Josh's Book List

If you’re interested in what I am reading or what I have read since I started keeping my Pseudomemories (since September 2006), then this is that list.  Since it is rare for us not to be affected by what we read, a lot of what I write and perhaps think are influenced by the following books.  You can click on the pictures to go the book’s page on Amazon…that’ll give you a description and a chance to buy it, should you please.  At the top of the page I’ll keep a running total for books and pages read.  All of these books have been read in their entirety from front-to-back. 

Total Books Read:   146    Total Pages Read:  45,626

Current Book:  What’s Wrong with Microfinance?  eds. Thomas Dichter & Malcolm Harper  285pg

 

 

 

Books Read:  

01/16/09 to Present   The Big Hunt for a Job (and occasionally, animals )

08/20/08 to 01/15/09  Kiva Fellowship Companions

05/15/08 to 08/19/08 Center of Summer is Carter (Carter Center Assistantship)

 

 

List Format

1.  The Idea of a Christian Society by TS Eliot 104pg
2.  The Development of Religion/The Religion of Development inspired by Quarles von Ufford 196pg
3.  Faith in Development: Partnership between the World Bank and the Churches of Africa 243pg
4.  Under Orders: The Churches and Public Affairs by Roswell P. Barnes 138pg
5.  Makers of the Western Tradition: Portraits from History vol.2 by J. Kelley Sowards 323pg
6.  Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell 303pg
7.  The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 314pg
8.  The Everlasting Man by GK Chesterton 320pg
9.  The Gifts of the Jews by Thomas Cahill 252pg
10.  The Cult of Rhodes: Remembering an Imperialist in Africa by Paul Maylam 184pg
11.  The History of South Africa by Roger B. Beck 248pg
12.  Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton 168pg
13.  Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara 498pg
14.  Listening to God in Times of Choice by Gordon Smith 150pg
15.  The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara 376pg
16.  Gandhi by David Arnold 266pg
17.  To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 320pg
18.  The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes 650pg
19.  Strange and Dangerous Dreams by Geoff Powter 245pg
20.  Subverting Greed: Religious Perspectives on the Global Economy by Kaitter and Muzaffar 193pg
21.  A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich 472pg
22.  Confessions of a Reformission Reverend by Mark Driscoll 207pg
23.  The Mystery of Marriage by Mike Mason 222pg
24.  The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 190pg
25.  Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson 245pg
26.  The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 85pg
27.  The World in 2007 by The Economist 130pg
28.  The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 543pg
29.  The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman 326pg
30.  The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman 550pg
31.  Ignorance by Milan Kundera 195pg
32.  By the River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho 180pg
33.  The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho 245pg
34.  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera 312pg
35.  Three Weeks with my Brother by Nicholas Sparks 356pg
36.  The Way of the Wild Heart by John Eldredge 302pg
37.  Simply Christian by NT Wright 240pg
38.  What is the What by Dave Eggers 476pg
39.  Liza Lambeth by Somerset Maugham 102pg
40.  The Dust of Empire by Karl E. Meyer 286pg
41.  Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson 240pg
42.  Sex God by Rob Bell 201pg
43.  Foreign Aid by Carol Lancaster 284pg
44.  US Economic Foreign Aid: A Case Study of USAID by David Porter 238pg
45.  Transforming Foreign Aid by Carol Lancaster 112pg
46.  The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki 321pg
47.  Understanding and Managing Public Organizations by Hal Rainey 504pg
48.  Organization Theory and Design by Richard Daft 640pg
49.  The Politics of Public Budgeting by Irene Rubin 347pg
50.  Budgeting Politics in American Governments by James Gosling 279pg
51.  Lords of Poverty by Graham Hancock 250pg
52.  The White Man’s Burden by William Easterly 436pg
53.  Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris 257pg
54.  The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy 326pg
55.  International Relations of Social Change by Jan Aart Scholte 186pg
56.  Colossus by Niall Ferguson 415pg
57.  King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild 318pg
58.  Getting to the 21st Century by David Korten 253pg
59.  Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits by Heike Behrend 193pg
60.  Aboke Girls by Els De Temmerman 168pg
61.  The Scars of Death by Human Rights Watch 135pg
62.  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling 760pg
63.  Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis 313pg
64.  Into the Wild by Jon Krakaeur 203pg
65.  Waking the Dead by John Eldredge 243pg
66.  Serve God Save the Planet by J. Matthew Sleeth 255pg
67.  The Irresistable Revolution by Shane Claiborne 367pg
68.  Bureaucracy and Red Tape by Barry Bozeman 224pg
69.  Life of Pi by Yann Martel 336pg
