A selection of books that are woven into my views on everything. Asterisks are by novels.

From Childhood:

The Butter Battle Book, by Dr. Seuss
The Sneetches, by Dr. Seuss
Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shell Silverstein
Frog and Toad Together, by Arnold Lobel
* Charlott’s Webb, by E. B. White
* Anne of Green Gables, et al., by Lucy Maud Montgomery
* Little Women, at al., by Louisa May Alcott
* The 79 Squares, by Malcolm J. Bosse

From High School:

* The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
* Black Like Me, by John Howard Griffin
* A Separate Peace, by John Knowles

From College:

Mustard Seed Conspiracy, by Tom Sine
Let Justice Roll Down, et al., by John Perkins
Promises Not Kept: The Betrayal of Social Change in the Third World, by John Isbister
* The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte

From Seminary (though not necessarily assigned reading…):

Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, by Marcus Borg
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, by John Shelby Spong
In Man We Trust, by Walter Brueggemann
Recovering the Scandal of the Cross, by Mark D. Baker and Joel Green
Perspectives on Our Age, by Jacque Ellul
Faith Beyond Resentment, by James Alison
Understanding the Atonement for the Mission of the Church, by John Driver
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, et al., by Rene Girard
The New Testament: An Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, by Bart D. Ehrman
Church Dogmatics, Vol 4, part 1, by Karl Barth
Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The story of the village of Le Chambon and how goodness happened there, by Philip Hallie
Memories of God, by Roberta Bondi
Traveling Mercies, by Anne Lamott
* Deep River, by Shusaku Endo
* Silence, by Shusaku Endo
* A Wrinkle In Time, et al., by Madeleine L’Engle

Since then:

Dance of the Dissident Daughter, by Sue Monk Kidd
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
An Interrupted Life, by Etty Hillesum
Hero With a Thousand Faces, et al., by Joseph Campbell
The Portable Jung, by Carl G. Jung, R. F. C. Hull, and Joseph Campbell
Various texts on physics
Writing from the Inside Out, by Dennis Palumbo
Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran, Kahlil Gibran
The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and Self, by Jean Bolen
God Laughs and Plays, by David James Duncan
* Mystical Paths, by Susan Howatch
* To a God Unknown, by John Steinbeck
* The Alchemist, by Paulo Cuelho
* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig
* Lila: An Inquiry into Morals, by Robert Pirsig
* The Red Tent, by Anita Diamont
* Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
* My Name is Asher Lev, et al., by Chaim Potok
* Brothers Karamazov, by Theodore Dostoyevsky
* Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
* His Dark Materials series, by Philip Pullman