Book List for 2011

Time again for a bookish post on my poor neglected blog. Life has been full, busy, and good; 2011 was a pretty amazing year. God gives good gifts. :) Anyway, here is my book list for last year; I used the same rating system that I did in 2010. Enjoy!

Christianity
Gladys Aylward: The Little Woman (Gladys Aylward) ****
The Secret Key to Heaven: The Vital Importance of Private Prayer (Thomas Brooks) *****
I Come Quietly to Meet You (Amy Carmichael) ***
*Mimosa (Amy Carmichael) *****
Discipline: The Glad Surrender (Elisabeth Elliot) ****
Secret Keeper 2005: The Delicate Power of Modesty (Dannah Gresh) ***
Praying for your Future Husband: Preparing Your Heart for His (Robin Jones Gunn) ****
Intimacy with Christ (Jeanne Guyon) ****
Ascent to the Tribes (Isobel Kuhn) ****
*By Searching: My Journey through Doubt into Faith (Isobel Kuhn) ****
Children of the Hills (Isobel Kuhn) ****
*In the Arena (Isobel Kuhn) ****
*Nests above the Abyss (Isobel Kuhn) ****
Second Mile People (Isobel Kuhn) ****
*Stones of Fire (Isobel Kuhn) ****
Whom God Has Joined: sketches from a marriage in which God is first (Isobel Kuhn) ***
*A Grief Observed (C. S. Lewis) ****
*Mere Christianity (C. S. Lewis) ****
*Miracles (C. S. Lewis) ****
On Stories: and other essays on literature (C. S. Lewis) ****
Wrestling Prayer (Eric Ludy) ****
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ (John Piper) *****
Preparing to be a Help Meet (Debi Pearl) ****
*A Severe Mercy (Sheldon Vanauken) ****
One Thousand Gifts (Ann Voskamp) *****
*Cries of the Heart (Ravi Zacharias) *****

Other Non-Fiction
Elegantly Frugal Costumes: the Poor Man’s Do-It-Yourself Costume-Maker’s Guide (Shirley Dearing)***
Crowd Control: Classroom Management and Effective Teaching for chorus, band, and orchestra (Susan Haugland) ****
The Costume Designer’s Handbook (Rosemary Ingham) ****
The Costume Technician’s Handbook (Rosemary Ingham) ****
The Practice Revolution (Philip Johnston) ****
Who Moved My Cheese? (Spencer Johnson) ***
Costume Design: the Business and Art of Creating Costumes for Film and Television (Richard LaMotte) ****
Instant Period Costumes: How to Make Money from Cast-Off Clothing (Barb Rogers) **


History/Biography
The Colonial Background of the American Revolution (Charles McLean Andrews) ****
Sing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land: The Life of Justin Morgan (Betty Bandel) ***
The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and their friends (Humphrey Carpenter)***
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (Ted W. Lawson) ***
The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in 18th-Century England (John Styles) ***
I Love You Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan (Nancy Reagan) ****

Total Nonfiction: 40
Plays and Poetry
*Four Quartets (T. S. Eliot) ****
Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand)
Hamlet (William Shakespeare) ***
Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare)***
The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde) ***

Fantasy
The Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien) ***
The Fellowship of the Ring (J. R. R. Tolkien) ****
The Two Towers (J. R. R. Tolkien) ****
The Return of the King (J. R. R. Tolkien) ****

Fiction
*Emma (Jane Austen) ****
*Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) ****
No Thoroughfare (Charles Dickens) ***
Our Mutual Friend (Charles Dickens) ****
Wildflowers of Terezin (Robert Elmer) ***
Janice Meridith (Paul Leicester Ford) ***
*North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell) ****
The Fiddler’s Gun (A. S. Peterson) **
Fiddler’s Green (A. S. Peterson) ***
Waverly (Sir Walter Scott) ***

Children’s Fantasy
*The Magician’s Nephew (C. S. Lewis) ****
*The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) ****
The Rise and Fall of Mt. Majestic (Jennifer Trafton) ***
The Monster in the Hollows (Andrew Peterson) ****
Veiled Rose (Anne Elisabeth Stengl) **
The Thief (Megan Whalen Turner) ****
The Queen of Attolia (Megan Whalen Turner) ****
The King of Attolia (Megan Whalen Turner) ***
A Conspiracy of Kings (Megan Whalen Turner) **
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (Robin McKinley) ***

Children’s Fiction
A Garland for Girls (Louisa May Alcott) ***
*An Old-Fashioned Girl (Louisa May Alcott) *****
The Wool-Pack (Cynthia Harnett) ***
New Worlds for Josie (Kathryn Worth) ***
*They Loved to Laugh (Kathryn Worth) ****
Rilla of Ingleside (L. M. Montgomery) ****
*Emeralds for the King (Constance Savory) ****
*The Eagle of the Ninth (Rosemary Sutcliff) ****

Total Fiction: 37

Total Book Count for 2011: 77

* denotes a re-read