It’s that time of year again! Time for a new reading list! (If you are wondering why in the world I even make a reading list, it’s because I am a little bit dorky and also because I believe that reading is good for you!) I love putting these together and I am especially excited about my 2012 list. It has a good mix of novels, adventure stories, and history…all good things for me! I wasn’t a total winner on my list last year, so some of those books are rolling over. Special thanks to my friend, Zach, for giving me access to his Amazon wish list, from which I stole most of these ideas.
- Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy – Eric Metaxas
- The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
- Reshaping It All: Motivation for Physical and Spiritual Fitness – Candace Cameron Bure
- Kane and Abel – Jeffrey Archer
- The Great Divorce – C.S. Lewis
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption – Laura Hillenbrand
- The Christian Atheist – Craig Groeschel
- The Male Factor: The Unwritten Rules, Misperceptions, and Secret Beliefs of Men in the Workplace – Shaunti Feldhahn
- Unscensored Grace: Stories of Hope from the Streets of Vegas – Jud Wilhite
- Shadow Country – Peter Matthiessen
- The History of Love – Nicole Krauss
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
- No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 – Graham Bowley
- Room – Emma Nonoghue
- Torn: Trusting God When Life Leaves You in Pieces – Jud Wilhite
- Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
- You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving Church…And Rethinking Faith – David Kinnaman
- Start Something That Matters – Blake Mycoskie
- Kissing Kilimanjaro: Leaving It All on the Top of Africa – Daniel Dorr
- We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance – David Howarth
- To America – Stephen Ambrose
- D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II – Stephen Ambrose
- Band of Brothers – Stephen Ambrose
- Mawson’s Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written – Lennar Bickel
- Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
- No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World’s Highest Peaks – David Roberts
- The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World – Marti Olsen Laney
- The Help – Kathryn Stockett
- Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System- and Themselves – Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Kisses From Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption – Katie Davis
Kelly,
I haven’t put together a list of my books to read, but I have a lot of them. I have the first book in the Hunger Games series and want to read it. My 15 year old niece has already read all three books and has started reading them again. Do you like Christian thrillers? If so check out Ted Dekker. He is one of my favorite authors! (I can recommend some specific titles if you’re interested.) If you haven’t already, you should join http://www.goodreads.com
It cut off the end of my comment. I was just saying that Good Reads is a great website to organize your reading list and also see what your friends are reading. There are several people from church (including Jeff Henderson) on it.
This is a really excellent reading list. I have a fair amount of these on my kindle, and I’m dying to try out the kindle book lending thing. It gives you 14 days to read the borrowed book. We can give it a go. The hunger games maybe- it’s a quick read…
I definitely want to try the lending thing! Does that mean we can borrow from each other or just borrow from Amazon?
You have a bunch that I’ve read which shows me I am not entirely illiterate! Another suggestion: The Rebellion of Jane Clarke by Sally Gunning. Takes place in Boston during days of unrest, John Adams, trial of British soldiers, etc. Great plot, mystery, history and excellent writing. "Room" is on our book club list for Feb. Have you ever read any of Joel Rosenburg’s fiction or non-fiction? I highly recommend! I am trying to decide whether to join the Kendle generation .. love the feel of a book in my hand though. Have wonderful holiday and blessed Christmas-tide.
We lend/barrow from each other. Also- you can check out kindle books from local participating libraries… doesn’t help me in Africa, but sounds like a rad deal.
Wowsa, what a list! I’m stealing a few to add to my goodreads lists of things to read (yay, Scott!) & am going to try to find people that have the kindle versions to borrow (yay, Zach). Thanks for sharing the list for some of us to get great ideas!