A Ready Writer: Testiminute

...by its cover

Israel Houghton: A Deeper Level
The best book I've ever read with a holograph cover.
Umberto Eco: Baudolino
The Holy Grail, the Turin Shroud and the Letter of Prester John are all forged by the eponymous hero in this medieval adventure.
Ian Fleming: Casino Royale
Find out how tough James Bond really is!
Roger Aubrey: Discovering God
Go on, you know you want to...
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
Arguably the first ever novel and arguably the best.
Barack Obama: Dreams from My Father
Learn about the complicated family history of America's President.
J.M. Coetzee: Foe
Robinson Crusoe rewritten.
Alistair Cooke: Letter from America: 1946-2004
Makes me wish that Cooke lived in the age of podcasts.
Oliver Sacks: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Shows music to be the universal language and the soundtrack to life.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
A novel I could read over and over again.
Bryn Jones: Radical Church
"To the restorer, anything that cannot root itself in God as its source has no place in the life of the Christian or the practices of the community of God."
C.J. Sansom: Revelation
The latest detective novel the mystery-obsessed Aubrey family have got into. The fourth in its series, it is set in Tudor England and follows the adventures of hunchback lawyer Matthew Shardlake.
Husain Haddawy (trans.): Sindbad and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights
Writing a chapter of my thesis about the Arabian Nights and storytelling. This collection offers you the stories of Sindbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. Nice cover too.
Richard D. Mahoney: Sons and Brothers
A fascinating biography that highlights the depth of relationship between Jack and Bobby Kennedy.
James Lee Burke: Sunset Limited
The detective novel as great literature.
Mike Brearley: The Art of Captaincy
A must for all cricket fans or students of leadership.
Greg Scheer: The Art of Worship
A useful guide to the practical, musical side of worship and leading worship.
Roger Aubrey: The Circle of Life
Who'd have thought The Lion King could teach us so much about faith?
Robert Harris: The Ghost
Ghostwriter is hired to write the memoirs of a disgraced former prime minister. Twists and turns aplenty.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."
A. W. Tozer: The Knowledge of the Holy
"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us."
Simon Barnes: The Meaning of Sport
Warning: contains trace elements of Ulysses.
Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose
A medieval whodunnit that also manages to be a beginner's guide to semiotic theory, a catalogue of fourteenth century religious debate, an exploration of heresy, and a love letter to books.
Paul Auster: The New York Trilogy
Turns the detective novel on its head.
Leonard Verduin: The Reformers and Their Stepchildren
Brings to light and to life the roots many Christians have today in the radical, not magisterial reformers.
Donna Tartt: The Secret History
A group of classics students try to get away with murder...
Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers
The story that created the Saturday serial.
Clive Marsh: Theology Goes to the Movies
Reading this in preparation for a contemporary culture course I'm teaching next year.
James B. Jordan: Through New Eyes
A theological treat and available free online!
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
I studied this in high school and still remember not knowing what do with myself after I finished it.

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