Yearly Archives

2018

  • The LifeGiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming by Sally and Sarah Clarkson
  • The Dark is Rising (reread; audio) by Susan Cooper
  • American Street by Ibi Zoboi
  • Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
  • Are Women Human? by Dorothy Sayers
  • Auma's Long Run by Eucabeth Odhiambo
  • Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos
  • The Kidnapped Prince: The life of Olaudah Equiano by O.E. and Ann Cameron
  • Train I Ride by Paul Moser
  • Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
  • The Happiness Project and Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin
  • Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World by Sy Montgomery
  • Lab Girl by Hope Jahrens
  • Notes from No Man's Land by Eula Biss
  • The Remarkable Ordinary by Frederick Buechner
  • Common Sense by Thomas Paine
  • The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
  • The Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 1 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
  • The Science of Breakable Things by Tae Keller
  • Ready Player One (audio) by Ernest Kline
  • True Grit by Charles Portis
  • Capital Gaines by Chip Gaines
  • The Aeneid by Virgil, Sarah Ruden translation
  • The Art of Loading Brush by Wendell Berry
  • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
  • What You are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, by Elizabeth Catte
  • The Lifters by Dave Eggers
  • This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jenkins
  • Kids of Appetite by David Arnold
  • Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Harrison Warren
  • Legend by Marie Lu
  • The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
  • Love the Home You Have (reread?) by Melissa Michaels
  • Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
  • The Know-it-all by A.J. Jacobs
  • Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
  • The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch
  • Who's Doing the Work? by Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris
  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2017

  • Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
  • A Wrinkle in Time (graphic novel adaptation) by Hope Larson
  • Flying Lessons and Other Stories ed. by Ellen Oh
  • Grace Not Perfection by Emily Ley
  • Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

