Book List for 2008

Happy New Year to you! With less than an hour left in 2008, I'm posting my list of books read this year. Here you go...the Nearly Comprehensive List of What Rachel Read in 2008. Enjoy browsing, shake your head at me if you like, and have a good beginning of 2009!

Biography/History
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Biography (Eberhard Bethge) 1048 pages
Friendship and Resistance, (Eberhard Bethge) 111 pages
Last Letters of Resistance (Bonhoeffer family), 115 pages
Martha Washington: An American Life (Patricia Brady) 276 p.
A History Of Wales (John Davies) 686 p.
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose (238 p.) (Annette Dumbach and Jud Newborn)
*A Chance To Die (Elisabeth Elliot) 382 p. (Well, it's almost done and I read most of it in '08!!)
Daring, Trusting Spirit; Bonhoeffer’s friend Eberhard Bethge (John de Gruchy, 221 p.
Darkness over Denmark (Ellen Levine) 164 p.
Letters to an American Lady (C. S. Lewis), 128 pages
John Adams (David McCullagh) 751 p.
A Passion for the Impossible (Miriam Huffman Rockness) 368 p.
At The Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl (331 p.)
Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Eleanor Pruitt Stewart)
Walking from East to West (Ravi Zacharias) 240 p.

Music:
Playing (less) Hurt: an injury prevention guide for musicians (Janet Horvath) 295 p.
My Life with the Great Pianists (Franz Mohr and Edith Schaffer) 200 p.
The Unashamed Accompanist (Gerald Moore) 126 p
A Pianist’s Landscape (Carol Montparker) 297 p.
Anatomy of a New York Debut Recital (Carol Montparker) 90 p.

Christian/Inspirational
*The Bible (879 p.)
Orthodoxy (G. K. Chesterton) 154 p.
On Asking God Why (Elisabeth Elliot) (169 p.)
The Path Of Loneliness (Elisabeth Elliot) 196 p.
The Abolition Of Man (C. S. Lewis) 113 p.
Miracles (C. S. Lewis) 294 p.
The Problem Of Pain (C. S. Lewis) 162 p.
The Grand Weaver (Ravi Zacharias) 200 p.
Recapture the Wonder (Ravi Zacharias)192 p.
Total non-fiction: 28

Fiction
The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan) 231 p.
Greenmantle (John Buchan) 345 p.
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
Wives and Daughters (Elizabeth Gaskell) (652 p.)
North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell) (400-500 p.?)
The Little White Horse (Elizabeth Goudge) 238 p.
Pilgrim’s Inn (Elizabeth Goudge) 346 p.
The Bird in the Tree (Elizabeth Goudge) 339 p.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (James Hilton) 115 p.
The Laird’s Inheritance (George MacDonald) 289 p
The Minister’s Restoration (George MacDonald) 130 p.
*The Scarlet Pimpernel (Baroness Orczy) 299 p.
A Rift In Time (Michael Phillips) 480 p.
Hidden In Time (Michael Phillips) 512 p.
Legend of the Celtic Stone (Michael Phillips) 538 p.
The Legend of the Firefish (George Bryan Polivka) 345 p.
Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) 650? P.
His Brother’s Keeper (Charles Sheldon) 245 p.
Girl of the Limberlost (Gene Stratton-Porter) 479 p.
The Harvester (Gene Stratton-Porter) 500-some p.
A Daughter of the Land (Gene Stratton-Porter)
*Freckles (Gene Stratton-Porter) 432 p.
Michael O’Halloran (Gene Stratton-Porter) 560 p.
Total fiction: 23

Children’s Books:
Rose in Bloom (Louisa May Alcott) 302 p.
What Katy Did (Susan Coolidge) (192 p.)
What Katy Did at School (Susan Coolidge) (191 p.)
What Katy Did Next (Susan Coolidge) (190 p.)
That Girl of Pierre’s (Robert Davis) 179 p.
The Hoosier Schoolmaster (Edward Eggleston) (281 p.)
Understood Betsy (Dorothy Canfield Fisher) 271 p.
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow (Allen French) 244
Ellanor's Exchange (Linda Hayner)
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston (Eleanore M. Jewett) 340 p.
*Adventures in the Northwoods—about 6 books out of 10 (Lois Walfrid Johnson)
The Riverboat Adventure series, 6 books (Lois Walfrid Johnson) —about 180 p. apiece
Viking Quest series:
Raiders from the Sea (Lois Walfrid Johnson) 199 p.
Mystery of the Silver Coins (Lois Walfrid Johnson) 193 p.
The Invisible Friend (Lois Walfrid Johnson) 217 p.
Heart of Courage (Lois Walfrid Johnson) 231 p.
The Raider’s Promise (Lois Walfrid Johnson) 294 p.
The Two Collars (Jeri Massi) 164 p.
Treasure in the Yukon (Jeri Massi) 128 p.
Llamas on the Loose (Jeri Massi) 140 p.
Abandoned (Jeri Massi) 136 p.
The Bridge (Jeri Massi) 116 p.
Rascal (Sterling North) (189 p.)
Every Perfect Gift (Julie Nye), 201 p.
Roses for Mama (Janette Oke)
Little Feather at Big Bear Lake (Bernard Palmer)
Bjorn the Proud (Madeleine Polland) 176 p.
Men of Iron (Howard Pyle) 328 p.
The Yearling (Marjorie Rawlings) (400 p.)
Christian Heritage Series—The Chicago Years, 6 books (Nancy Rue)—about 180 p. apiece
Enemy Brothers (Constance Savory) (287 p.)
The Switherby Pilgrims (Eleanor Spence) 170 p.
Jamberoo Road (Eleanor Spence) 160 p.
The Cottage at Bantry Bay (Hilda van Stockum) (252 p.)
Francie on the Run (Hilda van Stockum) (293 p.)
Pegeen (Hilda van Stockum) (266 p.)
Phronsie Pepper (Margaret Sydney)
Five Little Peppers Grown Up (Margaret Sydney)
Bring Out the Banners (Geoffrey Trease) 150 p.?
Bows against the Barons (Geoffrey Trease) 154 p.
The Rose Round (Meriol Trevor) 211 p.
Daddy Long-Legs, Dear Enemy (Jean Webster) 358 p. total
The Next Fine Day (Elizabeth Yates) 191 p.
Amos Fortune, Free Man (Elizabeth Yates) 181 p.
The Seventh One (Elizabeth Yates) 115 p.

Total children's: 61

Total number of books read this year: 112
* denotes a re-read

Just because a book appears on this list doesn't mean I'd recommend it, necessarily--just a disclaimer. ;) I'm willing to talk books with anyone who has questions!