Books Read in 2017

1.  The Undoing of Saint Silvans
2.  The Making of a Leader: Recognizing the Lessons and Stages of Leadership Development

2016 Reading Challenge

Already read:
1.  A book about Christian Living: Every Bitter Thing is Sweet
2.  A biography: A Curious Man--The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley
3.  A classic novel: Uncle Tom's Cabin
4.  A book someone tells you "changed my life": How to Win Friends and Influence People

5.  A commentary on a book of the Bible: (Ironside Commentary) Joshua
6.  A book about theology: Erasing Hell--What God Says about Eternity
7.  A book with the word "gospel" in the title: The Gospel in Ten Words
8.  A book your pastor recommends: To Live is Christ to Die is Gain
9.  A book more than 100 years old: Around the World in 80 Days
10.  A book for children: Danny the Champion of the World
11.  A mystery or detective novel: Death on the Nile

12.  A book about a current issue: (Refugees in Europe) Infidel
13.  A book published in 2016: The Land of Silence
14.  A book written by (or about) a puritan: Daughters of the Puritans--A Group of Brief Biographies
15.  A book recommended by a family member: (Sweet Baby James's recommendation) Curious George at the Aquarium (and a whole slew of other children's books)
16.  A book by or about a missionary: The Insanity of Obedience

17.  A novel that won the Pulitzer: Gilead
18.  A book written by an Anglican: Simply Jesus
19.  A book with at least 400 pages: The Swan House
20.  A book by C.S. Lewis or J.R.R.Tolkien: The Last Battle
21.  A book that has a fruit of the Spirit in the title: The God I Love--A Lifetime of Walking with Jesus
22.  A book with a great cover: (this is a dumb category, so I just read what I wanted) The Legend of Sheba--Rise of a Queen
24.  A book about church history: The 100 Most Important Events in Church History
25.  A graphic novel: Bad Machinery #1, The Case of the Team Spirit
26.  A book of poetry: Where the Sidewalk Ends
27.  A book from a theological viewpoint you disagree with: Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
28.  A book by an author with an initial in their name:  (H.G.Wells) The Time Machine
29.  A book that won an ECPA Christian book award: Iscariot
30.  A book about worldview: Understanding Arabs (Third Edition)
31.  A play by William Shakespeare (plays are meant to be seen and heard, not just read, and I've already read Shakespeare in my life, so...) A book about/for Lent: Gilgal
32.  A humorous book:  Free Range Chickens
33.  A book based on a true story (I chose this book for the "humorous" category and then didn't find it funny, but since it is a true story, stuck it here): Bossypants
34.  A book by Jane Austen (I've read Austen and just do not love her, so...) A sequel: A Man Called Blessed
35.  A book by or about Martin Luther: Concerning Christian Liberty

36.  A book with 100 pages or less: Waiting for Peter
37.  A book with a one word title: Petra (a novel by Patricia K. Gray)
38.  A book about money or finance: When to Rob a Bank (Freakonomics authors)
39.  A novel set in a country that is not your own: Petra, City of Stone
40.  A book about music: Forty Gospel Hymn Stories
41.  A memoir: Notes from a Blue Bike--The Art of Living Intentionally (I thought this was a memoir when I chose it, about the authors travels and experiences on a blue bike...turns out I had wrong.  Not a memoir, but oh so glad I read it.)
42.  A book about joy or happiness: Choose Joy--Because Happiness isn't Enough
43.  A book by a female author: Chasing the Butterfly
44.  A book whose title comes from a Bible verse: To Live is Christ
45.  A book you have started but never finished: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
46.  A self-improvement book: How Much Money Do I Need to Retire?
47.  A book by David McCullough: 1776
48.  A book you own but have never read: What Alice Forgot
49.  A book about abortion: Tilly
50.  A book targeted at the other gender: Patriot Games
51.  A book by a speaker at a conference you have attended: The Critical Journey--Stages in the Life of Faith
52.  A book by someone of a different ethnicity than you: The Turner House
53.  A book published by the Banner of Truth: Valley of Vision
54.  A book about the (a different) Reformation: Nomad, From Islam to America
55.  A book written by a first time author: The Dress Thief
56.  A biography of a world leader: (Queen Noor) Leap of Faith
57.  A book used as a seminary textbook: The Magnolia Story
58.  A book about food: The Language of Baclava
59.  A book about productivity: Gospel Centered Productivity--Being Productive God's Way
60.  A book about relationships or friendship: Everyday Grace--Infusing All Your Relationships With the Love of Jesus

