reading pile
right now it’s a lineup on the end of a short bookcase. sometimes it’s a literal pile – on a nightstand, on the floor, on a chair. wherever we are, whatever it is, here are the books we’re currently chewing through (and the ones we’ve read this year).
Thipok’s Pile
- Nobody’s Fool – Richard Russo
- A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- Ranger’s Apprentice: The Icebound Land – John Flanagan
Sarah’s Pile
- John Milton: A Biography – Neil Forsyt
- Covenantal and Dispensational Theologies: Four Views on the Continuity of Scripture – Brent Parker and Richard Lucas
- The Seven Sayings of the Savior on the Cross – Arthur Pink
- Milton’s Poetical Works – John Milton
the together pile
- Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners – Dane Ortlund
- The Dawn of Wonder: The Awakening – Jonathan Renshaw
Finished in 2026
- Crooked House – Agatha Christie (T&S)
- The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baronness Orczy (T&S)
- Truth We Can Touch – Tim Chester (S)
- We Died Before We Came Here – Emily Foreman (S)
- A Grave in Gaza – Matt Beynon Rees (S – not one I enjoyed)
- Dumb Witness – Agatha Christie (T&S)
- Rebels and Exiles – Matthew Harmon (T)
- The God Ask – Steve Shadrach (T, S)
- From Adam to Israel to the Church – Benjamin Gladd (T)
- Falling Leaves – Adeline Yen Mah (S)
- Peril at End House – Agatha Christie (T&S)
- Face to Face with God – T.D. Alexander (T)
- Seven Days that Divide the World – John Lennox (T&S)
- The Body in the Library – Agatha Christie (T)
- Mistbourn: Final Empire – Brandon Sanderson (S)
- Goose Girl – Shannon Hale (T&S)
- To Seek and To Save – Sinclair Ferguson (S)
- Evangelism as Exiles – Elliot Clark (T&S)
- Mistbourn: The Well of Ascension – Brandon Sanderson (S)
- Conscience – Andy Naselli & JD Crowley (T)
- The Beloved Dearly – Doug Cooney (T&S)
- Mistbourn: The Hero of Ages – Brandon Sanderson (S)
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes – Suzanne Collins (T)
- Ordeal by Innocence – Agatha Christie (T&S)
- Ranger’s Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan – John Flanagan (T)
- Ranger’s Apprentice: Burning Bridge – John Flanagan (T)
- The Path to Being a Missionary – Ryan Robertson & Matt Bennet (T)