A little Vonnegut

“the human condition can be summer up in just one word: embarrassment.”

Kurt Vonnegut
Bluebeard
Paladin 1989
P23

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The message of Leviticus - Derek Tidball

The sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut

Literaure, philosophy and short stories - a collection - CS Lewis

On the road -Jack Kerouac

Jpod - Douglas Coupland

The Pleasures of GOD - John Piper

Palm Sunday and Welcome to the monkeyhouse - Kurt Vonnegut

The testament of Gideon Mack - James Robertson

Ideas: A history from fire to freud - Peter Watson

The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland

The Message of Revelation - Michael Wilcock

The Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Focus - the art and soul of cinema - Tony Watkins

The Mismeasure of Man - Stephen J Gould

Northern Lights - Philip Pullman

The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman

What Jesus demands from the world - John Piper

The Twilight of Atheism - Alistair McGrath

The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman

The Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

Blood River - Tim Butcher

The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenburger

Scripture and the authority of GOD - NT Wright

The Sermon on the mount - John Stott

Nostromo - Joseph Conrad

Jesus - AN Wilson

King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard

Sermons on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ - CH Spurgeon

The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

Justice Mercy and Humility- integral mission and the poor - ed. Tim Chester

The man who would be king - Kipling

Faith, Christianity and the church - CS Lewis

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

On Beauty - Zadie Smith

The Cost of discipleship - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Voyageur - Robert Twigger

Hard Times - Charles Dickens

The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad

Paul: Fresh Perspectives - NT Wright

The rise and fall of modern medicine - James Le Fanu

She - H Rider Haggard

The Shack - William P Young

Blood of the martyrs - Leigh Churchill

Our Lord's sermon on the mount - Augustine

The man in the iron mask - Alexandre Dumas

Good and Evil - an absolute conception - Raimond Gaita

GOD's undertaker - has sciecne buried GOD - John Lennox

The gathering storm - Winston Churchill

Life after GOD - Douglas Coupland

Jailbird - Kurt Vonnergut

A generous Orthodoxy - Brian McClaren

Jayber Crow - Wendell Berry

Surprised by hope - NT Wright

The GOD delusion - Richard Dawkins

Velvet Elvis - Rob Bell

The Dawkins Delusion delusion - Alister Mcgrath

Simply Christian - NT Wright

Bagombo Snuff Box - Kurt Vonnegut

Christianity's Dangerous Idea - Alister McGrath

Complications - Atul Gawande

How we got here and why we aren't leaving - Jan Carson

Their Finest Hour - Winston Churchill

How not to speak of GOD - Peter Rollins

Better - a surgeons notes on performance - Atul Gawande

Perelandra - CS Lewis

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

The ragamuffin's gospel - Brennan Manning

Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut

Call to Discipleship - Karl Barth

Out of the silent planet - CS Lewis

Complete Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm

Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

How to read a paper -Trisha Greenhalgh

The Gospel in a pluralist society - Leslie Newbigin

Empire of dirt - the aesthetics and rituals of British indie music - Wendy Fonarow

The boy in the striped pyjamas -John Boyne

Telling the truth: the gospel as tragedy, comedy and fairy tale -Frederick Buechner

A community called atonement - Scott Mcknight

The Grand Alliance -Winston Chuchill

Resident Aliens - Stanley Hauerwas & William H Willimon

The Course of Irish History - TW Moody & FX Martin

Exclusion and embrace -Miroslav Volf

The Great Divorce -CS Lewis

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevskey

Lonesome Traveller - Jack Kerouac

The problem of pain -CS Lewis

Six months in sudan - James Maskalyk

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

Redeeming Creatures - David Williamson

Hannah Coulter - Wendell Berry

The Hours - Michael Cunningham

Subverting global myths - Vinoth Ramachandra

History of the second world war Volume IV -Winston Churchill

Gilead - Marilynne Robinson

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Andy Catlett - Wendell Berry

Planet Narnia - Michael Ward

Empty Pulpits - Malachi O'Doherty

Fear and trembling - Soren Kierkegaard

Justification - NT Wright

Generation A - Douglas Coupland

Breakfast of champions - Kurt Vonnegut

Christ plays in ten thousand places - Eugene Peterson

and another thing - Eoin Colfer

The disturbing freshness of Christ - Michael Paul Gallagher

Total Church - Tim Chester and Steve Timmis

Orpheus Rising - Colin Bateman

Remembering - Wendell Berry

Things we know but cannot prove - John Brockman

That Neutral Island -Clair Willis

Persian Fire - Tom Holland

Armageddon in Retrospect - Kurt Vonnegut

The Grapes of wrath - John Steinbeck

Attention all shipping - Charlie Connelly

Fit to be tied -Bill & Lynne Hybels

The complete short stories - Flannery O'Connor

Planting Missional Churches - Ed Stetzer

The Fridge Hiker's Guide to Life - Tony Hawks

Living Gently in a violent world - Stanley Hauerwas and Jean Vanier

Home - Marilynne Robinson

The Mission of GOD -Chris Wright

East of Eden - John Steinbeck

The beauty of the infinite -David Bentley Hart

The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Blue Parakeet - Scott McKinght

Man without a country -Kurt Vonnegut

Philadelphia here we come - Brian Friel

The call to discipleship - Karl Barth

Moby Dick -Herman Melville

Confessions - Augustine

The Old man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway

The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Black Swan Green - David Mitchell

Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson

God Bless you mr rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut

God, medicine and suffering -Stanley Hauerwas

The Peaceable Kingdom - Stanley Hauerwas

The History of Love - Nicole Krauss

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene

A Secular Age - Charles Taylor

Penguin History of the world -JM Roberts

For whom the bell tolls - Ernest Hemingway

The Politics of Jesus -John Howard Yoder

With the grain of the universe -Stanley Hauerwas

The Truth about the drug companies -Marcia Angell

A prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

Lord Jim -Joseph Conrad

Philosophy and ethics of medicine -Michael Gelfand

The Pearl - John Steinbeck

The Third Man - Graham Greene

The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene

Suffering Presence - Stanley Hauerwas

The Heart of the matter - Graham Greene

On Beauty and being Just - Elaine Scarry

William Dalrymple - From the Holy Mountain

Philosophy of medicine - Wulf, Pedersen & Rosenberg

We need to talk about kevin - Lionel Shriver

The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri

Mark Twain - A life - Ron Powers

Hannah's Child - Stanley Hauerwas

Finding Peace - Jean Vanier

Patient as person - Paul Ramsey

In good company: The church as polis - Stanley Hauerwas

The state of the university: academic knowledges and the knowledge of God - Stanley Hauerwas

The gospel as public truth - Lesslie Newbigin

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Christians among the virtues - Stanley Hauerwas

The Help - Kathryn Stockett

A community of character - Stanley Hauerwas

The Passage - Justin Cronin

Closing the ring - History of the second world war part V - Winston Churchill

1000 autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell

 

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