Mama Bear's Reading List

I am passionate about learning being a lifelong adventure rather than something to be "graduated" from. To that end, I hope to model an attitude of learning to my children. This is my TBR (to be read) list, provided to inspire you to write your own! Some on this list are books I have wanted to read for years, others are old friends I want to revisit and others are totally new.

I have sorted the books into categories (because my inner librarian demands it) and limited myself to three books per category (although one or two extra have snuck in). Books struck through have been read and in Italics are on the night stand



Fluff, Frivolity, fantasy and Fiction

Rest of Ender’s game series – Orson Scott Card

Going Postal – Terry Pratchett

Unseen Academicals – Terry Pratchett


Medieval Challenge

Chivalry by Maurice Keen

Twilight of Avalon by Anna Elliot

Beowulf translation by Seamus Heany



Bookshelf Challenge

To The God Unknown by Steinbeck

Mere Christianity by CS Lewis

A Woman’s Walk with God by Elizabeth George


Books contemplating faith and spirituality

Something More by Catherine Marshall

Let me Be a Woman by Elizabeth Elliot

Voices of the True Woman Movement edited by Nancy Leigh DeMoss


Poetry

Shakespere’s sonnets

Carnival Evening by Linda Pasten

The Best of Odgen Nash by Linell Nash Smith


Kid’s books

Black Beauty by Anne Sewell

Ten P’s in a pod by Arnold Pent

Jacob I have Loved by Katherine Paterson

Cheeper by the Dozen by Frank B Gilbreth


Classics and cults

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

To Kill and Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

Catcher in the Rye by J D Sallanger


The Narnia Series

Historical Fiction

Trinity by Leon Uris

The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes

Nicholas and Alexandera by Robert K Massie


Movie Books

Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison


The Children of Men by P D James

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Kevin Kesey


Christian Fiction

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

The Victor by Patricia St John

Nothing Else Matters by Patricia St John

Sons of Encouragement by Francine Rivers


Biographies and Autobiographies

Surprised By Joy by CS Lewis

A Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland H Bainton


Schooling

Pocketfull of Pinecones by Karen Andreola


Honey for a Child’s Heart by Gladys Hunt


The Daily Five by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser


Home Management

Speed Cleaning by Jeff Campbell

A Sane Woman’s Guide to Raising a Large Family by Mary Ostyn

Queen of the Castle by Lynn Bowen Walker


Large Family Logistics by Kim Brennan


Parenting
Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends by Sarah Mally

Preparing Him for the Other Woman by Sheri Rose Shepherd

Beautiful Girlhood bu Karen Andreola


Wild Card Books

The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

Silence by Shusako Endo


The Poisonwood Bible by Barbra Kingsolver