THE LIST of books I want to read, that is. I tried to link or make a note about where I got the idea to add each book to my list. If you recommended one of these , and I didn’t link to you, please leave a comment. I know the list is way too long, but I”m absolutely helpless. How can I cut it down? In fact, I’m sure that I’ll add several more books to the list as I read end-of-the-year lists on other blogs. Help. I’m drowning!
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Grace–Norris I think Eldest Daughter recommended this one.
Another Place at the Table–Harrison (Browsing at Barnes and Noble)
Bark of the Bog Owl–Rogers
Behind the Burqa–Yasgur (Browsing at Barnes and Noble)
Black as Night–Doman
Book of Seven Truths–Miller I picked this one from a list of Miller’s books because I’ve only read The Singer Trilogy.
Bread Alone–Hendricks
Brief Intervals of Horrible Sanity–Gold (Browsing at Barnes and Noble)
Canterbury Papers–Healey
Canticle for Leibowitz–Miller
Captains from Castile–Shellabarger I absolutely love Prince of Foxes by Shellabarger; I’d like to read his other books, too.
Charming the Moon–Snyder
Chasing Hepburn–Lee (Once again, I found this one while browsing B & N)
Christianity for Modern Pagans–Kreeft Engineer Husband got me this book for Christmas. It’s a sort of commentary on Pascal’s Pensees. I’m looking forward to reading it.
Cold Mountain–Frazier
Color of Water–McBride
Confederates in the Attic–Horowitz
Covenant Child–Blackstock Recommended by my sister.
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night–Haddon
Deed of Paksenarrion–Moon
Disappearing Duke–Freeman-Keel
Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary�Hitchings
Education of a Wandering Man–L’Amour
Eldest–Paolini. Sequel to Paolini’s first fantasy novel, Eragon.
Ender’s Game–Card
Europe Central–Vollman. Winner of the National Book Award.
Ex Libris–Fadiman
Five Paths to the Love of Your Life: Defining Your Dating Style–Chediak I’m planning to read this one for the sake of my young adult children; obviously I’ve already found the love of my life. Engineer Husband, are you reading?
Footsteps at the Lock–Knox
Forgiving Solomon Long–Wells
Freakonomics–Levitt & Dubner
Girl Meets God–Winner
Glimpses of Truth–Cavanaugh
Glory and Honor: The Musical and Artistic Legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach–Wilbur
God Is the Gospel–Piper Review copy sent by Mind and Media
Growing Pains: Diaries and Drawings from the Years 1908-1917–Gag I found this title while researching Wanda Gag, author of Millions of Cats on her birthday. I would love to read more about her life, but I haven’t been able to find the books yet.
Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously in the Information Age�Schultz
Hammer and the Cross–Rohan and Scott
Haunted Bookshop–Morley
Heartbreaker–Garwood Also recommended by my sister.
Home Fires Burning–Stokes
Home Invasion–Hagelin
Home With Fun: Ten Steps to Turn Your Home into a Fun Place to Live–Fitzmartin
Housekeeping–Robinson, who also wrote Gilead.
Idiot-Dostoevsky
Indigo’s Star–McKay Sequel to Saffy’s Angel.
I, Coriander–Gardner
Jewel–Lott My neighbor read this book back when it was an Oprah selection. I read another of his books and liked it.
John Halifax, Gentleman–Dinah Mulock Craik I want to re-read this book.
Jonathan Edwards, A New Biography–Murray
Kingdom of Children–Stevens
Kitty, My Rib–Mall I think my sister recommended this one, too?
Kristen Lavransdatter–Undset I’ve been meaning to read this very long three-part novel by a Nobel prize winning author for a long time. Maybe this is the year.
Lady Jane Grey–Cook
Lake Wobegone Days–Keillor
Lamb in Love–Brown
Last Storyteller–Noble
Light from Heaven–Karon
Lincoln Lawyer–Connelly
Long Spoon Lane–Perry
Lord Vanity–Shellabarger
Mad Mary Lamb–Hitchcock
Magnus–Brouwer
Mark of the Lion Trilogy–Rivers Yet another sister recommendation.
