Books are Kindle Editions, unless marked as “Audible” or “Print”

Books in red print are my top book in that category for 2014

Total Books Read 2014: 121

Fiction – 11

• White Fang, Jack London  (Audible)
• My Antonia, Willa Cather (Audible)
• The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather (Audible, last year I read in print)’
• Tess of the D’Ubervilles, Thomas Hardy (Audible)
• Anna Karina, Leo Tolstoy
• Dalva, Jim Harrison
• The Road Home, Jim Harrison
• All the Land to Hold Us, Rick Bass
• The Virginian, Horseman of the Plains, Owen Wister
• The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Story of Don Quixote, Cervantes

Short Stories- 1

• The Enchanted Bluff, Willa Cather (Audible)

Young Adult Fiction – 6

• The Phantom Toolbooth, Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer
• Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
• The River, Gary Paulsen
• Williwaw, Tom Bodett  (print)
• Woodsong, Gary Paulsen
• Sara Crewe, Francis Hodgson Burnett

Anthologies – 1

• American and Americans and Selected Non-Fiction, John Steinbeck

Literary Journals – 2

• Prairie Schooner, Winter 2013
• The Sun, Feb 2014

Literary Analysis – 1

• Critical Companion to John Steinbeck: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work, Jeffrey Schultz

Poetry – 5

• Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Poems of William Blake
• A Haiku: Vol 1
• In Search of Small Gods, Jim Harrison
• This Day: Collected and New Sabbath Poems, Wendell Berry

Memoir – 4

• My Mistake, Daniel Menacker
• The Man in the Empty Boat, Mark Salzman
• Out of the Woods: A Memoir of Wayfinding, by Lynn Darling
• Losing It: In Which an Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain, by William Ian Miller (Audible)

Essays, Misc – 2

• Lets Explore Diabetes With Owls, David Sedaris  (Audible)
• Bedtime Stories: What Fairy Tales Can Tell Us About the New Aging, John Robinson

Nonfiction: Culture – 1

• Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: The Riddles of Culture, Harris

Nonfiction: Outdoors, Adventure, Camping, Survival – 12

• Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain (Audible)
• Log from the Sea of Cortez, John Steinbeck  (Audible)
• Pie Iron Recipes
• SAS Survival Handbook, John Wiseman
• Traps for Survival: Setting, Baiting, and Running a Trap Line, Jeff Fuller
• The Practice of the Wild, Gary Snyder
• Becoming Animal, David Abrams
• Finding Beauty in a Broken World, Terry Tempest Williams
• Algonquin Voices: Selected Stories of Canoe Lake Women, Gaye Clemson
• Comprehensive Public Camping Guide: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Montana
• The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana, Rick Bass
• Wilderness Essays, John Muir

Nonfiction: Environment, Eco Living – 2

• Recycling Book: Lets Talk Rubbish, Peterson
• A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest, William deBuys

Birds, Birding – 7

• The Armchair Birder, John Yow (Audible)
• The Private Life of Birds, Bridgett Stutchbury (Audible)
• Watchable Birds of the Black Hills, Badlands, and Northern Plains, Jan Wassnick (print)
• Zen Birding, Guyette White
• Pete Dunn’s Essential Field Guide Companion:A Comprehensive Field Guide for Identifying American Birds, Pete Dunn
• Birding Trails of Montana, Chuck Robbins
• Good Birders Don’t Wear White, Various

History – 2

• Westerners: Candid and Historic Interviews, Mead
• North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State, Federal Writers Project

 Sewing, Other Hobbies – 3

• Sewing Patterns: Alternations, Sophie English
• The Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook, Carol Ekarius, Deborah Robson
• Zen Doodles, Tonia Jenny

Spiritual Journey – 25

• Of Earth and Sky: Spiritual Lessons from Nature
• The War of Art, Stephen Pressfield
• Integral Life Practice, Ken Wilber, Marco Morelli, Terry Patten, Adam Leonard
• One Taste, Ken Wilbur
• Out of the Ordinary, Joyce Rupp  (print)
• Being in Balance, Wayne Dyer
• Moral Development: A Guide to Piaget and Kohlberg, Duska, Ronald F (print)
• The Zen Experience, Hoover, Thomas
• Sacred Books of the East, Sale, Darmesteter, Beal, Muller
• Nature Mysticism, Mercer, John Edward
• Ecomysticsm: The Profound Experience of Nature as a Special Guide, Carl, M.D. von Essen
• Be Here Now, Ram Dass
• Less is More: Spirituality for Busy Lives, Brian Draper
• Gurdjieff: A Beginner’s Guide, Gil Friedman
• Beezlebub’s Tales to His Grandson, G.L. Gurdieff
• The Odyssey, Homer
• When Women Were Warriors: Book 1, Wilson
• Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most, Marcus Borg
• Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, Richard Rohr
• A Time to Live: Seven Tasks of Creative Aging, Robert Raines
• A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity, Cristof
• From Age-ing to Sage-ing, Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman (print)
• When Your Life is on Fire: Sixteen People Answer One Simple Question, Eric Kobel
• Violence Unvieled, Bailie   (print)
• Gift of the Red Bird, D’Arcy  (print)

Professional Minister Reading – 26

• Feasting on the Word: Year A, Volume 1, Advent through Transfiguration
• Playing with God: Religion and Modern Sport, William J. Baker

• One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where you Are, Ann Voskamp

• Feasting on the World: Year A, Volume 2
• Integral Christianity, Paul Smith
• Letters to Pope Francis, Matthew Fox
• Christian Passover Seder
• Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, Maurice Nicol
• Practical Christianity, Rebecca Nottingham
• The Fourth Way and Esoterice Christianity, Rebecca Nottingham
• The Pastor’s Anthology of Funeral Meditations
• Myths to Live By, Joseph Campbell
• The Power of Myths, Joseph Campbell
• World Religions, Huston Smitth
• Forest Church, Bruce Stanley
• Blessed are the Peacemakers: Christ’s Teachings on Love, Compassion, and Forgiveness, Wendell Berry
• A Light  Shining in the Darkness, Leo Tolstoy
• Feasting on the Word, Year B, Vol 1
• Feasting on the Word, Advent Companion
• Sermons on Biblical Characters, Chappell
• The Collected Sermons of Walter Brueggemann
• Sabbath as Resistance, Walter Brueggemann
• How to Write a Lesson Plan,Gordon
• The Unforgettable Sermon: How to Write Homilies that Change People’s Lives
• Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings, Marcus Borg, Jack Kornfield
• How to Prepare a Great Sermon in Ten Easy Steps
• Deitrich Bonhoffer’s Christmas Sermons, Bonhoffer
• Discovering Girard, Michael Kirwan
• Proclaiming Christmas, Various

Publishing – 2

• Copyright Law, Nolo Handbooks
• WordPress Websites, Nancy Hendrickson

Writing Skills – 7

• The Portable MFA in Creative Writing, editors at the New York Writers Workshop
• Writing in a Nutshell: Writing Workshops to Improve Your Craft (Writing in a Nutshell Seriese), Jessica Bell
• Writing Naturally: A Down-to-Earth Guide to Nature Writing, David Peterson (print)
• Nortons Field Guide to Writing (print)
• A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
• Farnsworth’s Classic English Rhetoric
• The Writer and the Heroes Journey

Film (Partial List)

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• 129 Hours
• Gravity
• 12 Years a Slave
• Dallas Buyers Club
• Frozen
• Saving Mr. Banks
• Nebraska
• Wolf of Wall Street
• Captain Phillips
• Blue Jasmine
• August: Osage County
• Practice of the Wild (Amazon Instant Video)