Books I've Read in 2013

Reading is important to me, but reading for pleasure hasn't always taken priority. I set out at the beginning of this year to read at least one book a month. I felt like it was a meager goal, but one that was doable. I finished my first book of the year by January 3rd and just kept on reading. I think I exceeded my New Year's Resolution by a long shot. Here's what I've read (in chronological order) in the last 12 months...

1. A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans

2. Simplify by Joshua Becker

3. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery 

4. The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight

5. Interrupted by Jen Hatmaker

6. Animal Farm by George Orwell

7. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

8. Practicing the Way of Jesus by Mark Scandrette

9. Junia is Not Alone by Scot McKnight

10. 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed

11. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

12. The Little Way of Lent by Fr. Gary Caster

13. Passion by Mike McKinley

14. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan

15. Bringing Wine Home: Book One by Jesse Frost

16. Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

17. Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World by Joel Salatin

18. The Accidental Farmers: An urban couple, a rural calling and a dream of farming in harmony with nature by Tim Young

19. Barnheart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One's Own by Jenna Woginrich (my favorite book of the year)

20. Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life by Jenna Woginrich

21. Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food by Wendell Berry

22. The Contrary Farmer by Gene Logsdon

23. Always Put in a Recipe and Other Tips for Living from Iowa's Best-Known Homemaker by Evelyn Birkby

24. Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World by Bob Goff

25. Walking Home: A Woman's Pilgrimage on the Appalachian Trail by Kelly Winters

26. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

27. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

28. So We Bought the Farm by Steve Riddle

29. The Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

30. How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm: And Other Adventures in Parenting (from Argentina to Tanzania and everywhere in between) by Mei-Ling Hopgood

31. Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream by William Powers

32. The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

33. Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman

34. Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life by Gretchen Rubin

35. On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

36. What the Amish Can Teach Us About the Simple Life by Georgia Varozza

37. How to Use a Runaway Truck Ramp by Maile and Shawn Smucker

38. Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

39. Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos

40. The Feast Nearby: How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally (all on $40 a week) by Robin Mather

41. The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love by Kristen Kimball 
42. Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity by Emily Matchar 
43. Walden on Wheels: On The Open Road from Debt to Freedom by Ken Ilgunas 
44. The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure 
45. Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers

46. The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir (P.S.) by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
47. Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman
48. The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
49. One Woman Farm by Jenna Woginrich
50. Farmacology: What Innovative Family Farming Can Teach Us About Health and Healing by Daphne Miller M.D.
51. Grounded by Angela Correll
52. By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
53. The Wisdom of the Radish: And Other Lessons Learned on a Small Farm by Lynda Browning
54. Making Supper Safe: One Man's Quest to Learn the Truth about Food Safety by Ben Hewitt
55. The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food by Ben Hewitt
56. A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm by Stanley Crawford
57. Bringing Wine Home: Book Two by Jesse Frost
58. The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder

If you have a suggestion for what I should read in 2014, feel free to share!