I thought it was high time I wrapped up the reading lists for 2007 and moved on.This past year was the first year in many that I made a deliberate choice to read! I am somewhat stunned at the difference it made! Levi and I read many chapter books together. I will cherish those memories for a lifetime. Some of my books were humorous, some informative, some stretched my literary skills.
The Spring Reading Challenge was the first time I had made a specific list of books to read within a specific frame of time. It felt so good to get most of those books read and move forward with the Summer Reading Challenge. I again enjoyed the deliberate reading and decided to make my Autumn Intentional Reading List, even though Seasonal Soundings was no longer hosting a challenge. I finished all of the books on my list, other than The Closing of the American Mind and Much Ado About Nothing, and added one or two additional selections.
The Final List of Books Read in 2007:
A Year With C.S. Lewis
A Pioneer Sampler by Barbara GreenwoodThe Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara RobinsonBelles on Their Toes by Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Maggie Rose: Her Birthday Christmas by Ruth SawyerThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Harriet Beecher Stowe and The Beecher Preachers by Jean Fritz
Babe the Gallant Pig by Dick King-SmithAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Silver Chalice by Thomas B. CostainHomer Price by Robert McCloskeyThe Family Pilgrim’s Progress by Jean Watson/John Bunyan
A Charlotte Mason Education by Catherine Levison
The Moffats by Eleanor Estes
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Down the Garden Path by Beverly NicholsThe Penderwicks by Jeanne BirdsallCultural Literacy by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderLittle Pilgrim’s Progress by Bunyan/Helen L. Taylor
Talk to the Hand by Lynne TrussHoney for a Woman’s Heart by Gladys HuntBen and Me by Robert LawsonI Dared to Call Him Father by Bilquis Sheikh
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
How to Photograph Your Baby by Nick Kelsh
Marva Collins’ Way by Marva Collins and Civia Tamarkin To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie WillisPippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Art of Civilized Conversation by Margaret Shepherd
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. SalingerThe Wind in the Willows by Kenneth GrahameThe Cricket in Time Square by George Selden
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
She’s Gonna Blow! by Julie Ann BarnhillThree Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog!) by Jerome K. JeromeEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardGathering Blue by Lois LowryIt Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It by Robert FulghumThe Little French Girl by Anne Douglas SedgwickA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithAt Home in Mitford by Jan Karon(I’ve attempted to link each book to my book review where available.)Whew! Seventeen of the books listed above were stories that I read aloud to Levi. It is incredible having that shared landscape in our imaginations.
In the next few days I’ll be posting my book lists for 2008, and soon I will get around to finishing my favorite books list which I have not forgotten but has been shoved down the priority list recently.