Marvin also tagged me for this book meme, which I’m pretty sure I did a while back, but maybe it’d be interesting to do it again without looking at my old answers. Here goes:

1. One book that changed your life:
Miracles, by C.S. Lewis. Reading this book as an undergrad was the occasion for my seriously considering that Christianity in more-or-less its traditional form (rather than some attenuated or watered down version) might actually be true. Or at least that it was a live option.

2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
Cash: The Autobiography, by Johnny Cash

3. One book you’d want on a desert island:
I guess I should say the Bible, right? Or maybe the collected works of Shakespeare? Or something clever like “How to Escape From a Desert Island”?

4. One book that made you laugh:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

5. One book that made you cry:
I can’t really think of a time this has happened. Maybe I’m just a cold-hearted SOB.

6. One book that you wish had been written:
How I Changed My Mind, by Saul of Tarsus

7. One book that you wish had never been written:
I’m with Marvin here: I’m enough of a Millian liberal to be for the untrammeled expression of ideas. Though the world probably would’ve gotten by fine without Luther’s Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants and On the Jews and Their Lies.

8. One book you’re currently reading:
A Moral Climate, by Michael Northcott (just came yesterday!)

9. One book you’ve been meaning to read:
The End of Oil, by Paul Roberts. I’ve had this one on my shelf for months.