Reading List for 2006

Rating system:
1 star - Hated It!
2 stars - Didn't Like It
3 stars - Liked It
4 stars - Really Liked It
5 stars - Loved It!

Cooks Overboard by Joanne Spence (recommended by Andrea) - 2-and-a-half stars
1776 by David McCullough - 3 stars
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott (recommended at B. J. Hoff's blog) - 4 stars
Living Under God by Toby Mac & Michael Tait (reviewed for Mind and Media) - 3 stars
Homestead by Rosina Lippi (recommended at The Crib Chick) - 5 stars
The Fulness of Times by Ron Rennick (gift from Ron and Andrea) - 3 and a half stars
Connecting With Your Kids by Timothy Smith (reviewed for Mind and Media) - 3 and a half stars
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids On 25 Words Or Less by Terry Ryan (A Common Reader) - 4 stars
Everything and a Kite by Ray Romano (audiobook) - 3 stars (Warning: contains some adult language)
Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City by Anna Quindlen (A Common Reader) - 3 stars
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (everyone else is - I've never been good at resisting peer pressure) - 3 stars
Club Sandwich by Lisa Samson (one of my favorite Christian authors - you can find her blog here.) - 4 stars
The Witness by Dee Henderson (reviewing for Mind and Media) - 4 stars
Light From Heaven by Jan Karon (wouldn't miss anything she wrote) - 5 stars
Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (audiobook) - 4 stars
Credo: Believing in Something to Die For by Ray Pritchard (reviewing for Mind and Media) - 4 stars
Global Deception: The UN's Stealth Assault on America's Freedom by Joseph A. Klein (reviewing for Mind and Media)
At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon (audiobook read by John McDonough - he is excellent!)
Jack's Life: A Memory of C. S. Lewis by Douglas H. Gresham (decided to read this one after reading Mr. Gresham's interview on Christianity Today)
The Bark of the Bog Owl (The Wilderking Trilogy, Book 1) by Jonathan Rogers (reviewing for Mind and Media)
The Secret of the Swamp King (The Wilderking Trilogy, Book 2) by Jonathan Rogers (reviewing for Mind and Media)
Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul by John and Stasi Eldredge (gift from my mom)
Where Is God When It Hurts? by Philip Yancey (Yancey is one of my favorite authors; this is one I haven't read yet.)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (recommended in the A Common Reader catalog)
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
Monster by Frank Peretti
Obsessed by Ted Dekker
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (I've tried to read this before and didn't get very far; I'm determined to finish it this year.)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (The only Dickens I've read is A Christmas Carol. I'm trying to broaden my horizons.)
Last Light by Terri Blackstock
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz (recommended by Angie at A Life in Pages)
The March by E. L. Doctorow
S is for Silence by Sue Grafton (been waiting for this one to come out)
The Myth of You and Me by Leah Stewart (recommended in the A Common Reader catalog)
The Ha-Ha by Dave King (A Common Reader)
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeanette Walls
A Widow's Walk: A Memoir of 9/11 by Marian Fontana (A Common Reader)
Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L’Amour (recommended at Mental Multivitamin)
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
Trinity by Leon Uris (re-reading this - one of my all-time favorites)
Fourth Dawn by Bodie & Brock Thoene (recommended by a friend)
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself In Books by Maureen Corrigan (A Common Reader)
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs
Levi's Will by W. Dale Cramer (I think I saw this recommended at Semicolon.)
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult (I enjoyed Her Sister's Keeper this year and wanted to try another of hers.)
The Novelist by Angela Hunt (another favorite author)
More Than Words: Contemporary Writers on the Works That Shaped Them by James C. Schapp & Philip Yancey, editors
Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church by Philip Yancey
Fresh Brewed Life by Nicole Johnson (re-read)
A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle (recommended at - where else - A Circle of Quiet)
The Last Disciple by Sigmund Brouwer & Hank Hanegraaff (read this one in 2005 and want to re-read it before I read the sequel)
The Last Sacrifice by Sigmund Brouwer & Hank Hanegraaff
Patrick: Son of Ireland by Stephen R. Lawhead
A Cook in Time by Joanne Spence (recommended by Andrea)
The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. & E. B. White
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby (recommended at Writing and Living)
A Year With C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings From His Classic Works (my husband bought me this in e-book form for my Palm)
God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It by Jim Wallis
Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution by Jeffrey Shaara (recommended by my brother-in-law)
The Glorious Cause: A Novel of the American Revolution by Jeffrey Shaara (recommended by my brother-in-law)
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (recommended at Mental Multivitamin)
Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (re-read)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (recommended on the Atypical Homeschool forum)
Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman (recommended by Mental Multivitamin)
To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian by Stephen Ambrose (picked it up at Barnes & Noble)
Good Grief by Lolly Winston (picked it up at Barnes & Noble)
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (saw it recommended on several blogs so I picked it up at Barnes & Noble)