My Reading list for my Sabbatical May-July

Walter Brueggeman: Journey to the Common Good, and Prayers for Privileged People
Tim Keller: The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness
Keller and Carson: Gospel-Centered Ministry
Leslie Newbegin: Foolishness to the Greeks- The Gospel and Western Culture
Robert McAfee Brown: Unexpected News- Reading the Bible With Third World Eyes
Jimmy Buffett: A Pirate Looks At 50 (thanks Joe)
Richard Rohr: Falling Upward- A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
St. Augustine: The Confessions
James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time
St. Francis of Assisi: His Essential Wisdom
Shane Claiborne and Johnathon Wilson-Hartgrove: Becoming the Answer to our Prayers- Prayer for Ordinary Radicals
Richards and O'Brian: Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes
Brian McLaren: The Girl With the Dove Tattoo
Phillip Jenkins: The Next Christendom
The Didache: (1st-2nd century writings)

(read recently- amazing!)
Soong Chan Rah:The Next Evangelicalism 
N.T. Wright: How God Became King King and Simply Jesus
Perkins and Claiborne: Follow Me to Freedom
Shane Claiborne: The Irresistable Revolution and Red Letter Revolution (With Tony Campolo)

A few more books since then:  

Soong Chan Rah: Many Colors- Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church

Deitrich Bonhoeffer: Life Together

Mark Scandrette: Practicing the Way of Jesus- Life Together in the Kingdom of Love

Lisa Sharon Harper: Evangelical does not equal Republican... or Democrat

James Michener: Hawaii

Manny Ortiz: One New People- Models for Developing a multi-ethnic church

Tim Wise: (3 books) White Like Me; Color Blind; Dear White America

Howard Zinn:  A People's History of the United States

Jonathon Kozol: Amazing Grace

Alex Haley: Roots

Isabel Wilkerson: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Rosalind Miles: Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Woman's History of the World 

Jill Lepore: (3 Books)  The Story of America: Essays on Origins; New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in 18th Century Manhattan; The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History

Joseph Loconte: The Searchers: A Quest for Faith in the Valley of Doubt

David Berlinski: The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions

Emmerson and Smith: Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America

Randy Woodly: Embracing God's Passion for Ethnic Diversity

Robert Lupton: Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt those they Help (And How to Reverse It)