Books read (so far) in 2009

1. Atlantis Found

2. The Three Musketeers

3. The Shack

4. A Year in Provence

5. Walking with God

6. Blessed Child

7. Journey to Jo'burg

8. The City of Dreaming Books

9. From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

10. HP & The Philosopher's Stone

11. HP & The Chamber of Secrets

12. The Legacy of Sovereign Joy: God's Triumphant Grace in the Lives of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin

13. HP & The Prisoner of Azkaban

14. Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ

15. Get Married: What Women Can Do To Make It Happen

16. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

17. While Europe Slept

18. For Women Only

19. Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye? (The title for this book is all wrong. It should be titled something about how to be the Proverbs 31 woman as a single.)

Currently Reading

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

want to read's

1. Till We Have Faces
2. The Pursuit of God
3. This Holy Seed
4. 1984

7. A Movable Feast

9. Paris to the Moon
10. The Quarters of the Orange
11. Night by Elie Wiesel
12. Reading like a Writer by Francine Prose

14. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
15. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

17. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
18. The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James
19. The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
20. Sold by Patricia McCormick
21. How Not to Write a Novel by Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman
22. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

24. Jane Eyre

25. The Jane Eyre Affair

26. A Return to Modesty by Wendy Shalit

27. Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck

28. Heroines by Mary Riso

29. Peace like a River by Leif Enger ***Recommended by John Piper

Books read in 2008

1. A Year of Living Biblically
2. Les Miserables (Edited and abridged by Laurence Porter, Translated by C.E. Wilbur)
3. Anne of the Island
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns
5. Bridge to Terabithia
6. Pig in a Taxi
7. Cecile: Gates of Gold
8. Holes
9. Maniac McGee
10. Looking for Alaska
11. The Babylon Blog
12. Atonement
13. Twilight
14. New Moon
15. Eclipse
16. What a Girl Wants
17. She's Out of Control
18. Breaking Dawn
19. The Poisonwood Bible

20.  Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (by Mark Twain!)

21.  Little Women

22.  Persuasion

23.  Switching to a Mac for Dummies

24.  Servant on the Edge of History

25.  Reflections on the Psalms

26.  60 Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong

27.  Black: The Birth of Evil

28.  Paper Towns

29.  An Abundance of Katherines

30.  The Runny Babbit

31.  The Tales of Beedle the Bard
32.  Metrostop: Paris

33.  Catcher in the Rye

34.  The Bible

Partially read:

1.  Walking with God

2.  Atlantis Found

Newberry Award Winners

2008 Medal Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
2007 Medal Winner: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron

2006 Medal Winner: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

2005 Medal Winner: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

2004 Medal Winner: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo

2003 Medal Winner: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi

2002 Medal Winner: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

2001 Medal Winner: A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck

2000 Medal Winner: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

1999 Medal Winner: Holes by Louis Sachar

1998 Medal Winner: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

1997 Medal Winner: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

1996 Medal Winner: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

1995 Medal Winner: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

1994 Medal Winner: The Giver by Lois Lowry

1993 Medal Winner: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

1992 Medal Winner: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

1991 Medal Winner: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

1990 Medal Winner: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
1989 Medal Winner: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

