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 I love to read, but never seemed to have the time.  Any other Mammas have this problem?  In 2012, I made a resolution: no more excuses.  My goal is to read at least 15 books each year.

2021 Booklist
  1. One by One
  2. Theology of Home
  3. The Parasitic Mind
  4. The Sermons of St. Francis de Sales for Advent and Christmas
  5. The Thirteenth Tale
  6. The Bean Trees
  7. Behold the Dreamers
  8. The Miniaturist
  9. Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves
  10. Animal Farm
  11. The Things That Keep Us Here
  12. The Fortunate Ones
  13. The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
  14. The Girl in the Green Raincoat
  15. The Yellow Bird Sings
  16. The Couple Next Door
  17. The Truth According to Us
  18. The Lost Girls of Paris
  19. Never Look Back
  20. Beneath a Scarlet Sky
  21. Before I Go to Sleep
  22. Pretending to Dance
  23. Better Off
  24. Bluebird, Bluebird
  25. Our Town
  26. Searching for Sylvie Lee
  27. American Royals
  28. The Other People
  29. Theology of Home II: The Spiritual Art of Homemaking
  30. Little Heathens
  31. The Baker’s Daughter
  32. An Everlasting Meal
  33. The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
  34. Sawbones
  35. The Color of Bee Larkham’s Murder
  36. A Catholic Guide to Spending Less and Living More
  37. The Dog Stars
  38. I’ll Never Tell
2020 Booklist
  1. Cold Comfort Farm
  2. In the School of the Holy Spirit
  3. 102 Minutes (★★★★★)
  4. Felicity Carrol and the Murderous Menace
  5. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (read aloud) (★★★★★)
