2012 Book Log

In 2012, I’ve finished the following 141 books:

Paper Books

1. One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey
2. Too Much Stuff! by Robert Munsch
3. Murmel, Murmel, Murmel by Robert Munsch
4. I Have To Go! by Robert Munsch
5. Put Me in a Book! by Robert Munsch
6. 12 Challenges Churches Face by Mark Dever
7. Chekhov in an Hour by Carol Rocamora
8. Just One Goal! by Robert Munsch
9. No Clean Clothes! by Robert Munsch
10. From Far Away by Robert Munsch
11. Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
12. Principles of Conduct by John Murray
13. William E. Payne: A Memoir by Michael A.G. Haykin
14. Playhouse by Robert Munsch
15. All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone by Myra MacPherson
16. Angela’s Airplane by Robert Munsch
17. The Dark by Robert Munsch
18. Hints for Parents: With Gospel Encouragements by Tedd Tripp by Gardiner Spring
19. Time To Say Good Night by Sally Lloyd-Jones
20. The Godly Home by Richard Baxter.
21. The Take of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter
22. Mmm, Cookies! by Robert Munsch
23. Secrets Of The Baby Whisperer: How To Calm, Connect, and Communicate With Your Baby by Tracy Hogg
24. Daniel Defoe by William Minto
25. Sinful Speech (Pocket Puritan Series) by John Flavel
26. Man Overboard! by Curtis Parkinson
27. Mud Puddle by Robert Munsch
28. The Cross He Bore by Frederick Leahy
29. A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What is a Noun? by  Brian Cleary
30. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
31. Practical Prayer by Derek Prime
32. 50 Below Zero by Robert Munsch
33. Ballistics by Billy Collins
34. It’s My Room By Robert Munsch
35. The Puritan Family: A Social Study From The Literary Sources by Levin Ludwig Schucking
36. The Fire Station by Robert Munsch
37. Poems of William Blake by William Blake
38. Robert Munsch by Frank Edwards
39. My Noiseless Entourage by Charles Simic
40. The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me To Faith by Peter Hitchens
41. “Rivers of Living Water”: Celebrating 125 Years of Hughson Street Baptist Church, Hamilton, Ontario, 1887-2012 by Michael Haykin and Ian Clary
42. The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
43. How To Write A Sentence: And How To Read One by Stanley Fish
44. A Was Once An Apple Pie (illustrated by Suse Macdonald) by Edward Lear
45. Much More Munsch! by Robert Munsch
46. The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets by Ted Kooser
47. A Look at Rhythm, Rhyme, And Verse Form by Charles Woodley
48. Comic Ballads by Thomas Hood
49. The Voice at 3 AM: Selected Late and New Poems by Charles Simic
50. The Cuckoo’s Haiku and Other Birding Poems by Michael Rosen
51. David: Man Of Prayer, Man Of War by Walter Chantry
52. W.H. Auden: Poems Selected by John Fuller by W.H. Auden
53. Silas Marner by George Eliot
54. Let’s Have Some Poetry! by Elizabeth Jennings
55. Irving’s Coat: Windsor’s Literary Renaissance by Eugene McNamara
56. C.S. Lewis: Readings For Meditation edited by Walter Hooper
57. Still Waters by Dan D’Alimonte
58. The Wheel by Wendell Berry
59. Pigs by Robert Munsch
60. Simplify Your Spiritual Life: Spiritual Disciples for the Overwhelmed by Donald Whitney
61. Hopkins: New Oxford English Series by Gerard Manley Hopkins
62. War Crimes in Vietnam by Bertrand Russell
63. Salt: Short Stories by Eugene McNamara
64. The Art of Poetry by Robert G. Anstey
65. Hilaire Belloc by Hilaire Belloc
66. Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out On The Power Of The Word edited by Toni Morrison
67. Ghost Road And Other Forgotten Stories of Windsor by Marty Gervais
68. Pearls, Girls, and Monty Bodkin by P.G. Wodehouse
69. The Sandcastle Contest by Robert Munsch
70. A Moose In A Maple Tree: The Original All-Canadian 12 Days of Christmas by Troy Townsin
71. Edward Taylor – University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers by Donald Stanford
72. Millicent and the Wind by Robert Munsch
73. Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere by Christopher Hitchens
74. Atalantis Major by Daniel Defoe
75. The Final Word: The Book Of Canadian Epitaphs by Nancy Millar
76. Ribbon Rescue by Robert Munsch
77. The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia) by C.S. Lewis
78. Anne Steele And Her Spiritual Vision by Priscilla Wong

Electronic Books (Kindle, Overdrive, PDF, Text, etc.)

1. J.R.R. Tolkien by Mark Horne
2. 100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson
3. The Rare Jewel Of Christian Contentment by Jeremiah Burroughs
4. You Are A Writer (So Start Acting Like One) by Jeff Goins
5. Wordsmithy: Hot Tips For The Writing Life by Douglas Wilson
6. A Few Things You Should Know About The Weasel by David Starkey
7. Letters Across The Divide: Two Friends Explore Racism, Friendship, and Faith by David Anderson and Brent Zuercher

Audio Books (MP3, CD)

1. Roxana by Daniel Defoe
2. A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
3. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
4. The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction by Terry Givens
5. The Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald
6. Sonnets from the Crimea by Adam Mickiewicz
7. Captain Singleton by Daniel Defoe
8. The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo
9. Whose Body? by Dorothy Sayers
10. iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It by Steve Wozniak
11. The Reformation: A History by Patrick Collinson
12. The Bible, the Book of Mankind by B.B. Warfield
13. The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses by Robert Service
14. Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion by Mark Twain
15. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain
16. Keeping The Heart by John Flavel
17. The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
18. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
19. The Prelude by William Wordsworth
20. Farnham’s Freehold by Robert Heinlein
21. The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy
22. North of Boston by Robert Frost
23. The Door Into Summer by Robert Heinlein
24. First Hand by Lind Bierds
25. Kubla Khan by Samuel Coleridge
26. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge
27. The Wild Swans at Coole by W.B. Yeats
28. Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 by Mark Twain
29. War Is Kind by Stephen Crane
30. Growing Up Amish: A Memoir by Ira Wagler
31. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2011  by  Steve Coll
32. 1968: The Year That Rocked The World by Mark Kurlansky
33. Beowulf translated by Francis Barton Gummere
34. Detroit: A Biography by Scott Martelle
35. Crossways by W.B. Yeats
36. The Wanderings of Oisin by W.B. Yeats
37. In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age by W. B. Yeats
38. The Essentials of Prayer by E.M. Bounds
39. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
40. The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson
41. Literary Taste: How To Form It by Arnold Bennett
42. Andy Catlett: Early Travels by Wendell Berry
43. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
44. Desolation Island by Patrick O’Brian
45. Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
46. Mussolini: A Biography by Jasper Ridley
47. After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro’s Regime and Cuba’s Next Leader by Brian Latell
48. A Hundred Verses From Old Japan translated by William Porter
49. Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman
50. The Mating Season by P.G. Wodehouse
51. Joseph Anton: A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
52. The Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
53. The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
54. Trees and Other Poems by Joyce Kilmer
55. The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness by Kevin DeYoung
56. Two Bears, And Other Sermons For Children by J.C. Ryle