Maul and the Pear Tree-P.D. James
Michaelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling–King
Miniatures and Morals: The Christian Novels of Jane Austen–Leithart
Miss Marjoribanks–Margaret Oliphant
Monkeywrench–Tracy Another sister recommendation.
My Garden of Memories–Wiggins
Never Let Me Go–Ishiguro
New Way to Be Human–Peacock
Niamh and the Hermit–Snyder
Nightbringer–Huggins
One School�Jacobs
Paris to the Moon�Gopnik Since Eldest Daughter is in Paris . . .
Parnassus on Wheels–Morley
Penderwicks–Birdsall
Penelopiad–Atwood
Please Stop Laughing At Me–Blanco
Possession–Byatt
Power of the Powerless–De Vinck
Preservationist, The–Maine
Prophetic Untimeliness–Guinness
Rating the First Ladies–Johnson
Sacred Way–Jones This book about spiritual disciplines seems to be big in emergent circles, so I thought I’d check it out.
Sailing the Wine Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter–Cahill
Secret of the Swamp King–Rogers
Secret Radio–Massi
Shadow of the Bear–Doman
Shell Seekers–Pilcher
Silence–Shukasu Endo
Story–McKee
Strangers on a Train–Highsmith
Streams of Living Water–Foster
Sunne in Splendor–Penman
Switherby Pilgrims–Spence
Tam Lin–Dean
Tathea–Perry.
Tenant of Wildfell Hall–Ann Bronte
Terrors of the Table–Gratzer
The March–Doctorow This book sounds like a good follow-up to Confederates in the Attic which I’m reading now–if Confederates doesn’t depress me too much and make me want to never hear another word about That War.
This Vast Land–Ambrose
Time and Chance–Penman
Tristram Shandy–Sterne
Village Watchtower–Wiggins
War Like No Other–Hanson
Wild Strawberries–Thirkell
Wives and Daughters–Gaskell
Word Freaks–Fatsis
Wormwood–Taylor Sequel to Taylor’s first book,
Year of Magical Thinking–Didion Of course, everyone and his dog is reading this one. I thought I’d read it, too.
I read Possession this year and really enjoyed it.
The Shell Seekers is one of my favorites (not saying I recommended it, just saying I loved it). Not a perfect book, but I found it at the right time. It’s also an easy read, which is nice sometimes. And it doesn’t make you want to kill yourself.
Ah Ender’s Game… One of my all-time favorites. Orson Scott Card is absolutely marvelous – although you will get a bit of Mormon theology and a little new age stuff if you read all of his work. Be prepared not to stop with Ender’s Game – you will probably want to read the entire series – Plus the new parallel series which tells the same time period through the eyes of a different character. All really good stuff!
Bit of Ender trivia… Ender’s Game is on the required reading list for Marine Officers. Cool huh?
Oh and I LOVE Wives and Daughters.
Word Freak was fun – but heavy on the profanity.
I thought my list was ambitious! Of course, now I have to go add a couple I found here. The Mark of the Lion trilogy contains three of my favorite books. I re-read these every couple of years or so.
Dear Mother,
Actually I recommended the Winner, the Fadiman, and the Dostoevsky, as I remember it. Plus you didn’t link to me.
De Vinck’s The Power of the Powerless should be read by many more Christians than it has been.
By the way, you do know that Highsmith also wrote The Talented Mr. Ripley?
Great list! I read Confederates in.. this year and liked it. I live in South Carolina and could relate to the authors journey. Christianity for Modern Pagans will be thought provoking. Finally, Kristan Lavansdatter is my fav book. If you get to it try to stick it out for a hundred pages or so and try not to get bogged down in the names of people and places. It is a timeless novel that has so many deep, important truths to show us and it is worth the effort.
I’m really enjoying your lists!
Bookovers will love Education of a Wondering Man. I was so thrilled to find it in hardback at a library sale a couple years ago. It made me appreciate Louis L’Amour (sp?) and how he was self educated. He would have made a great homeschooler.