Books I've Read in 2015

It's interesting to look back on these lists. Maybe you like looking at them, too. Here's the 2015 reading list...

1. Icy Sparks by Gwyn Rubio (for Book Club)
2. Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World by Ben Hewitt (read aloud with Bryan)
3. A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet: Southern Stories of Faith, Family, and Fifteen Pounds of Bacon by Sophie Hudson
4. For the Children's Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (love)
6. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (read aloud (again) as a family)
7. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (for Book Club)
8. Counter Culture by David Platt
9. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
10. Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field by John Lewis-Stempel
11. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
12. For the Love by Jen Hatmaker
13. Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace by Sarah Mackenzie and Dr. Christopher Perrin
14. The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape by James Rebanks
15. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (read aloud to the boys)
16. Poor Richard’s Almanack by Benjamin Franklin
17. Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
18. Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession by Julie Powell
19. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer (for Book Club)
20. The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks (read aloud)
21. The Nourishing Homestead: One Back-to-the-Land Family's Plan for Cultivating Soil, Skills, and Spirit by Ben Hewitt and Penny Hewitt
22. The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler (I wish that I had not read this one. I should have just put it down after the first few chapters.)
23. All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor (read aloud)
24. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson (read aloud)
    25. The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 
    
     *This list does not include the hundreds of picture books that I read with Seth and Silas. 
    

    
    

    See also 

    2014 Books 

     2013 Books 

Books I've Read in 2014

I really wanted to read more books than I did last year. It was actually a new year's resolution. But I haven't had as much time to read since moving to our homestead and homeschooling our kindergartener. Some days it's all I can do to stay awake until bed time because I'm so exhausted. It's an exhaustion that's a good exhaustion and filled with lots of joy, but I still haven't been able to read as much. So here's a look at this year's chronological list with a few little notes added after some of the books I read.

1. Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life by Shauna Niequist
2. Growing into a Farm: Before the Walden Effect (Modern Simplicity) by Anna Hess
3. Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish (learned quite a few homesteading tricks)
4. Mud Season: How One Woman's Dream of Moving to Vermont, Raising Children, Chickens and Sheep, and Running the Old Country Store Pretty Much Led to One Calamity After Another by Ellen Stimson (very entertaining)
5. An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler (gave me new inspiration to cook that I haven’t had in a long time)
6. Adopting an Abandoned Farm by Kate Sanborn (written in 1891, loved the peacock chapter)
7. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
8. Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet by Catherine Friend (now I really need some sheep!)
9. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (I’m convinced a garden can cure most anything.)
10. A Gift for God: Prayers and Meditations by Mother Teresa of Calcutta (such a wonderful little treasure)
11. All Flesh Is Grass: Pleasures & Promises Of Pasture Farming by Gene Logsdon (great resource)
12. Stiches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair by Anne Lamott (bawled my eyes out reading a few of the chapters in this book)
13. More or Less: Choosing a Lifestyle of Excessive Generosity by Jeff Shinabarger (What is Enough? such a thought provoking read)
14. Beginner's Guide to Sustainable Homesteading: A Simple Plan From Buying Property To Succeeding Long Term by Shelby MacArthur (very quick read, didn’t really learn anything new)
15. Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions by Rachel Held Evans (I love Rachel Held Evans.)
16. Cold Antler Farm: A Memoir of Growing Food and Celebrating Life on a Scrappy Six-Acre Homestead by Jenna Woginrich (as usual with anything by Jenna Woginrich,  I loved it!)
17. The Quarter-Acre Farm: How I Kept the Patio, Lost the Lawn, and Fed My Family for a Year by Spring Warren and Jesse Pruet
18. Life, Love and Vintage Housekeeping by Alison May (a fun, easy read)
19. Ten Acres Enough - How A Very Small Farm May Be Made To Keep by Edmund Morris (written in the late 1800’s but is applicable to so many things today)
20. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (for Book Club)
21. The Giver by Lois Lowry (for Book Club)
22. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson (not my favorite)
23. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White (read aloud with Seth)
24. Deconstructing Penguins: Parents, Kids, and the Bond of Reading by Lawrence Goldstone and Nancy Goldstone
25. The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom by Mary Griffith (thought provoking)
26. Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World by Ben Hewitt