This is my third year with the 52 Books in 52 Weeks Challenge. I love having a list of books I’ve read each year, because it helps me remember the joy and learning involved with each one.
I also read many worthwhile books, including some adult books, aloud to the children this year and listed them in Read Alouds 2012.
- The Resolution for Women
- The Resolution for Men
- EntreLeadership by Dave Ramsey
- You Can Farm by Joel Salatin
- The Maid of Fairbourne Hall by Julie Klassen
- 7 Money Rules for Life by Mary Hunt
- Four Letter Words by Bill Giovannetti
- The Emancipation of Robert Sadler
- Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl (read aloud)
- Girl in the Gatehouse by Julie Klassen
- Promise and Deliverance, Volume 1 by S.G. De Graaf
- Leave it to Claire by Tracey Bateman
- Chosen by God by R.C. Sproul
- Agamemnon, the first play in the Oresteia, by Aeschylus
- Leepike Ridge by N. D. Wilson (children’s adventure)
- Folks This Ain’t Normal by Joel Salatin
- Done and Dared in Old France by Deborah Alcock (youth and adult)
- Prize of My Heart by Lisa Norato
- Three Men Came to Heidelberg and Glorious Heretic by Thea B. Van Halsema (for youth)
- The Money Saving Mom’s Budget Audio Book by Crystal Paine
- Chasing the Sun by Tracie Peterson
- The Wedding Dress by Rachel Hauck
- Tyndale by David Teems
- English Literature for Boys and Girls by H.E. Marshall
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
- Pastured Poultry Profits by Joel Salatin
- As One Devil to Another by Richard Platt
- The Discovery by Dan Walsh
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
- Mindsight by Daniel Siegel
- Traveler’s Rest by Ann Tatlock
- Father Goose by William Lishman about a man who trained geese to fly south following his tiny airplane; conservation book
- Crushed Yet Conquering by Deborah Alcock
- Growing Up Ziglar by Julie Ziglar Norman
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Campbell-McBride
- Short Straw Bride by Karen Witemeyer
- Love in Disguise by Carol Cox
- The Unaborted Socrates by Kreeft
- The Best Things in Life by Peter Kreeft
- Johnny Appleseed by Louise H. Rock and Joe Van Severen (children’s biography)
- The Best Things in Life by Peter Kreeft
- Miraculous Movements by Jerry Trousdale
- 101 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum by Cathy Duffy
- Only a Novel by Amy Dashwood funny story written by one of Miss 14’s friends
- Stress Point by Martin
- Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin
- Father Hunger by Wilson
- Cradle my Heart by Ketola
- Live to Give by Gutwein
- The Ancient Mesopotamians by Virginia Schomp (for Miss 12’s schoolwork)
- Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green
- The Empty House by Rosamunde Pilcher
- Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child by Anthony Esolen
- What a Difference a Mom Makes by Kevin Leman
- Embracing Obscurity by Anonymous
- Work Shift by Anne Bogel
- Israel at War by Joel C. Rosenberg
- Shadow Hawk by Andre Norton, (kids historical fiction; very good)
- 21 Days to a More Disciplined Life by Crystal Paine,
- The Reunion by Dan Walsh,
- Growing Great Garlic by Ron Engeland,
- Debt-Proof Your Christmas by Mary Hunt,
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- All Things New by Lynn Austin
- You Shall be Free Indeed by Richard Ganz
- A Simpler Season by Jessica Fisher
- Life with Lily by Kinsinger and Fisher
- Children in Church by Curt and Sandra Lovelace
- A Cry From Egypt by Hope Auer
- Hittite Warrior by Joanne Williamson (great story about ancient Israel for middle school or highschool)
- The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers (I never did like mysteries before this)
- Wordsmithy by Douglas Wilson
- The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (children’s book)
- Christmas Roses by Amanda Cabot
- The Christmas Pony by Melody Carlson
- The Golden Goblet
- Writing Cookbooks by Judith Comfort
- Tell Your Time by Amy Andrews, a reread of the first book I read and reviewed in 2011
- Problogger by Darren Rowse
- Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
- A Good Year by Peter Mayle (disappointing)
- Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- The Genius of Ancient Man by Don Landis,
- Courting Cate by Leslie Gould,
- Taste and See: An Invitation to Read the Bible
- J. R. R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend by Colin Duriez.