For the past 14 years, I’ve kept a list of the books I’ve read. Upon skimming back over the list, I discovered you can actually write a whole story just using the titles of some of these books:

Julie   (Marshall)

Bold Spirit   (Hunt)

The Outside Man   (Patterson)

The Love Talker   (Peters)

Listening Woman   (Hillerman)

Persuasion   (Austen)

The Sinner   (Gerritsen)

With Child   (King)

The Shunning   (Lewis)

Matilda’s Wedding   (Neels)

A Painted House   (Grisham)

Its Colours They are Fine   (Spence)

Playing House   (Pearson)

I am a Mother   (Johnson)

Cradle to Cradle   (McDonough & Braungart)

All Through the Night   (Clark)

Housekeeping   (Robinson)

Family – The Ties that Bind and Gag  (Bombeck)

At Wit’s End   (Bombeck)

It’s All Too Much   (Walsh)

Season of Storms   (Kearsley)

The Divide   (Evans)

The Judas Kiss   (Holt)

Everything is Illuminated   (Foer)

Enough Already!   (Walsh)

Before I Say Goodbye   (Clark)

The Silent Lady   (Cookson)

Breakup   (Stabenow)

Leaving Home   (Keillor)

The Empty House   (Pilcher)

Running West   (Houston)

Far and Away   (Massie)

A Land More Kind Than Home   (Wolfe)

High Lonesome   (L’Amour)

The Rescue   (Sparks)

Good News for a Change   (Suzuki & Dressel)

I’ll Never Marry a Farmer   (Hole)

Courting Kate   (Rich)

A Sudden Change of Heart   (Bradford)

Where the Heart Leads   (Evans MacCloud)

Farmer Takes a Wife   (Gould)

Replacing Dad   (Mickle)

A Family in the Making   (Froemke)

No Greater Love   (Mother Teresa)

The New Farm   (Preston)

A Life in the Country   (Hutchison)

Fresh Air   (Allen)

Tending the Earth   (Johnson)

The Perfect Summer   (Rice)

The Winds of Change   (Grimes)

A Turn for the Bad   (Connolly)

The Last Good Day   (Bowen)

The Homecoming   (Michaels)

Prodigal Summer   (Kingsolver)

The Party is Over   (Heinberg)

We are Still Married   (Keillor)

You Belong to Me   (Clark)

Not Buying It   (Levine)

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman   (Buchan)

If I’d Killed Him when I Met Him   (McCrumb)

Unless   (Shields)

A Risk Worth Taking   (Pilcher)

The Things We Do for Love   (Hannah)

On a Hill Far Away   (Snyder)

Still of the Night   (McKinney)

With These Hands   (L’Amour)

Girl Waits with Gun   (Stewart)

A Cold Day for Murder   (Stabenow)

Dead in the Water   (Stabenow)

Buried in a Bog   (Connolly)

A Rule Against Murder   (Penny)

Dark Age Ahead   (Jacobs)

Traveling Light   (Lucado)

Alice in Exile   (Read)

Lost in the Barrens  (Mowat)

Roughing it in the Bush   (Moodie)

Seeking Peace   (Pipher)

High Latitudes   (Mowat)

Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name   (Vida)

Secrets from the Past   (Bradford)

Sleuth   (Bowen)

Mr. Monk on Patrol   (Goldberg)

The Art of Detection   (King)

In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner   (George)

Footsteps in the Snow   (Dear Canada Series)

Prisoners of the North   (Berton)

No Shred of Evidence   (Todd)

Woman Without a Past   (Whitney)

Gallows Thief   (Cornwell)

Leaving Time   (Picoult)

The Convent   (Karnezis)

And Then There Were Nuns   (Christmas)

Seeking Sanctuary   (Fyfield)

The Kindness of Strangers   (Kittle)

The Help   (Stockett)

Nature’s Second Chance   (Apfelbaum)

Remembering the Bones   (Itani)

Private Demons   (Phenix)

The Confession   (Todd)

The Infinite Atonement   (Callister)

Hearing the Voice of the Lord   (Lund)

Believing Christ   (Robinson)

Raising Hope   (Willard)

Grace Works   (Millet)

Benediction   (Haruf)

Weep No More, My Lady   (Clark)

The Lost Art of Gratitude   (McCall Smith)

Longing for Home   (Eden)

The Long Way Home   (Pilcher)

Starting Over   (Pilcher)

The New Good Life   (Robbins)

Peace Like a River   (Enger)

Sweeter than all the World   (Wiebe)

Owls Well that Ends Well   (Andrews)