Books in 2011: Part one

Below is a list of the books I read this year, compiled from memory and my library’s online loan history page. An asterisk appears before the titles of books I haven’t yet finished (some I started a looooong time ago!); all but one (the Grudem, of course) I plan to continue with in 2012.

I'm posting them for my sake rather than yours (my husband just asked, "Are you posting them just to make yourself look good?" - it's his job to keep me humble), and so that you can say, "Ooooh, I read that one this year too!" or, "Would you say this one's worth reading, then?" or, "So, how do you make your baby sleep?", if you want to.

 

Baby stuff/Motherhood                                                                                      

The Truth about Vaccines by Richard Halvorsen

The Panic Virus: Fear, Myth and the Vaccination Debate by Seth Mnookin

Deadly Choices: How the anti-vaccine movement threatens us all by Paul A. Offit

The Baby Sleep Book by William Sears

Baby Sleep by Andrea Grace

The No-Cry Separation Anxiety Solution by Elizabeth Pantley

The Baby Whisperer by Tracy Hogg

Save Our Sleep by Tizzie Hall

Baby-Led Weaning by Gill Rapley

Instinctive Parenting by Ada Calhoun

Raising the Best Possible Child by Jo Jackson King

The Mighty Toddler by Robin Barker

Missing in Action: How Mothers Lose, Grieve and Retrieve their Sense of Self by Anne M. Smollon

The Divided Heart: Art and Motherhood by Rachel Power

                                                                                                                                                                                   

Christian living

The Praying Life by Paul Miller

*The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight

*Scripture and the Authority of God by N. T. Wright

*The Church of Irresistible Influence by Robert Lewis with Rob Wilkins

                                                                                                                                      

Biography/Autobiography

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Rebel With a Cause by Franklin Graham

Things the Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett

You'll be Sorry when I'm Dead by Marieke Hardy

All that Happened at Number 26 by Denise Scott

Enough Rope 4 with Andrew Denton

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Emergency Sex (and Other Desperate Measures) by Kenneth Cain

Encyclopaedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Too hard to categorise
One Red Paperclip by Kyle MacDonald

Stuff White People Like by Christian Lander

* Manhood by Steve Biddulph
                                                                                                                                                                                   

Marriage                                                                                                                   

Confessions from an Honest Wife by Sarah Zacharias Davis

Committed: A sceptic makes peace with marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman

Baby-proofing your Marriage by Stacie Cockrell, Cathy O'Neill and Julia Stone

                                                                                                                                                                                   

The role of women in the home and church                                             

Men and Women in the Church by Sarah Sumner

Beyond Sex Roles by Gilbert Bilezikian

Finally Feminist by John Stackhouse

How I Changed my Mind About Women in Leadership edited by Alan Johnson

*Evangelical Feminism and Biblical Truth by Wayne Grudem

                                                                                                                                                                                   

Fiction                                                                                                                       

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas

How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve Hely

The Scott Pilgrim series by Bryan Lee O'Malley

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

*Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis