Reading List 2014

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

-Cicero

 

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them"
-Mark Twain
 

I wanted to share my reading list from 2014. I could not remember every book I read so there may be more. Also, some of these I read out loud to my children (although I won't include Dr. Seuss or Margaret Wise Brown on my list).

My 11 year old daughter is writing down the books she is reading for 2015. As of this week 2/26/2015 Grace has read over 80 books!!

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go!"
-Dr. Seuss

I wish I had a love for books when I was her age. Even though I read as a child, I did not develop a true love for reading until my early 20s. Now I always have a good book to read. Reading is the first thing I do in the morning and the last thing I do at night. If you see a book on my list you'd like to know about feel free to ask, I am more than willing to give a review.

  'The list' 2014:

 

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers -Maria Augusta Trapp

Julie&Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously  -Julie Powell

George Muller -Janet and Goeff Benge

Into Thin Air -Jon Krakauer

Year of No Sugar -Eve O. Schaub

Impossible Beyond This Point -Joel Horn

As Long As Life -Mary Canaga Rowland, MD

Martin Luther -Edwin P. Booth

A Stolen Life -Jaycee Dugard

Hitler -Albert Marrin

Amelia Earhart: A Photographic Story of a Life -Tanya Lee Stone

 

"Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations."
-Vladimir Nabokon
 

To Kill A Mockingbird -Harper Lee

Frankenstein -Mary Shelly

Animal Farm -George Orwell

For Whom the Bell Tolls -Ernest Hemingway

Villette -Charlotte Bronte

Cure -Belinda S. Frisch

The Disaster Diaries -Sam Sheridan

The Fault in Our Stars -John Green

World War Z -Max Brooks

 

"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance."
-Confucius

 

Sweet Poison -David Gillespie

Parenting with Love and Logic -Foster Cline & Jim Fay

You Healthier Now -Lea Newman

The Happiness Diet -Tyler Graham & Drew Ramsey, MD

Healer -Joseph Dispenza

Vaccine Safety Manual -Neil Z. Miller

Cure Tooth Decay -Ramiel Nagel

Nourishing Traditions -Sally Fallon

 

"You're my place of quiet retreat I wait for your Word to renew me."
-Psalm 119:114

Divine Intervention -Daniel Fazzina

Pilgrims Progress -John Bunyan

Whatever Happened to the Human Race -Francis Schaeffer

Hope Rising -Kim Meeder

 

 

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives only one."

-George RR Martin

 

"Since it is likely that children will meet cruel enemies let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage."
-CS Lewis
 

Pictures in order: a bookshelf in our hallway, my daughter's stack of "to reads", my husband's bedside table, my bedside table, the living room table where I like to read the Bible first thing in the morning and my son Robert.