Books for 2012

These are the books I've read so far this year....It's interesting to me how my reading has changed over the years. I no longer read mostly fiction, but now I read mostly non-fiction. This list does NOT include the books I read aloud to the girls.

Fiction

• Urchin and the Raven War ~ M. I. McAllister
• Urchin and the Rage Tide ~ M. I. McAllister
• The Mountain Between Us ~ Charles Martin
• Chasing Fireflies ~ Charles Martin
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ~ Betty Smith
• Pigs in Heaven ~ Barbara Kingsolver
• Thunder and Rain ~ Charles Martin
• The Best of Me ~ Nicholas Sparks
• Cutting For Stone ~ Abraham Verghese

**next up - Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

Non-Fiction

• The Winter of Our Disconnect ~ S. Maushart
• Just a Minute ~ Wess Stafford
• The Celebration of Discipline ~ Richard J. Foster
• The Meaning of Marriage ~ Timothy Keller
• Born to Run ~ Christopher MacDougal
• Simplicity Parenting ~ Kim John Payne
• A Blistered Kind of Love ~ Angela & Duggy Ballard
• The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels ~ Ree Drummond
• I Am Hutterite ~ Mary Ann Kirkby
• The Reason for God ~ Timothy Keller
• A Place at the Table ~ Chris Seay
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle ~ Barbara Kingsolver
• The Big Year ~ Mark Obmaseik
• Parenting With Love and Logic ~ Foster Cline and Jim Fay
• When Invisible Children Sing ~ Dr. Chi Huang
• The Ledge ~ Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughan
• 7 ~ Jen Hatmaker
• The Ragamuffin Gospel ~ Brennan Manning
• Seal of God ~ Chad Williams
• Forget Me Not ~ Jennifer Lowe-Anker
• Sacred Parenting ~ Gary Thomas
• No Greater Love ~ Levi Benkert
• Don't Waste Your Life ~ John Piper
• Hope Unseen ~ Scotty Smiley
• Fully Alive ~ Ken Davis
• Love Does ~ Bob Goff

**next up - Love Mercy by Lisa Samson and The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball

Classics (goal of 3 this year)

• Pilgrim's Progress ~ John Bunyan
• Pride and Prejudice ~ Jane Austen

**next up - Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift