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BOOKS
Good books are dangerous. Good books are sneaky. We don't just learn from good books; we let them seduce us. A good book can change our minds. It can change our hearts. It can change our allegiances. Good books, therefore, are dangerous and wonderful. (Bad books too.)
Because there's value in knowing what influences our thinking, I compiled a complete list of the books I've read (in reverse chronological order, updated periodically, and dating back to May 2005). Why am I posting this online? Partly to be upfront about which books changed my mind. Partly because I'm a fan of good books everywhere. Mostly because I'm an egotistical bastard and I want people to think I read a lot.
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2011 so far
- Intellectuals and Society - Thomas Sowell
- Saying Something - Ingrid Monson
- Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology - Joseph Kerman
- Forged - Bart D. Ehrman
- Writing for Social Scientists - Howard S. Becker
- Chasin' the Bird - Brian Priestly
- What Is This Thing Called Jazz? - Eric Porter
- Louis Armstrong: An American Genius - James Lincoln Collier
- Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper - Art and Laurie Pepper
2010
- Discourse on the Method - René Descartes
- Jazz in Search of Itself - Larry Kurt
- 白色日本童话 - 主编：王泉根
- Siddartha - Hermann Hesse
- Defending Constantine - Peter J. Leithart
- Ecce Homo - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
- The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
- Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
- Utopia - Thomas More
- The Beautiful in Music - Eduard Hanslick
- Tao Te Ching - Laozi
- The Antichrist - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Candide - Voltaire
- The Road - Cormac McCarthy
- Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
- New Practical Chinese Reader, Vol. 5 - comp. Liu Xun
- The Promise of His Appearing - Peter J. Leithart
- The Immigration Crisis - James K. Hoffmeier
- Conventional Wisdom - Susan McClary
- Art of Fugue - Joseph Kerman
- Musings - Gunther Schuller
- Solomon among the Postmoderns - Peter J. Leithart
- Landing on the Wrong Note - Ajay Heble
- To a Young Jazz Musician - Wynton Marsalis
- Deep Comedy - Peter J. Leithart
- Miniatures and Morals - Peter J. Leithart
- Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality - Susan McClary
- Polyglot: How I Learn Languages - Kató Lomb
- New Practical Chinese Reader, Vol. 4 - comp. Liu Xun
- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass
- Hear Me Talkin' to Ya - Nat Shapiro & Nat Hentoff
- Jazz: Its Evolution and Essence - André Hodeir
- The Art of War - Sun Tzu
- Complete Guide to Instrumental Jazz Instruction - John Kuzmich, Jr.
- Charlie Parker and Thematic Improvisation - Henry Martin
- New Practical Chinese Reader, Vol. 3 - comp. Liu Xun
- Integrated Chinese (Level 1, Part 2) - Tao-chung Yao & Yuehua Liu
- Primeval Saints - James B. Jordan
- Elementary Chinese Readers 2 - Sinolingua
- Integrated Chinese (Level 1, Part 1) - Tao-chung Yao & Yuehua Liu
- Conversational Chinese 301 - Kang Yuhua & Lai Siping
- Against Christianity - Peter J. Leithart
- Art Blakey: Jazz Messenger - Leslie Gourse
- Guidelines for Style Analysis - Jan LaRue
- A Guide to Schenkerian Analysis - David Neumeyer & Susan Tepping
- Music: A Very Short Introduction - Nicholas Cook
- In Search of Buddy Bolden - Donald M. Marquis
- Composing for the Jazz Orchestra - William Russo
- Basic Atonal Theory - John Rahn
- Teaching Improv in Your Jazz Ensemble - Zachary B. Poulter
2009
- New Perspectives on Jazz - ed. David N. Baker
- As Though I Had Wings - Chet Baker
- Music and Imagination - Aaron Copland
- Improvising Jazz - Jerry Coker
- Lester Young - Lewis Porter
- Listening to Jazz - Jerry Coker
- The Jazz Idiom - Jerry Coker
- A Guide to Musical Analysis - Nicholas Cook
- Music, Imagination, and Culture - Nicholas Cook
- An Unsung Cat - Safford Chamberlain
- Musical Form and Musical Performance - Edward T. Cone
- To Be or Not to Bop - Dizzy Gillespie & Al Fraser
- Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music - Eunmi Shim
- Queering the Pitch - ed. Brett & Wood & Thomas
- Jazz Visions: Lennie Tristano and His Legacy - Peter Ind
- The Story of Jazz - Marshall W. Stearns
- A Short Guide to Writing about Music - Jonathan Bellman
- This Is Your Brain on Music - Daniel J. Levitin
- How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
- Philosophy in a New Key - Susanne K. Langer
- New Practical Chinese Reader, Vol. 2 - comp. Liu Xun
- A Concise History of Western Music - Paul Griffiths
- A Certain Respect for Tradition - Mark Miller
- Schaum's Outline of Chinese Grammar - Claudia Ross
- Talking Jazz: An Oral History - Ben Sidran
- Schott's Original Miscellany - Ben Schott
- The Heavenly Man - Brother Yun & Paul Hattaway
- Chinese Idioms and Their Stories - comp. Yang Liyi
- Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory - Joseph N. Straus
- An Outline History of China - Bai Shouyi
- Blues People: Negro Music in White America - LeRoi Jones
- Castles Made of Sound: The Story of Gil Evans - Larry Hicock
