Note: My friend Mark Tindall offers this valuable list, from his liberal theological stance. My 'progressive evangelical' list can be located at http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/8073.htm Rowland.

MY BEST BOOKS - 2004 update

What would you say are the 100 essential books a literate Christian should read?

My list (... these are not referenced properly but you should be able to get copies easily)

FICTION

The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer

Le Peste - Albert Camus

L'Estranger - Albert Camus

Les Miserables -Victor Hugo

The Idiot - Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky

Anna Karenin - Leo Tolstoy

Gargantua & Pantagruel - Rabelais

The Screwtape letters - C S Lewis

The Lord of The Rings - J R R Tolkein

Oscar & Lucinda - Peter Carey

Bliss - Peter Carey

The Lord Peter Wimsey Casebook - Dorothy L Sayers

Don Quixote - Cervantes

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Candide - Voltaire

The Trial - Franz Kafka

The Castle - Franz Kafka

The Divine Comedy - Dante

The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan

La Morte D'Arthur - Malory

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

Lady Chatterley's Lover - D H Lawrence

Sons & Lovers - D H Lawrence

Le Petit Prince - Antoinne de Saint-Exupery

Down & Out In Paris & London - George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Ulysees - James Joyce

Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathon Swift

A Tale of a Tub - Jonathon Swift

A Modest Proposal - Jonathon Swift

The Book of Bebb - Frederich Buechner

Complete Works - William Shakespeare

Complete Works - Lewis Carroll

Complete Works - Oscar Wilde

Complete Works - Henry Lawson

POETS

Donne

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Henry Lawson

T S Eliot

Rimbaud

Gerald Manley Hopkins

William Blake

Dylan Thomas

Les Murray

AND, OF COURSE, Original Copy - Mark Tindall ;-)

HUMOUR

The Dilbert Pinciple - Scott Adams

Complete Works - Michael Leunig

Complete Works - Barry Humphries

NONFICTION

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

The Universe In A Nutshell - Stephen Hawking

The Mind of God - Paul Davies

God and the New Physics - Paul Davies

The Matter Myth - Paul Davies & John Gribbin

Walden - Henry David Thoreau

Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau

Wowsers - Keith Dunstan

The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell

The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir

Areopagitica - John Milton

The Prince - Machiavelli

The Measure of Man - Martin Luther King

Strength To Love - Martin Luther King

Chaos & Community - Martin Luther King

Confessions - St Augustine

Hope & Suffering - Desmond Tutu

Mere Christianity - C S Lewis

Orthodoxy - G K Chesterton

Letters To Theo - Van Gogh

Rescuing The Bible From Fundamentalism - John Shelby Spong

A New Christianity For a New World - John Shelby Spong

A Theology of Liberation - Gutierrez

Does God Exist? - Hans Kung

On Being A Christian - Hans Kung

The Letters - Abelard & Heloise

Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire

Waiting On God - Simone Weil

Gateway To God - Simone Weil

Christian Letters To A PostChristian World - Dorothy L Sayers

The Greatest Drama Ever Staged - Dorothy L Sayers

Primitive Christianity - Rudolph Bultmann

Jesus Christ and Mythology - Rudolph Bultmann

Existence and Faith - Rudolph Bultmann

The Shaking of the Foundations - Paul Tillich

The Courage To Be - Paul Tillich

On The Boundary - Paul Tillich

Heretic - Peter Cameron

Honest To God - John A Robinson

A History of God - Karen Armstrong

The Gospel According to Woman - Karen Armstrong

Memories, Dreams and Reflections - Carl Jung

Voltaire's Bastards - John Ralston Saul

The Unconscious Civilisation - John Ralston Saul

On Equilibrium - John Ralston Saul

The Varieties of Religious Experience - Wiliam James

Letters and Papers From Prison - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Stages of Faith - James W Fowler

Becoming Adult, Becoming Christian - James W Fowler

The Essential Erasmus - Erasmus

The Feast Of Fools - Harvey Cox

The Lessons of History - Will and Ariel Durant

Man's Search For meaning - Viktor E Frankl

BIOGRAPHIES

The Lives of the Artists - Vasari

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Margaret Forster

In God's Name - David Yallop

Such a Strange Lady (Biography on Dorothy L Sayers)- Janet Hitchman

No Easy Road To Freedom - Nelson Mandella

Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King - David J Garrow

Oscar Wilde - Richard Ellman

Higher Than Hope :Nelson Mandella - Fatima Meer

G K Chesterton - Dudley Barker

Speaking Their Minds: Intellectuals & Public Culture in Australia - Robert Dessaix

PHILOSOPHERS

Plato

Wittgenstein

Foucault

Pascal

Sartre

Kierkegaard

Nietzsche

Voltaire

John Macquarrie

Martin Buber

Gabriel Marcel