I’m copying a post I saw on Unlikely Words a few days ago, because I think it’s an interesting idea. I, too, read many more books in 2015 than in previous years. At the end of last year, I signed myself up for the Goodreads 2015 Reading Challenge, aiming for 12 books in 2015. This also motivated me to track everything I read (excluding picture books, because I’ve read about 10 million this year alone). I’m happy to note I far exceeded that goal and read 26! I have reviewed some of these here at The Edifying Word, but many others I have not, mostly because I just started this blog this fall. The books here are in the order I read them. I’m still reading, so I may finish another one or two by the end of the yar, but here’s where I stand now. Here goes:
Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace
The Temperament God Gave Your Spouse
The Princess Guide: Faith Lessons from Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty
The Handbook for Catholic Moms: Nurturing Your Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Everything I Never Told You
The Joy of the Gospel: Evangelii Gaudium
Martha Washington: An American Life
Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
At the Water’s Edge: A Novel
Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Love and Loyalty on the Loire: A Tale of Medieval Hearts Divided by Battle Lines
Water for Elephants: A Novel
The Screwtape Letters
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
The Private War of Corporal Henson
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain’s Journey
Days of Ragnarök: end of the gods (Volume 1)
What have you been reading? Let me know in the comments if you’ve read any of these, or if you have any suggestions for me for 2016!
Kristin Houlihan, Writer 
How was “The Girls of the Atomic City”? Having grown up in Los Alamos, it sounds interesting!
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It was definitely interesting, and I learned a TON (which is why I read — edifying word, right?). It switched back and forth between stories of the “girls” who worked at Oak Ridge and the larger issue of nuclear development in the US. The weird (and kind of annoying) thing about it was that the author writes using the same code words they used at the time – there are code words for plutonium, uranium, the sites, etc., and I found it kind of confusing at the time. The girls’ stories gave me a lot to think about/reflect upon as the story follows them through adjusting to working, then marriage, then babies, etc. Some of it seemed oddly familiar 🙂
btw – I own a copy (we picked it up in an airport over the summer), so let me know if you want to borrow it and I’ll lend it to you for as long as you want!
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I’d love to borrow it! Thanks. No rush of course. Hopefully we’ll see each other soon though!
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