My Lofty 2008 Reading Book List

I'm going to do the 888 Challenge this year. Here are the rules if you are interested in joining in.

Sitting down to come up with 8 categories and 8 books for each category was fun. It helped me to organize all the books that were rambling around in my mind.

Humor
1. James Thurber
2. P.G. Wodehouse
3. Peter Mayle
4. James Herriot
5. E.F. Benson
6. Edmund Love
7. Robert Benchley
8. Clarence Daly
9. Thyra Bjorn*
10. Frank and Ernestine Gilbreth*

The First in a Series of Mystery Books
1. Fr. Brown Mysteries by Chesterton
2. Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mysteries by Carrie Bebris
3. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Club by Alexander McCall Smith
4. Beatrix Potter Mysteries by Susan Wittig Albert
5. Jane Austen Mysteries by Stephanie Barron
6. Brother Cadfael Mysteries by Ellis Peters
7. Father Blackie Ryan Mysteries by Andrew Greeley
8. Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle

Historical Fiction
1. O Pioneers by Willa Cather
2. The Fighting Ground by Avi
3. My Brother Sam is Dead by Jame Collier
4. Land of Goshen by Shirley Wietzel
5. The Heaven Tree Trilogy by Edith Pargeter
6. The Agony and The Ecstasy by Irving Stone
7. Crispin : The Cross of Lead by Avi
8. Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes


Fantasy
1. At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
2. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
3. The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald
4. The Light Princess by George MacDonald
5. Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
6. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
7. Watership Down by Richard Adams
8. Redwall by Brian Jacques

5.) History
1. Phillip II by William Walsh
2. Augustus Caesar's World: A Story of Ideas and Events from BC 44 to 14 AD by Geneiveve Foster
3. Characters of the Inquisiton by William Walsh
4. Christ the King, Lord of History by Anne Carroll
5. Characters of the Reformation by Hillaire Belloc
6. William the Conquer by Hillaire Belloc
7. The Crusades by Hillaire Belloc
8. The Great Heresies by Hillaire Belloc

6.) Books on Catholics
1. The Inklings : C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and their friends by Humphrey Carpenter
2. Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward
3. Hildegard of Bingen : The Woman of Her Age by Fiona Maddocks
4. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep by Rumer Godden
5. Isabella by William Walsh
6. Collected Works of Theresa of Avila vol.1 by St. Theresa of Avila
7. Collected Works of St. John of the Cross vol. 1 by St. John of the Cross
8. Science of the Cross by Edith Stein

7.)Women Authors
1. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
2. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
3. From Childhood to Adolescence by Maria Montessori
4. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
5. The Joy of the Snow by Elizabeth Goudge
6. The Well Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer
7. Dean’s Watch by Elizabeth Goudge
8. Tiger Lillie by Lisa Samson

8.) Hobby
1. Hillside landscaping by Hazel White
2. The All-in-one Garden : Grow Vegetables, Fruit, Gerbs and Flowers in the Same Space by Graham Rice
3. The Backyard Berry Book : A Hands-on Guide to Growing Berries, Brambles, and Vine Fruit in the Home Garden by Stella Otto
4. The 60-minute Flower Garden : Have A Yard Full of Dazzling Flowers in One Hour A Week by Ed Ball
5. 100 flowers and how they got their names by Diana Wells
6. Flowers, the angels' alphabet : the language and poetry of flowers with an American floral dictionary and twenty-eight literary calligraphy illustrations by Susan Loy
7. Mary's flowers : gardens, legends & meditations by Vincenzina Krymow
8. Fallscaping : extending your garden season into autumn by Nancy J. Ondra and Stephanie Cohen

* In case my library doesn’t have some of these authors, I've had a few more to my list.