61.  A book about parenting for a Book Club: My Name Is Lucy Barton

62.  A book about philosophy: All About Jesus--The Single Story from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
63.  A book about art: Daily Life of the French Artists in the 19th Century
64.  A book about magic: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
65.  A book about prayer: The Ministry of Intercession
66.  A book about marriage (not married, so a book about singleness): Redeeming Singleness
67.  A book about a hobby: New Ideas for Lap Quilting
68.  A book of comics: Garfield at Large
69.  A book about the second world war: The Zookeeper's Wife
70.  A book about sports: Amazing Athletes, Amazing Moments
71.  A book by a pastors wife (Catherine Marshall): A Closer Walk, a Spiritual Lifeline to God
72.  A book about suffering: Expectations and Burnout--Women Surviving the Great Commission
73.  A book by your favorite author: The Sweetest Thing
74.  A book you have read before: Blessed Child

75.  A book about homosexuality: Mama Get the Hammer, There's a Fly on Papa's Head
76.  A Christian novel: Just One Touch
78.  A book about the natural world (I don't like science, and have books to read for work, so): 5 Dysfunctions of a Team
77.  A book about psychology (boring, so a book about reshaping habits): Scale Down
79.  A book by or about Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol
80.  A novel longer than 400 pages (We already had that category, so...) A book about/for Advent: The Greatest Gift--Unwrapping the Full Love Story of Christmas
81.  A historical book: The Red Tent
82.  A book about: The Bible
83.  A book about a country or city: Warsaw in Your Pocket
84.  A book about astronomy: The Storyteller
85.  A book with an ugly cover: Wonder by R.J. Palacio
86.  A book by or about a martyr: In the Dark Streets Shineth
87.  A book by a woman conference speaker (by Beth Moore): The Beloved Disciple
88.  A book by or about the church fathers: The Confessions of X
90.  A book by or about a Russian: The Accidental Anarchist
92.  A book about public speaking: Speak Love--Making your words matter
93.  A book by Francis Schaeffer: Joshua and the Flow of Biblical History
94.  A book by a presbyterian: Confessions of a Prayer Slacker
96.  A book about revival: Fire on the Mountains, the story of a miracle--the church in Ethiopia
98.  A book about evangelism: Questioning Evangelism
99.  A book about ancient history: The Ides of March

101.  A book about the church: Organic Church
102.  A book about adoption: Dignity and Worth: Seeing the Image of God in Foster Adoption

103.  A photo essay book: A Day Above Yemen
104.  A book written in the 20th century: Profiles in Courage
Current total: 98

Still left to read: 

23.  A book on the current NYTimes Bestseller List: All the Light We Cannot See

89.  A book about language (not exactly about language, but I have books to read for work, so): Crucial Conversations

91.  A book about leadership: The Making of a Leader, Recognizing the Lessons and Stages of Leadership Development
95.  A book about science
97.  A book about writing

100.  A book about preaching (I'm not a preacher, and have books to read for work, so): Connecting, the Mentoring Relationships You Need to Succeed

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Books Read in 2015

1.  Desired: The Untold Story of Samson and Delilah
2.  Can I Have Joy in My Life?
3.  The Book Thief
4.  The Zero Belly Diet
5.  The Bodelian Library: A History
6.  Relationships: A Mess Worth Making
7.  Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough
8.  Little Women
9.  Devotions for Lent
10.  The Complete Works of Antonio Gaudi

11. Journey to the Cross

12. A Thankful Heart in a World of Hurt
13.  The Carpenter (Immanu'El)
14.  Then Sings My Soul, Vol. 2
15.  Bruchko
16.  Naados and His Kin: The Beginning

