I keep track of the books I read throughout the year and have been updating and finalizing the list today. Thought you might have fun looking over it. So, here you go: the Nearly Comprehensive List of What Rachel Read This Year, listed alphabetically by author.
Biography:
Letters and Papers from Prison (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
*Green Leaf in Drought (Isobel Kuhn)
Surprised by Joy (C. S. Lewis)
Meeting God at Every Turn (Catherine Marshall)
Amazing Grace: William Wilburforce and the heroic campaign to end slavery (Eric Metaxas)
Van Cliburn (Howard Reich)
Joni (Joni Eareckson Tada)
The God I Love (Joni Eareckson Tada)
Prison Letters (Corrie Ten Boom)
In My Father’s House (Corrie Ten Boom)
A Severe Mercy (Sheldon Vanaukan)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Heroes of the Faith series--Michael Van Dyke)
Glory and Honor: The Music and Artistic Legacy of J. S. Bach (Gregory Wilbur)
Other Non-Fiction:
How to Read a Book (Mortimer J. Adler)
Home Life in Colonial Days (Alice Morse Earle)
T. S. Eliot poetry (Four Quartets and others)
A Path Through Suffering (Elisabeth Elliot)
The Shaping of a Christian Family (Elisabeth Elliot)
*A Grief Observed (C. S. Lewis)
*The Four Loves (C. S. Lewis)
Weight of Glory (C. S. Lewis)
Facing Your Giants (Max Lucado)
When I Don’t Desire God (John Piper)
When The Darkness Will Not Lift (John Piper)
Parables of the Cross (Lilias Trotter)
Cries of the Heart (Ravi Zacharias)
Fiction:
Emma (Jane Austin)
Persuasion (Jane Austin)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austin)
A Lantern in Her Hand (Bess Streeter Aldrich)
The Little Minister (James Barrie)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
St. Elmo (Augusta J. Evans)
The Lost Angel (Elizabeth Goudge)
Pilgrim's Inn (Elizabeth Goudge)
Lysbeth (H. Rider Haggard)
The Brethren (H. Rider Haggard)
*Hind’s Feet on High Places (Hannah Hurnard)
*Mountains of Spices (Hannah Hurnard)
Captains Courageous (Rudyard Kipling)
The Musician’s Quest (George MacDonald, edited by Michael Phillips)
The Sunny Side: Short Stories and Poems for Proper Grown-Ups (A. A. Milne)
Sister Sue (Eleanor Porter)
The Wide, Wide World (Susan Warner)
Helen of the Old House (Harold Bell Wright)
Children’s Fiction:
The Inheritance (Louisa May Alcott)
**Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
*Jo’s Boys (Louisa May Alcott)
Under a Changing Moon (Margot Benary-Isbert)
Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley? (Rebecca Caudill)
Five Bushel Farm (Elizabeth Coatsworth)
The Daughter (Borghild Dahl)
The Shadow of the Bear (Regina Doman)
The Wind Blows Free (Loula Grace Erdman)
The Wide Horizon (Loula Grace Erdman)
Ellanor’s Exchange (Linda Hayner)
**The Foundling (Linda Hayner)
**A Father's Promise (Donnalynn Hess)
Georgina of the Rainbows (Annie Fellows Johnston)
*Carry On, Mr. Bowditch (Jean Lee Latham)
Number the Stars (Lois Lowry)
Tales of the Kingdom (David and Karen Mains)
Tales of the Resistance (David and Karen Mains)
Tales of the Restoration (David and Karen Mains)
Derwood Inc. (Jeri Massi)
A Dangerous Game (Jeri Massi)
Courage by Darkness (Jeri Massi)
Crown and Jewel (Jeri Massi)
The Railway Children (E. Nesbit)
The Treasure-Seekers (E. Nesbit)
In My Uncle’s House (Julie Nye)
My Friend Flicka (Mary O’Hara)
Thunderhead (Mary O’Hara)
Green Grass of Wyoming (Mary O’Hara)
Missee Lee (Arthur Ransome)
The Picts and the Martyrs (Arthur Ransome)
Great Northern? (Arthur Ransome)
Dark House on the Moss (Constance Savery)
Emeralds for the King (Constance Savery)
Downright Dencey (Caroline Dale Snedeker)
The Sign of the Beaver (Elizabeth George Speare)
*The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Elizabeth George Speare)
Series Books:
Kingdom Series: books 1, 2, 3, 5 (Chuck Black)
The Wall series, 3 books (Robert Elmer)
The Young Underground series, 8 books (Robert Elmer)
About a dozen Sugar Creek Gang books
Christian Heritage Series--Salem, Williamsburg, Charleston and Sante Fe installments; total of 24 books (Nancy Rue)
A Life Of Faith: Kathleen McKenzie Series, 4 books (Tracy Craven)
Mr. Pipes books, about 2 1/2 of them (Douglas Bond)
* = re-read book
** = read aloud to siblings
Total number of non-fiction books: 25
Total number of fiction books: too many
Total number of books read in 2007 (according to this nearly comprehensive listing): somewhere around 137.
Note: Because a book is on this list doesn't mean that I would recommend it for all ages, or even any ages. Not every opinion by every author here is necessarily espoused by yours truly. You are welcome to ask about particular books if you have questions--I'd be happy to try to answer.
5 comments:
Whoa!
And I thought I was doing well with "the cat in the hat"
My goodness, I had no idea that you enjoyed reading that much! =) Where do you find the time to read?
I'm doing great if I finish five books a year, LOL! And here I'm the biggest reader in the whole family...
Wow! That's ALOT of books. I think I've only finished 1 book this year.. lol. Well, if I count the books that I *had* to read for a book report before I graduated.. it'd be about 3. :D
Well, Steven, Cat in the Hat is a remarkable literary achievement but I just didn't get to it this year...
Where do I find the time to read? Well...I probably spend time reading that could well be spent in more "profitable" matters (reading and practicing do conflict occasionally), but the main thing is probably that I am a notoriously fast reader. Also, I usually get some good solid reading in when we're on our trips or any time we're in the car for an extended period of time. Other than that, I snatch minutes (that grow...) here and there. Once I've started a good fiction book, I usually will finish it within a few days (or the same day for a lot of the series books)--I'm not good at waiting to find out what happens. :) I still pre-read a lot of books for my younger sisters; it makes a good excuse for those many children's books.
Wow thats a lot of books Rachel!
Moirah
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