Summer Reading List

These are the books I hope to make at least a little progress into by the end of summer. If you're interested in reading/discussing any of them with me, do let me know!

General nonfiction...

• "Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor" by Paul Farmer
• "This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession" by Daniel Levitin*
• "Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond
• "Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet" by Jeff Sachs

Fiction...

• "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
• "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• "The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
• "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

On religion, spirituality, ethics, philosophy...

• "Living With Darwin" by Philip Kitcher
• "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" by Annie Dillard*
• "The Varieties of Religious Experience" by William James*
• "The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God" by Carl Sagan*
• "Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality" by Donald Miller
• "The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus" by Lee Strobel
• "On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy, and Their Own Families" by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
• "Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe" by Greg Epstein
• "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
• "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief" by Francis Collins

*currently reading

strikethrough: finished

So of course I am worried that the list is a little ambitious, but I do remain somewhat hopeful due to the great disparity between ridiculously busy school year and empty summer.