Looking forward I know that in the coming year I would love to work on reading aloud to my kids. I have been thinking about the reason this has become a bit more difficult in the past couple years. I think with my kids being further apart in age making it hard to read the same books and having different activities to attend most nights of the week so we aren’t all together are the biggest obstacles to overcome. I know I still love to read to them and all my kids still really enjoy it, so I want to work on it and read more books to my kids in the coming years. Love connecting with them through books.
January 2017
Classic || Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
Nonfiction || Women and the Priesthood by Sheri Dew
Read Aloud || Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose (Abandoned this book, kids weren’t interested.)
Fiction || Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
February 2017
Classic || Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Nonfiction || The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines & My Berlin Kitchen by Luisa Weiss
Read Aloud || Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
Fiction || The Kitchen House & Glory of Everything by Kathleen Grissom
March 2017
Classic || The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
Nonfiction || Walking on Water by Madeleine L’Engle
Read Aloud || Winter of Fire by Sherryl Jordan
Fiction || The One In A Million Boy by Monica Wood
April 2017
Classic || Oh Pioneers by Willa Cather
Nonfiction || Team of Rivals by Doris Goodwin
Read Aloud || The Silver Crown by Robert C O’Brien
Fiction || A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
May 2017
Classic || Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Nonfiction || Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey
Read Aloud || The Children of Noisy Village by Astrid Lindgren
Fiction || The Awakening of Miss Prim by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
June 2017
Classic || Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Nonfiction || Pioneer Girl by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Read Aloud || The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Fiction || The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
July 2017
Classic || The Problem of Pain C. S. Lewis
Nonfiction || Bossypants by Tina Fey
Read Aloud || The Westing Game by Ellen RaskinFiction || The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
August 2017
Classic || Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Nonfiction || Go Forward with Faith by Sheri Dew
Read Aloud || Sarah Bishop by Scott O’Dell
Fiction || The Mapping of Love and Death: A Maisie Dobb’s Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
September 2017
Classic || Autobiography of Ben Franklin by Ben Franklin
Nonfiction || Parenting with Love & Logic by Foster Cline and Jim Fay
Read Aloud || Half Magic by Edgar Eagar
Fiction || The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin (Abandoned, didn’t like the context.)
October 2017
Classic || Pilgrim’s Inn by Elizabeth Goudge
Nonfiction || Some Writer! by Melissa Sweet
Read Aloud || Calico Bush by Rachel Field
Fiction || The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley
November 2017
Classic || Possession by A. S. Byatt
Nonfiction || Booked by Karen Swallow Prior & Articles of Faith by James E. Talmage
Read Aloud || Ember Falls by S. D. Smith
Fiction || Taken by Erin Bowman
December 2017
Classic || Letters From Father Christmas by J. R. Tolkein
Nonfiction || The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
Read Aloud || Magyk by Angie Sage
Fiction || Mrs. Lincoln Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini
Also Read in 2017 ||
The Daughter’s Walk by Jane Fitzpatrick
A Bridge Across the Ocean by Susan Meissner
The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn
The Dry by Jane Harper
I See You by Clare Mackintosh
The Perfect Stranger by Megan Miranda
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
Labgirl by Hope Jahren
A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs #8) by Jacqueline Winspear
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist
Quiet by Susan Cain
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Still Life by Louise Penny
One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp
Moccasin Trail by Eloise McGraw
Growing Up by Brad Wilcox
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