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Reading list

2012 

Follow You, Follow Me: Why Social Networking is Essential to Ministry by John Voelz III
All I Did Was Ask: Interviews from Fresh Air with Terry Gross
by Terry Gross
Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service by Ken Blanchard, Sheldon Bowles, Harvey Mackay
Heft: A Novel
by Liz Moore (book club)
The Do-Over (A Romantic Comedy)
by Kathy Dunnehoff
Bossypants
by Tina Fey
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
The Age of Opportunity
 by Paul David Tripp
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (book club)

2011
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (read with my son)
Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels by Ree Drummond (book club)
Unbroken: a World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption 
by Laura Hillenbrand
The Last Thing I Remember (The Homelanders)
 by Andrew Klavan
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman (book club)
Unshaken by Dan Woolley
I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron [read my review]
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (book club)
The Singer
by Calvin Miller
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (book club)
The Borrower by Rebeccan Makkai (book club)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp
Before I Go to Sleep:A Novel by S.J. Watson (book club)
Born to Run
by Christopher McDougall (book club)
2010
Permission to Speak Freely by Anne Jackson
Hunger Games
 
by Suzanne Collins (book club)
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (book club)
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (book club)
Crazy Love by Francis Chan
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner (book club)
Jennifer Johnson is Sick of Being Single by Heather McElhatton (book club)
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia (book club)
Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands: Lessons in Non-Linear Leadership by Nancy Ortberg
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman (amazing as an audio book… find it here(book club)
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin (book club)

Before I Go to Sleep:A Novel by S.J. Watson (book club)2009
Chasing Francis by Ian Morgan Cron [read my review]
The Dream Giver by Bruce Wilkenson [read my review]
Me,  Myself, and Bob by Phil Vischer [read my review]
Mad Church Disease by Anne Jackson
Less Clutter, Less Noise by Kem Meyer [read my review]
Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith by Shane Hipps
Grace (Eventually) Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
Sense & Sensuality: Jesus talks to Oscar Wilde by Ravi Zacharias
Green by Ted Dekker [read my review]
Once an Arafat Man by Tass Saada and Dean Merrill
The Dirty Beggar Living in My Head: One Guy’s Musings About Evil and Hell by Don Everts
The Help by Kathryn  Stockett (brilliant as an audiobook)  (book club) [read my review]

2008
Transformation: How Glocal Churches Transform Lives and the World by Bob Roberts
The Dip by Seth Godin (audiobook)
All the Ideas Living in My Head: One Guy’s Musings About Truth by Don Everts
The Shack by William P. Young
The Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall & Denver Moore
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace, One School at a Time by Mortensen & Relin
Still Growing: An Autobiography by Kirk Cameron
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Unbinding the Gospel by Martha Grace Reese
The Organic God by Margaret Feinberg

2007
Getting Things Done by David Allen
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
They Like Jesus But Not the Church by Dan Kimball
Jesus With Dirty Feet by Don Everts
Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller
(can’t remember any more!!!!)

Other memorable books (from whatever year)
A New Kind of Christian by Brian McLaren
Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
Emerging Worship by Dan Kimball & others
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh (a favorite when I was a kid)
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

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