Here's a good list of great books:

Lindsay

Dear Roland

Mark sent his favourite books, not in the same priorities, but I believe improtant anyway. That is if mark has not already sent you this list

Lindsay

From: Mark Tindall <>

BEST BOOKS

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

Job: A Comedy of Justice - Robert A Heinlein

Sophie's World - Jostein Gaardner

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

Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally

The Lord Peter Wimsey Casebook - Dorothy L Sayers

Don Quixote - Cervantes

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Candide - Voltaire

The Scarlet Letter - Nathan Hawthorne

The Trial - Franz Kafka

The Castle - Franz Kafka

The Divine Comedy - Dante

The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan

La Morte Darthur - Malory

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

Lasdy 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

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathon Swift

A Tale of a Tub - Jonathon Swift

A Modest Proposal - Jonathon Swift

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

HUMOUR

The Dilbert Pinciple - Scott Adams

Complete Works - Michael Leunig

Complete Works - Barry Humphries

NONFICTION

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

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 Republic - Plato

Euthyphro - Plato

The Apology - Plato

Crito - Plato

Phaedro - Plato

The Symposium - Plato

The Prince - Machiavelli

Pensees - Blaise Pascal

Journals - Soren Kierkegaard

Christian Discourses - Soren Kierkegaard

Either / Or - Soren Kierkegaard

Fear & Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard

The Sickness of Death - Soren Kierkegaard

The Measure of Man - Martin Luther King

Strength To Love - Martin Luther King

Chaos & Community - Martin Luther King

Confessions - St Augustine

The Cost of Discipleship - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Letters & Prayers From Prison - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Ethics - Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Hope & Suffering - Desmond Tutu

Mere Christianity - C S Lewis

Orthodoxy - G K Chesterton

The Everlasting Man - G K Chesterton

Telling Lies For God - Iam Plimer

Letters To Theo - Van Gogh

Rescuing The Bible From Fundamentalism - 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

Hidden Agendas - John Pilger

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

The Shaking of the Foundations - Paul Tillich

The Faith of The Church - Karl Barth

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

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

Mark