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My 2009 Reading List
Changing my reading pattern up for this year. Usually I read whatever catches my eye but this year I’m creating an intentional reading plan designed to help grow me in specific areas.
There are bound to be exceptions throughout the year, but this pretty much tells the story of the knowledge that will be dropped in my mind. There are even a few re-reads. Look it over and let me know any books on this list that you’ve read and what you liked/disliked about them. Thanks.
Leadership/Influence
Spiritual Leadership – J. Oswald Sanders
Tribes- Seth Godin
Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
Culture Making – Andy Crouch
Starfish and the Spider -Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom
The Monkey and the Fish – Dave Gibbons
Axiom – Bill Hybels
Next Generation Leader – Andy Stanley
Lectures to My Students – Charles Spurgeon
Killing Cockroaches – Tony Morgan
Theology (various flavors)
Finally Alive – John Piper
ReJesus – Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch
Knowing God – JI Packer
Prodigal God – Tim Keller
Death by Love – Mark Driscoll
Orthodoxy- GK Chesterton
Surprised by Hope – NT Wright
The Cross of Christ – John Stott
Divine Conspiracy – Dallas Willard
Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die – John Piper
The Sovereignty of God – A.W. Pink
The Cost of Discipleship – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Great Divorce – C.S. Lewis
Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
Church/Mission
Vintage Church – Mark Driscoll
Sticky Church – Larry Osborne
Total Church – Tim Chester and Steve Timmis
Church Unique – Will Mancini
Missional Renaissance – Reggie McNeal
Deliberate Simplicity – Dave Browning
The Shaping of Things to Come – Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch
Biography
A Short Life of Jonathon Edwards – George Marsden
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther – Roland H. Bainton
Relationships
Celebration of Sex by Douglas E. Rosenau
Intimacy Ignited by by Joseph C. Dillow, Linda Dillow, Peter Pintus, and Lorraine Pintus
Shepherding a Child’s Heart – Tedd Tripp
War of Words – Paul Tripp
Communication/Teaching/Preaching
Supremacy of Christ in Preaching – John Piper
The Revolutionary Communicator – Erik Lokkesmoe and Jedd Medefind
Slide:ology – Nancy Duarte
Personal Growth/Life Skillz
Mad Church Disease – Anne Jackson
I Was Broke. Now I’m Not – Joe Sangl
How People Change – Paul Tripp and Timothy Lane
Humility – CJ Mahaney and Joshua Harris
On Writing – Stephen King
Study/Commentaries
Matthew, Mark, Luke (The Expositor’s Bible Commentary) – DA Carson, et al
Matthew: The MacArthur New Testament Commentary (4 volumes) – John MacArthur
Matthew (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible) – Stanley Hauerwas
Mormonism Explained – Andrew Jackson
P.S. You can always view my Amazon.com wishlist if you want to hook me up with a book from this list. 
11 Responses to “My 2009 Reading List”
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Man… if you read all that in one year… You are da’ man!!! I will do good to get through my nine books… and one is an audio book.
I’m a nerd. What can I say?
I know people who read hundreds of books a year who would think this is light. I’m going for about a book a week (give or take).
At least you’re reading nine. So many people don’t take the time to read at all so big ups to you.
a girl in my youth group came on a sunday morning with a book… she was there about an hour early…
before the service started she came up to me and said she finished that book… that she started when she got there. granted it was like 130 pages… still that would take me 4 days.
i think i have a rare disorder called ICSDARFLT5M (i can’t sit down and read for longer than 5 minutes).
@blake – yeah, i know freaks like that too. when it comes to reading (and life) you have to run your own race.
excellent list, jason! i am going to post mine at some point in the near future and you’ll see a lot of overlaps with yours.
@Jay – Great minds….
That is quite a reading list – I think I should set myself a goal of reading just one book from that list! Or the goal of just one of my unread books from my bookshelf! Hmm,
Screwtape Letters is definitely top 5 CS Lewis books.. lol maybe top 3. Definitely one of my favorites.
@Kaleb – What’s up my man? You gotta love Screwtape. It’s been a while since I cracked it open and thought this year would be a good year to do so.
I’m reading The Prodigal God right now by Tim Keller. It’s quite good!
@ Jesse- Hey dude! I’ve heard Keller teach on it and am quite excited to read it. Thanks for the comment. Hopefully we can connect sometime.