Tired of book posts, yet? Sorry, got one more for you.
(notes in red were added throughout the year)
(an * indicates that a book was also previously listed in another category)
My ‘Would Love to Read in 2010’ List
Read Alouds:
Man of the Family by Ralph Moody
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann D. Wyss
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Biography/Autobiography/Memoir:
Going Solo by Roald Dahl (done)
Mt Vernon Love Story by Mary Higgins Clark
Papa Married a Mormon by John D. Fitzgerald (started)
Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis by George Sayer (done)
In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Noble E. Cunningham, Jr.
My Life in France by Julia Child (started)
Amos Fortune: Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson (done)
26 Fairmont Avenue (rest of series) by Tomie DePaola (done)
Francophile:
*My Life in France by Julia Child (started)
The Matchmaker of Perigord by Julia Stuart (done)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (done)
French Milk by Lucy Knisley
I’ll Never Be French (no matter what I do) by Mark Greenside
French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano
A Corner in the Marais by Alex Karmel
Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love and Language From the South of France by Kristin Espinasse
History/Historical Fiction:
The Good Master by Kate Seredy
Dutch Color by Douglas M. Jones III (done)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier
*Amos Fortune: Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
The Samurai’s Tale by Erik C. Haugaard
Literature:
Don Quixote retold by Martin Jenkins (done)
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz (done)
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Strong Poison, Have His Carcass, and Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
A Morbid Taste for Bones: The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters (done)
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (done)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Sequels and Series:
The Squire’s Tales (books #3-8) by Gerald Morris (finished 3, 4, 5)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Catching Fire & The Hunger Games #3 by Suzanne Collins (finished both)
The Black Cauldron (The Castle of Llyr, Taran Wanderer, The High King, and The Foundling) by Lloyd Alexander
Shakespeare’s Scribe (Shakespeare’s Spy) by Gary Blackwood
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma by Trenton Lee Stewart (done)
The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald
*Man of the Family by Ralph Moody
The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis (for the umpteenth time)
ChocLit Guild (Book Club):
*Quo Vadis (done)
The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey
*Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis by George Sayer (done)
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (done)
*Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (done, but no longer a book club selection)
(and 3 more)
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (done)
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (done)
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
Walking on Water by Madeleine L’Engle (read last year)
Romance:
books by George MacDonald
Spontaneous Reads:
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
Time Travelers Never Die by Jack McDevitt
The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education by Leigh A. Bortins
Sir Charlie: Chaplin, the Funniest Man in the World by Sid Fleischman
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
Lord! when you sell a man a book you don’t sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue~ you sell him a whole new life.Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night
~there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
What’s on YOUR list?!