Megan's 2005 Booklist

Here is my compiled list for the year. My yearly goal, starting in 2004 has been to read three each month. There were several months this year where I clocked zero books, and several where, thanks to homeschooling, I clocked way above my goal. I'm finishing the year at 40, which for me is really good.

I know that the typical next step would be to challenge myself to go above that for this next year, but I'm going to hold steady right here with this three/month goal. Here's to fresh starts!

The highlighted authors denote my ten favorite reads of the year.

The Kitchen God's Wifeby Amy Tan
Bel Cantoby Ann Patchett
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean Sasson
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Jordan Tracks by Steven Wise
A Song I Knew by Heart by Bret Lott
The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Broker by John Grisham
When You Rise Up by R.C. Sproul Jr.
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
The Well-Trained Mind by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer
Before We Get Started by Bret Lott
The Story of Christianity, Volume 1: The Early Church to the Reformation by Justo Gonzalez
Expecting Adam by Martha Beck
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler
Understanding People by Larry Crabb
The Apple and the Arrow by Mary and Conrad Buff
The Call by Os Guinness
Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannet
Beyond Identity by Dick Keyes
Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges
The Usborne Book of Peoples of the World by Roma Trundle
The Usborne Book of Houses and Homes by Carol Bowyer
Children of the Living God by Sinclair B.Ferguson
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
The Healing Path by Dan Allender
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer
Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates
Spiritual Mothering by Susan Hunt
Perfecting Ourselves to Death by Richard Winter
Christian Spirituality Edited by Donald Alexander