Books
Books I’m Reading Right Now
1. Bittersweet (Shauna Niequist)
2. Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Books I’m Going to Be Reading All Year
1. Everything Belongs (Richard Rohr) – I plan to be reading portions of this book all year long, especially the chapter called “Ego and Soul.”
2. Listening to Your Life (Frederich Buechner) – This is a devotional book that I started about halfway through last year, so I plan to continue throughout this year, and probably for years to come.
3. The Well-Trained Mind (Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise) – This is a homeschooling resource that I’m very much into right now.
4. Celebration of Discipline (Richard J. Foster) – This book is great, but it’s taking me forever to get through because I just haven’t been picking it up much. Also the copy I’m reading isn’t mine, so I can’t underline, which means I’m taking notes as I go and typing them into the iPad.
Books I’ve Read This Year
JANUARY
1. Telling Secrets (Frederick Buechner)
2. La’s Orchestra Saves the World (Alexander McCall Smith)
3. The Day the Falls Stood Still (Cathy Marie Buchanan)
4. Building Bone Vitality (Amy Joy Lanou and Michael Castleman)
5. Walking on Water (Madeleine L’Engle)
6. The Magic of Chia (James F. Scheer)
7. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
FEBRUARY
8. A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
9. Everything Belongs (Richard Rohr)
10. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years (Donald Miller)
11. The Unbearable Lightness of Scones (Alexander McCall Smith)
MARCH
12. Grooming the Next Generation for Success (Dani Johnson)
13. Shanghai Girls (Lisa See)
14. Food Rules (Michael Pollan)
15. Grain Damage (Douglas Graham)
16. The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
APRIL
17. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (Kim Edwards)
18. Too Many Cooks (Emily Franklin)
19. Eat for Health (Dr. Joel Fuhrman)
MAY
20. Everything Belongs (Richard Rohr) – second reading
21. The Double Comfort Safari Club (Alexander McCall Smith)
22. Little Bee (Chris Cleave)
JUNE
23. Sarah’s Key (Tatiana de Rosney)
24. Imperfect Birds (Anne Lamott)
JULY
25. And Never Stop Dancing (Gordon Livingston)
26. Respectful Kids (Todd Cartmell)
27. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
AUGUST
28. Kabul Beauty School (Deborah Rodriguez)
29. The Happiness Project (Gretchen Rubin)
30. The Last Time I Saw You (Elizabeth Berg)
Books I Recommend on Eating for Health
1. Disease-Proof Your Child (Joel Fuhrman)
2. Eat to Live (Joel Fuhrman)
3. Eat for Health (Joel Fuhrman)
4. The China Study (T. Colin Campbell)
5. Green for Life (Victoria Boutenko)
6. Never Be Sick Again (Raymond Francis)
7. The 80/10/10 Diet (Douglas Graham)
8. Food Matters (Mark Bittman)
9. The Coconut Oil Miracle (Bruce Fife)
Books I Recommend on Parenting
1. The Blessing of a Skinned Knee (Wendy Mogel)
2. Respectful Kids (Todd Cartmell)
3. Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child (John Gottman)