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Last year I read 98 books, so I’m hoping to better that slightly. For 2010, my goal was to read 100 books, which I reached halfway into the year. I ended up reading 170 books. Here’s what I’ve read:
January (21 books read)
The One-Day Way by Chantal Hobbs
Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr.
The Hidden Smile of God by John Piper
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
The Other Side of Dawn by John Marsden
Tea with Hezbollah by Ted Dekker and Carl Medearis
The Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
In the Presence of My Enemies by Gracia Burnham
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Angels by David Jeremiah
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
The Year We Disappeared by Cylin Busby and John Busby
“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
February (14 books read)
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
Wounded by Claudia Mair Burney
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rusin
Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel by Mary Shelley
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Faithful Heart by Al Lacy
Secrets by Robin Jones Gunn
The Messenger by Lois Lowry
March (23 books read)
Correct, Not Politically Correct by Frank Turek
I Closed My Eyes: Revelations of a Battered Woman by Michelle Weldon
If God is Good by Randy Alcorn
The Murderer’s Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers
Genesis by Bernard Beckett
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The 13th Hour by Richard Doetsch
Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern
Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Start Here by Alex and Brett Harris
While I Live by John Marsden
Amen, Amen, Amen by Abby Sher
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Green by D. Malone
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
April (14 books read)
Get Married by Candice Watters
Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card
Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers
How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford
Mouseguard: Fall 1152 by David Petersen
Forget Me Not by Vicki Hinze
Push by Sapphire
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Under the Dome by Stephen King
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
May (16 books read)
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It’s Not Bad to Be Good by Wendy Shalit
The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
The World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Last Christian by David Gregory
Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
How People Change by Timothy S. Lane and Paul David Tripp
Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery
June (19 books finished)
The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
Green Like God by Jonathan Merritt
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
An Abudance of Katherines by John Green
Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Translator by Daoud Hari
The City and the City by China Miéville
The Baby-Sitters Club: The Summer Before by Ann M. Martin
Radical:Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream by David Platt
Practicing Hospitality by Pat Ennis and Lisa Tatlock
The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Blue Plate Special by Michelle D. Kwasney
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford
A Little Bit Wicked by Kristin Chenoweth
Marcelo and the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
Leaving the Saints by Martha Beck
July (5 books finished)
Life After Yes by Aidan Donnelley Rowley
Another Place at the Table by Kathy Harrison
Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye? by Carolyn McCulley
Adopted for Life by Russell Moore
They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer
August (7 books finished)
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
The Love Wife by Gish Jen
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card
Women’s Ministry in the Local Church by J. Ligon Duncan and Susan Hunt
September (13 books read)
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Elizabeth Street by Laurie Fabio
Daisy Chain by Mary E. DeMuth
First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
Mere Churchianity by Michael Spencer
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
The Woman Who Can’t Forget by Jill Price
Dirty Sexy Politics by Meghan McCain
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve
October (20 books read)
The Year That Changed the World by Michael Meyer
Be the Change by Zach Hunter
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Alexis by Alexis Singer
The Line by Teri Hall
Stitches by David Small
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
I Killed Giants by Joe Kelly
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
Heist Society by Ally Carter
The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet by Erin Dionne
In My Father’s House by Corrie Ten Boom
The Cross-Centered Life by C. J. Mahaney
Native Son by Richard Wright
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
My Hands Came Away Red by Lisa McKay
Hear No Evil by Matthew Paul Turner
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Evolving in Monkey Town by Rachel Held Evans
November (8 books read)
Resurrection in May by Lisa Sampson
When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
Halfway to Each Other by Susan Pohlman
Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
God Hides in Plain Sight by Dean Nelson
Running the Books by Avi Steinberg
Decision Points by George W. Bush
December (10 books read)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (abridged)
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
Blue Blood by Edward Conlin
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Government Girl by Stacy Parker Aab
Extraordinary, Ordinary People by Condoleezza Rice
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney
The Power of Half by Kevin Salwen and Hannah Salwen
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
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Thanks for the comment. I too am a book lover. I enjoyed reading your book list, I have read some of the books. I love Little House on the Prairie, Anne Frank was a very good read. Our book club is going to choose next year’s books in July. I am so excited to vote on what we are going to read.
Amber: I think choosing what books to read can be as exciting as reading them!
Wowzers that is some amount of books you have read, you must be seriously fast reader. While Au-pairing in Oz I read the entire Harry Potter series (all 7 books) in 2 weeks…a record I’ll prob never beat! :)
Janet: I’m pretty fast (practice has made me faster), but it’s also one of my favorite things to do. The whole HP series in 2 weeks…that’s very impressive! I’ve read the Narnia series within that time, but those books are much shorter!
But also notice how much LESS I’ve been reading this summer…it’s definitely a seasonal thing for me!