This year I want to read all the books in my home that I haven't read yet. This includes books that were gifts, books that I started but never finished, books that are being lent to me, and books that I bought for myself but never got around to reading yet. There's nothing necessarily wrong with any of these books, and there's a nice variety of genre; they just haven't made it into my queue, until now!
I collected all the books in my house that fit my qualification. I'm sure more will join this stack after I hit the annual spring book sale that happens in St. Louis every year. Heh. Here's the list so far!
1. Civil Disobedience and Other Essays ~ Thoreau
2. The Turn of the Screw ~ James
3. The Four Loves ~ C.S. Lewis
4. Candide ~ Voltaire
5. The Bullfighter Checks Her Make-up ~ Susan Orlean
6. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work ~ John Gottman
7. Gilead ~ Marilynne Robinson
8. Culture Making ~ Crouch
9. The Arabian Nights
10. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
11. Flower Fables ~ Louisa May Alcott
12. Ella Minnow Pea ~ Mark Dunn
13. My Bondage and My Freedom ~ Frederick Douglass
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ~ James Joyce
15. Middlemarch (two volumes) ~ Eliot
16. O Pioneers! ~ Willa Cather
17. Forever Music ~ Edith Schaeffer
18. Questioning Evangelism ~ Newman
19. Narcissus and Goldmund ~ Hermann Hesse
20. Silent Spring ~ Rachel Carson
21. Effortless Mastery ~ Kenny Werner
22. 1-2-3 Magic, Effective Discipline for Children 2-12
23. Jayber Crow ~ Wendell Berry
24. The Goldfinch ~ Donna Tartt
25. Only You Can Save Mankind ~ Terry Pratchett
26. The Magician's Book: a Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia ~ Laura Miller
27. L'Abri ~ Edith Schaeffer
28. The Stories: A Journey through Time ~ with W.C. Light
29. Pudd'nhead Wilson ~ Mark Twain
That's only about three books a month. Should be do-able! I read the Pratchett novel yesterday, which was fast and easy. I liked the characters and the descriptions, and the plot was interesting, but I didn't like the style Pratchett wrote in. Sorry, Pratchett fans! It wasn't a bad book, though :-)
I'll be marking off each book as I read it and giving it a rating over on my book page!
What are you reading lately? Got any great recommendations? Do you keep a list of books to read?
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I keep a list of books to read, too. It's currently going on two pages long! In the past 2 weeks I've been enjoying The Life You Were Born to Live as it was strongly recommended by a friend.
Very cool, @Michelle! I'll have to read it! Thanks for stopping by :-)
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