Books read in 2010

1. More Than a Carpenter

2. The Summons

3. Raise the Titanic!

4. 1984

5. Total Money Makeover

6. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Currently Reading

This Holy Seed

What Went Wrong?

Books read 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
(Sidebar comment: I began reading several books about singleness to see if someone has already written something that covers what I want to say in my "manifesto." If so, I don't have to write it, and can just recommend the book.)

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.)
20. Passion and Purity (for the upteenth million time)
21. Marriable: Taking the Desperate out of Dating

22. Travels with Charley in Search of America

23. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

24. The Martyr's Song

(I recommend the books in bold.)

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

(Recommended books are in bold.)

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

(I recommend the books in bold.)

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

Books read in 2005

1. The Rule of Four

2. Angels and Demons

3. The Last Juror

4. The Ishbane Conspiracy

5. Deadline

6. Rift in Time

7. Hidden in Time

8. The Summons

9. Captivating

10. Blue Like Jazz

11. The Mark of a Man

12. Byzantium

13. The Great Commandment Principle

14. Everybody's Normal Until You Get to Know Them

15. The Walking Drum

16. Culture Shock! Iran

17. The Hobbit

18. Like Gold Refined

19. King of Torts

20. A Painted House

21. When Godly People Do Ungodly Things

22. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

23. Let Me Be a Woman

24. How to Read the Bible for All It's Worth