2016

  • Small Talk by Amy Julia Beckler
  • Reading in the Wild by Donalyn Miller
  • The Friendship Matchmaker by Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • X by Ilyasah Shabbaz
  • Field Trip by Gary Paulsen and Jim Paulsen
  • Love the Home You Have by Melissa Michaels
  • American Ace by Marilyn Nelson
  • No More Summer Reading Loss by Cahill, Horvath, McGill-Franzen, Allington
  • Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
  • Pax by Sara Pennypacker
  • The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
  • Kisses from Katie by Katie Davis
  • Drama by Raina Telgemeier
  • The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
  • I am Pan by Mordecai Gerstein
  • The Marvels by Brian Selznick
  • El Deafo by Cece Bell
  • The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
  • The Third Man by Graham Greene
  • The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney
  • The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (reread) by Catherynne M. Valente
  • Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
  • The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
  • The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente
  • Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Watership Down (audio; reread) by Richard Adams
  • Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
  • When You Reach Me (reread) by Rebecca Stead
  • Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
  • The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon
  • Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
  • The Westing Game (reread) by Ellen Raskin
  • The Apothecary by Maile Meloy
  • The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
  • Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
  • The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
  • Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
  • The Nightmarys by Dan Poblocki
  • The Trap by Steven Arntson
  • Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
  • Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
  • Endurance (audio) by E. H. Shackleton
  • Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
  • Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
  • No Summit Out of Sight by Jordan Romero
  • Ross Poldark by Winston Graham
  • Peak by Roland Smith
  • Theodore Boone: The Fugitive by John Grisham
  • Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper
  • Counterfeit Gods by Tim Keller
  • Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal by Tim Hayes
  • A Separate Peace by John Knowles
  • The Education of Little Tree (reread) by Forrest Carter
  • How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Conner
  • Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
  • The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
  • Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
  • A World Without You by Beth Revis
  • The Memory of Old Jack (reread) by Wendell Berry
  • Julie of the Wolves (reread) by Jean Craighead George
  • The Legend of Zoey by Candie Moonshower
  • Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson
  • Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry
  • Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier
  • Our Only World by Wendell Berry
  • He Said, She Said by Kwame Alexander
  • The Key to Extraordinary by Natalie Lloyd
  • The Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island by Dana Alison Levy
  • Lucky Strikes by Louis Bayard
  • Oryx and Crake (audio) by Margaret Atwood
  • The Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey
  • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
  • Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate
  • The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
  • Every Single Second by Tricia Springstubb
  • March: Book One, Two, and Three by John Lewis
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (reread) by J. K. Rowling
  • The Templeton Twins Have an Idea by Ellis Weiner 
2015
  • Lilliput by Sam Gayton
  • Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley
  • The Lost Track of Time by Paige Britt
  • The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller
  • Tuck Everlasting (reread) by Natalie Babbit
  • Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
  • Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
  • The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  • Shadow by Michael Murpurgo
  • The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart
  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo
  • Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein
  • The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
  • The School of Fear by Gitty Daneshvari
  • The Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford
  • Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
  • Cutting for Stone (audio) by Abraham Verghese
  • Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
  • My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
  • The Reading Zone (reread) by Nancie Atwell
  • Catcher in the Rye (reread) by J. D. Salinger
  • Heap House by Edward Carey
  • Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery
  • On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson
  • Half a Chance by Cynthia Lord
  • Mudhouse Sabbath by Lauren Winner
  • Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
  • Daniel's Story by Carol Matas
  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  • American Sniper by Chris Kyle
  • Sick in the Head by Judd Apatow
  • In the Heart of the Sea (audio) by Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw
  • The Oyster and the Pearl by Willam Saroyan
  • Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles and Ted Orland
  • The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
  • The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho
  • What is the What by Dave Eggers
  • We Live in Water by Jess Walter
  • Paradise Lost by John Milton
  • Booked by Karen Swallow Prior
  • The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
  • The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
  • Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
  • The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
  • Teaching Redemptively: Bringing Grace and Truth into Your Classroom by Donovan L. Graham
  • Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
  • More Baths Less Talking by Nick Hornby
  • Ten Years on the Tub by Nick Hornby
  • Love that Dog by Sharon Creech
  • Mosquitoland by David Arnold
  • Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms by Lissa Evans
  • Dinner: A Love Story by Jenny Rosenstrach
  • Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (audio) by Robert C. O'Brien
  • Waiting for the Magic (reread) by Patricia Maclachlan
  • Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (audio) by Suzanne Collins
  • Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
  • Engaging God's World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
  • Great House by Kicole Krauss
  • The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
  • The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi Durrow
  • The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film by Michael Ondaatje
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitzyn
  • Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea
  • Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence by Nick Bantock
  • The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold by Daniel James Brown
  • Paper Towns by John Green
  • Texts from Jane Eyre and Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters by Mallory Ortberg
  • A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins
  • The Charlatan's Boy by Jonathan Rogers
  • Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
  • The Dangerous Duty of Delight by John Piper
  • The Sign of the Carved Cross by Lisa Hendey
  • Burning Bright by Ron Rash
  • A Tangle of Knots by Lisa Graff
  • A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin
  • Rhinoceros and Other Plays by Eugene Ionesco
  • Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
  • Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
  • Watchmen (skimmed second half) by Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons
  • The Importance of Being Earnest  by Oscar Wilde
  • Miss Mabel's School for Girls by Katie Cross
2014
  • Falling Out of Time by David Grossman
  • The White Giraffe by Lauren St. John
  • The Silver Chair (reread) by C. S. Lewis
  • S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst
  • The Bark of the Bog Owl by Jonathan Rogers
  • Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones
  • The Burial at Thebes Seamus Heaney edition
  • The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemisin
  • Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
  • Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
  • Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • The Hungering Dark by Frederick Buechner
  • Dirty Chick: Adventures of an Unlikely Farmer by Antonia Murphy
  • A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
  • Wonder by R. J. Palacio
  • The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer Holm
  • Long Ago When I Was Young by E. Nesbit
  • Becoming Odyssa by Jennifer Pharr Davis
  • Saving Sky by Diane Stanley (YA)
  • The Year of the Book by Andrea Cheng (MG)
  • Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
  • Selling Hope by Kristin O'Donnell Tubb (YA)
  • Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos (YA)
  • see first half list here (due to year off from blogging)
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
  • Black Mountain Breakdown by Lee Smith
  • The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
  • Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
  • Stuart's Cape by Sara Pennypacker
  • Godric by Frederick Buechner
  • The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
  • So, You Want To Be Like Christ? by Charles Swindoll
  • Divining Women by Kaye Gibbons
  • The Human Stain by Philip Roth
  • Creating Community by Andy Stanley
  • The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff
  • The Best American Essays of 2004
  • Bucking the Sun by Ivan Doig
  • The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
  • A Theft by Saul Bellow
  • Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen
  • Rich In Love by Josephine Humphreys
  • French Lessons by Alice Kaplan
  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  • The Shack by Wm. Paul Young
  • Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Myers
  • Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
  • Ten Indians by Madison Smartt Bell
  • Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
  • Rabbit, Run by John Updike
  • The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
  • The Known World by Edward P. Jones
  • The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
  • Fields of Gold by Andy Stanley
  • Birdy by William Wharton
  • The Blessing of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel
  • Dare to Discipline by James Dobson
  • Eclipse by Stephenie Myers
  • Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina
  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  • Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Native Son by Richard Wright
*Many of these posts were created when I was experimenting with a more frequent but also more fragmented approach to recording my reading.  Some of the links share space with another title.  Also, I did not not link to all the books I merely commented on in passing.  For more information on any title, feel free to browse the posts from 2009.
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