In Pursuit of an Education

I realize that you may not be interested in what I read last year, but I was inspired by Jenny and Tawnya's book lists and I decided to do a couple myself.

I've got my "To Be Read in 2009" list over on the side bar. Hopefully, putting it in writing before all of you will help me keep my commitments.

It's also uplifting for me to see that I actually did accomplish something (that wasn't undone within minutes or hours!) last year.

Books Read 2008

Title	Author	Date	w/kids x partial *
Boy in the Striped Pajamas	John Boyne	January 2008
The Real Thomas Jefferson	Andrew Allison	January 2008
Real Simple: Celebrations		January 2008
Beowulf	Seamus Heaney	January 2008
Beowulf: A New Telling	Robert Nye	January 2008
Anatomy of Peace	Arbinger Institute	February 2008
On Writing, Editing and Publishing	Jacques Barzun	February 2008
The Hiding Place	Corrie Ten Boom	February 2008
The Great Good Thing	Roderick Townley	February 2008
Rebecca	Daphne DuMaurier	March 2008
Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte	March 2008
God’s Smuggler	John Sherrill	March 2008
The Real George Washington	Andrew Allison	March 2008	*
The Jackrabbit Factor	Leslie Householder	March 2008
Much Ado About Nothing	William Shakespeare	April 2008
Much Ado About Nothing Shakespeare Can Be Fun	Lois Burdett	April 2008	x
A Whole New Mind	Daniel Pink	April 2008
Winston Churchill	James Humes	April 2008
Ink on His Fingers	Louise A. Vernon	May 2008	x
21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership	John Maxwell	May 2008
The Forgotten Man	Amity Shlaes	May 2008	*
Boundaries	Dr. Henry Cloud	May 2008
Great Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court	Maureen Harrison & Steve Gilbert	June 2008
Ender’s Shadow	Orson Scott Card	June 2008
Captivating	Stasi Eldredge	June 2008
Wild At Heart	John Eldredge	June 2008
Emperors of Chocolate	Joel Glenn Brenner	July 2008
Chocolate Fever	Robert Kimmel Smith	July 2008	x
Castaways in Lilliput	Henry Winterfield	July 2008	x
The Business of Heart	Michael Glauser	July 2008
Good to Great	Jim Collins	July 2008	*
The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day	Scott O’Dell	August 2008	x
7 Habits of Highly Effective People	Stephen Covey	August 2008
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee	Charles Shields	Summer 2008
Taming of the Shrew	William Shakespeare	September 2008
The Chosen	Chaim Potok	September 2008
Mornings on Horseback	David McCullough	September 2008
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance	David Pirsig	October 2008	*
True Believer	Eric Hoffer	October 2008	*
Crucial Conversations	Kerry Patterson	October 2008	*
Understanding The Times	David Noebel	October 2008
The Story of My Life	Helen Keller	October 2008
Miracle Worker	William Gibson	October 2008
Helen Keller	Leslie Garrett	October 2008
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	J. K. Rowling	November 2008
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	J. K. Rowling	November 2008
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	J. K. Rowling	November 2008
The 5,000 Year Leap	Cleon Skousen	November 2008
The Great Divorce	C.S. Lewis	December 2008
Nutcracker	E.T.A. Hoffman	December 2008
Outliers	Malcolm Gladwell	December 2008	*
Twelve Days of Christmas	Betty Van Orden	December 2008