70.  Diminished Democracy by Theda Skocpol 366pg
71.  The War for Muslim Minds by Gilles Kepel 295pg
72.  Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 272pg
73.  Public Personnel Administration: Problems & Prospects 4th ed. by Steven Hays and Richard Kearney 398pg
74.  The New Public Personnel Administration by Nigro, Nigro, and Kellough 362pg
75.  A Voice for Nonprofits by Jeffrey Berry and David Arons 219pg
76.  Nonprofits and Government by Elizabeth Boris and Eugene Steuerle 395pg
77.  The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism(20th anniv. ed) by Daniel Bell 397pg
78.  Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen 382pg
79.  The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell 301pg
80.  Prayer & the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance by Donald Miller 291pg
81.  Toward an End to Hunger in America by Peter Eisinger 188pg
82.  Food for the Hungry: The Reluctant Society by Judith Segal 91pg
83.  Beyond Party: The Know-Nothing Movement by Mark Voss-Hubbard 262pg
84.  Snow by Orhan Pamuk 463pg
85.  The Four Loves by CS Lewis 141pg
86.  How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers 214pg
87.  Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart 344pg
88.  A Billion Bootstraps by Phil Smith & Eric Thurman 238pg
89.  Microfinance Handbook by Joanna Ledgerwood 302pg
90.  Microfinance: Evolution, Achievements, & Challenges ed. Malcolm Harper 182pg
91.  My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk 412pg
92.  God and Gold by Walter Russell Mead 449pg
93.  Finance and Poverty by Maria Carpio 176pg
94.  The Economics of Microfinance by Armendariz de Aghion & Morduch 346pg
95.  The Commercialization of Microfinance eds. Deborah Drake & Elisabeth Rhyne 320pg
96.  Impact Analysis for Program Evaluation by Lawrence Mohr 311pg
97.  Contemporary Latin America by Ronaldo Munck 260pg
98.  The White Nile by Alan Moorehead 431pg
99.  It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong 289pg
100.  Governing the Americas: Assessing Multilateral Institutions eds. Gordon Mace, Jean-Phillipe Therien & Paul Haslem 317pg
101.  Facing the Congo by Jeffrey Tayler 286pg
102.  The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 400pg
103.  The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 973pg
104.  Despite Good Intentions: Why Development Assistance to the Third World has Failed by Thomas Dichter 317pg
105.  When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin 352pg
106.  The Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen 447pg
107.  The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith 753pg
108.  The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu 228pg
109.  The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin by Adam Hochschild 331pg
110.  Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America’s Soul by Michael Reid 399pg
111.  Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins  328pg
112.  The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning  235pg
113.  The Princess Bride by William Golding  283pg
114.  Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter  222pg
115.  Quarterlife Crisis by Robbins & Wilner  198pg
116.  The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta  368pg
117.  The Great Divorce by CS Lewis 160pg
118.  Dave Barry’s History of the Millennium (So Far!) by Dave Barry  256pg
119. Jesus Wants to Save Christians by Rob Bell   218pg
120. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson   238pg
121. The Gathering by Anne Enright   261pg
122. Blindness by Jose Saramago   352pg
123. The War of the World by Niall Ferguson  879pg
124. The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud   496pg
125. The Elusive Quest for Growth by William Easterly   355pg
126. Diamonds, Gold, & War: The British, The Boers, and the Making of South Africa by Martin Meredith   570pg
127. Under My Skin: Volume 1 of My Autobiography, 1929-1949 by Doris Lessing  419pg
128. Abril Rojo por Santiago Roncagliolo   328pg
129. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon  192pg
130. Veronika Decides to Die by Paolo Coehlo  240pg
131. The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk 161pg
132. I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley 240pg
133. Nation by Terry Pratchett  370pg
134. Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son by Adam Hochschild  248pg
135. A History of the American People by Paul Johnson 1104pg
136. To Siberia by Per Petterson 256pg
137. How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen 320pg
138. The Road by Cormac McCarthy  287pg
139. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 336pg
140. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami   480pg
141. The World in 2009 by The Economist  206pg
142. The Persecuted Church by Tyler Thigpen  148pg
143. Career Diplomacy by Harry Kopp and Charles Gillespie  266pg
144. The Elements of Style (4th ed) by William Strunk and E.B. White   105pg
145. The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski   325pg
146. Beyond Tragedy: Essays on the Christian Interpretation of History by Reinhold Niebuhr  317pg
147. CURRENTLY READING

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