I read a lot.
Like around 100 to 150 books a year, on average. I pretty much devour the written word. If you are on Goodreads, I’d love to connect. Please send me your recommendations!
People ask me what I’m reading with some regularity. And I love looking through the reading lists of others, like my friend Sandra. So, I thought it would be fun to add a reading list here. So, in no particular order, here are the books I’ve read this year. {If I’ve done a review, I’ll add the link to that as well.} Also, you should know, most links are affiliate links so should you decide to purchase through them, you’ll be taking a little bit of pressure of my sweet husband who works hard to pay for my book addiction. 🙂
- Lead Your Family Like Jesus
{my review}
- Connecting Church & Home
{my review}
- God is My Refuge: 12 Weeks of Devotions and Scripture Memory for Troubled Times
- Fed Up with Flat Faith: 10 Attitudes and Actions to Pump Up Your Faith
- Dear God, He’s Home!: A Woman’s Guide to Her Stay-at-Home Man
- Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
- The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother’s Memoir
- Radical Well-being: A biblical guide to overcoming pain, illness, and addictions
{review}
- Holey, Wholly, Holy: A Lenten Journey of Refinement
{review}
- 31 Days of Forgiveness: {through the eyes of grace}
{review}
- 24/6: A Prescription for a Healthier, Happier Life
- A Year of Biblical Womanhood
- Like Dandelion Dust
- A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition
- The Pact: A Love Story
- Barefoot Church: Serving the Least in a Consumer Culture
- The “Do What You Can” Plan: 21 Days to Making Any Area of Your Life Better
- You’re Already Amazing: Embracing Who You Are, Becoming All God Created You to Be
- You’re Made for a God-Sized Dream: Opening the Door to All God Has for You
- On Becoming a Writer: What Every Blogger Needs to Know
- The Writing Life
- The Practice of the Presence of God
- Not by Bread Alone: Daily Reflections for Lent 2013
- The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath
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- One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
** {review}
- Mudhouse Sabbath: An Invitation to a Life of Spiritual Discipline
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- A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World **
- Place at the Table, A: 40 Days of Solidarity with the Poor
- Ten Indictments against the Modern Church
- Freedom from Performing
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- The Way of Perfection by Saint Teresa of Avila
- Souvenirs of Solitude: Finding Rest in Abba’s Embrace
- 10 People Every Christian Should Know
- Loving God When You Don’t Love the Church: Opening the Door to Healing
- Beyond the Storm: Quilts of Love Series
- Nadia’s Hope
- She Makes It Look Easy: A Novel
- 31 Kisses
- A Time for Peace: Quilts of Lancaster County
- The Hunger Games
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- Catching Fire
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- Mockingjay
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- Speechless: Finding God’s Grace in My Son’s Autism
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- Sheet Music: Uncovering the Secrets of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage
- You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving Church…and Rethinking Faith
- Creating Space: The Case for Everyday Creativity
- Pinteresting – Pinterest Strategies for Brands and Bloggers
- Book Marketing Basics: How to Use Facebook, Twitter, Blogging and Email Marketing to Connect with Readers
- Self-Publishing Basic Training
- Do the Work
- Branded: Sharing Jesus with a Consumer Culture
- Community Wins: 21 Thoughts on Building a Thriving Online Tribe
- Marketing With Pinterest – How to Drive Traffic, Sales and Results with Pinterest
- The Beginning: An eShort prequel to The Bridge
- Jesus in the Present Tense: The I AM Statements of Christ
- Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe
- Dear God, He’s Home!: A Woman’s Guide to Her Stay-at-Home Man
- Dave Ramsey’s Complete Guide to Money: The Handbook of Financial Peace University
- The Memory Jar (Seven Brides for Seven Bachelors)
- Sparkly Green Earrings: Catching the Light at Every Turn
- Plan a Fabulous Party {without losing your mind}
- The Growly Books: Begin (Volume 1)
- EXPECTANT: 40 Devotions for New and Expectant Moms
- KidVentures: 50 Outdoor Experiences of Wonder, Discovery, & Childhood Memories
- Embracing Beauty
- 28 Days to Hope for Your Home (Not for the Mildly Disorganized)
- 31 Days to Great Sex
- Getting It Together
- A Mom After God’s Own Heart
- Sacred Parenting: How Raising Children Shapes Our Souls
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- Life after Art: What You Forgot About Life and Faith Since You Left the Art Room
- God’s Favorite Place on Earth
- Game Plan for Life: Your Personal Playbook for Success
- uncharted terriTORI
