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:
- Cometh the Hour (Book Six of the Clifton Chronicles) – Jeffrey Archer
- 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)
- 30 Days — Change Your Habits, Change Your Life: A Couple of Simple Steps Every Day to Create the Life You Want – Marc Reklau
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance – Angela Duckworth
February:
- What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast – Laura Vanderkam
- The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ – Andrew Klavan
- Food Freedom Forever: Letting Go of Bad Habits, Guilt, and Anxiety Around Food – Melissa Hartwig
March:
- Embracing Obscurity: Becoming Nothing in Light of God’s Everything – Anonymous
- Rules of Civility – Amor Towles
- Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously
April:
- Emotional Intelligence 2.0 – Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves
- The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things – Courtney Elizabeth Mauk
May:
June:
- American Wife – Curtis Sittenfield
- My Name Is Lucy Barton – Elizabeth Strout
- Boy’s Life – Robert R. McCammon
- Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will – Kevin DeYoung
- Island of the World – Michael D. O’Brien (my second time through this one and it’s still my favorite novel)
- The Magnolia Story – Chip & Joanna Gaines
July:
- You Will Know Me – Megan Abbott
- A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
- Goodbye, Vitamin: A Novel – Rachel Khong
- Since We Fell – Dennis Lehane
- A Woman’s Wisdom: How the Book of Proverbs Speaks to Everything – Lydia Brownback
- Perfecting Ourselves to Death: The Pursuit of Excellence and the Perils of Perfectionism – Richard Winter
- Commentaries on Proverbs – Matthew Henry
August:
- The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance – Ben Sasse
- Moral Defense (Samantha Brinkman Book 2) – Marcia Clark
- 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
- The Judgment of Richard Richter – Igor Štiks
September:
- I Am Watching You – Teresa Driscoll
- To Dance With the White Dog – Terry Kay
- Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
- The Woman in Cabin 10 – Ruth Ware
- Into the Water – Paula Hawkins
- Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life – Gretchen Rubin
October:
- Leaving Berlin – Joseph Kanon
- John – R.C. Sproul
- The Touch – Randall Wallace
- Eleanor Elephant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
November:
I didn’t finish a single book this month! 😦
December:
- The Girl With Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story – Hyeonseo Lee
- Poetic Wonder of Isaac Watts – Douglas Bond
- Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis
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