Practical Introduction
- David McCullough, 1776
2007
- Martin Gilbert, The First
World War: A Complete History
- Søren
Kierkegaard, Attack upon Christendom (ed. Walter Lowrie)
- C. S. Lewis, The Problem
of Pain
- Richard Francis, Judge
Sewall's Apology: The Salem
Witch Trials and the Forming of an American Conscience
- George Marsden, Jonathan
Edwards: a Life
- C. S. Lewis, A Preface to
Paradise Lost
- Søren
Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
- Søren
Kierkegaard, Training in Christianity
- B. F. Westcott, A General
Survey of the History of the Canon of the New Testament, 6th ed.
(1889)
- Kurt Aland, The Problem
of the New Testament Canon
- Edward Donnelly, Luther:
Man for Our Day
- J. I. Packer, God Has
Spoken: Revelation and the Bible
- Mihail
Sadoveanu, Paștile
Blajinilor (1935, in Romanian)
- John Piper, The Hidden
Smile of God: The Fruit of Affliction in the Lives of John Bunyan,
William Cowper, and David Brainerd
- Michael Polanyi, Science,
Faith and Society (1946)
- Augustine, The
Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love (423)
- John Piper, Future Grace
- Corrie
ten Boom, He Cares, He Comforts
- C. S. Lewis, The
Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
2006
- Nahum Glatzer,
Hillel the Elder: The Emergence of Classical Judaism
- Søren
Kierkegaard, What We Learn from the Lilies of the Field and the Birds
of the Air (1847)
- Søren
Kierkegaard, The Gospel of Suffering (1847)
- Jonathan Edwards, A
Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746)
- John Ortberg,
If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat
- Philip Yancey, The Jesus
I Never Knew
- Philip Yancey, What's So
Amazing About Grace?
- Jeremiah Burroughs, Gospel
Conversation (1648)
- John Bunyan, The Saints'
Privilege and Profit (1692)
- Thomas Watson, All Things
for Good (or A Divine Cordial) (1663)
- John Bunyan, A Discourse
Touching Prayer (1662)
- E. M. Bounds, Power
Through Prayer
- Francis Schaeffer, True
Spirituality
- J. R. R. Tolkein,
The Lord of the Rings
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind
in the Willows
- Thomas Watson, Heaven
Taken by Storm
- Thomas Kuhn, The
Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)
- Jonathan Edwards, The
Freedom of the Will (1754)
- David Wilkerson, The
Cross and the Switchblade
- John Piper, Don't Waste
Your Life
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
Life Together
- John Piper, The Misery of
Job and the Mercy of God
- C. J. Mahaney,
Humility: True Greatness
- John Bunyan, The
Acceptable Sacrifice (1692)
- Leland Ryken,
Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were
- John Milton, Paradise Lost
- Thomas Brooks, Heaven on
Earth: A Treatise on Christian Assurance (1654)
- Doris Kearns
Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- John Piper, Supremația lui Dumnezeu în Predicare (The Supremacy of God in Preaching,
in Romanian)
- Corrie
ten Boom, Not Good if Detached
2005
- Ray Bakke,
The Urban Christian
- John Bunyan, Grace
Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666)
- Blaise
Pascal, Pensées
- Teresa of Avila,
Interior
Castle (1577)
- Thomas Merton, Thoughts
in Solitude
- Blaise
Pascal, The Provincial Letters
- Julian of Norwich, Revelations
of Divine Love (ca. 1393)
- C. S. Lewis, Reflections
on the Psalms
- Søren
Kierkegaard, Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing (1847)
- Paul Dan, Romani pentru România (Romans
for Romania, in Romanian)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
The Cost of Discipleship
- D. Martyn
Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: its Causes and Cure
- G. K. Chesterton, St.
Francis of Assisi
- Meic
Pearse, Why the Rest Hates the West
- Ionel
Teodoreanu, Între
Vânturi (vol. 3 of La Medeleni,
in Romanian)
- Ionel
Teodoreanu, Drumuri
(vol. 2 of La Medeleni, in Romanian)
2004
- Charles Williams, War in
Heaven
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems, Dover 1992 edition
- Bernard Lewis, What Went
Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
- The Book of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus
- Harper Lee, To Kill a
Mockingbird
- Richard Sibbes,
The Bruised Reed (1630)
- Paolo Coelho, Alchimistul (The Alchemist, in
Romanian)
- Simo
Ralevic, The Tongue--Our Measure
- Nicolae
Steinhardt, Jurnalul Fericirii (The Journal of Happiness, in
Romanian)
- Craig Barnes, Când Dumnezeu Îți Taie Calea
(When God Interrupts, in Romanian)
- John Piper, The Pleasures
of God
- Jeffrey Schwartz & Sharon
Begley, The Mind and the Brain
- Thomas à Kempis, Imitatio Christi (The Imitation of
Christ, in Romanian)
- J. C. Ryle, Practical
Religion (1878)
- Christopher Dawson, Dynamics
of World History
2003
- Richard Foster, Freedom of
Simplicity
- E.F. & L. Harvey, Triumfători pe Genunchi (Kneeling We Triumph, in
Romanian), vols. 1 & 2
- Early Christian Writings
(Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, etc.), translated by Maxwell Staniforth
- A.W. Pink, The Sovereignty
of God
- Charles Spurgeon, The Soulwinner
- Plato, Laches
- Plato, Ion
- Henry Scougal,
The Life of God in the Soul of Man
- Nicolae
Moldoveanu, Hristos
Marele Preot: Medității duhovnicești la Epistola sfîntului apostol Pavel către Evrei (Christ
the High Priest: Spiritual meditations on the epistle of St. Paul to the
Hebrews, in Romanian)
- Christopher Dawson, Dynamics
of World History
- R.B.C. Howell, The
Covenants
- Ionel
Teodoreanu, Hotarul
Nestatornic (vol. 1 of La Medeleni, in Romanian)
- William Shakespeare, King
Lear
- Sammy Tippit,
Factorul Rugăciune
(The Prayer Factor, in Romanian)
- C. S. Lewis, Out of the
Silent Planet
- Jonathan Edwards, The End
for Which God Created the World
- Dudley
Barker, G. K. Chesterton
- Cindy Jacobs, Possessing
the Gates of the Enemy
- Mircea
Eliade, Maitreyi
(in Romanian)
2002
- Tudor Arghezi,
various poems in Romanian
- Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter
- James Sire, Habits of the
Mind
- Ion Luca Caragiale,
various short stories in Romanian
- The Bible in Romanian
2001
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The
Brothers Karamazov
- Bruce Wilkinson, The
Prayer of Jabez
- John Piper, Let the
Nations Be Glad!
