The last couple of years as I’ve made my list of books to be read I’ve sorted them into just a few categories; fiction, non-fiction, spiritual growth, personal growth etc. I’ve also had a list from a book club that I’m in. (Sadly with the loss of my website data, I can’t go back and link to my previous reads)
This year, I’m trying something a little differently and making a bunch of different categories. Introducing my 2020 Book List. [Anything marked with a * is a carryover from 2019.]
Fiction: Modern
- Watership Down by Adams
- The Tatooist of Auschwitz* by Morris
- The Chosen* by Potok
- Brideshead Revisited by Waugh
- The River by Heller
- The Dutch House by Patchett
Fiction: Classics
- Little Men* by Alcott
- The Great Gatsby* by Fitzgerald
Fiction: Short Stories
- That Distant Land* by Berry
Fiction: Fantasy
- The Odd and Frost Giants* OR Stardust* both by Gaiman
Fiction: Long Novel
- Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Non-Fiction: Memoir
- Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Pruitt Stewart
- Lost without the River by Scoblic
Non-Fiction: on Writing
- The Writing Life by Dillard
Non-Fiction: Biography
- The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Millard
- Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings by Pavlac
Non-Fiction: A Historical Period (this year the period of Reconstruction)
- Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Robinet
- Chariot in the Sky: A Story of the Jubilee Singers by Bontemp
Non-Fiction: A skill/Art focus
The Quiet Eye: A Way of Looking at Pictures by Judson
Non-Fiction: Personal Growth
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Duhigg
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Duckworth
- Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Turkle
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by van der Kolk
Non-Fiction: Education
- Tending the Heart of Virtue* by Guroian
- Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child’s Education* by Bauer
- Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning by Littlejohn
Non-Fiction: Essays
- Circle of Quiet* by L’Engle
- Mind of the Maker by Sayers
Non-Fiction: Devotional
- Keep a Quiet Heart by Elliot
- something by CS Lewis TBD
Non-Fiction: Nature
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek* by Dillard
Reread:
- Walking on Water by L’Engle
For the Book Club:
- Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts… by Arnold
- Sense and Sensibility by Austen
- O’Pioneers by Cather
- The Blue Castle by Montgomery
- The War of the Worlds by Wells
- The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux
- Dinner with Skeptics: Defending God… by Vines