Book List

Beware
of the man of one book.

~ Thomas Aquinas ~

Theology Books

• A Banner is Unfurled – Marcie Gallacher
• A History of Gnosticism – G. Filoramo
• A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Karen Armstrong
• A Marvelous Work and a Wonder- LeGrand Richards
• An Open Heart – Dalai Lama
• A Thoughtful Faith- Philip L. Barlow
• A Short History of Myth – Karen Armstrong
• American Apocrypha- Dan Vogel and Brent Metcalfe (4-rebuttal of 3)
• An Insider’s View of Mormon Origins- Grant Palmer
• Ancient America, a setting for B of M- John Sorenson
• Articles of Faith- James E. Talmage
• Autobiography of Lucy Mack Smith
• Battle for God, The – Karen Armstrong
• Believing Christ – Stephen Robinson
• Best Loved Stories of the LDS People – Jay Parry
• Blood of the Prophets- Will Bagley
• Book of Mormon Authorship- Noel B. Reynolds (1)
• Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited- Noel B. Reynolds (3-rebuttal of 2)
• Book of Mormon- Joseph Smith (32 times)
• By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus- Charles M. Larsen (Book of Abraham)
• By the Hand of Mormon- Terryl Givens
• Can Science Be Faith-Promoting?- Sterling B. Talmage
• Carthage Conspiracy- Dallin Oaks
• Case for Christ, The- Lee Strobel
• Case for a Creator, The-Lee Strobel
• Case for Faith, The-Lee Strobel
• Creation of the Book of Mormon, The- Lamar Petersen
• Dhammapada- Buddha
• Dance of the Dissident Daughter – Sue Monk Kidd
• Doing The Works of Abraham: Mormon Polygamy : Its Origin, Practice, and Demise  – B. Carmon Hardy
• Early Mormonism and the Magic World View- D. Michael Quinn
• Elements of Gnosticism, The – Stuart Holroyd
• Evolution and Mormonism- Trent Stephens, Jeff Meldrum
• Evolution of God, The – Robert Wright
• Expressions of Faith- Susan Easton Black
• Fair Gods and Feathered Serpents- Terry J. O’Brien
• Farewell to Eden, Coming to Terms with Mormonism and Science- Dwayne R. Anderson
• Fate of the Persecutors of the Prophet Joseph Smith, The- N.B. Lundwall
• Finding God at BYU- S. Kent Brown
• Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• For Those Who Wonder- D. Jeff Burton
• Four Agreements, The – Don Miguel Ruiz
• Freemasons: A History of the World’s Most Powerful Secret Society - Jasper Ridley
• From Jesus to Christ – Paula Fredericksen
• Gnostic Gospels, The – Elaine Pagels
• Gnostic Paul: Gnostic Exegesis of the Pauline Letters, The – Elaine Pagels
• God the Mother, and Other Theological Essays- Janice Allred
• God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question-Why We Suffer – Bart Ehrman
• History of Joseph Smith- Lucy Mack Smith, mother
• Holy Bible, The (7 times)
• In Sacred Loneliness, the Plural Wives of Joseph Smith- Todd Compton
• In Search of Cumorah- David A. Palmer
• Inside the Mind of Joseph Smith- Robert D. Anderson
• Jesus the Christ- James E. Talmage
• Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism- Richard L. Bushman
• Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon- David Persuitte
• Joseph Smith Papers Journals, Vol. 1: 1832-1839, The – Dean C Jessee
• Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling– Richard L. Bushman
• Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet – Dan Vogel
• Journal of Discourses (26 volumes) – Brigham Young
• Keystone of Mormonism, The- Arza Evans
• Koran, The- Mohammed
• Leaving the Fold- James W. Ure
• Leaving the Saints- Martha Beck
• Lectures on Faith – Joseph Smith
• Life After Death – Deepak Chopra
• Losing a Lost Tribe- Simon Southerton
• Losing a Lost Tribe, Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church- Simon G. Southerton
• Man, His Origin and Destiny- Joseph Fielding Smith
• Many Lives, Many Masters – Dr. John Weiss
• Massacre at Mountain Meadows – Ronald Walker
• Miracle of Forgiveness- Spencer W. Kimball
• Misquoting Jesus- Bart Ehrman
• Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith- Linda King Newell
• Mormon Hierarchy, Vol. 1- D. Michael Quinn
• Mormon Polygamy- Richard Van Wagoner
• Mormonism Unvailed- E.D. Howe
• Mormonism, Shadow or Reality?- Jerald and Sandra Tanner
• Nag Hammadi Codices III, 2 and IV, 2: The Gospel of the Egyptians- Alexander Böhlig
• Nag Hammadi Library in English: Revised edition, The – James Robinson
• New Approaches to the Book of Mormon- Brent Lee Metcalfe (2-rebuttal of 1)
• New Mormon History, The- D. Michael Quinn
• No Man Knows My History- Fawn Brody
• No, Ma’am, That’s Not History- Hugh Nibley
• Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Religion & Sexuality in Early Modern Europe – Lyndal Roper
• Of Heaven and Earth, Reconciling Scientific Thought with LDS Theology-David L. Clark, scientists’ essays
• One Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church, Richard Abanes
• Quest for the Gold Plates (about Thomas Stuart Ferguson)- Stan Larson
• Reflections of a Scientist- Henry Eyring
• Scientific Support for Scriptural Stories- Clayton Brough and Rodney Griffin
• Salamander- Linda Sillitoe
• Seven Claims of the Book of Mormon- John A. Widstoe
• Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
• Sins of Scripture, The – Bishop John Shelby Spong
• Since Cumorah- Hugh Nibley
• Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness, The – Karen Armstrong
• Studies of the Book of Mormon- B.H. Roberts
• Talmud
• Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu
• Tao of Pooh – Benjamin Hoff
• Te of Piglet – Benjamin Hoff
• Teachings of President Spencer W. Kimball
• Temple and Cosmos- Hugh Nibley
• The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore – Deepak Chopra
• Under the Banner of Heaven- Jon Krakauer
• View of the Hebrews- Ethan Smith
• Voices in Harmony: Contemporary Women Celebrate Plural Marriage – Mary Batchelor, Marianne Watson ,Anne Wilde
• Wife No.19- Ann Eliza Webb
• Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism- Maxine Hanks
• Word of God, The- Dan Vogel
• Works of Flavius Josephus, The – Flavius Josephus
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig

