I have always enjoyed other bloggers' reading lists. So much so, that I was inspired to keep my own reading and listening list this year. I'm including audiobooks because I seem to have gotten through more of these than paper books. Weaving, knitting, mending, sewing, and mundane tasks like shelling seeds or snapping green beans lend themselves to listening to books!
Mine is not a fancy list. No reviews, no links, no pictures of book covers. Just a list. But I'm happy to answer questions if anyone has them.
Paper Books
- Queen Isabella by Alison Weir
- All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
- Killer's Wake by Bernard Cornwell
- Crackdown by Bernard Cornwell
- Wildtrack by Bernard Cornwell
- Babe The Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith
- How To Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
- Natural Small Batch Cheesemaking by Kate Downham
- Never Grow Up by Jackie Chan
- Tying Up the Countermarch Loom by Joanne Hall
- Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
- How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture by Francis A. Schaeffer
- A Dyer's Garden by Rita Buchanan
- The Stowaway by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
- The Ark on Ararat by Tim La Haye and John Morris
- Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell
- Uthred's Feast by Bernard Cornwell with Suzanne Pollak
- Weave Classic Crackle & More by Susan Wilson
- A Crackle Weave Companion by Lucy M. Brusic
- The Last White Rose by Alison Weir
- People of the Wolf by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear
- Wideacre by Phillipa Gregory
eBooks
- A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe by Tom Findlay
- Permaculture Thorns by Paul Wheaton
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Audiobooks
- The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan
- History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth
- A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
- Putting the Most Into Life by Booker T. Washington
- In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
- Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol
- Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
- All in the Day's Work by Ida Tarbell
- Vagabond Adventures by Ralph Keeler
- The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
- Across the Plains in 1844 by Catherine Sager Pringle
- The Backwoods of Canada by Catharine Parr Traill
- Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman
- By Ox Team to California by Lavinia Honeyman Porter
- The Autobiography of a Clown by Jules Turnou
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Rez Life by David Treuer
- Fathers of Biology by Charles McRae
- Scott's Last Expedition Vol. 1, The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott by Robert Falcon Scott
- The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the Fram, 1910-12 by Roald Amundsen
- Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America by Herbert Spinden
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass
- Peaks of Shala by Rose Wilder Lane
- Across Asia on a Bicycle by Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben
- The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East, volumes 1 & 2, by Marco Polo as told to Rustichello da Pisa
- The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
- Three Sisters, Three Queens by Philippa Gregory
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- The White Princess by Philippa Gregory
- The King's Curse by Philippa Gregory
- The Saga of the Greenlanders, author unknown, translated by Arthur Middleton Reeves
- The English Governess at the Siamese Court by Anna Harriette Leonowens
- Lucretia Borgia by Ferdinand Gregorovius
- Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
My selections were random, i.e. whatever struck my fancy at the time. But I like that it's a relatively eclectic collection. I think by keeping the list, I made a more concerted effort to read. But also, by using my evenings
for weaving instead of poking around the internet, I was able to listen to all those audiobooks (a more productive use of my time!) I plan to keep a reading list for 2025 too.
Does anybody else keep a reading list?
