It’s become my habit to keep a list of what I’ve read, and I’m continuing that this year. My main reading goal this year is to read 45 books, mostly from my own shelves. I’ll add to this post as I go.

January:

1.  Cometh the Hour (Book Six of the Clifton Chronicles) – Jeffrey Archer
2. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing – Marie Kondo  (a few thoughts on this one here and here)
3. 30 Days — Change Your Habits, Change Your Life: A Couple of Simple Steps Every Day to Create the Life You Want – Marc Reklau
4. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance – Angela Duckworth

February:

5. What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast – Laura Vanderkam
6. The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ – Andrew Klavan
7. Food Freedom Forever: Letting Go of Bad Habits, Guilt, and Anxiety Around Food – Melissa Hartwig

March:

8. Embracing Obscurity: Becoming Nothing in Light of God’s Everything – Anonymous
9. Rules of Civility – Amor Towles
10. Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously

April:

11. Emotional Intelligence 2.0 – Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves
12. The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things – Courtney Elizabeth Mauk

May:

13. Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal– Nick Bilton

June:

14. American Wife – Curtis Sittenfield 
15. My Name Is Lucy Barton – Elizabeth Strout
16. Boy’s Life – Robert R. McCammon
17. Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will – Kevin DeYoung
18. Island of the World – Michael D. O’Brien (my second time through this one and it’s still my favorite novel)
19. The Magnolia Story – Chip & Joanna Gaines

July:

20. You Will Know Me – Megan Abbott
21. A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
22. Goodbye, Vitamin: A Novel – Rachel Khong
23. Since We Fell – Dennis Lehane
24. A Woman’s Wisdom: How the Book of Proverbs Speaks to Everything – Lydia Brownback
25. Perfecting Ourselves to Death: The Pursuit of Excellence and the Perils of Perfectionism – Richard Winter
26. Commentaries on Proverbs – Matthew Henry

August:

27. The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance  – Ben Sasse
28. Moral Defense (Samantha Brinkman Book 2) – Marcia Clark
29. Dot Journaling – A Practical Guide: How to Start and Keep the Planner, To-Do List, and Diary That’ll Actually Help You Get Your Life Together – Rachel Wilkerson Miller
30. The Judgment of Richard Richter – Igor Štiks

September:

31. I Am Watching You – Teresa Driscoll
32. To Dance With the White Dog – Terry Kay
33. Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
34. The Woman in Cabin 10 – Ruth Ware
35. Into the Water – Paula Hawkins
36. Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life – Gretchen Rubin

October:

37. Leaving Berlin – Joseph Kanon
38. John – R.C. Sproul
39. The Touch – Randall Wallace
40. Eleanor Elephant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman

November:
I didn’t finish a single book this month! 😦

December:

41. The Girl With Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story – Hyeonseo Lee
42. Poetic Wonder of Isaac Watts – Douglas Bond
43. Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis

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