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Books Read in 2019

I love to read as much as the next person. Maybe more, even—after all, I was a literature major in college. (Not because I ever expected to DO anything with that degree—or my music degree, for that matter—but because I loved to read and write and it seemed worthwhile to pay gobs of tuition money to have the opportunity to do both. Or something.)

The last decade, however, has not precisely been full of good books. I read a good bit of Christian romantic drivel while nursing Levi, and I have multiple Sandra Boynton board books memorized, and we’ve ventured into some classic literature read-alouds along the way. But reading for my own pleasure? A luxury at best.

When I hopped on the bullet journal train at the end of 2018, I decided that this would be the year I started reading again, mostly so I could make a cute “books to read” page. I honestly didn’t expect to stick with it. At the time, I didn’t even know I was pregnant and would have time nursing a baby before 2019 was out! But stick with it I did, grabbing minutes cooking dinner or before bed or, more often than I care to admit, ignoring home and children to finish one. more. chapter.

Here’s what I read:

The Bible
All of the New Testament, some books more than once
Genesis through 2 Samuel (by next week), Song of Songs, maybe half the psalms
You can read about the Bible reading plan I follow here: https://www.christkirk.com/crowd-sailing-vol-1/

Christian Non-Fiction
*Worship Matters and True Worshippers, both by Bob Kauflin
*Prayer by Tim Keller (haven’t finished this one yet)
*You Who by Rachel Jankovic
*The Gospel Comes With a Housekey by Rosaria Butterfield
*Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Harrison Warren
*Created to Care by Sara Wallace

Historical Non-Fiction/Biography
*Prairie Fires (about Laura Ingalls Wilder)
*Hidden Figures (not quite done with this one)
*Unbroken
*A Woman of No Importance
*Home by Julie Andrews
*Presenting Buffalo Bill

Middle-Grade Literature
*The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place (we started the series last fall)
*Peter Nimble and his Fantastic Eyes
*The Phantom Tollbooth
*The Hobbit
*The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson
*The Riverboat Adventures series (also called Freedom Seekers)
*Incident at Hawk’s Hill
*Gold Rush Fever

“Chick Lit”
*Love Walked In, Belong to Me, I’ll Be Your Blue Sky (trilogy)
*A Fall of Marigolds (I didn’t enjoy this one, for the record. It was kinda lame.)
*The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress
*The Lake House
*Marilla of Green Gables
*all 18 books in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series

Other Modern Literature 
*Hannah Coulter and Andy Catlett: Early Travels by Wendell Berry
*The Shardlake series (first five books so far)
*The False Prince trilogy
*A Tree Grows in Brooklyn


If you want more info on any of those, let me know! And if you have anything I must put on next year’s list, I’m always open to suggestions!

(Next year I’ll need two pages. I ran out of room here last month!)
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