- D. Deletant,
Y. Alexandrescu, Teach Yourself Romanian
- John Piper, Desiring God
2000
- Alexander Pope, Essay on
Man
- Richard Weaver, Ideas Have
Consequences
- J. I. Packer, Knowing God
- Graeme Goldsworthy, Gospel
and Kingdom: A Christian Interpretation of the Old Testament
- Martin Luther, The Freedom
of a Christian
- Charles Dickens, Oliver
Twist
- Albert Camus, The Plague
- Charles Spurgeon, Grace
- William Edgar, Taking Note
of Music
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The
Idiot
- A. W. Pink, The Attributes
of God
- T. S. Eliot, Notes Toward
the Definition of Culture
- Thomas Nettles, By His
Grace and for His Glory: A Historical, Theological, and Practical
Study of the Doctrines of Grace in Baptist Life
- Neil Postman, Technopoly
- T. S. Eliot, The Idea of a
Christian Society
- Basil Manly, Sr., William
Johnson, Richard Howell, Richard Fuller (T. Nettles, ed.), Southern
Baptist Sermons on Sovereignty and Responsibility
1999
- Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of
Darkness
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes
from the Underground
- Plato, Charmides
- Walker Percy, Love in the
Ruins
- John Bunyan, The
Pilgrim's Progress
- William Dembski
(ed.), Mere Creation: Science, Faith, and Intelligent Design
- Plato, Protagoras
- Thomas Nettles, A
Foundation for the Future: The Southern Baptist Message and Mission
- Mark Dever,
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church
- Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
- Charles H. Spurgeon, All
of Grace
- Edmund Burke, "Letter
to a Member of the National Assembly"
- Augustine, The City of God
- Edmund Burke, Reflections
on the Revolution in France
- John Henry Newman, "The
Idea of a University"
- John Dagg,
Manual of Church Order
- Edmund Burke, "Letter
to the Sheriffs of Bristol"
- S. Burson
& J. Walls, C. S. Lewis & Francis Schaeffer (don't bother)
- Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Henry James, The Portrait
of a Lady
1998
- Guy de Maupassant,
"Mademoiselle Fifi" (in French)
- Mortimer Adler, How to
Read a Book
- Thomas Macaulay,
"Samuel Johnson"
- Jane Austen, Persuasion
- Martin Luther, Lectures
on Romans (most of it)
- A. Hamilton, J. Madison, J.
Jay, The Federalist Papers
- G. K. Chesterton, The
Everlasting Man
- Martin Luther, The
Bondage of the Will
- Samuel Johnson,
"Preface to Shakespeare"
- Timothy George, Theology
of the Reformers
- T. S. Eliot, Ash
Wednesday
- Bertrand Russell, "Why
I Am Not a Christian"
- Jane Austen, Pride and
Prejudice
- Steven Garber, The Fabric
of Faithfulness
- G. K. Chesterton, The
Club of Queer Trades
- G. K. Chesterton, The
Napoleon of Notting Hill
- John Dagg,
Manual of Theology
- Augustine, On Christian
Doctrine
- Loraine Boettner,
The Inspiration of Scripture
- Athanasius, On the
Incarnation
- Gordon Clark, The
Biblical Doctrine of Man
1997
- John Polkinghorne,
Quarks, Chaos & Christianity
- C. S. Lewis, Present
Concerns
- Mortimer Adler, Intellect:
Mind Over Matter
- G. K. Chesterton, The
Innocence of Father Brown
- Augustine, Confessions
- Samuel Johnson, The
Vanity of Human Wishes
- Michael Behe,
Darwin's
Black Box
- C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
- G. K. Chesterton, The Man
Who Was Thursday
- James Boswell, Life of
Samuel Johnson LL.D.
- G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
- Charles Dickens, Great
Expectations
- C. S. Lewis, The
Abolition of Man
- C. S. Lewis, Till We Have
Faces
- Bernard Ramm,
The Christian View of Science and Scripture
1996
- Corrie
ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord
- W. Willimon,
T. Naylor, The Abandoned Generation (don't bother)
- Corrie
ten Boom, In My Father's House
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime
and Punishment
- Catechism of the Catholic
Church (1994)
- Joseph Helminiak,
What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality
- Martin Luther King, Jr.,
"Letter from the Birmingham
Jail"
- Winston Churchill, The
Age of Revolution
- Thomas L. Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem
- Phillip Johnson, Reason
in the Balance
- Winston Churchill, The New World
- Pierre Goubert,
Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen
- William Bennett, The
De-valuing of America
- Bernard Mayo (ed.), Jefferson
Himself
- Peter Kreeft,
The Unaborted Socrates
- Peter Kreeft,
Socrates Meets Jesus
- Charles Dickens, David
Copperfield