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

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