Read the Bible

How To Read the Bible, by James L. Kugel, Free Press

The NYT reviewer calls the book "awesome, thrilling and deeply strange" -- sounds great.

Referred to as a book that is so good that the reviewer doesn't know what to say:
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/09/books-that-are-.html

The Stillborn God

The Stillborn God by Mark Lilla, Knopf

Reviewed in both NYT and WSJ this weekend.

This sounds like a book I would like to read. Provocative.

Here's the review from the American Prospect:
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=keeping_god_out_of_it