Reading Log

2026

January

  • Giertz, Bo. Hammer of God (fiction)
  • Naselli, Andrew, & J.D. Crowley. Conscience: What It Is, How to Train It, and Loving Those Who Differ
  • Crawford, Matthew B. The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
  • Senior, John. The Death of Christian Culture
  • Manning, Maurice, The Gone and the Going Away (poetry)
  • Clark, Gordon H. John Dewey (Modern Thinkers Series, 1978)
  • Manning, Maurice. Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions (poetry)
  • Watkin, Christopher. Jacques Derrida (Great Thinkers Series)
  • Vincent, James. Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

2025

January

  • Lewis, C.S. Out of the Silent Planet
  • Crawford, Matthew B. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
  • Dixon, Chris. Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
  • Manning, Maurice. Snakedoctor
  • Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy

February

  • Luther, Martin. The Freedom of the Christian 
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Renyolds, Ryan Matt. Undoing Urgency: Reclaim Your Time for the Things that Matter Most
  • Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony

March

  • Adler, Mortimer. Aristotle for Everybody
  • Lewis, C.S. Perelandra
  • Heschel, Abraham Joshua. The Sabbath
  • Bradbury, Ray. Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity
  • Bradbury, Ray. Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury

April

  • Steinbeck, John. East of Eden
  • Manning, Maurice. Bucolics
  • Stuart, Jesse. The world of Jesse Stuart: Selected poems
  • Souder, William. Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck
  • Rohr, Richard, Adam’s Return

May

  • Bly, Robert. The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology
  • Watkin, Christopher. Thinking Through Creation: Genesis 1 and 2 as Tools of Cultural Critique
  • Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men

June

  • Manning, Maurice. The Common Man

September

  • Kirk, Russell. Russell Kirk’s Concise Guide to Conservatism
  • Hersey, John. To Far to Walk

October

  • Reichow, Josué. Reform Your Mind: The Philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd

November

  • Lawrence, D.H. The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence
  • Dewey, John. Democracy and Education
  • Sanford, Jonathan. Before Virtue: Assessing Contemporary Virtue Ethics
  • MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
  • Aristotle. The Nicomachean Ethics

December

  • Dooyeweerd, Herman. The Secularization of Science
  • Jamieson, Bobby. Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes’ Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness
  • Douglas, Groothuis. Beyond the Wager: The Christian Brilliance of Blaise Pascal