This is the book list I have for 2008. As per my resolution I was planning to read 50 books. But since I am also doing the 90-day Bible reading, I am reducing the goal to 36 for 2008, an average of 3 per month. The books listed below are a mix of every thing. From recommendations from other bloggers, IRL friends, then there are some in there which I have read many times but still like to read over and over again. Please add your recommendations too in there. I would love to give those a try as well.
Here goes my list. Those which I already read, I struck off.
The Bible
Eats Shoots and Leaves (Lynne Truss)
Wise Blood (Flannery O Connor)
When Life and Beliefs Collide (Carolyn Custis James)
When the Morning Comes (Cindy Woodsmall)
Peace Like a River (Leif Enger)
Odd Thomas (Dean Koontz)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Marquez)
My Utmost for His Highest (Oswald Chambers) currently reading
Where Is God When It Hurts (Philip Yancey)
Road to Yesterday (L.M. Montgomery)
Gods Unfinished Symphony (Dr. Tom Oommen)
Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai)
The Hiding Place
I am
The Quotable Lewis
God's Smuggler (John and Elizabeth Sherrill)
Till We Have Faces (C.S. Lewis)
The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Jo's Boys (Louisa May Alcott)
Belcanto (Ann Patchett)
There is no me without you (Melissa Greene)
Between two loves (Nancy Kennedy)
Hero’s walk (Anita Rau Badami)
Crunchy Cons (Rod Dreher)
Serve God, Save the Planet (Matthew Sleeth) Love's Enduring Promise (Janette Oke)Love Comes Softly (Janette Oke)Taking Charge of Your Fertility (Toni Weschler)The $64 tomato (William Alexander)Little Men (Louisa May Alccott)The Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls)Farmer Boy (Laura Ingalls)Little House in the Priarie (Laura Ingalls)On the banks of Plum Creek (Laura Ingalls)By the shores of Silver Lake (Laura Ingalls)The Long Winter (Laura Ingalss)Little Town in the Prairie (laura Ingalls)These Happy Golden Years (Laura Ingalls)
6 comments:
Ooh -- a booklist. :) Please do reviews on lots of them as you read them. :)
I've been wanting to read Eats Shoots & Leaves for a long time. Yesterday at the library I saw a baby book called Eats Poops & Leaves. I laughed out loud.
Just ordered When Life & Beliefs Collide and am looking forward to reading that. Controversial books are always interesting, and it sounds pretty good from what I've heard.
I've read several others on your list, but have never heard of many of them. Please write reviews (I'm begging now)! ;)
Eats, poops and leaves! I can't stop laughing here. Is that a book on baby care? If it is on toddler care, it should be eats, poops and wallows in poop or something. (I had a cousin's kid do that once. I can never forget that) Help me, I can't stop now.
I will try and do a book review on ones which deserve it. Otherwise I will just come up with a rating system or something. Towards the end of my list, all the books are ones by Indian authors. They have been reccommended by other Indian friends. They are all not so great, but in some aspects it is easy to identify...about Indians in America.
By the way you have not given your recommendations. That was kind of the whole point, to get everyone's recos also so that I can add them to the list.
You have some good ones on there! I so highly recommend Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
I tried reading Outlander. It just seemed to be a book about gratuitous sex. I didn't bother finishing it. It came highly recommended to me by several people, but I hated it.
That is some list!
There is nothing I love more than lists! Except maybe books so I do love this list of books!
I am interested to hear your reviews of many of these...
I have read some of them and would highly reccomend The Red Tent, Little Women, Jo's Boys ( I think I like Jo's Boys the best of any of her books, other than Little Women. I am planning on reading Love in the time of Cholera, The Hiding Place (rereading), Crunchy Cons, Open hearts, Open Homes, and Serve God, Save the planet.
I read Eat, Pray and Love. It was really good and I would highly reccomend it. I didn't so much agree with her beliefs but I liked her thought process and her humor.
Left Behind Series
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