In 2009 I begin a list of books I’ve been reading. If I have written about the book here at A Teacher’s Writes, your clicking on it will take you to that article.

2012

• The Book of the Dun Cow by: Walter Wangerin Jr.
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by: Frederick Douglass
• Coming of Age in Mississippi by: Anne Moody
• Unbroken by: Laura Hillenbrand (audiobook)
• Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by: Sherrie Eldridge
• Simple Justice by: Richard Kluger
• 100 Cupboards by: N.D. Wilson (audiobook)
• The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by: Alan Jacobs
• The Meaning of Marriage by: Timothy Keller
• All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes by: Kenneth A. Myers (audiobook)
• The Curfew by: Jesse Ball
• A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, 1599 by: James Shapiro
• Jesus, the Middle Eastern Storyteller by: Gary Burge
• Abolition of Man by: C.S. Lewis
• Band of Brothers by: Stephen Ambrose (audiobook)

2011

• The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by: Lesslie Newbigin
• Crazy Love by: Francis Chan
• The Dragon’s Tooth by: N.D. Wilson
• Oedipus the King by: Sophocles (translated by: Robert Fagles)
• Prisoner of Tehran by: Marina Nemat
• Candide by: Voltaire (audiobook)
• In My Hands by: Irene Gut Opdyke
• King Henry IV Part 1 by: William Shakespeare
• A Severe Mercy by: Sheldon Vanauken
• Till We Have Faces by: C.S. Lewis
• The Reason for God by: Timothy Keller
• Shadow of the Almighty by: Elizabeth Elliot (I chose not to finish this one)
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by: Sherman Alexie (audiobook)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by: Jonathan Safran Foer (audiobook)
• The Last Voyage of Columbus by: Martin Dugard (audiobook)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by: J.K. Rowling (audiobook)
• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by: J.K. Rowling (audiobook)
• The Killer Angels by: Michael Shaara (audiobook)
• The Civil War: A Narrative Pea Ridge to the Seven Days (War Means Fighting Fighting Means Killing) by: Shelby Foote
• The Civil War: A Narrative Fort Sumter to Kernstown (First Blood: The Thing Gets Underway) by: Shelby Foote
• True Grit by: Charles Portis (audiobook)
• Shiloh by: Shelby Foote (audiobook)
• Gods and Generals by: Jeff Shaara
• Drive by: Daniel Pink (audiobook)
• I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla by: Marguerite Wright
• The Lost Men by: Kelly Tyler-Lewis (audiobook)
• Adopted for Life by: Russel D. Moore
• Seeker Small Groups by: Garry Poole
• Tanglewood Tales by: Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Idiot by: Fyodor Dostoevsky
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The Gulag Archipelago (Parts I & II) by: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The Epistle to the Ephesians by: F.F. Bruce
• A Wonder Book by: Nathaniel Hawthorne
• When Sinners Say I Do by: Dave Harvey
• Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by: Alfred Lansing (audio book)

2010

• Original Sin by: Alan Jacobs
• The Shadow of Sirius by: W. S. Merwin
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by: J. K. Rowling
• The Iliad by: Homer
• Lovely Raspberry (Poems) by: Aaron Belz
• A Beautiful Mind by: Sylvia Nasar (audio book)
• Daughters and Dads: Building a Lasting Relationship by: Chap and Dee Clark
• Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespaere? by: James Shapiro (audio book)
• Into Africa by: Martin Dugard (audio book)
• Quiet Strength by: Tony Dungy (audio book)
• West of Kabul, East of New York by: Tamim Ansary (audio book)
• It’s Not About the Bike by: Lance Armstrong (audio book)
• Washington Square by: Henry James (audio book)
• Blue Like Jazz by: Donald Miller (audio book)
• Positive Coaching by: Jim Thompson
• The Succession by: George Garrett
• Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by: Ross King (Audio Book)
• James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights by: Richard Labunski (Audio book)
• Theodore Rex by: Edmund Morris (Audio book)
• Team of Rivals by: Doris Kearns Goodwin (Audio book)
• Why Gender Matters by: Leonard Sax
• I Kissed Dating Goodbye by: Joshua Harris (Audio book)
• Tortured for Christ by: Richard Wurmbrand
• The Man Who Loved China by: Simon Winchester (Audio book)
• The House of the Seven Gables by: Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by: David McCullough (Audio book)
• Shakespeare: The World as Stage by: Bill Bryson
• The House of Sixty Fathers by: Meindert DeJong
• Bleak House by: Charles Dickens
• The Ghost Map by: Steven Johnson (Audio book)
• John Adams by: David McCullough

2009

• Do Hard Things by: Alex Harris and Brett Harris (audio book)
• Shepherding a Child’s Heart by: Tedd Tripp (This was the most important book I read in 2009.)
• 1776 by: David McCullough (Audio book – also, this was the book I enjoyed the most in 2009.)
• The Unlikely Disciple by: Kevin Roose
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by: Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Peak by: Roland Smith
• Notebook Know-How by: Aimee Buckner
• Never Work Harder Than Your Students by: Robyn Jackson
• Teaching Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom by: Susan Winebrenner
• Summarization in Any Subject by: Rick Wormeli
• Great Performances by: Larry Lewin and Betty Jean Shoemaker
• Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts by: Will Richardson
• Classroom Instruction that Works by: Robert J. Marzano et al
• Teaching for Tomorrow by: Ted McCain
• Made to Stick by: Chip and Dan Heath
• Web Literacy for Educators by: Alan November
• A Framework for Understanding Poverty by: Ruby Payne
• I Hear America Swinging by: Peter DeVries

2008

• The Homeschooling Father by: Michael Farris
• Beautiful Evidence by: Edward Tufte
• Family Driven Faith by: Voddie Baucham
• The Sword in the Stone by: T.H. White
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by: Susanna Clarke (This was the best book I read in 2008.)

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