- Next - Michael Crichton
- The Rest Is Noise - Alex Ross
- The Disuniting of America - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- Jazz among the Discourses - ed. Krin Gabbard
- The Touring Musician - Hal Galper
2008
- The School in the United States - James W. Fraser
- Obedience to Authority - Stanley Milgram
- Dance of the Infidels: A Portrait of Bud Powell - Francis Paudras
- State of Fear - Michael Crichton
- Four Jazz Lives - A. B. Spellman
- Writing Philosophy Papers - Zachary Seech
- The Strike that Changed New York - Jerald E. Podair
- How Teachers Taught - Larry Cuban
- Lee Morgan: His Life, Music and Culture - Tom Perchard
- We Called It Music: A Generation of Jazz - Eddie Condon
- Prey - Michael Crichton
- Treat It Gentle - Sidney Bechet
- Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter - Michelle Mercer
- Beneath the Underdog - Charles Mingus
- Notes and Tones - Arthur Taylor
- Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art - Andy Hamilton
- The 4-Hour Workweek - Timothy Ferriss
- Jazz: The American Theme Song - James Lincoln Collier
- The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
- Effortless Mastery - Kenny Werner
- Against the Idols of the Age - David Stove
- Art's Prospect - Roger Kimball
- Lives of the Mind - Roger Kimball
- Thinking through Philosophy - Chris Horner & Emrys Westacott
- Experiments Against Reality - Roger Kimball
- On Liberty and Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill
- God and Philosophy - Étienne Gilson
- The Legacy of Sovereign Joy - John Piper
- Heretics/Orthodoxy - G. K. Chesterton
- The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
- I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell - Tucker Max
- Introduction to a Philosophy of Music - Peter Kivy
- What Is Darwinism? - Charles Hodge
- Religion and Culture - Michel Foucault
- A House for My Name - Peter J. Leithart
- The Rape of the Masters - Roger Kimball
- The Story of Philosophy - Bryan Magee
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas S. Kuhn
- Socrates, Plato, and Guys like Me - Eric E. Rofes
- Tenured Radicals - Roger Kimball
- Race in the Schoolyard - Amanda E. Lewis
- The History of Sexuality: An Introduction - Michel Foucault
- Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights - Kenji Yoshino
- Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault
- Pensées - Blaise Pascal
- Acts of Meaning - Jerome Bruner
- Inspiration and Incarnation - Peter Enns
- Civilization and Its Discontents - Sigmund Freud
- The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism - Timothy Keller
- "Reformed" Is Not Enough - Douglas Wilson
- The Fine Art of Repetition - Peter Kivy
- Mencius - trans. D. C. Lau
- Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas - David Anfam
2007
- The Christian View of Man - J. Gresham Machen
- The Analects - Confucius
- Three Tragedies - Sophocles
- The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright - John Piper
- Misquoting Jesus - Bart D. Ehrman
- The Alphabet of Manliness - Maddox
- Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Ethics of Authenticity - Charles Taylor
- The Complete Musician - Steven G. Laitz
- New Practical Chinese Reader, Vol. 1 - comp. Liu Xun
- Practical Jazz - Lionel Grigson
- China to 1850: A Short History - Charles O. Hucker
- How to Read Karl Barth: The Shape of His Theology - George Hunsinger
- What Is Faith? - J. Gresham Machen
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
- A History of China - W. E. Soothill
- Calvin for Armchair Theologians - Christopher Elwood
- The Gospel in the Modern World - J. Gresham Machen
- Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
- Understanding David Foster Wallace - Marshall Boswell
- The Discomfort Zone - Jonathan Franzen
- Barth for Armchair Theologians - John R. Franke
- Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace
- Beethoven: His Spiritual Development - J. W. N. Sullivan
2006
- Cracking the GRE - The Princeton Review
- Jazz: From Its Origins to the Present - Lewis Porter & Michael Ullman
- Dogeaters: A Play About the Philippines - Jessica Hagedorn
- Christianity and Liberalism - J. Gresham Machen
- Faith and Life - B. B. Warfield
- Defending the Faith - D. G. Hart
- Gospel Principles - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Everyman - Philip Roth
- How to Know God - Deepak Chopra
- God: A Biography - Jack Miles
- Mysteries of the Bible - ed. Alma E. Guinness
- According to the Scriptures - Paul M. van Buren
- How to Read the Bible - James A. Fischer
- How to Interpret the Bible - James M. Efird
- Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners - John Bunyan
- The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
- Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling - Richard Lyman Bushman
- Don't Know Much About the Bible - Kenneth C. Davis
- The Secret Message of Jesus - Brian McLaren
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet - Dan Vogel
- Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelism - George M. Marsden
- Great Christian Thinkers - Hans Küng
- Van Til's Apologetic: Readings and Analysis - Greg L. Bahnsen
- Prayer - Spencer W. Kimball et al.
