Book List 2009

1. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
2. The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie
3. Called out of Darkness - Anne Rice
4. The Great Game - Peter Hopkirk
5. The Independence of Mary Bennet - Colleen McCullough
6. A New Kind of Christian - Brian McLaren
7. Finding George Orwell in Burma - Emma Larkin
8. The Secret Message of Jesus - Brian McLaren

The Complete Ash Tray Series

Here we are, ladies and gentlemen.  Presenting, in all of its glory, The Complete Ash Tray Series...

Carefully collected from various ash trays outside of convenience stores and malls all around Japan (or at least the places I visited).  They are funny, they are strange, and they make great use of English.  Pay close attention to the random captions and picture inclusions.  Enjoy!

Book List 2008

1. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
2. Life, the Universe, and Everything - Douglas Adams
3. Velvet Elvis - Rob Bell
4. Shake Hands With the Devil - LGen. Romeo Dallaire
5. The Gift of Being Yourself - David G. Benner
6. Where God Was Born - Bruce Feiler
   
7. The Cloud of Unknowing
8. Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian
9. Walking on Water - Madeleine L'Engle
10. Brick Lane - Monica Ali
11. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
12. Atonement - Ian McEwan
13. Charlie Wilson's War - George Crile
14. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
15. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
16. The Picts and the Martyrs - Arthur Ransome
17. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
18. Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis
19. No Man is an Island - Thomas Merton
20. Daughter of Fortune - Isabelle Allende
21. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
22. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt - Anne Rice
23. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
24. The Book of Mercy - Leonard Cohen
25. Letters from a Traveller - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
26. Our Anglican Heritage - John W. Howe
27. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
28. Great Northern? - Arthur Ransome
29. Where God Happens - Archbishop Rowan Williams
30. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
31. Healing Henan - Sonya Grypma
32. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
33. Forging the Future - Diana J. Mansell
34. Temperament - Stuart Isacoff
35. The Making of a Nurse - Tilda Shalof
36. The Birth House - Ami McKay
37. The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears - Dinaw Mengetsu
38. An American Childhood - Annie Dillard
39. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
40. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
41. Hymn of the Universe - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
42. The Book of God - Walter Wangerin Jr.
43. The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
44. Finding Our Way Again - Brian McLaren
45. The Great Railway Bazaar - Paul Theroux
46. Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana - Anne Rice
47. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
48. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
49. The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood
50. Building the Earth - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
51. Sailing Alone Around the World - Joshua Slocum
52. Revolution in World Missions - K.P. Yohannan
53. Pacific Odyssey - Gwenda Cornell
54. Among the Russians - Colin Thubron
55. Restoring the Woven Cord - Michael Mitton
56. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss

Book List 2007

1. O Jerusalem - Laurie R. King
2. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time - Mark Haddon
3. Passarola Rising - Azhar Abidi
4. A Letter of Mary - Laurie R. King
5. Three Men in a Boat (Not to Mention the Dog) - Jerome K. Jerome
6. Three Men on the Brummel - Jerome K. Jerome
7. A Monsterous Regiment of Women - Laurie R. King
8. Waiting - He Jin
9. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
10. A Circle of Quiet - Madeleine L'Engle
11. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt - Anne Rice
12. The Journals - Soren Kierkegaard
13. Becoming Human - Jean Vanier
    
14. The Summer of the Great-Grandmother - Madeleine L'Engle
15. Obasan - Joy Kogawa
16. The Inner Experience - Thomas Merton
17. Walking on Water - Madeleine L'Engle
    
18. And it was Good - Madeleine L'Engle
19. The Care and Feeding of the Offshore Crew - Lin Pardey
20. A Stone for a Pillow - Madeleine L'Engle
21. The Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Collection - Bill Watterson
22. Sold into Egypt - Madeleine L'Engle
23. Red China Blues - Jan Wong
24. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze - Peter Hessler
25. A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
26. A Series of Unfortunate Events, Reptile Room - Lemony Snicket
27. Stardust - Neil Gaimon
28. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
29. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rawlings
30. Peter Duck - Arthur Ransome
31. A Circle of Quiet - Madeleine L'Engle
32. Eragon - Christopher Pauolini
33. Eldest - Christopher Pauolini
34. A Generous Orthodoxy - Brian McLaren
35. The Blind Assassain - Margaret Atwood
36. The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism
37. Cry, The Beloved Country - Alan Paton
38. An Embarassment of Mangos - Ann Vanderhoof
39. Birds without Wings - Louis de Bernieres
40. The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
41. A Passage to India - CS Forster
42. Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
43. The Goose Girl - Shannon Hale
44. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
45. The Ordering of Love - Madeleine L'Engle
46. Understanding China - John Bryan Starr
47. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
48. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams