I read the following 18 books in 2010. The titles in bold were particularly influential, inspiring or interesting.
1. Ignore Everybody: And 39 Other Keys to Creativity - Hugh MacLeod
2. Time to Write: More Than 100 Professional Writers Reveal How to Fit Writing into Your Busy Life - Kelly L. Stone
3. Lunch Poems - Frank O'Hara
4. Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back - Frank Schaeffer
5. Sinners Welcome - Mary Karr
6. Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking - David Bayles & Ted Orland
7. Temper - Beth Bachmann
8. Churched: One Kid's Journey Toward God Despite a Holy Mess - Matthew Paul Turner
9. Drops Like Stars - Rob Bell
10. The Misunderstood God: The Lies Religion Tells About God - Darin Hufford
11. Newspaper Blackout - Austin Kleon
12. Hear No Evil: My Story of Innocence, Music, and the Holy Ghost - Matthew Paul Turner
13. The Liars' Club - Mary Karr
14. Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer - Chely Wright
15. Bicycles: Love Poems - Nikki Giovanni
16. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible - A. J. Jacobs
17. Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in The Peoples Temple - Deborah Layton
18. Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions - Rachel Held Evans
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Amy, thanks so much for reading and then posting my book on your blog. All the best in the New Year. Frank
Frank, I was so glad to have read Crazy for God. Thanks for sharing (and continuing to share) your story! Here's to a fabulous 2011!
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