Unread Books in My Library

Have you read all the books in your library? Students who come to visit me in my office sometimes ask: "Have you read all those books?" I tell them that I have read about 95% of them.

As I make my way through my list of books to read "for fun" and for research purposes, I do often ask myself if I will ever read certain books that having been sitting on my shelves. Here are some of the books at my office that I would like to read (eventually):

• Richard Archer, As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution
• Richard R. Beeman, The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America
• William H. Brackney, A Genetic History of Baptist Thought
• Joanna Brooks, American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures 
• Ted A. Campbell, The Gospel in Christian Traditions  
• Benjamin L. Carp, Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America
• Erskine Clarke, Our Southern Zion: A History of Calvinism in the South Carolina Low Country, 1690-1990
• Lyle W. Dorsett, Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America
• Philip Dwyer, Napoleon: The Path to Power
• Shmuel Feiner, Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity
• Joakim Garff, Soren Kierkegaard: A Biography
• Peter Gay, Modernism: The Lure of Heresy
• Allen C. Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
• Alastair Hannah, Kierkegaard: A Biography
• Harriet A. Harris, Fundamentalism and Evangelicals
• Philip Jenkins, The Lost History of Christianity
• Peter A. Lillback, George Washington's Sacred Fire
• Jerome Dean Mahaffey, The Accidental Revolutionary: George Whitefield and the Creation of America
• Eric Miller, Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch
• Philip N. Mulder, A Controversial Spirit: Evangelical Awakenings in the South
• Leigh Eric Schmidt, Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment
• Brian Stanley, ed., Christian Missions and the Enlightenment 
• Rodney Stark, God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades
• Randall J. Stephens, The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South
• Matthew Avery Sutton, Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America
• Gregory A. Wills, Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900
• Robert J. Wilson III, The Benevolent Deity: Ebenezer Gay and the Rise of Rational Religion
•  Avihu Zakai, Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History: The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment