Doug's Reading List - 2009 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, L See - A melancholy book about 1840s China featuring footbinding (8) Buffalo for the Broken Heart, D O'Brien - A rancher switches to buffalo (6) Outliers, M Gladwell - Success = fortuitous circumstances and lots of work. (9) Lonesome Dove I love this novel. (10) The Extra Mile, P Reed - A boring but short running book (3) The 19th Wife, D Ebershoff - Polygamy is bad. (5) Crazy for God, F Schaeffer - Frank Schaeffer is not happy with his parents. This book scares me. (7) The Blind Side, M Lewis - One of the best sports books I've read - about football, recruiting, economics and a love for the game. (10) Blink, M Gladwell - The power of a thin-slicing microdecision for good and ill. (9) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, J Diaz - A creative Pulitzer winner. Dominican, insightful, dramatic, funny and sad. (8) The Appeal, J Grisham - Another Grisham courtroom thriller about pegging the bad guys (7) One Fearful Yellow Eye, J Macdonald - MacDonald is the best with pace and description (7) Pale Gray for Guilt, J MacDonald - This Travis McGee novel was economically complicated (5) Moneyball, M Lewis - If you love baseball, you MUST read this book. Wonderful and inspiring for the small market guys. (10) 50/50, D Karnezas - Karnezas ran 50 marathons in 50 straight days in all 50 states! (8) The Dawkins Letters, D Robertson - The author challenges atheist myths by responding to Richard Dawkins' book. Helpful, short and easy to read. (8) Lone Survivor, M Luttrell - A Navy Seal gets out of Afghanistan. (4) Concise Theology, JI Packer - A nice little theology book (7) Samson and the Pirate Monks, N Larkin - True brotherhood and honesty. (10) My Beautiful Idol, P Gall - A novel about idolatry. Sometimes good. Sometimes boring. (7) 5 books on the Book of John. The Call of the Wild, J London - Eh. (5) Darkness at Noon, A Koestler - From Steven R. A novel about how Stalinist Russia stinks. (6) The Broken Window, J Deaver - A great thriller with twits and turns. (8) Holding Hands, Holding Hearts, R Phillips - One of the better dating books out there. (7) Boundaries in Dating, H Cloud - Filled with pretty good advice. (7) Just Do Something: How to Make a Decision Without Dreams, Visions, Fleeces, Open Doors, Random Bible Verses, Casting Lots, Liver Shivers, Writing in the Sky, etc.Subtitle says it all. (8) October 1964, D Halbertsam - I love it when the Cards win the WS. (10) True Spirituality, F Schaeffer - True Spirituality is inward and goes outward. (7) Summer of '49, D Halberstam - Yankees win which is bad but the story and writing is so good (8) Rise to Rebellion, J Shaara - Nothing better than to be reading this historical novel about the American Revolutionary War in Boston (10) The Glorious Cause, J Shaara - Part Two in such an amazing, well-told story. (10) Devil in the Details, J Traig - Traig's girlhood OCD is hilarious, sad and very interesting. (9) The Prodigal God, T Keller - Read it to the family this time. (10) Born On A Blue Day, D Temmet - Autistic savant memorizes 22,500 digits of pi. His boyfriend/partner helps out. (5) Born to Run, C McDougal - This is one of THE BEST books I have read in a long time. (10) Swimming to Antarctica, L Cox - Girl swims English channel in record time when she's 14. Later swims the Bering Strait and a mile to Antarctica. Crazy. (8) The Intimate Mystery, D Allender - The best book I've read on marriage (10). Sex and the Soul, D Frietas - Sexuality and Spirituality on college campuses (8) Sleep, C Schenk - A decent read about weird sleep stuff (5) Born to Run, C McDougallWow. This was my favorite book of the year. Informative and riveting. (10)