Because books are one of my favorite pleasures and keeping a log of them here helps me remember and share what I’ve read.

I’ve been logging books here since 2009. Keep scrolling down to see my most recent reads. 

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• 10 Favorite {Grace-Filled} Resources for Making Real Life Work in a New Season

2009

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
• The Atonement Child by Francine Rivers
• Classical Education and The Homeschool by Wes Callahan, Douglas Jones, Doug Wilson
• Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
• Miss Julia’s School of Beauty by Ann B. Ross
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• Abba’s Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging by Brennan Manning
• Blue Like Jazz: Non-Religious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller

2010

• A Million Miles in A Thousand Years by Donald Miller
• Prey by Michael Crichton
• The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
• The Prodigal God by Tim Keller
• Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

2011

• Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life by Emily P. Freeman
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
• Loving Our Kids on Purpose by Danny Silk
• One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are by Ann Voskamp
• Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery by Don Richard Riso
• Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
• The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
• The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
• Though the Darkness Hide Thee by Susan Wise Bauer
• When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man by Edward T. Welch

2012 

• Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire by J.K. Rowling
• God of the Fairy Tale: Finding Truth in the Land of Make-Believe by Jim Ware
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation by Ruth Haley Barton
• Grace-Based Parenting by Dr. Tim Kimmel
• Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker J. Palmer
• Generous Justice: How God’s Grace Makes Us Just by Tim Keller
• The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out by Brennan Manning
• The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
• Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level by Sally Shaywitz M.D.
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• Get Out of That Pit: Straight Talk about God’s Deliverance by Beth Moore
• Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life by Emily P. Freeman
• Scandalous Freedom: The Radical Nature of the Gospel by Steve Brown

2013

• Crazy Busy: A {Mercifully} Short Book About a {Really} Big Problem by Kevin DeYoung
• Being OK With Where You Are by Stacey Thacker
• A Million Little Ways: Uncover the Art You Were Made to Live by Emily P. Freeman
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
• Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott
• Redemption: Freed by Jesus From the Idols We Worship and the Wounds We Carry by Mike Wilkerson
• Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpectedby Kelle Hampton
• All is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir by Brennan Manning
• The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out by Brennan Manning
• Nobody’s Fool by Richard Russo
• Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
• Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
• The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer {technically I only made it to the beginning of Book 3. And then I died of boredom and Bella’s whining.}
• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
• Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire by J.K. Rowling

2014

• Say Goodbye to Survival Mode: 9 Simple Strategies to Stress Less, Sleep More, and Restore Your Passion for Life by Crystal Paine
• Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will by Kevin DeYoung
• Created for Commitment: The Remarkable Story of the Founder of Bible Study Fellowship by A. Wetherell Johnson
• Abba’s Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging by Brennan Manning {re-reading}
• Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life by Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
• Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix by J.K. Rowling {on CD}
• The Nesting Place by Myquillyn Smith
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

2015

• Half-broke Horses by Jeanette Walls
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet by Sophie Hudson
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
• Simply Tuesday: Small Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World by Emily P. Freeman
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Mari Kondo
• Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire and Finding the Broken Way Home by Amber C. Haines
• David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
• Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle
• Yes Please {audio} by Amy Poehler
• For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards by Jen Hatmaker

2016

• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette: A Novel by Maria Semple
• Never Broken: Songs are Only Half the Story by Jewel
• A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor
• This Is Awkward: How Life’s Uncomfortable Moments Open the Door to Intimacy and Connection by Sammy Rhodes
• Falling Free: Rescued from the Life I Always Wanted by Shannan Martin
• All the Pretty Things: The Story of a Southern Girl Who Went Through Fire to Find Her Way Home by Edie Wadsworth
• Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me: A Memoir…of Sorts by Ian Morgan Cron
• Miss Brenda and the Loveladies: A Heartwarming True Story of Grace, God, and Gumption {on Audible}
• The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom {on Audible}
• The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile

2017

• Gillead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• All Over But the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Undoing of Saint Silvanus by Beth Moore {on Audible}
• Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage by Robert Morgan
• Everything We Left Behind by Kerry Lonsdale {on Audible}
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
• The Course of Love: A Novel by Alain de Botton
• Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life by Emily P. Freeman
• This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
• The Silver Star by Jeanette Walls
• Digging to America by Anne Tyler

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