Book List 2013

I really like making lists, just in case you missed that.  Seriously, lists can help keep me in line and not rush ahead of myself.  They help boost my spirits when I mark things off and they make life easier by only having to remember once.

I started making lists of books to read each season/year a few years back and it increased the number of books I finished dramatically!  I highly recommend it to anyone looking to increase their reading time.  I keep a master list in excel that probably has close to 200 books listed.  If anyone recommends a book or I see one that looks interesting, I add it to my master list.  I go to that list to make my yearly or seasonal lists.  I also note what year I read it and highlight the ones I've completed as sort of a reading log.

So, here is what I am going to try to read this year.  I read over 50 books last year, but have no doubt that it won't happen again this year.  We've got a lot of plans this year that will make reading that much a little harder.  Unless you count books for school--that seems to be what type of reading I do these days!

• The Bible-a yearly read, although I didn't make it through Revelation in 2012
• One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp-this has become a yearly read to remind myself to live a life of gratitude
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel-book club read
• The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom-another book club read
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen-this was on my fall list, but didn't get finished
• Almost Amish by Nancy Sleeth-I started this in the fall and should finish it early 2013
• I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven-one of my mom's favorites
• Kisses from Katie by Katie J. Davis
• The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
• I, Mona Lisa by Jeanne Kalogridis
• The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
• Climbing Parnassus by Tracy Lee Simmons
• French Kids Eat Everything by Karen Le Billon
• The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley
• Generation iY by Tim Elmore
• Love, Charleston by Beth Hart
• Secrets of a Successful Homeschool Mom-ebook by Jamie C. Martin

Not a huge list, but a doable one.  I'll be adding several more that will be for book club, but those have not been decided just yet.  Have you read any good books lately?