  6. Where the Red Fern Grows (★★★★★)
  7. You’re Not Listening
  8. In the Dark
  9. The Magician’s Nephew (read aloud)
  10. Look Me in the Eye
  11. Ordinary Grace
  12. Empire Falls
  13. The Girl with Seven Names
  14. Root and Sky
  15. Evvie Drake Starts Over
  16. Ghost
  17. I Let You Go
  18. Nickel and Dimed
  19. Prince Caspian (read aloud)
  20. Dear Edward
  21. My Sister, the Serial Killer
  22. The Latin Mass Explained (★★★★★)
  23. The Children’s Blizzard
  24. Strangers and Sojourners
  25. Morality for Beautiful Girls
  26. Characters of the Passion
  27. Into the Water
  28. The Rosie Project
  29. The House on Mango Street
  30. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
  31. The Rosie Effect
  32. The Apartment
  33. There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather
  34. The Kalahari Typing School for Men
  35. The Well
  36. Chase Darkness With Me
  37. As Bright as Heaven
  38. Know My Name
  39. Peace Like a River (★★★★★)
  40. Another Place at the Table
  41. Florence Adler Swims Forever
  42. Dark Matter
  43. Our Lady of Kibeho
  44. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
  45. The Year Without a Purchase
  46. Plague Journal
  47. Ghost Boys
  48. The Silent Patient
  49. Divine Mercy in my Soul – Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska (★★★★★)
  50. Searching For and Maintaining Peace (★★★★★)
  51. The House We Grew Up In
  52. Trials of the Earth
  53. Housekeeping
  54. The Year of Reading Dangerously
  55. 10 Wonders of the Rosary
  56. Hannah Coulter (★★★★★)
  57. 33 Days to Morning Glory
  58. Secondhand: Travels in the Global Garage Sale
  59. Forgiveness Makes You Free
  60. Eucharistic Miracles
  61. Made from Scratch
  62. Follow the River
  63. The Woman in the Window
  64. One Second After
  65. Gaining Ground
  66. Home
  67. The Versions of Us
  68. The Hours of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
  69. The Diary of Mattie Spenser
  70. My Name is Lucy Barton
  71. Townie
  72. The River
  73. Still Alice
  74. Consecration to St. Joseph (★★★★★)
  75. Hungry Souls
  76. The Push
  77. The Turn of the Key
  78. The Language of Flowers
  79. Inside the Light
  80. My Name is Asher Lev
  81. Keep You Close
  82. Eclipse of the Sun (★★★★★)
2019 Booklist
  1. Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer
  2. Thrush Green
  3. The Nightingale (★★★★★)
  4. No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run
  5. In the Wood
  6. The Long Loneliness
  7. City of Thieves
  8. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
  9. At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe
  10. Tears of the Giraffe
  11. The Snow Child
  12. The Two-Family House
  13. Team Dog
  14. The Great Alone
  15. Force of Nature
  16. The Power and the Glory
  17. And Every Morning the Way Gets Longer and Longer: A Novella
  18. Your Labrador Retriever Puppy, Month by Month (★★★★★)
  19. The Fulfillment of All Desire
  20. The Louder Song
  21. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
  22. Life of Christ (★★★★★)
  23. I Will Always Write Back
  24. The Wife Between Us
  25. Olive Kitteridge
  26. Murder on the Orient Express
  27. The Lying Game
  28. American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent
  29. The Last Romantics
  30. Be Brave in the Scared: How I  Learned to Trust God During the Most Difficult Days of my Life (★★★★★)
  31. And Then There Were None (★★★★★)
  32. MWF Seeking BFF
  33. The Wizard of Oz
  34. The Girl Who Smiled Beads
  35. Overdressed
  36. The Mermaid
  37. Big Girls Don’t Cry
  38. Click Here to Start
  39. These Is My Words (★★★★★)
  40. They Must Be Monsters: A Modern-Day Witch Hunt
  41. The Mitford Murders: A Mystery
  42. Mary Lincoln’s Flannel Pajamas: And Other Stories From the First Ladies’ Closet
  43. The Perfect Nanny
  44. Ender’s Game
  45. Girl from the Tree House
  46. Five Little Pigs
  47. Valencia and Valentine
  48. The Dreamers
  49. The 15:17 to Paris
  50. Seven Words of Jesus and Mary
  51. Night
  52. Our House
  53. Renia’s Diary: A Holocaust Journal
  54. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
  55. O Pioneers!
  56. The Mysterious Howling (read aloud)
  57. Ask Again, Yes
  58. I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons
  59. Reading With Patrick
  60. The Man in the Brown Suit
  61. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (★★★★★)
  62. The Likeness
  63. Today Will Be Different
  64. Mrs. Mike
  65. The Book Thief
  66. Never Have I Ever
  67. The Borrowers (read aloud)
  68. Unoffendable
  69. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
  70. The A.B.C. Murders
  71. Woman on the Edge
  72. Simply Tuesday
  73. Felicity Carrol and the Perilous Pursuit
  74. Christmas and the Saints
  75. Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
  76. Story of a Soul
  77. Stories of Padre Pio
  78. Rock Needs River
  79. Before the Fall
  80. What Made Maddy Run
2018 Booklist
  1. My Not So Perfect Life
  2. Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust’s Hidden Survivors
  3. To Light a Fire on the Earth: Proclaiming the Gospel in a Secular Age
  4. S.
  5. Water for Elephants
  6. Anne of Avonlea
  7. The Girl on the Train
  8. The Paris Architect
  9. Columbine
  10. Redwall (read aloud) (★★★★★)
  11. The Thief
  12. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
  13. Happier at Home
  14. American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
  15. Wonder
  16. The Wishing Spell (read aloud)
  17. Missing, Presumed
  18. Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done (★★★★★)
  19. The Woman in Cabin 10
  20. In This House of Brede
  21. Flat Broke with Two Goats
  22. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (★★★★★)
  23. Little Broken Things
  24. Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
  25. The One and Only Ivan (read aloud)
  26. Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
  27. Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
  28. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
  29. Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…and Maybe the World
  30. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
  31. The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures
  32. The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
  33. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
  34. Siblings Without Rivalry
  35. A Piece of the World
  36. The Light Between Oceans
  37. The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country
  38. How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature
  39. The Dry
  40. Educated: A Memoir
  41. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
  42. Girl in the Dark: A Memoir of a Life Without Light
  43. Gone Girl
  44. The Expats
  45. The Bear and the Nightingale
  46. The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
  47. Station Eleven
  48. Tears of God: Persevering in the Face of Great Sorrow or Catastrophe
  49. Hillbilly Elegy
  50. Need to Know (★★★★★)
  51. Turtles All the Way Down
  52. Small Great Things
  53. The Kitchen House
  54. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
  55. The Queen of Hearts
  56. The Story of Arthur Truluv
  57. Calling Me Home
  58. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
  59. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (★★★★★)
  60. The Story of Beautiful Girl
  61. Sometimes I Lie
  62. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
  63. Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction is Hijacking our Kids – And How to Break the Trance
  64. Edge of Extinction #1: The Ark Plan (read aloud)
  65. Into the Wild
  66. Crime Signals
  67. Night of Miracles
  68. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
  69. A Christmas Carol
  70. The Miracle of Father Kapaun: Priest, Soldier and Korean War Hero
  71. What Alice Forgot
  72. Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy
2017 Booklist
  1. The Birth Order Book
  2. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
  3. The Awakening of Miss Prim
  4. Gift from the Sea
  5. A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning
  6. Yes, Chef: A Memoir
  7. The Little Book of Hygge
  8. The Summer Before the War
  9. Elizabeth is Missing
  10. Different: The Story of an Outside-the-Box Kid and the Mom Who Loved Him
  11. Blast to the Past: Washington’s War
  12. The Appalling Strangeness of the Mercy of God: The Story of Ruth Pakaluk
  13. Necessary Lies
  14. Black Friday
  15. The Precious One
  16. The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress
  17. Food: A Love Story
  18. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
  19. Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies (★★★★★)