17. He Shall Be Called
18.  To Kill a Mockingbird
19.  Go Set a Watchman
20.  Two Crosses: A Novel

21. Holman Old Testament Commentary: Joshua
22.  Be Hopeful: A Study in 1 Peter
23.  Two Testaments: A Novel
24.  Two Destinies: A Novel
25.  Keep It Shut
26.  Harvest of Rubies
27.  Harvest of Gold
28.  Indescribable
29.  The Hastening
30.  Words Unspoken
31.  The Bible
32.  Journey to the Well
33.  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, told by Herself
34.  The Dawning of Indestructible Joy
35.  The Greatest Gift: Unwrapping the Full Love Story of Christmas
36.  Christianish 

Books Read in 2014

1.  The Islamist
2.  Chosen (novel about Queen Esther)
3.  The Swiss Courier
4.  Visages du France en 1900
5.  Love and Respect for a Lifetime
6.  The Secret Paris Cinema Club
7.  The Fault in our Stars
8.  Disciplines of the Beautiful Woman
9.  The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell
10.  Then Sings My Soul
11.  Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
12.  Disciplines of the Beautiful Heart
13.  Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition, and the Life of Faith
14.  A Brief History of France: People, History, and Culture
15.  The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns
16.  The Giver
17.  Disciplines of the Beautiful Home
18.  The Bones of Avignon
19.  Five Quarters of the Orange
20.  Follow Me
21.  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
22.  Marseille (by David Crackanthorpe)
23.  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
24.  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
25.  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
26.  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
27.  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
28.  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
29.  Women Living Well: Finding Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home
30.  The Portugal Sapphire

31. The Bible

32. Touching Wonder: Recapturing the Awe of Christmas

33. 12 Stories of Christmas
34.  Come Let Us Adore Him: Stories Behind the Most Adored Christmas Hymns

35.  Before Bethlehem 

36. The Greatest Gift: Unwrapping the Full Love Story of Christmas

37. The Dawning of Indesructible Joy
38.  Greetings From the Flip Side
39.  Into the Free

Books Read in 2013

1.  While the World Watched
2.  Pearl in the Sand
3.  When God Whispers Loudly
4.  The Pioneer Woman: From Black Heels to Tractor Wheels
5.  Just As I am (Billy Graham's autobiography)
6.  Where's God When It Hurts?
7.  The Quilter's Legacy
8.  Kisses From Katie
9.  Solomon's Throne
10.  Radical Together
11.  Delirious: My Journey with the Band, a Growing Family, and an Army of Historymakers (Martin Smith's autobiography)
12.  The Warrior
13.  Devotions for Lent: Meditations Based on Best Loved Hymns
14.  The Hunger Games
15.  Journey to the Cross (Lent Devotional)
16.  Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business (Dolly Parton's autobiography)
17.  One in a Million
18.  The Last Christian
19.  A Discipleship Re-revolution
20.  Choosing to SEE: A Journey of Struggle and Hope (Mary Beth Chapman's autobiography)
21.  All old journals from 1994-present (my own autobiography, in a sense.  Haha.)
22.  The Guardian
23.  Stuff Parisians Like
24.  A Woman After God's Own Heart
25.  The Imam's Daughter
26.  Casa Batllo
27.  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
28.  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
29.  No Easy Road
30.  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
31.  Paris: Wish You Were Here
32.  The Twelfth Imam
33.  The Insanity of God
34.  Stolen Woman
35.  Stolen Child
36.  Stolen Future
37.  Proverbs 31 Woman (ebook)
38.  The Bible (finished on Nov 17 this year, wow!)
39.  Popcultured
40.  A Year of Biblical Womanhood
41.  The Measure of a Woman
42.  The Master's Quilt
43.  Le Nouveau Testament (en français)
44.  Meditations for Advent: As Imagined through the Eyes of Mary
45.  The Greatest Gift

