fifty-two

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because fifty-two books in twenty-fourteen.
and more contemporary poetry.

01. Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris
02. Every Riven Thing: Poems by Christian Wiman
03. The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
04. Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam trans. by Christian Wiman
05. On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius
06. Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis by Lauren Winner
07. Horse and Rider: Poems by Melissa Range
08. Cross-Shattered Christ: Meditations on the Seven Last Words by Stanley Hauerwas
09. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
10. Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir by Stanley Hauerwas
11. Idiot Psalms: Poems by Scott Cairns
12. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
13. For the Life of the World by Alexander Schmemann
14. Home by Marilynne Robinson
15. The Humanity of God by Karl Barth
16. The Country of Marriage by Wendell Berry
17. A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997 by Wendell Berry
18. Deus Caritas Est (God is Love): Encyclical Letter by Pope Benedict XVI
19. The Rule of Saint Benedict
20. In Search of the Good Life: The Ethics of Globalization by Rebecca Todd Peters
21. Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith by Fred Bahnson
22. The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy Sayers

well, let's try that again twenty-fifteen.

01. Girl Meets God: A Memoir by Lauren Winner
02. My Bright Abyss by Christian Wiman
03. Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis by Lauren Winner
04. A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York by Liana Finck
05. Space, Time, and Resurrection by T.F. Torrance
06. Stations of the Heart: Parting with a Son by Richard Lischer
07. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
08. The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel by Benjamin D. Sommer
09. Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament by Ellen Davis
10. The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day
11. Wanted: A Spiritual Pursuit Through Jail, Among Outlaws, and Across Borders by Chris Hoke
12. Being Christian by Rowan Williams
13. An Essay on Typography by Eric Gill
14. Lila by Marilynne Robinson
15. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
16. The Life of Saint Francis by Saint Bonaventure
17. Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
18. The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography by Alan Jacobs
19. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
20. Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community by Wendell Berry
21. Two-Part Invention by Madeline L'Engle
22. The Givenness of Things by Marilynne Robinson

and, twenty-sixteen.

01. My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
02. Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
03. How to Be Both by Ali Smith
04. On Immunity: An Innoculation by Eula Bliss
05. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
06. The Rain in the Trees by W.S. Merwin
07. The Stream and the Sapphire by Denise Levertov
08. The Miracle of Analogy, or the History of Photography, Part I by Kaja Silverman
09. An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
10. The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
11. Praise by Robert Hass
12. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich
13. Loaves and Fishes by Dorothy Day
14. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
15. The Purple Headed Mountain by Martin Thornton
16. Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton
17. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante

and, twenty-seventeen.

01. The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
02. Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
03. The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
04. Hammer Is the Prayer: Collected Poems by Christian Wiman
05. Literacy and Justice Through Photography: A Classroom Guide by Wendy Ewald
06. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
07. Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis
08. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
09. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
10. Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival by Christopher Benfey
11. Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
12. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
13. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
14. Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. by Edward Snow
15. Putting Art (Back) In Its Place by John Skillen
16. The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel
17. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
18. God, Sexuality and the Self: An Essay 'On The Trinity' by Sarah Coakley
19. Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard
20. The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
21. Questions for Ecclesiastes: Poems by Mark Jarman
22. Bluets by Maggie Nelson
23. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
24. Blue Nights by Joan Didion
25. The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems by Marie Howe
26. A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
27. Homegoing by Naa Gyasi
28. Can These Bones Lives? A Theology in Outline by Robert W. Jenson
29. Felicity: Poems by Mary Oliver

and, twenty-eighteen.

01. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
02. How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
03. The White Album by Joan Didion
04. The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
05. Meister Eckhart, from Whom God Hid Nothing: Sermons, Writings, and Sayings
06. Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography by Richard Rodriguez
07. 27 Contexts: An Anecdotal History in Photography by Mark Alice Durant
08. The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
09. Fall Run Road by Brett Foster
10. Application for Release from the Dream by Tony Hoagland
11. Ways of Seeing by John Berger
12. Just Kids by Patti Smith
13. Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
14. A Prayer Journal by Flannery O'Connor
15. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
16. Break It Down by Lydia Davis
17. Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds
18. Revelations of Divine Love by Gertrude of Helfta
19. Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery by Jeanette Winterson
20. Ariel: Poems by Sylvia Plath
21. The Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art by James Elkins
22. The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
23. He Held Radical Light by Christian Wiman
24. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

and, twenty-nineteen.

01. How To Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
02. Motherhood by Sheila Heti
03. The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age by Andrew O'Hagan
04. The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer
05. Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump by Asad Haider
06. Lit by Mary Karr
07. Devotional Cinema by Nathaniel Dorsky
08. Strange and Unknown Things: Essays by Teju Cole
09. Get To Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World by Linda Hirschman