Currently Reading
Daily Light for Every Day with Anne Graham Lotz
Sitting At the Feet of Rabbi Jesus, Ann Spangler, Lois Tverberg
If You Lived Here, Dana Sachs
La Mala Hora, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2010
1. The Help, Kathryn Stockette
2. Say You're One of Them, Uwen Akpan
3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby8
4. Push, Sapphire (adult content)
5. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne
6. Fusion, Nelson Searcy
7. Middlesex, Jeffry Eugenides
8. Launch, Nelson Searcy
9. Prayers for Sale, Sandra Dallas*
10. Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenneger
11. Life of Pi, Yann Martel*
12. Blue Shoe, Anne Lamont
13. On Mexican Time, Tony Cohan
14. Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
15. Any Minute, Joyce Meyer
16. Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
17. Sarah's Key, Tatiana de Rosnay*
18. Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins*
19. Conspiracy of Kindness, Steve Sjogren
20. Magnificent Obsession, Anne Graham Lotz
21. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold*
22. Danger to Self, Paul Linde
23. Lucky, Alice Sebold
24. Soul Graffiti, Mark Scandrette
25. Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenneger
26. Maze Runner, James Dashner*
27. Of Spirits and Madness, Paul Linde
28. When Helping Hurts, Steve Corbett &; Brian Fikkert**
29. The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
30. Icy Sparks, Gwyn Hyman Rubio
31. House Rules, Jodi Picoult*
32. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd*
33. Knowing God, Mary A Kassian
34. Julie & Julia, Julie Powell
35. Color de Fuego, Carmen Kurtz
36. Funding Your Ministry, Scott Morton
37. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
38. Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
39. Peony In Love, Lisa See
40. If You Will Ask, Oswald Chambers
17. Sarah's Key, Tatiana de Rosnay*
18. Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins*
19. Conspiracy of Kindness, Steve Sjogren
20. Magnificent Obsession, Anne Graham Lotz
21. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold*
22. Danger to Self, Paul Linde
23. Lucky, Alice Sebold
24. Soul Graffiti, Mark Scandrette
25. Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenneger
26. Maze Runner, James Dashner*
27. Of Spirits and Madness, Paul Linde
28. When Helping Hurts, Steve Corbett &; Brian Fikkert**
29. The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
30. Icy Sparks, Gwyn Hyman Rubio
31. House Rules, Jodi Picoult*
32. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd*
33. Knowing God, Mary A Kassian
34. Julie & Julia, Julie Powell
35. Color de Fuego, Carmen Kurtz
36. Funding Your Ministry, Scott Morton
37. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
38. Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
39. Peony In Love, Lisa See
40. If You Will Ask, Oswald Chambers
2009
* indicates favorites
1. Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi*
2. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (read my review)
3. The Memory Keepers Daughter, Kim Edwards*
4. No More Hurting, Gwen Purdie
5. Au Revoir: Running Away From Home at Fifty by Mary Moody*
6. Swimming in the Congo, Margaret Meyer
7. Emily Ever After, Ann Dayton and May Vanderbilt
8. Churched, Matthew Paul Turner
9. Margin, Richard Swenson*
10. The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio, Terry Ryan
11. The Best American Short Stories, 2008, Salman Rushdie, Editor
12. Living on the Margins, Women Writers on Breast Cancer
13. The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx*
14. The Pursuit of Happyness, Chris Gardner
15. Girl With a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier*
16. Breast Cancer, Let Me Check My Schedule, Peggy McCarthy and Jo An Loren, Editors
17. Survival through Laughter, Shiera Henderson, David Hall
18. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms, Gail Tsukiyama
19. A Deeper Kind of Calm, Linda Dillow
20. Drowning Ruth, Christina Schwarz
21. On the Anvil, Max Lucado
22. The Guernsy Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Anne Schaffer and Annie Barrows**
23. Wish You Well, David Baldacci
24. Mozart's Sister, Nancy Moser*
25. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See**
26. The Soloist, Steve Lopez
27. Dewey, The Small-Town Cat Who Touched the World. Vicki Myron with Bret Witter*
28. UpLift, Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors, Barbara Delinsky
29. A Gentle Thunder, Max Lucado
30. Never Let Me Go, Isiguro Kazuo
31. The Seat Beside Me, Nancy Moser
32. Miss Perfect, Jane Porter
33. Flirting with Forty, Jane Porter
34. I Grew Up Little, Patsy Clairmont
35. Spiritual Direction, Henri Nouwen*
36. The Gift of Pain, Paul Brand and Phillip Yancy
37. The Samurai's Garden, Gail Tsukiyama
38. Adam, Henri Nouwen**
39. Losing Normal, Heather Cheney, Sally Spencer, Pattie Zylka
40. After Dark, Haruki, Murakami
41. Redemption, Karen Kingsbury
42. Remember, Karen Kingsbury
43. Return, Karen Kingsbury
44. Rejoice, Karen Kingsbury
45. Arranged Marriage, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
46. Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult
47. Reunion, Karen Kingsbury
48. Mexican Enough, Stephanie Elizondo Griest*
49. Wife of the Gods, Kwei Quartey
50. Into The Beautiful North, Luis Alberto Urrea
51. Sister of My Heart, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni*
52. Honestly, Sheila Walsh*
53. Devotions for a Sensational Life, Patsy Clairmont, etc
54. Slumdog Millionaire, Vikus Swarup*
55. House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
56. Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing and Havana, Stephanie Elizondo Griest*
57. Keeping Faith, Jodi Picoult*
58. God's Most Precious Jewels are Crystallized Tears, Barbara Johnson
59. Short Girls, Bich Minh Nguyen
60. Shanghai Girls, Lisa See
61. The Multi-Site Church Revolution, Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, Warren Bird
62. The Unlikely Disciple, Kevin Roose**
63. The Angels Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
64. The Saffron Kitchen, Yasmin Crowther
65. A Glass of Water, Jimmy Santiago Baca
Recent Favorites
1. When Life and Beliefs Collide, Carolyn Custis James
2. The Savage is my Kinsman, Elizabeth Eliot
3. Into the Wild, John Krakauer (review)
4. Killing Pablo, Mark Bowden
5. The Enemy Within, Kris Lundgaard
Books I Abandoned
1. The Sandglass by Romesh Gunesekera (sooo boring)
2. The Five Sisters: The Langhorns of Virginia by James Fox (too many historical details and not enough about clothes and shoes)
Want to Read/Own
1. Hungry Woman in Paris, Josefina Lopez
