Charlie Dean’s Blog

70 books overall; 57 books read in the last year; 6 books read in the last month. That's an average of 5 books each month.

Planned books (0):

None

Current books (3):

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  American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (New York Times Notable Books) by Jon Meacham

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  Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin

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  The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God’s Best Version of You by John Ortberg

Recent books (66):

• The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief by Peter Rollins
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• Seven: The Deadly Sins and the Beatitudes by Jeff V. Cook
• The Screwtape Letters: With Screwtape Proposes a Toast by C. S. Lewis
• A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith by Brian D. Mclaren
• The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment by A. J. Jacobs
• Fasting: The Ancient Practices by Scot McKnight
• Pirate Latitudes LP: A Novel by Michael Crichton
• Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel by John Irving
• Real Church: Does it exist? Can I find it? by Dr. Larry Crabb
• Under the Dome: A Novel by Stephen King
• Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale by Frederick Buechner
• How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins
• No Second Chance by Harlan Coben
• The Road (Oprah’s Book Club) by Cormac McCarthy
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
• Organic Community: Creating a Place Where People Naturally Connect (emersion: Emergent Village resou by Joseph Myers
• SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life In by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
• Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith by G.K. Chesterton
• The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible by Scot McKnight
• What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
• Fear and Trembling by Sören Kierkegaard
• Advent Conspiracy: Can Christmas Still Change the World? by Rick McKinley, Chris Seay, Greg Holder
• The Abilene Paradox and Other Meditations on Management by Jerry B. Harvey
• The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
• The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
• Contours Of Pauline Theology by Holland Tom
• Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• The Beekeeper’s Apprentice: Or On the Segregation of the Queen/A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Ru by Laurie R. King
• A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life by Donald Miller
• A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am a missional, evangelical, post/protestant, liberal/conservative, myst by Brian D. McLaren
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
• The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
• A Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
• In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
• Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films With Wisdom by Brian Godawa
• Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan
• Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton
• How (Not) to Speak of God – Marks of the Emerging Church by Peter Rollins
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
• The Brothers K by David James Duncan
• The Fine Line: Re-envisioning the Gap between Christ and Culture by Kary Oberbrunner
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith by Shane Hipps
• The Divine Commodity: Discovering a Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity by Skye Jethani
• The Pastor As Minor Poet: Texts and Subtexts in the Ministerial Life (Calvin Institute of Christian by M. Craig Barnes
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel (Oprah Book Club #62) by David Wroblewski
• Wall and Piece by Banksy
• The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey
• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) by Barack Obama
• The Monkey and the Fish: Liquid Leadership for a Third-Culture Church (Leadership Network Innovation by Dave Gibbons
• Making a Meal of It: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord’s Supper by Ben Witherington III
• Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace by Cathleen Falsani
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
• Faith and Doubt by John Ortberg
• The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable About Restoring Sanity To The Most by Patrick M. Lencioni
• Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices by Brian D. McLaren
• Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman
• The Shack by William P. Young
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
• Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard J. Foster
• Ephesians by Klyne Snodgrass