2023 Books to Read

2026 Update: Well, it looks like I never published this page. I also never finished these 52 books although I did read 103 books in 2023. I thought I would post it today just a record of who I was in 2023.

2023 Reading Goal:100 books (including these 52 specific books)...

Biography/Autobiography/Memoir

• What is a Girl Worth? 
• A Promised Land by Barack Obama
• Becoming Elisabeth Elliot by Ellen Vaughn
• The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun by Brother Yun - 3/5/23 *****
• Saving My Assassin
• The Great Good Thing by Andrew Klavan
• Defying Jihad: The Dramatic True Story of a Woman who Volunteered to Kill Infidels--and Then Faced Death for Becoming One (audio) by Esther Ahmad - 1/31/23 *****
• Nothing to Envy
• Walking Through Fire

Nonfiction

• 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think by Laura Vanderkam - 1/20/23 ***
• Decluttering at the Speed of Life by Dana K. White
• Salt Sugar Fat
• The Fun Habit
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts
• The Only Plane in the Sky - WOW!! One of the best I've ever read!

Marriage

• His Needs, Her Needs
• You and Me Forever by Francis and Lisa Chan

Parenting/Family/Education

• 5 Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman
• If Jesus Were a Parent
• You're Not Listening
• Giving Your Words by Sally Clarkson
• Say Goodbye to Whining
• The Whole-Brain Child 
• Simplicity Parenting
• Habits of the Household
• French Kids Eat Everything
• The Secrets of Happy Families
• Sunrises and Songs

Middle Grade

• The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Katrina Yan Glaser - 2/22/23 ****
• Anne of Avonlea
• Ember Rising (Green Ember #3) by S.D. Smith
• The Blackbird Girls
• Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein - 3/12/23 ***
• Sweep
• Out of my Heart by Sharon Draper - 1/19/23 ****
• The Poet X
• Echo

Adult Fiction

• The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
• The Princess Bride (audio) by William Goldman - 3/16/23 *****

Christian Living

• Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright
• Help is Here by Max Lucado
• Abuelita Faith
• Hearing God by Dallas Willard
• A Long Obedience in the Same Direction by Eugene Peterson
• With by Skye Jethani
• None Like Him by Jen Wilkin
• When Strivings Cease by Ruth Chou Simons
• Humility by Andrew Murray
• Invitation to Abundance
• The God of the Garden by Andrew Peterson
• The Praying Life
• Sacred Pathways by Gary Thomas