Mommy Brain

Here’s my planned reading list for 2006. It has 57 titles on it (in no particular order), the first four of which I started this year and plan to finish in the first few weeks of next. I read 76 books this year (edit 12/31: 77 books, I finished Snow in August by Pete Hamill this morning), not counting the read-alouds with the kids. I have no idea if I’ll actually get to all of these, but these are the ones I want to read. This list should also leave enough room for the new books that come out and I can’t resist, and the occasional title to review for Mind and Media. I also read the Bible. This is supposed to happen on a daily basis, but that hasn’t always the case. Being more consistent in this area is one of my goals for the new year.

Snow in August by Pete Hamill
1776 by David McCullough
Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman’s Soul by John and Stasi Eldredge
The Fulness of Times by Ron Rennick
Connecting With Your Kids by Timothy Smith
Where Is God When It Hurts? by Philip Yancey
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
Monster by Frank Peretti
Obsessed by Ted Dekker
Jack’s Life: A Memory of C. S. Lewis by Douglas H. Gresham
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Last Light by Terri Blackstock
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
The March by E. L. Doctorow
S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice
The Myth of You and Me by Leah Stewart
The Ha-Ha by Dave King
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeanette Walls
A Widow’s Walk: A Memoir of 9/11 by Marian Fontana
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids On 25 Words Or Less by Terry Ryan
Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L’Amour
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
Trinity by Leon Uris (re-read)
Fourth Dawn by Bodie & Brock Thoene
Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading: Finding and Losing Myself In Books by Maureen Corrigan
The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Light From Heaven by Jan Karon
Club Sandwich by Lisa Samson
Levi’s Will by W. Dale Cramer
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
The Novelist by Angela Hunt
More Than Words: Contemporary Writers on the Works That Shaped Them by James C. Schapp & Philip Yancey, editors
Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church by Philip Yancey
Fresh Brewed Life by Nicole Johnson (re-read)
A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle
The Last Disciple by Sigmund Brouwer & Hank Hanegraaff (re-read)
The Last Sacrifice by Sigmund Brouwer & Hank Hanegraaff
Patrick: Son of Ireland by Stephen R. Lawhead
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
A Cook in Time by Joanne Spence
Cooks Overboard by Joanne Spence
The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. & E. B. White
Imagined London: A Tour of the World’s Greatest Fictional City by Anna Quindlen
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
A Year With C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings From His Classic Works
God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It by Jim Wallis
Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution by Jeffery Shaara
The Glorious Cause: A Novel of the American Revolution by Jeffrey Shaara
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (re-read)