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 *