Time again to share my reading log. This year I read 159 books. My goal each year is 150. Most of the books are Kindle editions, some are from Audible. I finally signed up for e-books from the local library, which helps me stay within my book budget.
My favorite category is once again outdoor, nature, and adventure non-fiction. Below is my list of favorite books for the year!
Best Book in All Categories
- Winter World, Bernd Heinrich
Fiction
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Non-Fiction Nature, Outdoors
- Winter World, Bernd Heinrich
- Runner up-Arctic Dreams, Gary Lopez
Non-Fiction Essays/Story Collections
- Essays After Eighty, Donald Hall
Non-Fiction, Culture
- Finding Home: How Americans Prevail, Sally Ooms
Non-Fiction, Other Memoir
- A Broken Halleluja: Rock-n-Roll, Redemption and the Life of Leonard Cohen, Leibovitz
History
- The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelts Darkest Journey, Candice Millard (Audible)
Travel 3
- Off the Map: 25 Adventures to Inspire Your Next Adventure, Fagan
Birds and Field Guides 14
- The Silbey Guide to Birds (print)
Environment 2
- The Wilderness Within: Remembering David Brower
Writing Skills
- Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy, Moore, Dinty
Spiritual Growth, Devotionals
- The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere, Pico Iyer
Professional Minister Reading
- Metaphors in Mind: Transformation Through Symbolic Modeling, Lawley, Thompkins
Thank You for this wonderful list. You have set me up (and my reading group) for 2016!
Great that you have a reading group. We don’t have any around here!