I’m the kid with the book under the dinner table.  Here are a few reading lists I’m working on, as well as a list of books and whatnot that I’ve recently pored over…

Currently reading: Update coming soon! :)

2011:

Fiction
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Diary of Anne Frank (drama) adapted by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott
Call of the Wild by Jack London

Non-Fiction
The New Rules of Marketing and PR by David Meerman Scott
French Women for All Seasons by Mireille Guiliano
Joy by Lydia Brownback
Trust by Lydia Brownback
One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp

2010:

Fiction
The Piano Lesson (play) by August Wilson
Othello (play) by William Shakespeare
This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Christian/Devotional
Freedom from the Performance Trap by David Seamands
The Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges

Far-off goal list…
Radcliffe Publishers’ 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century

Random list to read…
Despair by Vladimir Nabokov
The rest of John Updike’s Rabbit series
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger