To Be Read Lists

Yes, I did title this page Read­ing Lists, plural.  I’m finally going to get hon­est with myself.  There are some books that I’ve been keep­ing for years and years through sev­eral moves that I may not really want to read.  On the other hand, there are some books I can’t wait to get my hands (and eyes) on.  So, here you have it.  My read­ing lists.

Books I want to read that I own in print or on my Kindle:

• The Kite Run­ner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Wild Rose by Jen­nifer Don­nelly — Cur­rently on pg 214 of 614
• Find­ing Your Strongest Life by Mar­cus Buckingham
• Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins — Read Jan­u­ary 2012
• The Way of Boys by Anthony Rao — Cur­rently on pg 104 of 268
• The Things We Do For Love by Kristin Hannah
• Angel Falls by Kristin Hannah
• The Ice Queen by Alice Hoff­man (author rec­om­mended by my friend, Mary)
• Read­ing Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
• Hotel on the Cor­ner of Bit­ter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
• Abra­ham Lin­coln: Vam­pire Hunter be Seth Grahame-Smith
• Lit­tle Bee by Chris Cleave
• Her Fear­ful Sym­me­try by Audrey Niffenegger
• Play­ful Par­ent­ing by Lawrence Cohen (Read in the past, but I could use a refresher)
• The Glass Cas­tle by Jean­nette Walls
• Faith & Doubt by John Ortberg
• The Five Love Lan­guages of Chil­dren by Gary Chapman
• The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr
• Uncon­di­tional Par­ent­ing by Alfie Kohn
• Juliet: A Novel by Anne Fortier
• Rad­i­cal Home­mak­ers by Shan­non Hayes
• Out­lander by Diana Gabaldon
• Dead Until Dark by Char­laine Har­ris (I also have the next 8? books on my kindle)
• Labor of Love by Cara Muhlhahn
• The Gifts of Imper­fec­tion by Brene Brown — Read Jan­u­ary 2012

Books I want to read that I do not own:

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Beauty of Dif­fer­ent by Karen Walrond
• Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer
• Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
• Sib­lings With­out Rivalry by Adele Faber
• The Hap­pi­ness Project by Gretchen Rubin

Books I own that I forced my hus­band to move in a heavy box (prob­a­bly more than once) that I may or may not want to read:

• Shang­hai Girls by Lisa See
• Mazel by Rebecca Goldstein
• The Egyp­tol­o­gist by Arthur Phillips
• Harry Pot­ter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowl­ing (I also own books 2 and 3)
• Tak­ing Care of the Me in Mommy by Lisa Whelchel
• Invi­ta­tion to a Jour­ney by M. Robert Mul­hol­land, Jr.
• Find­ing Your Pur­pose as a Mom by Donna Otto
• A Mar­riage With­out Regrets by Kay Arthur
• Wild Goose Chase by Mark Batterson