Science

•  A Short History of Nearly Everything- Bill Bryson
• Art of War – Sun Tzu
• Bad Astronomy- Philip Plait (why the sky is blue, etc.)
• Collapse- Jared Diamond- environment
• Demon-Haunted World, Science as a Candle in the Dark, The- Carl Sagan
• Guns, Germs, and Steel, the Fates of Human Societies- Jared Diamond
• Acid Tongues and Tranquil Dreamers- Michael White
• Ancestors’ Tale, The- Richard Dawkins
• Art of Changing the Brain, The- James E. Zull
• Bell Curve, The- Richard J. Herrnstein
• Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex – Mary Roach
• Borderlands of Science, The- Michael Shermer
• Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, The – Norman Doidge
• Brief History of Time, A- Stephen Hawking
• Character of Physical Law, The- Richard Feynman
• Denying Evolution- Massimo Pigliucci
• Don’t Believe Everything You Think- Thomas Kida
• Dying to live: Science and Near-Death Experiences – Susan Blackmore
• Earth Odyssey- Mark Hertsgaard – environment
• Eight Little Piggies- Stephen Jay Gould
• Embraced by the Light – Betty J. Eadie
• End of Faith, The- Sam Harris
• Evolution of God – Robert Wright
• Evolution vs. Creationism- Eugenie Scott
• Finding Darwin’s God, a scientist’s search for common ground between God and Evolution- Kenneth R. Miller
• Flim-Flam- James Randi
• Gift of Fear, The – Gavin de Becker
• God Delusion, The- Richard Dawkins
• God Is Not Great- Christopher Hitchens
• God Part of the Brain, The – Matthew Alper
• God’s Word, Final, Infallible and Forever- Floyd McElveen
• Great Human Diasporas, The- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
• History of Language, A- Steven Roger Fischer – linguistics
• History of Myth, The – Joseph Campbell
• How the Mind Works – Steven Pinker
• How We Know What Isn’t So- Thomas Gilovich
• Infidel – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• In Suspect Terrain- John McPhee
• Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon – Survival of Bodily Death – R. Moody
• Mathematics of Life – Ian Stewart
• Monkey Business, The- Niles Eldredge
• Micropedia of World History
• Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals – Michael Pollan
• Phantoms in the Brain- V.S. Ramachandran
• People of the Lie- Scott Peck
• Power of Babel, The, a Natural History of Language- John McWhorter
• Prometheus Rising – Robert Anton Wilson
• Reason in the Balance: the case against naturalism in science, law, and education- Phillip Johnson
• Science and Earth History: The Evolution/Creation Controversy- Arthur N. Strahler
• Secrets & Mysteries of the World – Sylvia Browne
• Selfish Gene, The – Richard Dawkins
• Seven Daughters of Eve- B. Sykes – DNA
• Silent Spring- Rachel Carson
• Skeptical Environmentalist, The-Bjorn Lomborg
• Skywatchers, Shamans, and Kings- E.C. Krupp
• Spook – Mary Roach
• Stiff – Mary Roach
• T. Rex and the Crater of Doom- Walter Alvarez
• They All Laughed- Ira Flatow
• Third Chimpanzee, The- Jared Diamond
• Tipping Point, The - Gladwell, Malcolm
• Top Chef Cookbook: Original Interviews and Recipes from Bravo’s hit show - Media, Melcher
• Tower of Babel- Robert T. Pennock
• Varieties of Anomalous Experience- compiled by Etzel Cardena
• When Science Meets Religion- Ian G. Barbour
• Why People Believe Weird Things, pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions- Michael Shermer
• Why Women Have Sex: The Science and Psychology of Sexual Motivation – Cindy Mestin

