Wednesday, December 29, 2010

2010 Book List

I read a =lot= of books during my six-month sabbatical – the rest of the year not so much. Looks like the total is 122 volumes. Here’s what I think is a complete list. Lots of good stuff, but I’ll star the ones that for whatever reason I loved the most. Want to talk books? Leave a comment or drop me a line.

See also Read in 2009 - Part 1, Nonfiction, Read in 2009 - Part 2, Fiction and 2008 Book Blogging Roundup.

NONFICTION

Biography / Memoir
  • Following Jesus through the Eye of the Needle | Kent Annan
  • Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America | Helen Thorpe *
  • How Reading Changed My Life | Anna Quindlen
  • Speak What We Feel, Not What We Ought to Say | Fredrick Buechner *
  • The Dream: A Memoir | Harry Bernstein
  • D. E. Hoste, A Prince with God: Hudson Taylor's Successor as General Director of the China Inland Mission 1900-1935 | Phyllis Thompson
  • Percy Mather of Central Asia: The Making of a Pioneer | Mildred Cable and Francesca French
  • The Caliph's House, A Year in Casablanca | Tahir Shah *
  • Making Toast | Roger Rosenblatt
  • Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Life of a Desert Nomad | Waris Dirie
  • The Second Trail: Behind the Scenes of the Enemy God | Amber Castagna
  • The Reluctant Exodus | Phyllis Thompson *
  • Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith | Ann Lamott
  • Lady on the Beach | Norah Berg and Charles Samuels
  • Wisdom Chaser: Finding My Father at 14,000 Feet | Nathan Foster *
  • One Man’s Meat | E.B. White **
Personal Development
  • The Bible **
  • God Guides | Mary Geegh
  • The Overload Syndrome: Learning to Live within Your Limits | Richard Swenson
  • A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 | Phillip Keller
  • The Way of the Heart: Connecting with God through Prayer, Wisdom, and Silence | Henri Nouwen
  • The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath | Mark Buchanan **
  • The Bible Jesus Read | Philip Yancey **
  • The Vertical Self: How Biblical Faith Can Help Us Discover Who We Are in an Age of Self Obsession | Mark Sayers *
  • Knitting without Tears | Elizabeth Zimmerman
  • In Search of Balance: Keys to a Stable Life | Richard Swenson
  • Overcoming Missionary Stress | Marjory Foyle *
  • Things Unseen: Living in Light of Forever | Mark Buchanan *
  • Expectations and Burnout: Women Surviving the Great Commission | Sue Eenigenburg and Robynn Bliss *
  • Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am? Insights into Personal Growth | John Powell
  • The Search for Significance | Robert McGee
  • To Be Told: God Invites You to Coauthor your Future | Dan Allender
  • A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss | Jerry Sittser **
  • Now, Discover Your Strengths | Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton *
  • 48 Days to the Work You Love | Dan Miller
  • StrengthFinder 2.0 | Tom Rath
  • Outlive your Life | Max Lucado
  • Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream | David Platt*
Other Nonfiction
  • Outliers, the Story of Success | Malcolm Gladwell **
  • Commissioned: What Jesus Wants You to Know as You Go | Marv Newell *
  • Woman to Woman: Sharing Jesus with a Muslim Friend | Joy Loewen
  • Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity | Sam Miller
  • Cows, Kin, and Globalization: An Ethnography of Sustainability | Susan A. Crate
  • Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World | Patrick Smith
  • Skills, Knowledge, Character: A Church-Based Approach to Missionary Candidate Preparation | Greg Carter

FICTION

Fiction / Literature
  • Gilead: A Novel | Marilynne Robinson **
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  • In the Beauty of the Lilies | John Updike
  • Tales from Shakespeare | Charles and Mary Lamb
  • The Magician's Nephew | C.S. Lewis
  • The Three Musketeers | Alexander Dumas
  • Hannah Coulter | Wendell Berry **
  • Summer Morning, Summer Night | Ray Bradbury
  • Home | Marilynne Robinson
  • Jayber Crow | Wendell Berry
  • Three Short Novels | Wendell Berry
  • Run: A Novel | Ann Patchett *
  • Girl in Translation | Jean Kwok
  • The Bonesetter’s Daughter | Amy Tan
  • The Help | Kathryn Stockett
  • Silver Birches | Adrian Plass
  • The Devil amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel | Sharyn McCrumb
  • In the Company of Others | Jan Karon
  • Homeland and Other Stories | Barbara Kingsolver *
Mysteries and Light Fiction
  • The Tale of Applebeck Orchard | Susan Wittig Albert
  • Curtain: Poirot's Last Case | Agatha Christie
  • A Caribbean Mystery | Agatha Christie
  • Skull Duggery | Aaron Elkins
  • The Lost Art of Gratitude | Alexander McCall Smith
  • The Five Red Herrings | Dorothy Sayers
  • Light from Heaven | Jan Karon
  • The Good Husband of Zebra Drive | Alexander McCall Smith
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows **
  • The Game | Laurie King
  • Debts of Dishonor | Jill Paton Walsh
  • Among the Mad | Jacqueline Winspear
  • The Double Comfort Safari Club | Alexander McCall Smith
  • Kaleidoscope | Dorothy Gilman
  • Miracle on the 17th Green | James Patterson and Peter deJong
  • The Girl Who Chased the Moon | Sarah Addison Allen
  • Egret Cove | Margaret Nava
  • Key Lime Pie Murder | Joanne Fluke
  • The Lacemakers of Glenmara | Heather Barbieri
  • Locked Rooms | Laurie King *
  • The Mapping of Love and Death | Jacqueline Winspear
  • 44 Scotland Street | Alexander McCall Smith
  • Just Between You and Me | Jenny B. Jones
  • The Language of Bees | Laurie King
  • Chasing Shakespeares | Sarah Smith
  • The Yada Yada Prayer Group | Neta Jackson
  • Mostly Harmless | Douglas Adams
  • Holiday Grind | Cleo Coyle
Kid Lit / Young Adult
Five of these I read aloud to my young friend Rachel. But I still enjoy this kind of stuff for myself, too.
  • C D C? by William Steig
  • Betsy-Tacy / Deep Valley stories (12 volumes) | Maud Hart Lovelace
  • The Hardy Boys: Hunting for Hidden Gold | Frank Dixon
  • Stuart Little | E.B. White
  • The Battle of the Labyrinth | Rick Riordan
  • The Last Olympian | Rick Riordan
  • The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • The Horse and His Boy | C.S. Lewis *
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian | Sherman Alexie
  • Anne’s House of Dreams | L.M. Montgomery
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J.K. Rowling
  • Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates | Mary Mapes Doge
  • The Princess Academy | Shannon Hale
  • So You Want to Be a Wizard | Diane Duane
  • Bloomability | Sharon Creech *
  • The King in the Window | Adam Gopnik *
  • Beside the Dark Sea of Darkness | Andrew Peterson
  • A Week in the Woods | Andrew Clement *

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

You are becoming a female David Mays.

Marti said...

I'm honored to be mentioned in the same sentence! David is an inspiration...

http://davidmays.org/Booknotes.html

Nan McCallum said...

Wow! All those books! I am convicted to get with the program! Thanks for the ideas of good reads.

Marti said...

It was fun to read so many good books. After going back to work - and starting grad school, and getting into a relationship - those days are behind me. For a while anyway.