2020 Reading List

A list of the books I completed reading in 2020.
(E) = co-read with Elise.

All of Grace - Charles Spurgeon
Artists in Crime - Ngaio Marsh
The Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera
The Heavenly Man - Brother Yun (E)
The Librarian of Auschwitz - Antonio Iturbe
Gipsy Smith: His Life and Work - Gipsy Smith
The Return of the King - JRR Tolkien (E)
Violence 101 - Denis Wright
The Lost City of Z - David Grann
Slide the Corner - Fleur Beale
Death in Ecstasy - Ngaio Marsh
Meet Me At The Olive Tree - Julia Fisher
Prince Caspian - CS Lewis (E)
Gawain and The Green Knight - YR Ponsor
Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
Prayer: Letters to Malcolm - CS Lewis
This Child Must Die - Anne Ruck (biography of Cleopas Lumbantobing)
No Compromise: The Life Story of Keith Green - Melody Green (E)
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Caging Skies - Christine Leunens
The Letters of James and Peter: The Daily Study Bible - William Barclay
The Voyage of The Dawn Treader - CS Lewis (E)
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Train Robbers - Piers Paul Read
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Krystyna's Story - Halina Ogonowska-Coates
Black - Ted Dekker
Red - Ted Dekker
White - Ted Dekker
The Silver Chair - CS Lewis (E)
A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
Tramp For The Lord - Corrie ten Boom (E)
The Last Battle - CS Lewis (E)
The Island of Sheep - John Buchan


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