Strictly Philosophy

• After Virtue- Alasdair MacIntyre
• As a Man Thinketh – James Allen
• Bounds of Sense, The – PF Strawson
• Candide -  Voltaire
• Concept of Mind, The – Gilbert Ryle
• Essays: First Series – Ralph Waldo
  Emerson
• Fear and Trembling – Søren Kierkegaard
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Beyond Good and Evil
• On the Genealogy of Morality
• On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra
• Immanuel Kant
• Universal Natural History and Theory of Heaven
• The False Subtlety of the Four Syllogistic
  Figures
• The Only Possible Argument in Support of a
  Demonstration of the Existence of God
• Dreams of a Spirit Seer)
• “An Answer to The Question: What Is Enlightenment
• Critique of Practical Reason
• Critique of Judgment
• Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone
• Metaphysics of Morals
• The Contest of Faculties
• Logic
• Thomas Paine
• Common Sense
• The Crisis
• Rights of Man
• The Age of Reason
• Pamphlets, Articles, & Letters
• Human Understanding, An Enquiry Concerning – David Hume
• Inferno, Dante
• Metaphysical Meditations – Rene Descartes
• Nicomachean Ethics, The – Aristotle
• On Liberty – John Stuart Mill
• On Virtues and Vices – Aristotle
• Problems of Philosophy, The – Bertrand Russell
• Republic, The – Plato

