Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Books so Far in 2015

Here's a list of books I've been reading this year.  This year, I initially planned to focus less on the number of books I read in favor of choosing to read (at least) 12 classics this year.  Well, that plan has fallen by the wayside as I've read exactly zero classics this year.  However, part of the original intent behind this goal was to incentivize quality over quantity.  Last year I found myself reading short books (250 pages or less, usually) so that I could mark them off my list.  This year, I've decided just to read what I want regardless of how long the book is, and I've noticed the books I've read are decidedly longer (iReaditNow, the app I use, says they're averaging about 300 pages and as long as 700).  As a result I've read fewer books but read about 7500 pages so far this year (not including reading for work).  I've also found myself drawn to more fiction stories, which is a surprise and a departure from what I usually read.  Below are the books I've read so far this year.   Like usual, my favorites are bolded.

  1. Me Before You: A Novel by Jojo Moyes
  2. The Veil by Blake K. Healy
  3. Living a Life of Fire: An Autobiography by Reinhard Bonnke
  4. What Every Bride Needs to Know: The Most Important Year in a Woman's Life by Susan DeVries
  5. What Did You Expect?: Redeeming the Realities of Marriage by Paul David Tripp
  6. Atlas Girl: Finding Home in the Last Place I Thought to Look by Emily T. Wierenga
  7. What Every Groom Needs to Know: The Most Important Year in a Man's Life by Robert Wolgemuth
  8. Birthing the Miraculous: The Power of Personal Encounters with God to Change Your Life and the World by Heidi Baker
  9. Fly a Little Higher: How God Answered One Mom's Small Prayer in a Big Way by Laura Sobiech
  10. 3500: An Autistic Boy's Ten Year Romance with Snow White by Ron Miles
  11. The Sacred Search: What If It's Not about Who You Marry, But Why? by Gary Thomas
  12. Becoming Fearless: My Ongoing Journey of Learning to Trust God by Michelle Aguilar
  13. The New Rules for Love, Sex, and Dating by Andy Stanley
  14. Wife Number Seven by Melissa Brown
  15. Chasing the Dragon: One Woman's Struggle Against the Darkness of Hong Kong's Drug Dens by Jackie Pullinger
  16. Scary Close (International Edition) by Donald Miller
  17. The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
  18. The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes by Diane Chamberlain
  19. Nanny Returns by Nicola Kraus
  20. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen
  21. Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
  22. Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No by Henry Cloud
  23. Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorius
  24. The Power of a Whisper: Hearing God, Having the Guts to Respond by Bill Hybels
  25. M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton

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