In 2009, I pledged to read 100 books over the course of 2010. Here's my list of 107 books in case you're interested.
I did it again in 2011 (why not?). Here's my list of 109 books.
The tradition continued in 2012 where I read a whopping 144 books! Here is my list from that year.
In 2013 I kept on chugging along, reading 104 books. Here is my list from that year.
In 2014 I hit my best record yet, reading 152 books. Here is my list from that year.
In 2015 I beat my record, reading 187 books. Here is my list from that year.
In 2016, I read 166 books, focusing on books I owned but had never read. Here is my list from that year.
In 2017, I read 123 books. Here is my list from that year.
In 2018, I read only 54 books. I spent most of my year driving the kids around, haha! Here is my list from that year.
In 2019, I read 150 books. Here is my list from that year.
In 2020, I read 152 books. Here is my list from that year.
In 2021, I read 203 books. Here is my list from that year.
In 2022, I read 249 books. Here is my list from last year.
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- "My Lovely Wife" by Samantha Downing (1)
- "Confess" by Colleen Hoover (2)
- "Zel" by Donna Jo Napoli (3)
- "News for Dogs" by Lois Duncan (4)
- "Helen Keller" by Margaret Davidson (5)
- "The Curse of the Blue Figurine" by John Bellairs (6)
- "Who Moved My Cheese?" by Spencer Johnson (7) (K)
- "Finding Serendipity" by Angelica Banks (8)
- "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley (9)
- "Regretting You" by Colleen Hoover (10)
- "The Explicit Gospel" by Matt Chandler (11) (K)
- "The House of Secrets" by Nina Bawden (12)
- "Furnace of the Lord" by Elisabeth Elliot (13)
- "A Three-Minute Speech" by Jennifer Armstrong (14)
- "Henry Reed's Babysitting Service" by Keith Robertson (15)
- "Finding Perfect" by Colleen Hoover (16)
- "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl (17) (K)
- "Submarine Spy" by Arnold Ytreeide (18)
- "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell (19)
- "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey (20) (K)
- "The Radium Girls" by Kate Moore (21)
- "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien (22) (K)
- "The Adventures of Molly Whuppie" by Anne Shelby (23) (K)
- "Through the Gates of Splendor" by Elisabeth Elliot (24) (K)
- "Without Merit" by Colleen Hoover (25)
- "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris (26)
- "Homesick: My Own Story" by Jean Fritz (27)
- "Mad Honey" by Jodi Picoult (28)
- "November 9" by Colleen Hoover (29)
- "Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography" (30) (K)
- "Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager" by Ken Blanchard (31) (K)
- "Pollyanna" by Eleanor H. Porter (32) (K)
- "A Dog Called Kitty" by Bill Wallace (33)
- "Warriors: Dawn" by Erin Hunter (34)
- "The Sisters Grimm" by Michael Buckley (35)
- "Roller Girl" by Victoria Jamieson (36)
- "Slammed" by Colleen Hoover (37)
- "Point of Retreat" by Colleen Hoover (38)
- "Still More Stories from Grandma's Attic" by Arleta Richardson (39) (K)
- "The Shore Road Mystery" by Franklin W. Dixon (40)
- "Sugar" by Jewell Parker Rhodes (41)
- "Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself" by Judy Blume (42)
- "Maybe Someday" by Colleen Hoover (43)
- "This Girl" by Colleen Hoover (44)
- "Maybe Not" by Colleen Hoover (45)
- "Heart Bones" by Colleen Hoover (46)
- "Keys to the Deeper Life" by A.W. Tozer (47) (K)
- "Go For No" by Richard Fenton and Andrew Waltz (48) (K)
- "The One Minute Manager" by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson (49) (K)
- "Local Woman Missing" by Mary Kubica (50)
- "Strawberry Girl" by Lois Lenski (51)
- "Maybe Now" by Colleen Hoover (52)
- "When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi (53)
- "Treasures from Grandma" by Arleta Richardson (54) (K)
- "Hopeless" by Colleen Hoover (55)
- "You Are Special" by Fred Rogers (56)
- "More Stories from Grandma's Attic" by Arleta Richardson (57) (K)
- "The 1% Rule" by Tommy Baker (58) (K)
- "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (59)
