Suggested Reading for Christmas Break: From Your Faculty

With Christmas Break less than a week away, we hope you are starting to anticipate rest and to see the light at the end of the tunnel, as they say. Today we’ve collected Christmas Break reading recommendations from your faculty at King’s to help you begin to brainstorm how you might use some of your forthcoming leisure time.

Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Josef Pieper

East of Eden, John Steinbeck

The Gospel According to The Simpsons, Marvin I. Pinsky

Somehow I Manage, Michael Gary Scott

When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech for Better and/or Worse, Ben Yagoda

The Elements of Eloquence, Mark Forsyth

Knowing God, J.I. Packer

The Confessions, Augustine

Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus

Crazy Busy, Kevin DeYoung

“Christian Happiness,” Jonathan Edwards

Designing Your Life, Bill Burnett & Dave Evans

What the Best College Students Do, Ken Bain

Perhaps your “fun reading” list is already substantial, but in case you’re looking for new ideas, we hope you find this collection of suggestions helpful.

As a King’s community, we tend to be intellectually curious; may your Christmas Break be restful and thoughtful accordingly.