In an effort to read the books I own, here are 25 books I already owned at the beginning of 2011, which I will attempt to read before the year is over.

Children's Fiction (5)

• Bloomability, Sharon Creech
• The Pigman, Paul Zindel
• The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• In the Shadow of the Ark, Anne Provoost
• A Week in the Woods, Andrew Clements

Contemporary Fiction (5)

• My Name Is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
• Brendan, Frederick Buechner
• Peace Like a River, Leif Enger
• Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
• Arthur & George, Julian Barnes

Classic Fiction/Lit (5)

• Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Mabinogion, tr. Charlotte Guest
• The Pearl, John Steinbeck
• The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
• Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

General Nonfiction (5)

• Living By Fiction, Annie Dillard
• Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck
• 1066 and All That, W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman
• The Life of Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger

Alternates:

• Woe Is I, Patricia O’Connor (in progress)
• The Hungry Ocean, Linda Greenlaw

Christian Nonfiction (5)

• Girl Meets God, Lauren Winner
• The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey
• Humility, Andrew Murray
• Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
• The Spirit of the Disciplines, Dallas Willard