2012

2012: The year I got back from Oxford, did a lot of reading, spent a lot of time with Thomas Hardy. Dealt with my toughest year of college yet. The first year of the 50 book goal.

1. Knowing Scripture by R.C. Sproul
2. Seven Sayings of the Savior on the Cross by A.W. Pink
3. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
4. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
5. Surprised by Oxford by Carolyn Weber
6. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
7. Think by John Piper
8. Let Me Be a Woman by Elisabeth Elliot
9. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
10. Future Grace by John Piper
11. Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin
12. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
13. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
14. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
15. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
16. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
17. Howards End by E.M. Forster
18. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
19. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
20. Fareneheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
21. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
22. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
23. A Dog’s Purpose by Bruce Cameron
24. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
25. The Things they Carried by Tim O’Brien
26. How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
27. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
28. Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare
29. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolfe
30. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
31. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
32. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein
33. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
34. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
35. Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
36. Messenger by Lois Lowry
37. Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
38. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants by Ann Brashares
39. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
40. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
41. The Steel Wave by Jeff Shaara
42. Love on a Dime by Carol Ann James
43. Just Like Jesus by Max Lucado
44. Short Stories of O. Henry by O. Henry
45. The Captive by Victoria Holt
46. Child of the Mist by Kathleen Morgan
47. How to Grow a Young Reader by Lindskoog and Hunsicker
48. Hardy Poems by Thomas Hardy
49. Collected Poems by T.S. Eliot
50. The Prayer of the Lord by R.C. Sproul