Lazy's Reading List

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines
what you will be when you can’t help it. ~Oscar Wilde

I’m just trying to educate myself here and I like making lists. It makes me feel so Louis L’Amour-ish. In Education of a Wandering Man he prints a few of his yearly reading lists. If I spent more time traveling cross country in box cars like he did my lists would be a lot longer.

I’m Reading Today

For Myself – Home Education by Charlotte Mason
For Great Books Study Group – Study group is over for the year!
For Fun -
For Book Club – We read The Chosen this month but I don’t know what’s up for next month yet.
For My Children - Laddie by Gene Stratton Porter to my ten year old daughter and Papa’s Wife by Thyra Ferré Bjorn to my twelve year old son.  Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen for my five year old daughter.

2010

The Formation of Character by Charlotte Mason (May)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (April)
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (April)
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (March)
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (February)

2009

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (December)
Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations by Alex and Brett Harris (December)
The Prince by Machiavelli (December)
The Duggars: 20 and Counting! by Michelle Duggar (November) I stayed up all night to read this one.  Fascinating!
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson (November) A great read on talent.
ST. AUGUSTINE: Confessions [Book I-VIII] (November)
NEW TESTAMENT: [The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, The Acts of the Apostles] (October)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey (October)
PLUTARCH: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (October)
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (October) Life Changing
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss (September) Learn to teach your kids to work.
Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera by Bryan Peterson (September) I finally understand ISO, aperture and shutter speed!
Unsteady: What Every Parent Absolutely Must Know About Teenage Romance by Jeanette G. Smith (September) If you have children you have to read this book.
Outliers: The story of success. by Malcom Gladwell (September)  Interesting as always.
Fairest by Gail Carson Levine (September) Because my daughter made me.
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (September) I’ve never read this one before.  I was surprised by the violence.
Ethics, Books I&II by Aristotle (September)
In My Father’s House: The Years Before the Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom (September)
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra (September)
A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle (August) Sweet and uplifting.
Addiction Recovery Program by LDS Family Services (August)
You’ve Got to Read This Book! by Jack Canfield (August)
The Republic, books I & II by Plato (August)
Clouds and Lysistrata by Aristophanes (August)  Strange to say the least.
Papa’s Wife by Thyra Ferré Bjorn (July)  So sweet.
Apology and Crito by Plato (July)
Once Upon a Brain by Thomas F. Morley (July)
The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis (May)
The China Study by T. Colin Campbell (May)
Original Fast Foods by James Simmons (May)
Our Home by C. E. Sargent E. M. (April)

2008

The Art of Virtue by Benjamin Franklin (December)
Made to Stickby Chip Heath (November)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (October)
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster (September 2008)
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert (August 2008)
5,000 Year Leap by Cleon Skousen (August 2008)
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Gatto (July 2008)
The Exhausted School: Bending the Bars of Traditional Education by John Gatto (July 2008)
Leadership and Self Deception: Getting Out of the Box by the Arbinger Institute (July 2008)
The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber (June 2008)
The Four Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss (June 2008)
The Martha Rules by Martha Stewart (June 2008)
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (June 2008)
The Giver by Lois Lowry (May 2008)
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (May 2008)
Mommy Millionaire: How I Turned My Kitchen Table Idea into a Million Dollars and How You Can, Too! by Kim Lavine (May 2008)
Healing the Shame that Binds You by Shawn Bradshaw (May 2008)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey(May 2008)
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène Du Bois (April 2008)
Austenland by Shannon Hale (April 2008)
The Second Treatise on Civil Government by Locke (April 2008)
The Ultimate Gift by Jim Stovall (April 2008)
The Power of Positive Parenting(April 2008)
The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemmingway (March 2008)
The Pearl by John Steinbeck (March 2008)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (March 2008)
Ability Development from Age Zero by Shinichi Suzuki (March 2008)
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (March 2008)
Essay on Education of Children by Montaigne (March 2008)
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs (February 2008)
The Prince by Machiavelli (February 2008)
Animal Farm by George Orwell(February 2008)
The Confessions of St. Augustine, books 1-8 (February 2008)
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom (January 2008)
Rebecca by Dame Daphne Du Maurier (January 2008)

2007 (May-December)
The Power of Positive Thinking (December 2007)
Laddie by Gene Stratton Porter (December 2007)
The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis (December 2007)
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck(December 2007)
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth (December 2007 to the kids)
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki (December 2007)
The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale (December 2007)
Raising Musical Kids by Robert A. Cutietta (December 2007)
Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers by Patrick Kavanaugh (November 2007)
Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L’Amour (November 2007)
Carry On Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (October 2007)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexacre Dumas pere (October 2007)
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (October 2007
A Life Less Cluttered by Christine Rice (September 2007)
Charlotte Mason Companion by Karen Andereola (September 2007)
Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (September 2007)
Must read! Nurtured by Love by Shinichi Suzuki (August 2007)
The Peace Giver by James L. Ferrell (August 2007)
The greatest Salesman in the world by OG Mandino (July 2007)
Fascinating Womanhood by Helen Andelin (July 2007)
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (July 2007)
Lonesome Gods by Louis L’Amour (July 2007)
Finished!!! Unabridged Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (July 07) Can we have a party to celebrate?
The Greatest Salesman in the World by OG Mandino (July 07)
The Virginian by Owen Wister and Gary Scharnhorst (July 07)
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (June 07)
Must Read! Little Britches by Ralph Moody (March and again in May 07)
Must Read! Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (May 07)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (March 07 for the tenth time)
Albert Schweitzer : An Adventurer for Humanity by Harold Robles (May 07)
A Thomas Jefferson Education by Oliver Van DeMille (April 07)
The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me by Richard Paul Evans (April 07)
A Thomas Jefferson Education Home Companion by Oliver DeMille, Rachel DeMille and Diann Jeppson (April 07)
Queen of the Castle by Lynn Bowen Walker (April 07)
The Anatomy of Peace by The Arbinger Institute (May 07)
The One Minute Manager and The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson (May 07