Playlist and Reading List – Expanding Your Roots!

To accompany Jocelyn Kirk’s article “In the In-Between”: Expanding Your Roots, the Young Adult Editorial Team for Unbound has compiled a suggested playlist and reading list for expanding YOUR roots! Check out the following list of songs (available as a Spotify playlist and plain text) and books that don’t necessarily fall into the “Christian” genre, but address issues of faith and/or justice in ways that relate to the Christian faith. Happy listening and reading!

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Playlist

(If the playlist won’t play automatically, download Spotify for free here or simply look up the following songs through your preferred form of media.)

1. One Day, Matisyahu
2. Awake My Soul, Mumford & Sons
3. Meaning, Gavin DeGraw
4. The Once and Future Carpenter, The Avett Brothers
5. Closer to Fine, The Indigo Girls
6. You Found Me, The Fray
7. The Longer I Run, Peter Bradley Adams
8. Heaven, Los Lonely Boys
9. The Hand Song, Nickel Creek
10. Inner City Blues, Marvin Gaye
11. Ain’t No Reason, Brett Dennen
12. Shine On, Blitzen Trapper
13. Revolution, Nina Simone
14. Sun, Sleeping At Last
15. One Voice, The Wailin’ Jennys
16. Let Your Heart Hold Fast, Fort Atlantic
17. For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti, Sufjan Stevens
18. Saving Grace, Everlast
19. Same Love, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, feat. Mary Lambert
20. Roll Away Your Stone, Mumford & Sons
21. Let It Be Me, Indigo Girls
22. Hallelujah, Rufus Wainwright
23. Timshel, Mumford & Sons
24. Wavin’ Flag, K’naan
25. The Rebel Jesus, Jackson Browne
26. Starlight, The Wailin’ Jennys
27. If You’re Out There, John Legend
28. Doubting Thomas, Nickel Creek
29. Let It Be, The Beatles
30. Better Days, The Goo Goo Dolls
31. A Message, Coldplay
32. On the Turning Away, Pink Floyd
33. Heaven, Brett Dennen
34. Forgiveness, Patty Griffin
35. High Hopes, Bruce Springsteen
36. To Be Alone With You, Sufjan Stevens
37. From This Valley, The Civil Wars
38. Butler Street, David Lamotte
39. Run to You, Pentatonix
40. The War Was In Color, Carbon Leaf[/ezcol_1half]

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Reading List

1. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
2. The Shack, William P. Young
3. The Giver, Lois Lowry
4. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
5. The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls
6. God Loves, Man Kills, Chris Claremont
7. Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
8. Jaber Crow and other poetry by Wendell Barry
9. Mountains Beyond Mountains,Tracy Kidder
10. The Road Less Traveled, M. Scott Peck
11. The Essential Gandhi, Gandhi, Louis Fischer et al.
12. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
13. Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott
14. Plan B, Anne Lamott
15. Grace (Eventually), Anne Lamott
16. Man Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
17. My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
18. Left to Tell, Immaculee Ilibagiza
19. Lamb, Christopher Moore
20. Walking on Eggshells, Paul Mason
21. Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
22. Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Patterson
23. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins
24. Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
25. Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card
26. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
27. Divergent Trilogy, Veronica Roth
28. Change of Heart, Jodi Picoult
29. East of Eden, John Steinbeck
30. The Hunger Games Trilogy, Suzanne Collins
31. Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck
32. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
33. Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
34. The Feast Nearby, Robin Mather
35. The Long Goodbye, Meghan O’Rourke
36. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
37. Peace Like a River, Leif Enger
38. Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling
39. The Story of B, Daniel Quinn
40. Night, Elie Wiesel

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