The journeys I've been on

I think one of the reasons I love to read so much is the journey, each book a new journey, each book a new relationship, each book changes a part of who I am.  These are the books I read this year....

1. Humility by C.J. Mahaney
2. The Poisonwood Bible by Barabara Kingsolver
3. My Prison, My Home by Haleh Esfandiari
4. Love and War by John & Stasi Eldredge
5.  The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
6. Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Parrillo
7.  Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
8. The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
9.  The Letters from the Land of Cancer by Walter Wangerin Jr.
10. Spiritual Direction by Henri Nouwen
11. Nuture Shock by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
12. In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
13. Reclaiming the Past by David Seamands
14. I  Want to Live: A diary of a young girl in Stalinist Russia by Nina Lugoskaya
15. Truefaced by Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol, John Lynch
16. The Heart of a Family by Elizabeth Goudge
17. Belong to Me by Marisa Los Santos
18.  Love in the Driest Season by Neely Tucker
19. A Glimpse of Jesus by Brennan Manning
20. Old Men at Midnight by Chaim Potok
21. Lucky by Alice Sebold
22. Instrument in the Redeemer's Hands by Paul David Tripp
23. Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott

24. Sacred Rhythms by Ruth Haley Barton
25. Sheet Music by Kevin Leman
26.  Preparing Your Daughter for Every Woman's Battle by Shannon Ethridge
27.  Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
28. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
29. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
30. Intended for Pleasure by Ed Wheat
31. An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor
32. A Bear called Paddington by Michael Bond
33. Thomas Jefferson Education by Oliver DeMille
34.  Family Driven Faith by Voddie Baucham

35. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
36. Leadership Reconsidered by Ruth A. Tucker
37. The Lonesome Gods by Louis Lamour
38. The Rest of God by Mark Buchanon
39. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
40. A Charlotte Mason Education by Catherine Levison
41. The Help by Kathryn Scott
42. Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
43. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
44. Shattered Dreams by Larry Crabb
45. More Charlotte Mason Education by Catherine Levison

46. Danse Macabre by Gerald Elias
47. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
48. Bartholomew's Passage by Arnold Ytreeide
49.  Countless Picture books :)

Recounting these books reminds me of the countless journey's I went on this year, some good, some not so good, some down right horrendous.  I wonder.... what journeys I will go on this year?