Amy’s Reading List

Well my booklist got a little bit out of control… I did manage to stick to 8 books in each category, but I ended up with eleven categories somehow. I am, however, looking forward to reading them all. I love to read that much

Books listed in purple are ones I have read since Jan 1 – not a bad start…

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6/10/08: EDITED to say I have changed my categories around and added a few more. My list is now up to 120 books and I have read 57 of them. My personal goal was to read 104 by the end of the year so, I am more than halfway there, but not quite halfway to the books on this list. I may not make it, but it is a good goal, right? I have also added some daily bible reading to my schedule, so by this time next year, I should have read through the whole bible as well. I love reading!

Fiction

1. The Choice, Sparks
2. Lucky You, Hiaasen
3. The Road, McCarthy
4. Life of Pi
5. Memory Keepers Daughter, Edwards
6. For One More Day, Albom
7. Wicked
8. The Pilot’s Wife, Shreve

Non Fiction

1. The World Is Flat, Friedman
2. Eat, Pray, Love, Gilbert
3. Fast Food Nation, Schlosser
4. Financial Peace Revisited, Ramsey
5. NO More Heart Disease
6. Get the Transfat Out! Hobbs
7. How Starbucks Saved My Life, Gill
8. Year of Magical Thinking, Didion

Classics

1. Sense and Sensibility, Austen
2. Don Quixote, deCervantes
3. Blithedale Romance, Hawthorne
4. Self Reliance, Emerson
5. Civil Disobedience, Thoreau
6. Federalist Papers
7. King Lear, Shakespeare
8. Moby Dick

Young Adult

1. Percival, Paterson
2. American Born Chinese, Yang
3. Battle of the Labryinth, Riordian
4. Invention of Hugo Cabret, Selznick
5. Calder Game, Balliet
6. The End, Snicket
7. True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi
8. Notes From a Liar and her Dog, Choldenko

Newberry Winners:

1. Hattie Big Sky, Larson
2. Rules, Lord
3. Penny From Heaven
4. Higher Power of Lucky, Patron
5. Out of the Dust, Hesse
6. Tales of Desperaux, DiCamillo
7. Kira Kira, Kadohata
8. Criss Cross

Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis)

1. The Magician’s Nephew
2. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
3. The Horse and His Boy
4. Prince Caspian
5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
6. The Silver Chair
7. The Last Battle
8. Letters to Children (a biography of Lewis)

Homeschool/Education/Parenting

1. Thomas Jefferson Education
2. Homeschooling Methods
3. Charlotte Mason Series
4. The Three R’s, Beechick
5. Well Educated Mind, Bauer
6. How to Read a Book, Adler
7. Parenting with Love and Logic, Fay
8. Well Adjusted Child, Gathercole

History

1. To the Scaffold, Erickson
2. Secret Life of Josephine, Erickson
3. The Titled Americans, Kehoe
4. History of the Ancient World, Bauer
5. Most Famous Man in America
6. Three Cups of Tea
7. Mary, Queen of France, Plaidy
8. Girl from Botany Bay, Erickson

Romance

1. Secret Star, Roberts
2. Skinnydipping, Brockway
3. Spellbound, Roberts
4. Hidden Riches, Roberts
5. The Return of Rafe MacKade, Roberts
6. The Pride of Jared MacKade, Roberts
7. The Heart of Devin MacKade, Roberts
8. The Fall of Shane MacKade, Roberts

Elizabeth Berg

1. Range of Motion
2. Never Change
3. Talk Before Sleep
4. Open House
5. True to Form
6. Year of Pleasures
7. Until the Real Thing Comes Along
8. We Are All Welcome Here

Francine Rivers

1. Tamar
2. Rahab
3. Ruth
4. Bathsheba
5. Mary
6. Mark of the Lion, Book 1
7. Mark of the Lion, Book 2
8. Mark of the Lion, Book 3

Love Comes Softly Series (Janette Oke)

1. Love Comes Softly
2. Love’s Enduring Promise
3. Love’s Long Journey
4. Love’s Abiding Joy
5. Love’s Unending Legacy
6. Love’s Unfolding Dream
7. Love Takes Wing
8. Love Finds a Home

Other Christian Fiction

1. The Solitary Envoy, Dunn
2. The Innocent Libertine, Dunn
3. The Noble Fugitive, Dunn
4. The Night Angel, Dunn
5. Falconer’s Quest, Dunn
6. Moonlight on Mill Pond, Wick
7. Just Above a Whisper, Wick
8. Leave a Candle Burning, Wick

Writing

1. Writing Magic – Creating Stories that Fly, Levine
2. This Year You Write Your Novel, Mosley
3. Reading Like a Writer
4. Will Write for Shoes
5. Escaping into the Open, Berg
6. How I Write, Evanovich
7. A Writer’s Paris
8. Write Brain Workbook

Read Alouds (with Madison)

1. Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Atwater
2. Alice in Wonderland, Carroll
3. Pippi Longstocking, Lindgren
4. Little House in the Big Wood, Wilder
5. Cinderellis and the Glass Hill, Levine
6. Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
7. Ramona Forever, Cleary
8. ?

Other Books I’ve Read:

1. Tuesday’s with Morrie, Albom
2. Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep, Levine
3. The Fairy’s Return, Levine
4. For Biddle’s Sake, Levine
5. Going Overboard, Sarah Smiley
   

Authors I like - to look for, in case I run out of books on this list

• Erickson
• Levine
• Hale
• Plaidy
• Berg
• Laurens
• Lindsey
• Roberts
• Brockway
• Sparks
• Oke
• Rivers
• Balliet
• Hiaasen
• Sachar
• Creech