Friday, June 5, 2009

What we've read...

I thought it would be helpful to have a list of books we've read that we can easily refer to. Hopefully this is accurate.

2011:
Jesus the Christ by James Talmage
Follow the River by James Alexander Thom
Cheaper By the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth Jr.

A Widow's Story by Joyce Carol Oates
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Host by Stephenie Myers
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Mary, Martha, and Me: Seeking the One Thing ... Needful by Camille Olson
Sounder by William Armstrong

2010:

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Recovering Charles by Jason Wright
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich
The Color of Water by James McBride

No Apology by Mitt Romney
Vienna Prelude by Brock & Bodie Thoene
Journey of a Thousand Miles: My Story by Lang Lang and David Ritz
Embraced By the Light by Betty Eadie
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Little Britches by Ralph Moody

2009:
The Holy Secret by James L. Ferrell
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Other Side of Heaven by John Groberg
The Moroni Code by Jack Lyon

The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Candle in the Darkness by Lynn Austin



2008:
Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Go Forward with Faith: The Biography of Gordon B. Hinckley by Sheri Dew
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen
Nothing Like it in the World by Stephen Ambrose
Princess— A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean Sasson
Zamba by Ralph Helfer
All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
A Sacred Duty by Ester Rasband & Richard Wilkins
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows


2007:
Fire in the Bones by S. Michael Wilcox
Let’s Roll by Lisa Beamer
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
A Train to Potevka by Mike Ramsdell
I am a Mother by Jayne Clayson Johnson
A Heart Like His by Virginia Hinckley Pearce

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Earth in the Beginning by Eric Skousen
The Wednesday Letters by Jason Wright


2006:

These is My Words by Nancy Turner
Eve and the Choice Made in Eden by Beverly Cambell
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
The Peacegiver by James L. Ferrell
Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Deadly Persuasion by Jean Kilbourne (paperback title Can’t Buy My Love same author)