Sunday, December 30, 2012

2012 Reading and 2013 Goals

My goal for 2012 was to read 35 books.  I surpassed my goal by 5 books. 
  1. Water for Elephants - Gruen
  2. Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist - Piper
  3. Eat, Pray, Love - Gilbert
  4. The Wind in the Willows - Grahame
  5. The Hunger Games - Collins
  6. The Help - Stockett
  7. Finally Alive: What Happens When We are Born Again - Piper
  8. The Woman in White - Collins
  9. Catching Fire - Collins
  10. Who Made God?: Searching for a Theory of Everything - Andrews
  11. Radical Together - Platt
  12. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life - Eliot
  13. The Litigators - Grisham
  14. Mockingjay - Collins
  15. Gospel Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting - Farley
  16. Soul of Science - Pearcey
  17. Coming to Peace with Science: Bridging the Worlds Between Faith and Biology - Falk
  18. Genesis in Space and Time: The Flow of Biblical History - Schaeffer
  19. The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out - Manning
  20. The Last Child - Hart
  21. Best Friends Forever - Weiner
  22. A Change in Altitude - Shreve
  23. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Haddon
  24. The Brethren - Grisham
  25. The 17 Day Diet: A Doctor's Plan Designed for Rapid Results - Moreno
  26. The Midlife Miracle Diet: When Your Diet Doesn't Work Anymore - Puhn
  27. Organizing the Disorganized Child: Simple Strategies to Succeed in School - Kutscher
  28. Icons of Evolution: Science of Myth? - Wells
  29. Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love - Sobel
  30. Old Yeller - Gipson
  31. Philosophy of Science: The Natural Sciences in Christian Perspective - Ratzsch
  32. Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown - Wiedemer
  33. Redeeming Science: A God-Centered Approach - Poythress
  34. Should Christians Embrace Evolution: Biblical & Scientific Responses - Nevin
  35. The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood
  36. Saving Darwin: How to be a Christian and Believe in Evolution - Giberson
  37. What the Best College Teachers Do - Bain
  38. Divergent - Roth
  39. Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution - Miller
  40. Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
I was again surprised by how much I enjoyed the classics I read.  Anna Karenina & The Woman in White were both very good!

I'm not sure of the length of some of the books I will be reading this year, so I think I will stick with a goal of 35 books.  I plan to rotate still between classic literature, non-fiction, and something I want to read (possibly recent fiction). 

So what did you read this year that you really enjoyed?

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