Miscellaneous-

• 100 Selected Poems by e. e. Cummings – e. e. cummings
• 1,001 Foods to Die For – Corby Kummer
• 1984 – George Orwell
• A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
• A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
• A Light in the Attic – Shel Silverstein
• Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The – Alexie Sherman
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
• Alchemist, The – Paulo Coelho
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
• Artemis Fowl Series -  Eoin Colfer
• As a Man Thinketh – James Allen
• Angels and Demons- Dan Brown
• Artemis Fowl Series -  Eoin Colfer
• Backyard Grilling: For Your Grill, Smoker, Turkey Fryer and More - Jim Casada
• Bartelby – Herman Melville
• Be Healthier Feel Stronger Vegetarian Cookbook, The - Kleiner, Susan
• Bloody Jack Series – L.A. Meyer
• Bob’s Red Mill Cookbook: Whole & Healthy Grains for Every Meal of the Day – Miriam Backe
• Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things, The – Peter Sagal
• Bonk – Mary Roach
• Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
• Cat Who Robbed a Bank – Lilian Braun
• Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
• Chosen, The – Chaim Potok
• Combating Cult Mind Control- Steven Hassan
• Complete Poems and Plays 1909-1950 – T.S. Eliot
• Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson – Emily Dickinson
• Crucible, The – Arthur Miller
• DaVinci Code, The- Dan Brown
• Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
• Dracula – Bram Stoker
• East of Eden – John Steinbeck
• Earth’s Children: The Clan of the Cave Bear, the Valley of Horses, the Mammoth Hunters, the Plains of Passage -  Jean M.  Auel
• Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
• Emma – Jane Austen
• Enders Game – Orson Scott Card
• Eragon – Christopher Paolini
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
• Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
• Favorite Comfort Food: Classic Favorites -  Martha Stewart
• Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
• Flowers in the Attic Series – V.C. Andrews
• Folk of the Fringe, The - Orson Scott Card
• Game of Thrones, The – George Martin
• Girl who Played with Fire, The – Steig Larsson
• Giver, The – Lois Lowry
• Grapes of Wrath, The – John Steinbeck
• Great Gatsby, The – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Happiness Hypothesis, The – John Haidt
• Harry Potter Series– J.K. Rowling
• Herbal Palate Cookbook – Maggie Oster
• His Dark Materials Trilogy – Philip Pullman
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The – Douglas Adams
• Hobbit, The – J.R.R. Tolkien
• Home Book of Smoke Cooking - Jack Sleight
• Hot and Spicy - Tile Life
• Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
• Hunger Games, Catching Fire, MockingJay – Suzanne Collins
• In Contempt- Christopher Darden
• Indian Home Cooking: A Fresh Introduction to Indian Food – Suvir Saran
• Innocent, The – Harlen Coben
• Language Police, The- Diane Ravitch
• Last of the Mohicans, The – James Cooper
• Last Lecture, The – Randy Pausch
• Lemony Snicket Series – Lemony Snicket
• Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
• Letter to a Christian Nation- Sam Harris
• Life of Pi, The – Yann Martel
• Lion House Recipes, First Edition – Helen Thackeray
• Lord of the Rings Series – J.R.R. Tolkien
• Man Who Planted Trees, The – Jean Giono
• Man’s Search for Meaning – Victor Frankl
• Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
• Mesa Mexicana - Mary Milliken
• Merlin Effect, The (The Adventures of Kate trilogy, #3) – T.A. Barron
• Metamorphosis, The - Franz Kafka
• Mrs. Fields I Love Chocolate!  – Debbie Fields
• New Moon – Stephanie Meyers
• Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
• Outsiders, The – S.E. Hinton
• Pearl, The – John Steinbeck
• Percy Jackson Series – Rick Riordan
• Perfect Day, The – Ira Levin
• Picture Perfect – Fern Michaels
• Pirates Love, A – Johanna Lindsey
• Pleasure of Finding Things Out, The – Richard Feynman
• Poems of Herman Melville, The –   Herman Melville
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
• Red Badge of Courage, The – Stephen Crane
• Road, The – Cormac McCarthy
• Redwall – Brian Jacques
• Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
• Scarlet Letter, The – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Screwtape Letters, The – C. S. Lewis
• Second Genesis – Jeffrey Andersen
• Sick and Tired? – Robert Young
• Sookie Stackhouse Series – Charlaine Harris
• Sound and the Fury, The – William Faulkner
• Sparrow, The – Mary Doria Russell
• Spiderwick Chronicles – Holly Black
• Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
• Spook – Mary Roach
• State of Fear- Michael Crichton
• Stiff – Mary Roach
• Stumbling on Happiness – Daniel Gilbert
• Templar Legacy, The – Steve Berry
• Tempted by Fire -  Thea Devine
• Think Pink – Lynn Peril
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• Time Traveler’s Wife, The – Audrey Niffenegger
• Treasury of Christmas – Publication International
• Twilight – Stephanie Meyers
• Turn of the Screw, The – Henry James
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire/Vampire Lestat/Queen of the Damned – Anne Rice
• Wealth and Poverty of Nations, The- David S. Landes
• Wealth of Nations- Adam Smith
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames – David Sedaris
• Williams-Sonoma Essentials of Italian- Michele Scicolone
• Wuthering Heights – Emile Bronte

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Books
to be read in 2011

• God Knows – Joseph Heller
• Why God Won’t Go Away” by Newburg
• Bart Ehrman, Lost Christianities
• Michael White, From Jesus to Christianity
• The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Raimund Popper
• Beginner’s Mind, by Shunryu Suzuki
• The American Religion, by Allan Bloom
• Jesus: An Unconventional Biography by Jacques Duquesne
• Bertrand Russel’s “The Conquest of Happiness
• Darrin McMahon,” happiness — a history”
• John Gottman, “the mathematics of marriage”
• Tal Ben-Shahar, “happier”
• Sarah Dunant, “in the company of the courtesan”
• Steinbeck , “Travels with Charlie”