Some books I have read/been reading and their grading* in a scale of 1-10


1.    The Call: Os Guinness (8.5)k
2.    Sick Planet: Stan Cox (5.0)
3.    The Message of Mission: Vinoth Ramachandra & Howard Peskett (8.5)
4.    Identity and Violence: Amartya Sen (7.0)
5.    Good Value: Stephen Green (7.9)k
6.    Empire of Illusion: Chris Hedges (6.5)k
7.    Lord Find me a parking place: Derek Wood (6.5)
8.    The End of Poverty: Jeffery Sachs (7.9)
9.    Doing God’s Business: R. Paul Stevens (5.0)
10.  God and Government: Eds. Nick Spencer & Jonathan Chaplin (6.0)k
11.  Resident Aliens: Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon (8.4)
12.  Morbid Symptoms: Eds. Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (4.5)
13.  Simply Christian: N.T Wright (7.5)
14.  Mountains Beyond Mountains: Tracy Kidder (7.5)
15.  When The Kings Come Marching In: Richard J. Mouw (8.0)
16.  Mere Christianity: C.S Lewis (8.5)
17.  The Return of the Native: Thomas Hardy (7.5)
18.  Creation or Evolution?: Denis Alexander (too early to grade)
19.  Transforming Mission: David J.Bosch (too early to grade)
20.  Mistaken Modernity: Dipankar Gupta (7.0)
21.  The Mission of God: Chris Wright (8.0)
22.  Success Fantasy: Tony Campolo (6.0)
23.  The Clockwork Image: Donald Mackay (8.0)
24.  Exclusion and Embrace: Miroslav Volf (too early to grade)
25.  The Contemporary Christian: John Stott (7.9)
26.  God and Evolution: David Wilcox (6.5)
27.  Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen (7.1)
28.  Medical Nemesis: Ivan Illich (3.0)
29.  You Are Not A Gadget: Jaron Lanier (8.4)k
30.  Development as Freedom: Amartya Sen (too early to grade)
31.  The Gospel in the Modern World: Eds. Martyn Eden and David Wells (7.8)
32.  In God’s time: Craig Hill (too early to grade)
33.  Carpie Diem: Tony Campolo (6.0)
34.  Holiness and Ecclesiology in the New Testament: Eds. Kent Brower & Andy Johnson (too early to grade)
35.  Remember Creation:    (8.0)

* Grades are arbitrary and may change with time
k Books I actually kissed while reading (not all of them got good grades in the end)

Comments

  1. Jeremiah A V DumaiMay 21, 2011 at 2:11 PM

    No 10 & 15 I'm dying to read. I would rate Simply Christian higher specially because Wright told the Gospel as a story.

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  2. Sao TunyiMay 24, 2011 at 5:04 AM

    15 is really good. The ratings are quite personal, so, ya, u can say that SC should be rated higher. Maybe since we have been listening to Wright before Simply Christian, I think the book didn't generate that much punch in me :)

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