46.  Grey Matters

47.  The Christmas Quilt

48.  100 Bible Verses Everyone Should Know by Heart
49.  Unexplored Paris
50.  The New Year Quilt

Books Read in 2012

1. Forgotten God

2. The Help

3. Portes Provençales (en français)

4. The Runaway Quilt

5. One Thousand Gifts

6. Seven Ages of Paris

7. Fahrenheit 451

8. Shantytown Kid (Le Gone du Chaâba)

9. Into the Light
10.  The Baptist Hymnal
11.  The Once and Future King: parts 1 and 2
12.  Redemption
13.  Remember
14.  Words in a French Life
15.  Sandpaper People
16.  Return
17.  Rejoice
18.  The Christian Codependency Recovery Workbook
19.  Reunion
20.  In the Secret Place
21.  Blink
22.  Redeeming Love
23.  Carcassonne: History and Architecture
24.  A Heart Like His Devotional
25.  A Heart Like His
26.  The Pilgrim's Digest
27.  The Valley of Heaven and Hell: Cycling in the Shadow of Marie Antoinette
28.  Sarah's Key
29.  Stupid American History
30.  Spiritual Gifts: A Practical Guide to How God Works Through You
31.  Morning Manna
32.  Holiness (by Henry Blackaby)
33.  Menace in Europe
34.  Return to Modesty
35.  Le Nouveau Testament (en français)
36.  Finally: Finding Hope While Waiting
37.  Star of Babylon
38.  Robin: Lady of Legend (The Classic Adventures of the Girl who became Robin Hood)
39.  Redefining Home
40.  Angel Sister
41.  The Duck Commander Family
42.  Futility, or The Wreck of the Titan
43.  A Marriage Carol
44.  A Time to Love: Quilts of Lancaster County, Book 1
45.  Touching Wonder: Recapturing the Awe of Christmas
46.  A Time to Heal: Quilts of Lancaster County, Book 2
47.  The Bible
48.  A Christmas in Two Egg, Florida
49.  A Time for Peace: Quilts of Lancaster County, Book 3
50.  The Furious Longing of God

Books read in 2011

1. The Quilter's Apprentice

2. Night

3. Faithful Women and Their Extraordinary God

4. Answering I

5. Round Robin

6. (Finished) Bruce and Stan's study on Ephesians: Finding Your Identity in Christ

7. (Finished) H.A. Ironside's Commentary on Ephesians

8. (Finished) MacArthur's study on Ephesians: Our Immeasurable Blessings in Christ

9. (Finished) Blackaby's small group study on Ephesians

10. (Finished) Piper's sermons from Ephesians (online)

11. There's Gotta Be More!

12. The Moonstone

13. The Fiddler's Gun

14. War of Words

15. The Fiddler's Green (Fin's Revolution)

16. The Rookery

17. The Fiddler's Gun: Letters

18. 30 Days to a Great Attitude

19. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

20. A Stolen Life

21. The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency

22. Tears of the Giraffe

23. Morality for Beautiful Girls

24. A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi

25. The Kalahari Typing School for Men

26. The Full Cupboard of Life

27. The Lost Symbol

28. In the Shadow of the Sun King

29. A Prisoner of Versailles

30. War of Words (second time)

31. Finally Alive!

32. The Cross and the Switchblade

33. Where Hearts are Free

34. Get It Together, Girl! (A de-cluttering/organizing book)

35. The Fitting Room: Putting on the Character of Christ

36. Conversation Peace

37. 31 Days to Clean: Having a Martha Home the Mary Way

38. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank

39. As Sure as the Dawn

40. Taming the Tongue

41. The Bible

--Plus: Psalms 2 more times, Proverbs 5 more times, Ephesians more times than I can count.

42. 3:16, The Numbers of Hope

43. A Guide to Art Nouveau Style

44. The Hip Girl's Guide to Home Making

45. Lord, Teach Me How to Pray

46. The Cross Country Quilters

47. A Christmas Carol

48. Matthew Henry's Discourse on Meekness

Partially Read:

--Moby Dick

--On the Edge of the Sea of Darkness

--The Essential Five

--Treasure Island