- "Faith-Shaped Kids" by Steve and Valerie Bell (60)
- "Good Neighbors Make Great Neighborhoods" by Tim DeTellis (61)
- "Losing Hope" by Colleen Hoover (62)
- "A Room With a View" by E.M. Forster (63)
- "Finding Cinderella" by Colleen Hoover (64)
- "A Whole New Mind" by Daniel H. Pink (65)
- "Centerburg Tales" by Robert McCloskey (66) (K)
- "Finish" by Jon Acuff (67) (K)
- "The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle" by Hugh Lofting (68)
- "Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burroughs (69)
- "My Father's Dragon" by Ruth Stiles Gannett (70) (K)
- "Elmer and the Dragon" by Ruth Stiles Gannett (71) (K)
- "The Dragons of Blueland" by Ruth Stiles Gannett (72) (K)
- "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George (73)
- "Traces of Guilt" by Dee Henderson (74)
- "Never Never" by Colleen Hoover (75)
- "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen (76) (K)
- "Heroes of America: George Washington" by Joshua Lanft and Rochelle Larkin (77)
- "Know Why You Believe" by Paul E. Little (78) (K)
- "Walking on Water" by Jennifer A. Miskov (79)
- "Whoppers, Tall Tales and Other Lies" by Alvin Schwartz (80) (K)
- "The E-Myth Revisited" by Michael E. Gerber (81) (K)
- "The Land of Stories: the Wishing Spell" by Chris Colfer (82) (K)
- "Sharp Objects" by Gillian Flynn (83)
- "Sometimes I Lie" by Alice Feeney (84)
- "Hostage" by Clare Mackintosh (85)
- "The Locked Door" by Freida McFadden (86)
- "Do Not Disturb" by Freida McFadden (87)
- "Never Lie" by Frieda McFadden (88)
- "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle (89) (K)
- "The Inmate" by Freida McFadden (90)
- "The Perfect Son" by Freida McFadden (91)
- "Ward D" by Freida McFadden (92)
- "Heroes of the Cross: Wilfred Grenfell" by Alec Richard Evans (93)
- "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (94) (K)
- "Behind Her Eyes" by Sarah Pinborough (95)
- "Saving Noah" by Lucinda Berry (96)
- 'What's the Difference?" by John Piper (97) (K)
- "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman (98)
- "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens (99) (K)
- "The Wife Upstairs" by Freida McFadden (100)
- "The Good Daughter" by Karin Slaughter (101)
- "Dead to Her" by Sarah Pinborough (102)
- "The Kind Worth Killing" by Peter Swanson (103)
- "COFA: Wilbur and Orville Wright" by Augusta Stevenson (104)
- "Insomnia" by Sarah Pinborough (105)
- "The War That Saved My Life" by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (106) (K)
- "What Happens When Woman Say Yes to God" by Lysa TerKeurst (107) (K)
- "The Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin" put together by Barnes & Noble (108)
- "We Need to Talk About Kevin" by Lionel Shriver (109)
- "It's a Doggy Dog World" by Tommy Greenwald (110)
- "Tales from Beatrix Potter" by Beatrix Potter (111)
- "Civil War Spies: Behind Enemy Lines" by Camilla J. Wilson (112)
- "The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles" by Julie Andrews Edwards (113)
- "The Swiss Family Robinson" by Johann Wyss (114)
- "The White Knights" by W.E. Cule (115)
- "The Tenth Circle" by Jodi Picoult (116)
- "Plain Girl" by Virginia Sorenson (117)
- "Ghandi" by Amy Pastan (118)
- "A Wind in the Door" by Madeleine L'Engle (119)
- "Donkey-Donkey" by Roger Duvoisin (120)
- "Little Blog on the Prairie" by Cathleen Davitt Bell (121)
- "King Arthur and His Knights" by Howard Pyle (122)
- "Escape From the Slave Traders: David Livingstone" by Dave & Neta Jackson (123)
- "Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures" by Hugh Lofting (124)
- "Best in Children's Books: Volume 10" by Mary Macnab (125) (K)
- "Best in Children's Books: Volume 6" by Mary Macnab (126) (K)
- "More Adventures of Homer Price" by Robert McCloskey (127) (K)
- "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin (128) (K)
- "Puppy Lost in Lapland" by Peter Hallard (129)
- "The Bandit of Ashley Downs: George Muller" by Dave & Neta Jackson (130)
- "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls (131) (K) (Read with the kids)