Here's a list of books I plan on reading this coming year. I'm just putting it out there to put myself on the spot.
A few of these are books I've read before and know I need to read again, but a few are first-timers. Many of them are books I'll be reading in preparation for the classes I'll be teaching next year.
A lot of them are foreign to me... meaning, the book's existence on this list doesn't mean I recommend anyone else read it. Some of them I know are unrecommendable, but I want to know why. Some of them are on the list because they are books that every librarian or literature teacher should have probably already read at this point in her career, but THIS librarian and literature teacher has not.
And of course, just because a book is NOT on this list doesn't mean I won't read it... I always make room for the occasional... okay, frequent... spontaneous read or recommended read.
And, no, these aren't in any order.
If and when I come across a good one... or one that makes me really mad... I'll letcha know.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
A Child's History of England, Charles Dickens
The Disciplined Life, Richard Taylor
Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre
The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom
The Literature of the Old Testament, Bextor
Devil At My Heels, Louis Zamperini
An Old Fashioned Girl, Louisa May Alcott
Evidence Not Seen, Darlene Deibler Rose
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Animal Farm, George Orwell
The Seven Laws of Teaching, John Milton Gregory
Teaching to Change Lives, Howard Hendricks
Envoy, Alex Kershaw
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
How to Experience Revival, Charles Finney
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Thunderstruck, Erik Larson
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, Daniel Poole
Until We Meet Again, Michael Korenblit
Persuasion, Jane Austen
A few of these are books I've read before and know I need to read again, but a few are first-timers. Many of them are books I'll be reading in preparation for the classes I'll be teaching next year.
A lot of them are foreign to me... meaning, the book's existence on this list doesn't mean I recommend anyone else read it. Some of them I know are unrecommendable, but I want to know why. Some of them are on the list because they are books that every librarian or literature teacher should have probably already read at this point in her career, but THIS librarian and literature teacher has not.
And of course, just because a book is NOT on this list doesn't mean I won't read it... I always make room for the occasional... okay, frequent... spontaneous read or recommended read.
And, no, these aren't in any order.
If and when I come across a good one... or one that makes me really mad... I'll letcha know.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
A Child's History of England, Charles Dickens
The Disciplined Life, Richard Taylor
Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre
The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom
The Literature of the Old Testament, Bextor
Devil At My Heels, Louis Zamperini
An Old Fashioned Girl, Louisa May Alcott
Evidence Not Seen, Darlene Deibler Rose
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Animal Farm, George Orwell
The Seven Laws of Teaching, John Milton Gregory
Teaching to Change Lives, Howard Hendricks
Envoy, Alex Kershaw
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
How to Experience Revival, Charles Finney
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Thunderstruck, Erik Larson
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, Daniel Poole
Until We Meet Again, Michael Korenblit
Persuasion, Jane Austen
I cannot believe you haven't read Evidence Unseen--that is my read aloud book to the kids this year--I can't wait until you read it-and if it doesn't change your life-well--well--read it again!
ReplyDeleteI've read it a few times... just want to read it again. A few on this list are repeats.
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