- The Alberta Temple - V. A. Wood
- Leaving the Saints - Martha Beck
- Latter Days - Coke Newell
- The Artist's Way - Julia Cameron
- The Mormon Murders - S. Naifeh & G. W. Smith
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
- The Human Stain - Philip Roth
- The Dying Animal - Philip Roth
- Underworld - Don DeLillo
- You Shall Know Our Velocity! - Dave Eggers
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
- Oblivion - David Foster Wallace
- The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis
- How to Be Alone - Jonathan Franzen
- Cosmopolis - Don DeLillo
- The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
- Anting-Anting Stories - Sargent Kayme
- How We Are Hungry - Dave Eggers
- The Legends of Genesis - Hermann Gunkel
- Conversational Tagalog - Teresita V. Ramos
- Religion, Deviance, and Social Control - R. Stark & W. S. Bainbridge
- The Invisible Religion - Thomas Luckmann
- Karl Marx and Religion - Trevor Ling
- El Filibusterismo - Jose Rizal
- Tagalog Structures - Teresita V. Ramos
- Noli Me Tangere - Jose Rizal
- Song of the Hawk - John Chilton
- Mormonism in Transition - Thomas G. Alexander
- Rizal: Philippine Nationalist and Martyr - Austin Coates
- The Birth of Bebop - Scott Deveaux
- Writing with Style - John R. Trimble
- The Rise of Mormonism - Rodney Stark
- American Piety - R. Stark & C. Y. Glock
- Style: Toward Clarity and Grace - Joseph M. Williams
2005
- Kingdom and Community - John G. Gager
- The Rise of Christianity - Rodney Stark
- The Humanity of God - Karl Barth
- Questions of Faith - Peter L. Berger
- The Social Construction of Reality - P. L. Berger & T. Luckmann
- Christian Origins in Sociological Perspective - Howard Clark Lee
- The Apocryphal Jesus - J. K. Elliott
- Sociology of Religion - Max Weber
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
- Learn Filipino - Victor Eclar Romero
- The Elementary Forms of Religious Life - Emile Durkheim
- Evangelical Theology: An Introduction - Karl Barth
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View - D. Michael Quinn
- Early Christian Writings - ed. Betty Radice
- Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites - Tucker Carlson
- How I Changed My Mind - Karl Barth
- Beyond Jabez - Bruce Wilkinson
- No Man Knows My History - Fawn M. Brodie
- Jazz: A Century of Change - Lewis Porter
- Culture and Customs of the Philippines - Paul Rodell
- Macapagal the Incorruptible - Q. Reynolds & G. Bocca
- A Far Glory - Peter L. Berger
- Filipino English and Taglish - Roger M. Thompson
- A Rumor of Angels - Peter L. Berger
- On Writing Well - William Zinsser
- Crisis in the Philippines - ed. John Bresnan
- The Philippines - Leonard Davis
- Culture Shock! Philippines - Alfredo & Grace Roces
- Redeeming Laughter - Peter L. Berger
- The People of the Philippines - Dolly Brittan
- Now What? - John Ortberg
- Priesthood - Spencer W. Kimball et al.
- The Sacred Canopy - Peter L. Berger
- A New Kind of Christian - Brian D. McLaren
- Invitation to Sociology - Peter L. Berger
- Total Truth - Nancy Pearcey
- What Christians Believe About the Bible - Donald K. McKim
- What Is Christianity? - Adolf von Harnack
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