In 2015, I read these.
- Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis, Lauren F. Winner
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, Ed Catmull
- The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition, Caroline Alexander
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Great by Choice, Jim Collins
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
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The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli (translated by W.K. Marriott)
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The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership, Steven B. Sample
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One Thing You Can’t Do In Heaven, Mark Cahill
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Prince Caspian, C.S. Lewis
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis
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Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right, Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr.
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The Agility Factor: Building Adaptable Organizations for Superior Performance, Christopher G. Worley
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The Silver Chair, C.S. Lewis
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How Will You Measure Your Life?, Clayton M. Christensen
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The Horse and His Boy, C.S. Lewis
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The Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad
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The Luminous and the Grey, David Batchelor
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The Magician’s Nephew, C.S. Lewis
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Mudhouse Sabbath, Lauren F. Winner
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The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis
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A Prayer Journal, Flannery O’Connor
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The Chosen, Chaim Potok
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Tenth of December, George Saunders
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Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God, Lauren F. Winner
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The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo (translated by Cathy Hirano)
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Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
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Don’t Waste Your Life, John Piper
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To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
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ART/WORK, Heather Darcy Bhandari and Jonathan Melber
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A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories, Flannery O’Connor
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Paper Towns, John Green
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Girl With a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
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Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity, Lauren F. Winner
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Help My Unbelief: Why Doubt is Not the Enemy of Faith, Barnabas Piper
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Beauty Looks After Herself, Eric Gill
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
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Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship, Claire Bishop
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Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else, David Balzer
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About Looking, John Berger
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Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter to Our Faith, Matthew Lee Anderson
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Minding the Body, Patricia Foster (editor)
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
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The Lipstick Gospel, Stephanie May Wilson
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The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis
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One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, Ann Voskamp
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Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
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The Best American Short Stories 2006, Ann Patchett (editor)
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis
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Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, Madeleine L’Engle
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The Promise, Chaim Potok
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Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women, Sarah Bessey
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African Art, Frank Willett
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The Princess and the Goblin, George MacDonald
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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles, Steven Pressfield
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain
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Nejma, Nayyirah Waheed
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Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression, Jacques Derrida (translated by Eric Prenowitz)
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The Princess and Curdie, George MacDonald
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
- The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions, Arthur Bennett (editor)
- Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church, Rachel Held Evans
- The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
- Women, Art, and Society, Whitney Chadwick
- The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
- Marjorie Main: Rural Documentary Poetry, John Sherman
- Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee
- the Bible (English Standard Version)
To those who shaped this list by your generously loaned or gifted books, recommendations, and willingness to read with me – thank you!
*Still, multiple times. Thanks for reading with me too. ❤️✨
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You’re so welcome! And yes – I think three times in a year might be a new rereading record for me haha
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That’s an impressive list! :)
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