Reading Life

2021: 

Currents: 
-Why We Sleep
-How to Read a Book
-Utopia by Thomas More
-Mere Christianity
-Watership Down
-Mr. Pipes
-Courage & Conviction

Finished: 
1. Emma by Jane Austen
2. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
3. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
4. The Birth of Britain by Winston Churchill
5. Socratic Logic by Peter Kreeft
6. Inferno by Dante
7. Purgatory by Dante
8. Paradise by Dante
9. Ascent to Love: A Guide to Dante's Divine Comedy by Peter Leithart
10. Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places by Eugene Peterson
11. The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
12. The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
13. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
14. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
15. Mr. Pipes: Psalms and Hymns of the Reformation
16. Utopia by Thomas More
17. Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
18. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
19. Right Brained Children a Left-Brained World by Jeffrey Freed
20. The Three Musketeers by Dumas
21. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
22. The House of Seven Gables by Hawthorne
23. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway


2020:

Currents: 
-The Birth of Britain
-The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight
-The Canterbury Tales

Finished:
1. Running on Empty by Jonice Webb
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Joseph Pieper
4. Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by Lewis (RA)
6. The Abolition of Man by Lewis
7. The Odyssey (T.E. Shaw translation)
8. Educated by Tara Westover
9. The Aeneid for Boys and Girls by Alfred J. Church
10. The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
11. A House for My Name by Peter Leithart
12. Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
13. Beowulf
14. Awakening Wonder by Stephen Turley
15. The Song of Roland (trans. Sayers)
16. Diary of a Provincial Lady by Delafield
17. The Mystery of the Roman Ransom (RA)
18. Jeremiah
19. Matthew (RA)
20. Acts (RA)
21. Blink of an Eye by Ted Dekker
22. Romans (RA)
23. Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific (RA)
24. Early Christian Writers
25. Dandelion Fire (RA)
26. The Silver Chair (RA)
27. Mark (RA)
28. Confessions by Augustin (Books I-IX)
29. The Rule of St. Benedict
30. The Apology of Socrates
31. The Book of Pastoral Rule by Gregory the Great
32. Augustine Came to Kent (RA)
33. The Hobbit
34. Brit Lit's Beowulf (again)
35. The Twisted Sword (Poldark #11)
36. History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth
37. Beorn the Proud (RA)
38. Luke (RA)
39. John (RA)
40. Acts (RA)
41. That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
42.



(RA) = Read Aloud for family



2019:
1. The Bible Tells Me So
2. Girl, Wash Your Face
3. The Miller's Dance (Poldark #9)
4. Beauty for Truth's Sake by Caldecott (again)
5. Beauty in the Word (again)
6. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
7. Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
8. The Body Keeps the Score
9. The Liberal Arts Tradition (again)
10. On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
11. Present Over Perfect
12. Out of the Silent Planet
13. Tales of Ancient Egypt
14. Gilgamesh the Hero
15. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
16. The Age of Fable by Bulfinch
17. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club: Lord Peter Wimsey by Sayers
18. How to Be Unlucky by Joshua Gibbs
19. Planting the Seeds of Mindfulness: Creating the Conditions to Help Gifted Kids to Flourish and Bloom
20. Farmer Giles of Ham by Tolkein
21. Number the Stars
22. 100 Cupboards
23. Classical Me, Classical Thee by Rebekah Merkle
24. Something They Will Not Forget, Joshua Gibbs
25. Right Ho Jeeves! by Wodehouse
26. The Loving Cup (A Poldark Novel)
27. The Connected Child
28. The Golden Goblet
29. The Phoenix and the Carpet
30. The Horse and His Boy
31. Black Ships Before Troy
32. Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins
33. Living the Sabbath  by Wirzby
34. The Liturgical Year



2019 Read Alouds:
-Pippi Longstocking
-100 Cupboards
-Swallows & Amazons
-The Magician's Nephew
-My Bookhouse Volume 5
-The Penderwicks
-The Shy Stegasaurus of Cricket Creek


2018:
-The Angry Tide (Poldark #7)
-Little Women
-Uncle Tom's Cabin
-The Iliad
-You Are What You Love by James K.A. Smith
-Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
-Norms & Nobility by David Hicks
-A Thomas Jefferson Education
-Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
-The Aeneid
-The Vicar of Wakefield
-Beauty for Truth's Sake by Stratford Caldecott
-100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson
-Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
-The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
-The Little Prince
-The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
-Number the Stars
-The Call of the Wild
-Farmer Giles of Ham
-Leaf by Niggle
-Stranger from the Sea (Poldark #8)
-CiRCE Reading Guide
-How to Read a Book
-Hinds Feet on High Places
-The Odyssey
-Who's Body? by Dorothy Sayers
-The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom
-The Wind in the Willows
-The Phantom Tollbooth
-Antigone
-Oedipux Rex
-Oedipux at Colonnus


2017:
-Formation of Character by Charlotte Mason
-School Education by Charlotte Mason
-The Four Swans (Poldark #6) by Winston Graham
-Life Under Compulsion by Anthony Esolen
-The Vanishing American Adult by Ben Sasse
-Consider This: Charlotte Mason & the Classical Tradition by Karen Glass
-Swiss Family Robinson
-Of Courage Undaunted
-The Great Little Madison
-The Hobbit
-Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
-Lady Susan by Jane Austen
-Love & Friendship
-Zilpah by Jess Connell
-Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
-Desiring the Kingdom by James K.A. Smith
-Orthodoxy by Chesterton
-Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins
-Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
-The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy
-Plato: The Great Philosopher of Education by Dr. David Deiner
-Villette by Charlotte bronte
The Black Moon (Poldark #5)
-Treasure Island
-Robinson Crusoe


2016:
-The Scandal of Father Brown by Chesterton
-Peter Pan
-The Trees of Pride by Chesterton
-Gulliver's Travels
-A Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason
-Anne of Green Gables
-The 19th Wife
-The Complete Father Brown Mysteries
-Home Education by Charlotte Mason
-Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
-The Girl on the Train
-The Bible Tells Me So by Peter Enns


2015:
-The Liberal Arts Tradition
-The Republic by Plato
-How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare
-Teaching from Rest by Sarah Mackenzie
-Sherlock: The Valley of Fear
-Armadale by Wilkie Collins
-Clinton Cash
-A New Kind of Christian
-Pride & Prejudice

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