  20. A Series of Unfortunate  Events #2: The Reptile Room
  21. A Series of Unfortunate Events #3: The Wide Window
  22. A Series of Unfortunate Events #4: The Miserable Mill
  23. A Series of Unfortunate Events #5: The Austere Academy
  24. Real Learning: Education in the Heart of the Home
  25. The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir
  26. Across Five Aprils
  27. The Way (★★★★★)
  28. Anne of Green Gables (★★★★★)
  29. The Cricket in Times Square (read aloud)
  30. Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen
  31. Frindle (read aloud)
  32. The Mysterious Benedict Society
  33. All the Little Children
  34. The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail (read aloud)
  35. North Haven
  36. Nim’s Island (read aloud)
  37. What Remains True
  38. The Unremembered Girl
2016 Booklist
  1. 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi
  2. The Temperament God Gave You
  3. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
  4. Eleanor
  5. You: A Novel
  6. 84, Charing Cross Road
  7. A Man Called Ove (★★★★★)
  8. Beyond the Birds and the Bees
  9. The Mapmaker’s Children
  10. The Secrets of Midwives
  11. Why Can’t We Just Play?
  12. The Distant Hours
  13. Running: A Love Story
  14. When I Found You
  15. My Year of Running Dangerously: A Dad, a Daughter and a Ridiculous Plan (★★★★★)
  16. Bakhita: From Slave to Saint
  17. Bloodroot
  18. The Martian
  19. The Travelers
  20. Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
  21. Chateau of Secrets: A Novel
  22. The American Way of Eating
  23. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  24. The Cuckoo’s Calling
  25. The Gap of Time
  26. Father Elijah: An Apocalypse
  27. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
  28. The Book of Speculation
  29. Flight Behavior
  30. The Quality of Silence
  31. This Is Where You Belong (★★★★★)
2015 Booklist
  1. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About
  2. Owls in the Family (family read aloud)
  3. Joy to the World: How Christ’s Coming Changed Everything (and Still Does) (★★★★★)
  4. Orphan Train
  5. It Was Me All Along: A Memoir
  6. The Boxcar Children #1 (recommended by M)
  7. Everyday Sacrament: The Messy Grace of Parenting
  8. The Secret Keeper (★★★★★)
  9. Where’d You Go, Bernadette
  10. See You in a Hundred Years
  11. A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France
  12. Make it Happen: Surrender Your Fear. Take the Leap. Live On Purpose.
  13. Everything I Never Told You
  14. Better than Before: Mastering the Habits of our Everyday Lives
  15. The Journey of our Love
  16. Love Does
  17. The Winter of our Disconnect (★★★★★)
  18. John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father
  19. Second Street Station
  20. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (family read aloud) (★★★★★)
  21. The Total Money Makeover (audiobook) (★★★★★)
  22. All the Light We Cannot See
  23. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  24. The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life’s Hard
  25. Come, Lord Jesus: Meditations on the Art of Waiting (★★★★★)
  26. The Magic of Ordinary Days

 2014 Booklist
    1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (★★★★★)
    2. Stepping Heavenward
    3. The American Heiress: A Novel
    4. The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
    5. Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta
    6. Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future
    7. Charlotte’s Web  (family read aloud) (★★★★★)
    8. Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism (★★★★★)
    9. Another Man’s War: The True Story of One Man’s Battle to Save Children in the Sudan
    10. Peace Like a River (★★★★★)
    11. Ginger Pye  (family read aloud)
    12. Wild Things: The Art of Nurturing Boys (★★★★★)
    13. Thomas and the Dragon Queen (family read aloud)
    14. Let’s All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have
2013 Booklist
  1. Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life
  2. Young House Love: 243 Ways to Paint, Craft, Update & Show Your Home Some Love
  3. Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader’s Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line
  4. The Glass Castle: A Memoir (★★★★★)
  5. The Celestine Prophecy
  6. Confessions of a Slacker Mom
  7. Practical Paleo: A Customized Approach to Health and a Whole-Foods Lifestyle
  8. Runner’s World Complete Book of Women’s Running
  9. The School of Essential Ingredients
  10. Saint Therese of Lisieux
  11. 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess
  12. Comfort &Joy
  13. Inspired You: Breathing New Life into Your Heart and Home
2012 Booklist
    1. Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption
    2. Start Something That Matters
    3. Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life (★★★★★)
    4. A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
    5. Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard (★★★★★)
    6. When Madeline was Young
    7. Rescue
    8. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
    9. Me & Emma
    10. Four Spirits: A Novel
    11. Midwives 
    12. Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic
    13. Those Who Save Us
    14. Dinner: A Love Story: It all begins at the family table (★★★★★)
    15. The Rivers Run Dry: A Raliegh Harmon Novel
    16. Every Last Cuckoo
    17. Next to Love: A Novel
    18. One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
    19. A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kindness–and a Trove of Letters–Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression

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