1988 Medal Winner: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

1987 Medal Winner: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

1986 Medal Winner: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

1985 Medal Winner: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

1984 Medal Winner: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

1983 Medal Winner: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

1982 Medal Winner: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard

1981 Medal Winner: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

1980 Medal Winner: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos

1979 Medal Winner: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

1978 Medal Winner: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

1977 Medal Winner: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

1976 Medal Winner: The Grey King by Susan Cooper

1975 Medal Winner: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton

1974 Medal Winner: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

1973 Medal Winner: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

1972 Medal Winner: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

1971 Medal Winner: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

1970 Medal Winner: Sounder by William H. Armstrong

1969 Medal Winner: The High King by Lloyd Alexander

1968 Medal Winner: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg 1967 Medal Winner: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
1966 Medal Winner: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
1965 Medal Winner: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
1964 Medal Winner: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
1963 Medal Winner: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
1962 Medal Winner: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
1961 Medal Winner: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
1960 Medal Winner: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
1959 Medal Winner: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
1958 Medal Winner: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
1957 Medal Winner: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
1956 Medal Winner: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
1955 Medal Winner: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
1954 Medal Winner: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
1953 Medal Winner: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
1952 Medal Winner: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
1951 Medal Winner: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
1950 Medal Winner: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
1949 Medal Winner: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
1948 Medal Winner: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
1947 Medal Winner: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
1946 Medal Winner: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
1945 Medal Winner: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
1944 Medal Winner: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
1943 Medal Winner: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
1942 Medal Winner: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
1941 Medal Winner: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
1940 Medal Winner: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
1939 Medal Winner: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
1938 Medal Winner: The White Stag by Kate Seredy
1937 Medal Winner: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
1936 Medal Winner: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
1935 Medal Winner: Dobry by Monica Shannon
1934 Medal Winner: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
1933 Medal Winner: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
1932 Medal Winner: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
1931 Medal Winner: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
1930 Medal Winner: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
1929 Medal Winner: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
1928 Medal Winner: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
1927 Medal Winner: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James
1926 Medal Winner: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
1925 Medal Winner: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
1924 Medal Winner: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes
1923 Medal Winner: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
1922 Medal Winner: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon

Books Read in 2007

1. The Hunchback of Notre Dame*
2. A Cracked Pot
3. Dixieland Sushi
4. Looking for Cassandra Jane
5. A Child Called 'It'
6. The Lost Boy
7. All American Girl
8. Sharif
9. A Series of Unfortunate Events
a. The Bad Beginning
b. The Reptile Room
c. The Wide Window
10. English Grammar for French Students
11. Abraham
12. The Memory Keeper's Daughter
13. Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow
14. The Mermaid Chair
15. Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone
16. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
17. M, M, and M (work book)
18. To Kill a Mockingbird
19. French or Foe?
20. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
21. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire*
22. A Passion for the Impossible
23. The Hiding Place
24. Fatima's Good Fortune
25. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix*
26. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince*
27. M,M, and M (another work book)
28. Le Petit Prince (in French!)
29. Savoir Flaire!
30. Betryal in Paris
31. The Passion of Christ
32. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows*
33. Jesus and Mo.--a comparison
34. The Unfinished Battle
35. The Scarlet Pimpernel
36. The Book of God (the Bible as a novel)*
37. The Count of Monte Cristo*
38. Limiting God
39. Heart Full of Soul
40. Watership Down

*More than 500 pages

Partially Read:
1. Suite Française
2. Streams in the Desert--daily devotional
3. David Copperfield
4. To the Scaffold (biography of Marie Antoinette)

Books Read in 2006

1. The Fellowship of the Ring
2. The Two Towers
3. The Measure of a Woman
4. Facing Terror
5. See Yourself As God Sees You
6. The Return of the King
7. The Time Traveller's Wife
8. Hope That Goes the Distance
9. Every Woman's Battle
10. The Kite Runner
11. An Arrow Pointing To Heaven
12. When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy
13. The Secret Life of Bees
14. Revelations of a Single Woman: Loving the Life I Didn't Expect
15. The Nanny Diaries
16. Waking the Dead
17. Chinese Cinderella
18. The World As I Remember It
19. The New Moon Story
20. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
21. Through the Looking Glass
22. Room of Marvels
23. A Journey of Faith and Sacrifice
24. The Magician's Nephew
25. The Broker
26. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
27. The Horse and His Boy
28. Prince Caspian
29. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
30. The Silver Chair
31. Be Still My Soul
32. The Last Battle
33. The Devil Wears Prada
34. Come Thirsty
35. The Great Omission
36. Anne of Green Gables
37. Ruthless Trust
38. Whose Promised Land?
39. The Five People You Meet in Heaven
40. Table for One
41. Confessions of a Caffeinated Christian
42. Tuesdays with Morrie
43. The Unseen Face
44. Anne of Avonlea
45. Life of Pi
46. The Jane Austen Book Club
47. The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary and Sewing Circle
48. The Pearl
49. Girl with a Pearl Earring

Partially Read:
--2/3 through The Great Omission (a second time)
--most of (minus two chapters) Created to be God's Friend
--just a few chapters of An Unstoppable Force