There are quite a few adult education textbooks included, because that's what I spent a lot of time this year reading.
Best Books I Read in 2018
Funniest fiction: To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)
Connie Willis
Scariest fiction: The Thanatos Syndrome
Walker Percy
Most needed in today's world: The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time
David L. Ulin
Most useful: Two Awesome Hours: Science-Based Strategies to Harness Your Best Time and Get Your Most Important Work Done
Josh Davis
Runner-up for most useful: Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Jeff Sutherland
A book Christians should read: A Mind for God
James Emery White
Runner-up for a book Christians should read: Reading for the Common Good: How Books Help Our Churches and Neighborhoods Flourish
C. Christopher Smith
Most interesting devotional book: 40 days to a Joy-Filled Life
Tommy Newberry
Favourite simplicity book (and I read quite a few this year): Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
Dana K. White
Runner-up for favourite simplicity book: Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
Fumio Sasaki
Books completed in 2018, including re-reads
Disclaimer: just because I read it doesn't mean I recommend it!
Novels and plays
The Archivist
Martha Cooley
Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee
Home
Marilynne Robinson
To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)
Connie Willis
The Thanatos Syndrome
Walker Percy
Leota's Garden
Francine Rivers
Clock Dance
Anne Tyler
The Cocktail Party
T.S. Eliot
Farewell, Four Waters: One Aid Worker's Sudden Escape from Afghanistan. A Novel Based on True Events
Kate McCord
Poetry
This Great Unknowing: Last Poems
Denise Levertov
This Day: New and Collected Sabbath Poems 1979 - 2012
Wendell Berry
Sounding the Seasons: Seventy Sonnets for the Christian Year
Malcolm Guite
Art books
Gathie Falk
Robin Laurence
The Tangled Garden: The Art of J. E. H. MacDonald
Paul Duval
Woldemar Neufeld's Canada: A Mennonite Artist in the Canadian Landscape 1925-1995 (re-read)
Laurence Neufeld
Faith and worldview
Reading for the Common Good: How Books Help Our Churches and Neighborhoods Flourish
C. Christopher Smith
When Helping Hurts
Steve Corbett
Unpoverty: Rich Lessons from the Working Poor
Mark Lutz
A Mind for God
James Emery White
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
Rod Dreher
An Other Kingdom
Peter Block et al.
Getting Love Right (short paper)
Dallas Willard
Getting Stuff Done
Two Awesome Hours: Science-Based Strategies to Harness Your Best Time and Get Your Most Important Work Done
Josh Davis
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Jeff Sutherland
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Kerry Patterson
Make Peace With Anyone: Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement
David J. Lieberman
How to be creative: Rediscover your creativity and live the life you truly want
Liz Dean
Homekeeping and simplicity books
Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life
Peter Walsh
Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
Dana K. White
Year of No Clutter
Eve O. Schaub
Mini-missions for Simplicity: small actions for massive change
Courtney Carver
Soulful Simplicity: How Living with Less Can Lead to So Much More
Courtney Carver
A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough
Wayne Muller
The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up: A Magical Story
Marie Kondo
Love the House You're In: 40 Ways to Improve Your Home and Change Your Life
Paige Rien
The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful
Myquillyn Smith
Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
Fumio Sasaki
The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
Cait Flanders
Clothes and style books
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
Elizabeth L. Cline
The Curated Wardrobe: A Stylist’s Secrets to Going Beyond the Basic Capsule Wardrobe to Effortless Personal Style
Rachel Nachmias
The Face of The Business: Develop Your Signature Style, Step Out from Behind the Curtain and Catapult Your Business on Video
Rachel Nachmias
The Color of Style
David Zyla
The Pocket Stylist
Kendall Farr
The Fashion File: Advice, Tips, and Inspiration from the Costume Designer of Mad Men
Janie Bryant
Education, Charlotte Mason and Otherwise
Ourselves Book II (re-read)
Charlotte Mason
A Touch of the Infinite
Megan Elizabeth Hoyt
Know and Tell: The Art of Narration
Karen Glass
Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination
Vigen Guroian
The Purposes of Adult Education: An Introduction
Bruce Spencer
Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty
Elizabeth F. Barkley
Planning Instruction for Adult Learners
Patricia Cranton
Educating for a Change
Rick Arnold et al.
Designing Effective Instruction, 7th Edition
Gary R. Morrison et al.
Facilitating with Ease!: Core Skills for Facilitators, Team Leaders and Members, Managers, Consultants, and Trainers
Ingrid Bens
The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom
Stephen D. Brookfield
Methods that Matter
Harvey Daniels & Marilyn Bizar
The Art Of Facilitation
Dale Hunter
Learning Group Leadership: An Experiential Approach
Jeffrey A. Kottler
How To Teach Adults
William A. Draves
Reading and writing books
Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction
Jon Franklin
The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time
David L. Ulin
How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
Paul J. Silvia
Style: Toward Clarity and Grace
Joseph M. Williams
Sin Boldly!: Dr. Dave's Guide To Writing The College Paper
David R. Williams
Deep Writing
Eric Maisel
Miscellaneous books
Gift Wrapping with Textiles: Stylish Ideas from Japan
Chizuko Morita
How to Pack: Travel Smart for Any Trip
Hitha Palepu
Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
Isobel Briggs Myers
The Twelve Teas of Christmas
Emilie Barnes
The Greatest Gift
Ann Voskamp
Hallelujah: A Journey Through Advent with Handel's Messiah
Cindy Rollins
Favourite and nostalgic re-reads
A Light in the Window
Jan Karon
These High, Green Hills
Jan Karon
Out to Canaan
Jan Karon
To Be Where You Are
Jan Karon
The Wisdom of Narnia
C.S. Lewis
The Last Battle
C.S. Lewis
Leaf by Niggle
J.R.R. Tolkien
Not Under the Law
Grace Livingston Hill
Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple #13)
Agatha Christie
Miss Pinkerton
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Jerusalem Inn (Richard Jury, #5)
Martha Grimes
The Man With a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury, #1)
Martha Grimes
Clothe Your Spirit: Dressing for Self-Expression
Jennifer Robin
I Haven't a Thing to Wear!
Judith Keith
Books I'm trying to finish by the end of 2018
(Done!)
(Done!)
(Done!)
Books I've started that will stretch through the new year
The Divine Conspiracy
Dallas Willard
Keep it Real
Lee Gutkind (ed.)
40 days to a Joy-Filled Life
Tommy Newberry
On Education
Northrop Frye
2 comments:
I hope we read some of the same books next year! It would be fun to have that to chat about in October.
Kathy, I'm working on that post! (I think it will be shorter, though.)
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