I dropped off the public reading map in June. I think my mid-west to west excursion did it to me, followed by receiving the reading list for my one fall class. Then there was the fall class combined with moving. If I didn’t homeschool the girls and take an occasional seminary class, I’m not sure what I’d be doing right now in the reading world. Oh yes, maybe some grown-up fiction, or even good product reviews, I find myself reading reviews of tactical watches and being satisfied. My guess is I need to go on another excursion.  Oh well. Still, I loved many of the books I read to the girls this year and I’m counting them because I did read them after all.

So here’s the list in pseudo-as-I-read-them order:

Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Clearly
Eyes Wide Open: Looking for God in Popular Culture by William Romanowski
Catching Light: Looking for God in the Movies by Roy Anker
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary
Calvin for Armchair Theologians by Christopher Elwood
Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary
The Age of Reform 1250-1550 by Steven Ozment
Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary*
Kristin Lavransdatter, Part 1: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset, Translated by Tiiina Nunnally
Lost in Rooville by Ray Blackston
Abby Takes a Stand by Patricia McKissack
The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
Little Pear by Eleanor Frances Lattimore
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Story of Christianity: Reformation to the Modern Day by Justos Gonzalez
Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop
On Being Presbyterian by Sean Michael Lucas
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Socks by Beverly Cleary
Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
Perelandra by C. S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
A Grief Observed by C. L. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
Missionary Stories with the Millers by Mildred A. Martin
The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill
Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates
Greek Myths by Heather Amery
Follow My Leader by James B. Garfield