NS Reads

Possibly the only aspect of the past two years which I do not begrudge the SAF, is the impetus to read more books. When you are in camp at night with nothing important to do, reading becomes a source of solace. Never in my life have I been such a prolific reader, and I suspect never again will I be.

I had actually set myself the task of reading all the works of C. S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton that the National Library could provide. With only 5 days left, I can say with a certain confidence that I have failed. Needless to say, confining myself to two authors over two years grew slightly monotonous and I was eventually distracted by other authors. Nonetheless the books read during these 2 years form a rather impressive list (if I may say so myself), and I include it below if only to convince myself that the past two years have not been completely useless.

With those that were especially enjoyable or influential in bold...

C. S. Lewis
Mere Christianity (Reread)
The Screwtape Letters
A Grief Observed
The Great Divorce
Abolition of Man
The Weight of Glory
Miracles
The Problem of Pain

G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Napoleon of Nottinghill
The Club of Queer Trades
Selected Essays
The Father Brown Series


Frank Herbert
Dune (Reread)
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune

Ravi Zacharias
Can Man Live Without God
Light in The Shadow of Jihad


Doctors: The Biography of Medicine by Sherwin Nuland
Flatland by Edwin Abbot
American God's by Neil Gaiman
Fight Club by Chuck Palanuik
The Case for Faith by Lee Strobel
The Silmarilion by J. R. R. Tokien (Reread)
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
A Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Justice by Michael Sandel
The Meaning of it All by Richard Feynman
Complications by Atul Gawande
Life After God by Douglas Copeland
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nietzsche
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson
Percy Jackson and The Olympians by Rick Riordan

Attempted Reads that never got completed because they were either boring or incomprehensible...

Confessions of St Augustine
Medicine, Patients and The Law
The Blind Assassin 
The Black Swan
The Everlasting Man
St Francis of Assisi