So this is the list of books I read this year. It's a nice list- I probably overachieved a bit, but didn't quite make the goal of 2 books a week like I was trying. I don't anticipate reading this much in the coming year as I plan on taking more classes (in addition to work, church, friends, etc.) I didn't finish reading my Bible in Spanish like I'd planned. I think that's something I really need to do in 2011. I also would like to read more theology books. This year was full of "classics" which was nice, because I think I've mostly avoided them in the past. Although reading some of the "classics" always makes you wonder how they achieved that status. I didn't read as much non-fiction as I usually do. If anybody wants specific feedback/recommendations/etc. on particular books I would love to share!
Girls Gone Mild by Wendy Shalit
Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis -*
Light at Tern Rock by Julie Sauer
Stitches: a memoir... by David Small -G
Night by Elie Wiesel -O*
The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis -*
Flush by Carl Hiassen -*
Living Well on Practically Nothing by Edward H. Romney
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov -O
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier -*
Interworld by Neil Gaimen -*
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver -*
Chile: Death in the South by Jacobo Timerman -O
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson -O*
February
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury -*
Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff
The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli -O*
When you Reach Me by Rebecca Stead -*
Babylon By Bus by Lemoine and Neumann
The World Is Flat [Updated]: A Brief History of the 21st Century by Thomas Friedman-* (I quit 3/4 of the way through though. I couldn't bear to finish it.)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding -*
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The Two Reds by Will and Nicholas
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
March
Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes by Robert Brown -T
The Country of Marriage by Wendell Berry -T?
Iqbal by Francesco D'Adamo
Confessions of St. Augustine; translated by Outler by St. Augustine -*T
Antiquities of the Jews: Books I-V by Flavius Josephus -*T
The Lost Gospel of Mary by Frederica Mathewes-Green -T
April
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card -*
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (read and listened. great combo.)
The Violence of Love by Oscar Romero -T
You Must Kiss a Whale by David Skinner
May
Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global eds. Eidse and Sichel
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger -*
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri -*
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi -*
June
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri -*
Gifts of the Jews by Thomas Cahill -*T
¡Gracias! A Latin American Journal by Henri J.M. Nouwen -T
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane -*
July
Desire of the Everlasting Hills by Thomas Cahill -* T(and skimmed the book for footnotes)
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card -*
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Shaffer and Barrows -*
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Drops like Stars by Rob Bell -OT
On the Road by Jack Kerouac -O* (listened mostly, it's worth being listened to simply for the rhythm of Dean Moriarty's words...but I read the last bit)
August
King Lear by Shakespeare
At the Corner of East and Now by Frederica Mathewes-Green -T
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen -*
Rex Libris Volume 1: I, Librarianby James Turner -G
Around the world with Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
Organization of Information: Third Edition by Arlene Taylor (read parts, skimmed parts)
Home Economics by Wendell Berry -O T?
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson -*
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather -*
September
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe by Thomas Cahill -* T (listened and read, pretty pictures!)
October
How to Be a Gentleman: A Contemporary Guide to Common Courtesy by John Bridges
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why. by Bart Ehrman -* T
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton -* T (definitely need to re-read)
November
The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris -O T
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card -*
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho -*
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld -*
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro -*
A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary by Alain De Botton
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton -*
The Great Dayton Flood of 1913 by Trudy Bell
Simply Christian by N.T. Wright -T
December
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waughn -*
To Know Him: Beyond Religion Waits a Relationship that will Change Your Life by Gloria Copeland -O T
Books I REALLY REALLY wanted to read but didn't get to in a timely manner...
Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor
A Good Man is Hard to Find and other stories by Flannery O'Connor
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (10 pages in)
Nectar In A Sieve by Kamala Markandaya (80 pages in)
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago
All the Names by Jose Saramago
Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago (really, all of the books by Saramago that I've never read. but these are the ones I had from the library)
March
Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes by Robert Brown -T
The Country of Marriage by Wendell Berry -T?
