reads

(a list for fun. and to remember)


twenty thirteen

finished:
the new testament

 to be continued:
give them grace -elyse m. fitzpatrick and jessica thompson

Twenty Fourteen: 
(I didn't keep a detailed list this year, so these are the titles that I remembered)

 This Momentary Marriage -John Piper
Sense and Sensibility -Jane Austen
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -Mark Twain
Kisses from Katie -Katie Davis
I Married Adventure. -Osa Johnson
Uncle Tom's Cabin -Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Nesting Place -Myquillyn Smith
Humans of New York -Brandon Stanton

Twenty Fifteen
Northanger Abbey -Jane Austen
Love Comes Softly -Janet Oak
At Home in Mitford -Jan Karen
And the Mountains Echoed -Kahled Hosseini 
Little Women -Louisa May Alcott 
The Book Thief -Markus Zusak
The Fault in Our Stars -John Green
Gospel Treason -Brad Bigney
Unbroken -Laura Hillenbrand
The Giver -Lois Lowry
To Kill a Mockingbird -Harper Lee
Number the Stars -Lois Lowry
Murder on the Orient Express -Agatha Christie
The Catcher in the Rye -J.D. Salinger
Into Thin Air -John Krakauer
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -Ken Kesey
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peal Pie Society -Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Schaffer
A Voice in the Wind -Francine Rivers
An Echo in the Darkness -Francine Rivers
Galatians
Paper Towns -John Green
The Last Sin Eater -Francine Rivers
The Poisonwood Bible -Barbara Kingsolver
As Sure as the Dawn -Francine Rivers
God Set a Watchman -Harper Lee
The Glass Castle -Jeannette Walls
Half Broke Horses -Jeannette Walls
Good Tidings of Great Joy -John Piper
Ina Mae's Guide to Childbirth -Ina Mae Gaskin 
Twenty Sixteen

The Worst Hard Time -Timothy Egan 
What does the Bible Really Teach About Homosexuality -Kevin DeYoung
Caddie Woodlawn -Carol Ryrie Brink
Women of the Word -Jen Wilkin
Twenty Seventeen




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