Books are something integral to our family culture and we want our son to see us reading often. Joshua is coming up on his first birthday and as that one year mark approaches, we’ve been reevaluating, rethinking, and getting refocused. What kind of family do we want him to grow up in? We certainly don’t want him to see us gravitating toward a movie whenever “there’s nothing to do.” So the TV has a new home—the closet—and as this year progresses we’d like to fill the hours vacated by movies with time spent playing games, working, exercising, as well as reading. Life is short and there’s too much to do to spend it all watching actors live imagined ones.

     Below is the list of books that we read (or had hoped to read) in 2007. We didn't manage to write reviews for most of them like we'd planned, but we do have thoughts about them!

Long Winter
   Laura Ingalls Wilder
Red Scarf Girl
   Ji-Li Jiang
Family Nobody Wanted
   Helen Doss
Reality of Prayer
   E. M. Bounds
A Chance to Die
   Elisabeth Elliot 
Shaping of a Christian Family
   Elisabeth Elliot 
Standing on the Promises
   Doug Wilson
Worldly Saints
   Leland Ryken
Withhold Not Correction
   Bruce Ray
Pray with Your Eyes Open
   Richard Pratt
El Güero
   Elizabeth Borton de Treviño
Good Shepherd
   C. S. Forester
Dorothy Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life
   David Coomes
Moby Dick
   Herman Melville
C. S. Lewis: Christian and Storyteller
   Beatrice Gormley
Mother Kirk
   Douglas Wilson
Flatland
   Edwin Abbott
Saint Patrick
   Michael McHugh
Leepike Ridge
   N. D. Wilson
Method for Prayer
   Matthew Henry
Edge of Eternity
   Randy Alcorn
Baptized Body (currently reading, very slooowly)
   Peter Leithart
Binding the Blade Series
   L. B. Graham
Evidence Not Seen
   Darlene Deibler Rose
Heroes of the City of Man (currently reading, with classics)
   Peter Leithart
The Iliad (Robert Fagles translation)
   Homer
The Odyssey
   Homer
Crown and Covenant Trilogy
   Douglas Bond
Baa Baa Blacksheep
   Gregory "Pappy" Boyington
Waking Rose
   Regina Doman
Wrinkle in Time
   Madeline L'Engle
Winged Watchman
   Hilda Van Stockum
Nine Tailors
   Dorothy Sayers
Frodo and Harry
   Ted Baehr, Tom Snyder
Come On Seabiscuit
   Ralph Moody
Redwall
   Brain Jacques

See Our 2008 Book List

Treasuring God in Our Traditions
   Noel Piper
Shaping of a Christian Family
   Elisabeth Elliot
Pray with Your Eyes Open
   Richard Pratt
Jane Eyre
   Charlotte Bronte
Wouldbegoods
   E. Nesbit
Family Nobody Wanted
   Helen Doss
Perilous Gard
   Elizabeth Marie Pope
Leepike Ridge
   N. D. Wilson
The Yearling
   Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Mary Poppins Series
   P. L. Travers
Home
   Witold Rybczynski
Evidence Not Seen
   Darlene Deibler Rose
Among the Savages
   Shirley Jackson
St. Elmo
    Augusta Jane Evans
Heidi
    Johanna Spyri
Anne of Green Gables
    L. M. Montgomery
Crown and Covenant Trilogy
   Douglas Bond
Binding the Blade Series
   L. B. Graham
Waking Rose
   Regina Doman
Mr. Darcy's Daughters
The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy
   Elizabeth Aston

Leave it to Psmith
   P. G. Wodehouse
Out of the Silent Planet
   C. S. Lewis
Perelandra
   C. S. Lewis
That Hideous Strength
   C. S. Lewis
Economics in One Lesson
   Henry Hazlitt
Carry On, Jeeves
   P. G. Wodehouse
Angels in the Architecture
   Doug Wilson & Doug Jones
Code of the Woosters
   P. G. Wodehouse
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
   Mark Twain
Miracle on 34th Street
   Valentine Davies