Iqbal by Francesco D'Adamo
Confessions of St. Augustine; translated by Outler by St. Augustine -*T
Antiquities of the Jews: Books I-V by Flavius Josephus -*T
The Lost Gospel of Mary by Frederica Mathewes-Green -T
April
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card -*
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (read and listened. great combo.)
The Violence of Love by Oscar Romero -T
You Must Kiss a Whale by David Skinner
May
Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global eds. Eidse and Sichel
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger -*
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri -*
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi -*
June
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri -*
Gifts of the Jews by Thomas Cahill -*T
¡Gracias! A Latin American Journal by Henri J.M. Nouwen -T
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane -*
July
Desire of the Everlasting Hills by Thomas Cahill -* T(and skimmed the book for footnotes)
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card -*
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Shaffer and Barrows -*
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Drops like Stars by Rob Bell -OT
On the Road by Jack Kerouac -O* (listened mostly, it's worth being listened to simply for the rhythm of Dean Moriarty's words...but I read the last bit)
August
King Lear by Shakespeare
At the Corner of East and Now by Frederica Mathewes-Green -T
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen -*
Rex Libris Volume 1: I, Librarianby James Turner -G
Around the world with Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
Organization of Information: Third Edition by Arlene Taylor (read parts, skimmed parts)
Home Economics by Wendell Berry -O T?
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson -*
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather -*
September
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe by Thomas Cahill -* T (listened and read, pretty pictures!)
October
How to Be a Gentleman: A Contemporary Guide to Common Courtesy by John Bridges
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why. by Bart Ehrman -* T
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton -* T (definitely need to re-read)
November
The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris -O T
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card -*
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho -*
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld -*
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro -*
A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary by Alain De Botton
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton -*
The Great Dayton Flood of 1913 by Trudy Bell
Simply Christian by N.T. Wright -T
December
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waughn -*
To Know Him: Beyond Religion Waits a Relationship that will Change Your Life by Gloria Copeland -O T
Moving Pictures by Kathryn and Stuart Immonen -G
A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld -G
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery -*
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway -* (set in Spain and Europe? holla.)
Forget Sorrow by Belle Yang -G
The Cincinnati Subway: History of Rapid Transit by Allen Singer
My Antonia by Willa Cather -*
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway -*
Pride and Prejudice by Nancy Butler and Hugo Petrus -G
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett -*
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James -*
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy -*
Daisy Miller by Henry James -*
Garden of Eating: Food, Sex and the Hunger for Meaning by Jeremy Iggers -O
Advent and Christmas with Thomas Merton compiled by Bauer and Cleary -O T
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald -*
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James -*
(91) Total
(48) Audiobooks-*
(11) Owned books-O
(6) Graphic Novels-G
(19) Theology Related- T (of course, every book has theology in it, some are just more focused on it than others)
A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld -G
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery -*
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway -* (set in Spain and Europe? holla.)
Forget Sorrow by Belle Yang -G
The Cincinnati Subway: History of Rapid Transit by Allen Singer
My Antonia by Willa Cather -*
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway -*
Pride and Prejudice by Nancy Butler and Hugo Petrus -G
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett -*
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James -*
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy -*
Daisy Miller by Henry James -*
Garden of Eating: Food, Sex and the Hunger for Meaning by Jeremy Iggers -O
Advent and Christmas with Thomas Merton compiled by Bauer and Cleary -O T
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald -*
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James -*
(91) Total
(48) Audiobooks-*
(11) Owned books-O
(6) Graphic Novels-G
(19) Theology Related- T (of course, every book has theology in it, some are just more focused on it than others)
Books I REALLY REALLY wanted to read but didn't get to in a timely manner...
Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor
A Good Man is Hard to Find and other stories by Flannery O'Connor
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (10 pages in)
Nectar In A Sieve by Kamala Markandaya (80 pages in)
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago
All the Names by Jose Saramago
Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago (really, all of the books by Saramago that I've never read. but these are the ones I had from the library)
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Mind of the Maker by Dorothy Sayers
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Mind of the Maker by Dorothy Sayers
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (partway through)
