(loosely classified)Â
CLASSICS:
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
Flannery O’Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev
Edith Schaeffer, L’Abri
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan
EDUCATIONAL/SPIRITUAL:
Louise Ames, Your Two-Year-Old
Andi Ashworth, Real Love for Real Life
Randall Balmer, Growing Pains
Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis
Robbie Castleman, Parenting in the Pew
Stephanie Cave, M.D. What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children’s Vaccinations
Sally Clarkson, The Mission of Motherhood
Rod Dreher, Crunchy Cons
Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish, Siblings Without Rivalry
Samuel Heilman, Defenders of the Faith
Gladys Hunt, Honey for a Child’s Heart
Alex Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here
Madeline L’Engle, Walking on Water
Nancy Pearcey, The Soul of Science
Cynthia Tobias, You Can’t Make Me (But I Can Be Persuaded)
N.T. Wright, Simply Christian
Tom Wright, Hebrews for Everyone
FUN:
Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow
Will Blythe, To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever
Chris Bohjalian, Midwives
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
Susan Olasky, Will Northaway Series (4)
Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game
Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love
Craig Thompson, Blankets
Tobias Wolff, Old School
*L* If I were to make a list it would be “all the books I checked out from the library or bought and skimmed through but didn’t actually read this year. . .”
I finished very few.
I simply must start reading classic literature.
… but I see you’ve already read Jayber Crow. I bought Three Short Novels… which contains Nathan Coulter, Remembering, and A World Lost, three of his earlier ones. I’m looking forward to reading the rest.
:-)