My 2013 Reading List

I love to read, and don't usually have to set goals to accomplish it.  I usually just read what strikes my fancy or if I hear or read about a good book, I'll see if it is at the library.  This sometimes leads to staying up into the wee hours, just finishing 'one more chapter.'  I enjoy what Crystal at Money Saving Mom has to say about making time to read and learning and improving yourself through it.  I'd like to be a little more intentional about my reading this year and actually read some of the books that have been on my 'read sometime' list for YEARS, as well as some new ones.

Here's my list:

Christian living
Crazy Love by Francis Chan
Already Gone by Ken Ham
Case for Faith by Lee Strobel

Home-making
Hidden Art of Homemaking by Edith Schaeffer
15-min. Organizer by Emilie Barnes

Parenting/Motherhood
New Hide or Seek by James Dobson
Spiritual Parenting by Michelle Anthony 
Desperate: Hope for the Mom who needs to Breathe by Sarah Mae and Sally Clarkson

Just for fun
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of LHOTP by Wendy McClure

Classics
Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
Anne of Green Gables, #6 by L.M. Montgomery
Good Wives (i.e., Little Women, part 2) by Louisa May Alcott
Something by Dickens 
Something by Austen
Les Miserables by Hugo
Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
Tolkien

Re-reads
Creative Correction by Lisa Whelchel
Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner
Strong-willed Child by James Dobson (I have already read this at least twice...)
Mission of Motherhood by Sally Clarkson

This sounds ambitious enough to start with!  I'm positive more books will be added.  And I'm not afraid to stop reading a book and not finish it if it stinks.  (I never used to do that, but now my time is too valuable for wastes of time, boring, or filth.)

**On a side note, I've already decided against pursuing Paperback Swap, because I went to a nearby used book store for the first time and was fairly impressed with their selection, plus they will give credit/cash for books I want to get rid of.  This will in theory cost me less and be less stressful to me than using Paperback Swap.  Saturday I purchased 8 books for under 15 dollars!