Just recording the books I finished this year before I clear the slate and start again. My goal was to average 4 books a month and I didn’t quite reach that, even with all six Harry Potters. Mothering two small children this year, I’ll be lucky if I finish 30 books. Here’s the 2005 list:
FICTION
Sholem Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman
Dan Brown, Angels and Demons
G. K. Chesterton, The Secret of Father Brown
Susan Howatch, Glittering Images
Susan Howatch, Glamorous Powers
Susan Howatch, Ultimate Prizes
Susan Howatch, Mystical Paths
Susan Howatch, Scandalous Risks
Susan Howatch, Absolute Truths
John Knowles, A Separate Peace
E. L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday
Chaim Potok, In the Beginning
Chaim Potok, Old Men at Midnight
Anne Rice, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons
NON-FICTION
Louise Bates Ames, Your One-Year-Old
Clay Clarkson, Heartfelt Discipline
Lawrence Cohen, Playful Parenting
Marva Dawn, Keeping the Sabbath Wholly
Craig Dunham & Doug Serven, TwentySomeone
Henci Goer, The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth
Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don’t Get Fat
Tim Kimmel, Grace-Based Parenting
Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies
Mel Levine, A Mind at a Time
C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
Jean Liedloff, The Continuum Concept
Brian MacLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy
Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz
Elizabeth Pantley, The No-Cry Sleep Solution
Ginger Plowman, Don’t Make Me Count to Three
Jeff VanVonderen, Families Where Grace is in Place
Douglas Wilson, My Life for Yours
Lauren Winner, Real Sex
Tom Wright, The Meal Jesus Gave Us
TOTAL READ: 43
RE-READS: 7
BOOKS I’D RECOMMEND: Most of the list!
BOOK I CAN’T BELIEVE I FINISHED AND WOULD NEVER RECOMMEND: Ginger Plowman’s Don’t Make Me Count to Three
NEW-TO-ME FICTION AUTHOR I ENJOYED MOST: (tie) Susan Howatch and Marilynne Robinson
OBSERVATION AFTER COMPILING THIS LIST: “Gosh, I read a lot of parenting books this year!”
dude!
I haven’t made a list, but if I did we’d have a lot of overlap with the Howatch books and parenting books. :)
I have a recommendation for 2006. I just finished reading “Redeeming Love” by Francine Rivers. I was a little skeptical because even though I haven’t read too many Christian fiction romances (okay, none), I didn’t expect it to be very good. But at the recommendation of my mom and Rachel, I dug into it and finished it in about two sittings. It’s based on the biblical story of Hosea and set in the 1850s. Francine Rivers was a secular romance writer who became a Christian. I was very impressed. It rocked my world.
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