Books of 2016

Total Books Finished in 2016: 140

January 2 Perelandra by C. S. Lewis
January 9 A Green and Pleasant Land by Ursula Buchan
January 12 Flame of Resistance by Tracy Groot
January 12 Touch the Top of the World by Erik Weihenmayer
January 19 The Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
January 21 Beautiful Battle by Mary Demuth
January 23 Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
January 24 A Woman of Love by Dee Brestin
January 25 The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
January 30 What is the Father Like by W. Phillip Keller

February 6 Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
February 7 The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
February 11 Collected Sonnets by William Shakespeare
February 15 A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
February 19 That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
February 25 The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
February 29 Give them Grace by Elyse Fitzpatrick and Jessica Thompson
February 29 Amelia Earhart: The Sky’s No Limit by Lori Van Pelt

March 7 Open Your Bible by Raechel Myers and Amanda Bible Williams
March 11 God’s Love: How the Infinite God Cares for His Children by R. C. Sproul
March 12 Fifty Women Every Christian Should Know by Michelle DeRusha
March 13 Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay
March 14 Florence Nightingale: A Life Inspired by Lynn M. Hamilton
March 17 Passion Pursuit by Linda Dillow and Dr. Juli Slattery
March 17 Tiny Titan– One Small Gift by Ann Yurcek
March 21 Magyk by Angie Sage
March 23 The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
March 27 The Perils of a Pastor’s Wife by Nan Jones
March 30 Everyday Faith: 31 Daily Devotions from the Book of Jude by John Stange
March 31 The One Thousand Gifts Devotional by Ann Voskamp

April 2 Isaiah
April 9 Emma by Jane Austen
April 11 I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
April 15 Glorious Intruder by Joni Earickson Tada
April 16 The Beloved Apostle by Beth Moore
April 16 100 Selected Poems by e.e. cummings
April 21 The Staycation Jar by Erica McNeal
April 23 West with the Night by Beryl Markham
April 24 Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara
April 30 30 Day Love Language Challenge by Gary Chapman
April 30 The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer

May 1 The Name of This Book Is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch
May 13 Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
May 13 Idols of the Heart by Elyse Fitzpatrick
May 17 As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley
May 18 Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist
May 23 The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
May 25 The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert by Rosaria Butterfield
May 28 “Anne of Green Gables,” My Daughter, and Me by Lorilee Craker
May 29 Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
May 31 Trusting God with Your Dream by Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

June 2 Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
June 3 Amy Carmichael, Rescuer of Precious Gems by Geoff and Janet Benge
June 4 I Stand at the Door and Knock by Corrie Ten Boom
June 11 The Black Star of Kingston by S.D. Smith
June 13 The Bronte Plot by Katherine Reay
June 14 Be Joyful by Warren Wiersbe
June 16 A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (audio book)
June 20 The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway
June 26 Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest by Edward T. Welch
June 28 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

July 5 On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson
July 10 Radical Integrity: The Story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Michael Van Dyke
July 12 When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin
July 13 Who Is the Holy Spirit? by R.C. Sproul
July 14 A Cavalcade of Lesser Horrors by Peter Smith
July 18 Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus by Nabeel Qureshi
July 23 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

August 4 The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton
August 8 Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
August 9 The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma
August 13 The Ministry of Motherhood by Sally Clarkson
August 15 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
August 20 How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein
August 22 A Woman After God’s Own Heart by Elizabeth George
August 24 Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
August 25 The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde
August 25 The Song of the Quarkbeast by Jasper Fforde
August 26 If: Devotional Edition by Amy Carmichael
August 26 Five Minute Devotions for the Homeschool Mom by Tina Nahid
August 27 The Eye of Zoltar by Jasper Fforde
August 29 I Dared to Call Him Father by Bilquis Sheikh
August 29 The Gospel of Mark: The Jesus We’re Aching For by Lisa Harper
August 29 Moby Dick by Herman Melville (audio book)
August 30 Streams in the Desert by L.B.E. Cowman

September 9 Confessions of a Prayer Slacker by Diane Moody
September 9
The Pastor’s Kid by Barnabas Piper
September 11 Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
September 12 Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
September 13 Cinder by Merisa Meyer
September 14 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
September 19 Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
September 23 Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman
September 30 Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery

October 3 Winning Your Teen’s Heart by Spencer Bernard
October 4 Bruchko by Bruce Olson
October 4 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (audiobook)
October 6 The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg
October 19 The Power of Suffering by John MacArthur
October 19 The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel
October 19 The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg
October 24 The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
October 31 The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (audiobook)

November 1 The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
November 3 The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
November 7 Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
November 9 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
November 13 Among the Shadows by L.M. Montgomery
November 15 Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (audiobook)
November 15 My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud’homme
November 18 Spokesongs by Willie Weir
November 21 Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
November 21 Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
November 21 The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers
November 22 The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
November 33 The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

December 3 Before Bethlehem by James J. Flerlage
December 7 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
December 14 Kneeling in Bethlehem by Ann Weems
December 14 Running on Empty: The Gospel for Women in Ministry by Barbara Bancroft
December 14 Liz and Nellie by Shonna Slayton
December 18 The Curse of Crow Hollow by Billy Coffey
December 21 Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
December 23 Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmoore (audio)
December 24 From Heaven by A.W. Tozer
December 24 The Santa Claus Man by Alex Palmer
December 25 Genesis (transcribed)
December 25 Tabitha’s Travels by Arnold Ytreeide (aloud to children)
December 26 Maze Runner by James Dashner
December 26 Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
December 27 Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (audio)
December 28 All Roads Lead to Austen by Amy Smith
December 29 The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
December 31 Near to the Heart of God by Robert J. Morgan
December 31 Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry (aloud to Pooka)
December 31 The Acceptable Sacrifice by John Bunyan
December 31 The Death Cure by James Dashner

In progress as of December 31:
Homeschooling at the Speed of Life by Marilynn Rockett
The Armor of God by Priscilla Shirer
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool
The Creative Call by Janice Elsheimer
A Cup of Comfort for Christmas ed. by Colleen Sell
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (audio)