The Tenth Anniversary Edition of Gary Haugen’s original book, Good News About Injustice, released this past month. One of the helpful new resources in the appendix is a sampling of recommended resources for further reading. I’m including the list below (click “read more” for the full list of titles.)
Which books have you read? Which would you recommend to others and why? Which do you hope to read?
Justice Theology
• The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God’s Call to Justice. Mark Labberton. Intervarsity Press, 2007.
• God in the Dock. C.S. Lewis. William. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1994.
General Human Rights
• Ethics. Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Simon & Schuster, 1995.
• Letters and Papers from Prison. Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Simon & Schuster, 1997.
(It is recommended that the two selections by Bonhoeffer be read together for comprehension)
• Just Courage: God’s Great Expedition for the Restless Christian. Gary Haugen. Intervarsity Press, 2008.
General Human Rights
• Human Rights Watch World Report. Human Rights Watch, Published Annually.
• The Trafficking in Persons Report. U.S. Department of State, Published in June Annually.
• Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. Kevin Bales. University of California Press, 2004.
• Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade – and How We Can Fight It. David Batstone. HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.
• Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda. Roméo Dallaire. Da Capo Press, 2004.
• Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves. Adam Hochschild. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006.
• King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Adam Hochschild. Mariner Books, 1999.
• Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. Siddharth Kara. Columbia University Press, 2008.
• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World. Tracy Kidder. Random House Inc., 2004.
• Cry the Beloved Country. Alan Paton. Simon & Schuster, 2003.
• Let Justice Roll Down. John Perkins. Regal Books, 2006.
• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide Samantha Power. Harper Perennial, 2007.
• Night. Elie Wiesel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
I’ve read all of Gary’s books, Night by Wiesel, Not for Sale by Batstone, Disposable People by Bales. I’ve been wanting to read Bonhoeffer for many years now. I recommend all that I’ve read. It all furthers the cause and makes us more aware of the issue and the many forms it can take. I cried so hard reading Night. I pray for Elie. I have another book called Unspeakable, but I haven’t read it yet, so I can’t give a review. Also the book by Wilberforce called Real Christianity. Wonderful stuff.
Lisa - “Unspeakable” is a great recommendation. Os Guinness is an excellent and thought provoking theologian, and a good friend of IJM’s - he wrote chapter 15 about our work.
hie, i have been a youth leader for more than five years, and i have been trained on leadership and theology in Kenya kindly how can we get your leading manual in KENYA? especially the latest good news in justice?