One of my 2020 goals was to read 20 books and I created a tickler list on a page to share what I was reading and might read. In the past, I was a voracious reader of books. I always had a few going at a time and read at least a couple a week. I still am a voracious reader, but I tend to do most of my reading online. This is really a shame since I feel like I have nothing to show for all my hard work. You can’t point to a pile of articles and blog posts like you can a pile of books that you’ve read over your life. So my goal was to move back to more actual books and less articles and blog posts.

Well, things didn’t go quite the way I anticipated in 2020. That was before I knew what the year was going to turn into. I’ve spent a massive amount of time reading and researching in 2020 and 2021, but not a lot of book reading. In retrospect, it would have been interesting to keep a list of all the articles and posts I’ve read. It would be massive. Oh well.

So I am moving this from a page on my website to a post as record of what I’ve read rather than an ongoing tickler list of what I hope to read. Some of these have said “Currently reading” for a long time. That’s just the way it is. Maybe I can still finish up a few.

I also know there are many short story, homeschooling, informational, and homemaking PDF ebooks missing. Since moving to Linux Mint Cinnamon, I’ve been organizing all of my books in Calibre. It has been fantastic for creating a catalog of the PDFs and ebooks that are here, there and everywhere on my laptop. So this 2020-21 list is incomplete and I’m going to keep adding to it over the next few weeks as I realize what I forgot to add (since keeping this list up-to-date went to the back burner). It’s more for my own personal record here on my blog than it is to impress anyone. I don’t read to impress people. I read books to escape, answer a question, or be encouraged.

If you would like some more book ideas, see the Tag on my site: Book Lists

(Updated 12-15-21)

Homeschooling

• Mother Culture Currently Reading
• Curious Unschoolers: Stories of an Unschooling Family  Currently Reading
• Radical Unschool Love: Stories of an Unschooling Family

Read Aloud With Caroline

• Little House in the Big Woods  Completed 2020
• Farmer Boy  Completed 2020
• Little House on the Prairie  Completed 2020
• On the Banks of Plum Creek  Completed 2020
• By the Shores of Silver Lake   Completed 2020
• The Long Winter  Completed 2020
  
• Little Town on the Prairie Completed 2021
• These Happy Golden Years Completed 2021
• All-of-a-Kind Family Completed 2021
• More All-of-a-Kind Family Completed 2021
• All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown Completed 2021
• All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown Currently Reading
• Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family

Homemaking

• Mother’s Hour: Encouragement from Home for The Christian Housewife  Completed 2020

Christian Faith

• Tactics, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
• Jesus is Family – His Life Together  Completed 2020
• Christ Minimized: A Response to Rob Bell’s Love Wins  Completed 2020
• Wait  Completed 2020
• The Jesus of the Gospels  Currently Reading
• Stranger at Home  Completed 2020
• The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction  Currently Reading
• Christ Alone: Five Challenges Every Group Will Face  Completed 2020
• Fool’s Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion
• Carpe Diem Redeemed: Seizing the Day, Discerning the Times
• Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best
• The Abolition of Man
• The Great Divorce
• Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
• C. S. Lewis — A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet

Light Vintage Fiction & Non-Fiction

• A Sweet Girl Graduate  Completed 2020
• Beauty for Ashes  Completed 2020
• The Candle in the Window   Completed 2020
• The Substitute Guest Completed 2020
• Brentwood Completed 2020
• Prudence of the Parsonage Completed 2020
• Prudence Says So  Currently Reading
• Only Ten Cents   Currently Reading 
• Old Christmas  Completed 2021
• The Prodigal Girl  Completed 2021
• The Christmas Bride Currently Reading 
• The Little Colonel
• The Locked Cupboard
• The Man of the House
• The Measure of a Man

Gen X

• Zero Hour for Gen X: How the Last Adult Generation Can Save America from Millennials  Currently Reading

Feminism

• Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism
• What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman
• The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men
• A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
• Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movement
• Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness — and Liberalism — to the Women of America
• The Alpha Female’s Guide to Men and Marriage: How Love Works

History

• The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek

Business

• Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business Currently Reading

Happy reading!