- A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet: Southern Stories of Faith, Family, and Fifteen Pounds of Bacon
{my thoughts}
- Greater Than Rubies
- Child of the King
- The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time
{my post on this book at The High Calling}
- Being OK with Where You Are
{my review}
- Held: Learning to Live in God’s Grip
- Let Hope in: 4 Choices That Will Change Your Life Forever
- Bread & Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
- Own It: Leaving Behind a Borrowed Faith
{my review}
- Grace Unplugged: A Novel
{my review}
- Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life
- A Christmas Gift for Rose
{my review}
- Undivided Mom
- Woman of Sin
- Man of God
- Even Now (Lost Love Series)
- Ever After (Lost Love Series)
- Someone To Believe In
- Finding Pride
- A Daughter’s Inheritance
- The Perfect Christmas
- Angels Watching Over Me (Shenandoah Sisters Book #1)
- Day to Pick Your Own Cotton, A (Shenandoah Sisters Book #2)
- The Coach House
- Love to Stay: Sex, Grace, and Commitment
{my review}
- So Long, Insecurity Teen Edition
{my review}
- A Simpler Season
- Clean {Enough}
- The Heart of Simplicity: Foundations for Christian Homemaking
- 20 Minute Meals
- The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl
{yes, I do read cookbooks, doesn’t everyone??}
- Your Blogging Business: Tax Talk & Tips from a Bookkeeper Turned Blogger
- God is Able {my review}
- Not a Sparrow Falls (The Second Chances Collection Book #1)
- The Christmas Waltz (The Larkspur Valley Series)
- The Book Thief
- Divergent (Divergent Series)
- Insurgent (Divergent Series)
- Allegiant (Divergent Series)
- The Big Picture Interactive Bible Storybook: Connecting Christ Throughout God’s Story {my review}
- This Time Forever
- The First Christmas Carol: A Miser, A Manger, A Miracle
- God With Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Christmas
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- The Greatest Gift: Unwrapping the Full Love Story of Christmas
- 25 Days, 26 Ways to Make This Your Best Christmas Ever
- God is Able
{my review}
- Southern Country Cooking from the Loveless Cafe: Fried Chicken, Hams, and Jams from Nashville’s Favorite Cafe (Roadfood Cookbook)
Desserts from the Famous Loveless Cafe
- Soy Sauce for Beginners
- Keeping Faith
- The Lightkeeper’s Daughter
- The Lightkeeper’s Bride
The Lightkeeper’s Ball
- Coming Home: A Story of Undying Hope
- 12 Days of Christmas for the Hurting
The Lightkeeper’s Ball
- Tidewater Inn (The Hope Beach Series)
- Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence **
- Streams in the Desert: 366 Daily Devotional Readings
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** indicates books I have previously read but read again this year.
I love book lists! We’ve read quite a few of the same books, and I need to add some of these to my “to read” list.
Shocking, huh, that we’ve read many of the same books. I always find such gems on your list. I need to update my Goodreads “to read” shelf. 🙂
I have read 10 of those. I actually reread the Hunger Games series last weekend. Good books. I have read more this month than I have all year.Signing up with Netgalley was a good bad thing. FYI- my reveiw of your book is on my blogtoday.
Saw the review … I’m sharing the link on Facebook and Twitter! Thank you!!
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE. You totally outread me. TOTALLY.
I have a little more time than you do since I only have one daughter to get to and fro AND I’m not teaching a college class. 🙂
True, although I still manage to get 100-120 per year (goal is 10/month) and people think I’m crazy. So I can’t imagine how crazy they think you are!?!?!?!
I have another friend who reads crazy-fast too so we are NOT alone in this world of reading a lot. (PS: Finished #27 last night, still have about 8 nonfiction going at a chapter apiece that I rotate around.)
Also, do you know you have a duplicate? 44 & 45
Thank you … I didn’t realize that. Guess that makes me only at 55. 🙂
Woweee! That’s an awesome list, Teri Lynne! 🙂
Thanks, girl! I’m just glad to have your book on it … and I imagine it will be one with the ** for a re-read next year! 🙂
I loved going through your list. I am reading Teresa of Avila this year too but Her Interior Castle.. I attended a long retreat last summer where we review that book and studied Teresa. I want to revisit is and slowly savor more of her thoughts this year.
I too am a huge reader and have lots of books going at once. One thing i am doing though this is is selecting three books to reread with more depth and application. I read a couple of chapters, takes notes and journal. Interior Castle is one of those. The other two are John 14 in the bible and The Cloud of the Unknowing by Butcher.
Please keep sharing your list periodically. I really enjoyed seeing what you are reading.
Thank you, Jean! I have about 15ish books I read almost every year. The Rest of God has become one of them. BUt I love the idea of choosing three to re-read with intention. I may adopt that plan as well.