It is time for my annual book list! (last year’s list is here) I keep track of my annual reads using Goodreads. As soon as I finish a book, I add it to my appropriate bookshelf and then at the end of the year I can easily look back at it and see what I’ve read! In addition to the 68 books below via Goodreads, I also read 8 others that did not have a Goodreads listing (otherwise, easy peasy to use Goodreads to track books—that is, if tracking books holds any interest for you!)

If I did a review of the title, it is linked to in my comments. I’d also love to know what were your favorite reads of 2013? 🙂

Also, remember that my organized, birth-specific, ongoing book recommendations/reviews are here: Talk Books

	title	author		rating			date added
	Open Mind: Women’s Daily Inspiration for Becoming Mindful read this all year (it is daily meditation book) and I loved it!	Mariechild, Diane		5 stars			Dec 30, 2013
	Journey of the Priestess	Shepsut, Asia		4 stars			Dec 30, 2013
	Cooking Like a Goddess: Bringing Seasonal Magic Into the Kitchen	Johnson, Cait		4 stars			Dec 26, 2013
	Birthrites: Rituals and Celebrations for the Child-Bearing Years Post series about this book here	Singer, Jackie		4 stars			Dec 25, 2013
	Meet Marie-Grace (American Girls: Marie-Grace and Cécile, #1) I got this doll for Christmas. No, I did not need another American Girl doll, BUT she was on sale via a steals site of some kind and I could NOT resist her.	Buckey, Sarah Masters		3 stars			Dec 24, 2013
	V is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone #22)	Grafton, Sue		3 stars			Dec 13, 2013
	When God Was a Woman This was one of my first readings in feminist thealogy. I had to re-read it for one of my D.Min classes.	Stone, Merlin		4 stars			Dec 05, 2013
	Cut, Stapled, and Mended: When One Woman Reclaimed Her Body and Gave Birth on Her Own Terms After Cesarean Loved this! Review here.	Rosewood, Roanna *		5 stars			Dec 01, 2013
	My Kitchen Cure: How I Cooked My Way Out of Chronic Autoimmune Disease with Whole Foods and Healing Recipes Surprisingly good and fun! Review here.	McCormick, Mee Tracy		4 stars			Nov 23, 2013
	The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood Affirming and important. Post for the associated blog carnival is here.	Pearce, Lucy H. *		5 stars			Nov 23, 2013
	Blessed by Less: A Spiritual Approach to Clearing Your Life of Clutter Read for Patheos book club. Review here.	Vogt, Susan V.		4 stars			Nov 22, 2013
	The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child’s Classroom	Griffith, Mary		4 stars			Oct 08, 2013
	West Country Wicca: A Journal of the Old Religion I don’t consider myself wiccan and parts of this book were hokeylicious, but parts were very interesting.	Ryall, Rhiannon		3 stars			Sep 29, 2013
	Priestess of Avalon Priestess of the Goddess: A Renewed Spiritual Path for the 21st Century : A Journey of Transformation within the Sacred Landscape of Glastonbury and the Isle of Avalon One of my favorite priestess reads of the year! Highly recommended!	Jones, Kathy		5 stars			Aug 28, 2013
	The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future This was another second reading for my D.Min coursework.	Eisler, Riane		4 stars			Aug 25, 2013
	From Pain to Parenthood: A Journey Through Miscarriage to Adoption Used quotes from this book in this post.	Kahler, Deanna *		3 stars			Aug 11, 2013
	Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life I read this book for a year-long course in compassion for my D.Min program. I keep meaning to do a post series about it, but have not yet done so.	Armstrong, Karen		3 stars			Aug 10, 2013
	The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (Song of the Lioness, #3) My all-time favorite books from childhood. Being interviewed by First the Egg about childhood favorites inspired me to start reading them aloud to my kids.  They love them too! (I do edit very slightly for minimal sex content) And, no fewer than two of my own children’s names were inspired by these books–the same character, no less! 😉	Pierce, Tamora *		5 stars			Aug 09, 2013
	Keep Simple Ceremonies: The Feminist Spiritual Community of Portland, Maine Cool format, interesting ideas.	Eiker, Diane		4 stars			Aug 04, 2013
	The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth Read for another D. Min course.	Sjoo, Monica		4 stars			Aug 01, 2013
	Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Surprising commentary on birth and breastfeeding (including nursing twins into toddlerhood!)	Shepherd, Cybill		3 stars			Jul 25, 2013
	Introduction to Human Services: Through the Eyes of Practice Settings New edition of textbook for one of the classes I teach. Yes, I did actually read the entire thing.	Martin, Michelle E		4 stars			Jul 21, 2013
	Virgin Mother Crone: Myths and Mysteries of the Triple Goddess	Wilshire, Donna		4 stars			Jul 18, 2013
	Thealogy and Embodiment: The Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality dense and academic and GOOD.	Raphael, Melissa		5 stars			Jul 14, 2013
	The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home	Cunningham, Scott		1 star			Jul 08, 2013
	Lady of the Northern Light: A Feminist Guide to the Runes	Emmer-Gitlin, Susan		2 stars			Jul 04, 2013
	A Woman’s Way To Wisdom	Ball, Pamela J.		2 stars			Jul 01, 2013
	Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World available to read online here.	Grahn, Judy		3 stars			Jun 30, 2013
	Seeking the Mystery: An Introduction to Pagan Theologies	Kraemer, Christine Hoff		4 stars			Jun 30, 2013
	The Wander Year: One Couple’s Journey Around the World	McIntyre, Mike *		4 stars			Jun 27, 2013
	Honoring Menstruation: A Time of Self-Renewal	Owen, Lara		5 stars			Jun 21, 2013
	Reaching for the Moon	Pearce, Lucy H. *		4 stars			Jun 10, 2013
	Bridging the Gap	Blanton, Crystal		5 stars			Jun 07, 2013
	Priestesses Pythonesses Sibyls – The Sacred Voices of Women Who Speak with and for the Gods	D’este, Sorita *		3 stars			May 17, 2013
	Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture	Baldwin, Christina		3 stars			May 13, 2013
	Midwifing Death: Returning to the Arms of the Ancient Mother	Madre, Leslene della		4 stars			May 09, 2013
	Moon Mysteries	Sims, Nao		4 stars			May 04, 2013
	Woman Prayer, Woman Song: Resources for Ritual	Winter, Miriam Therese		3 stars			May 02, 2013
	Thea Gallas Always Gets Her Man Fun and sassy mystery novel about an IBCLC. Review here.	Panzer, Kristen *		4 stars			Apr 26, 2013
	Journey to the Dark Goddess: How to Return to Your Soul	Meredith, Jane		4 stars			Apr 21, 2013
	More or Less: Choosing a Lifestyle of Excessive Generosity	Shinabarger, Jeff		3 stars			Apr 19, 2013
	What Dying People Want: Practical Wisdom For The End Of Life Read right before my grandma died. Post here.	Kuhl, David		4 stars			Apr 18, 2013
	Eve Hallows and the Book of Shadows (The Nightmare Series, #2) Read aloud to boys and they chose rating.	Gray, Robert *		5 stars			Apr 14, 2013
	The Art of being a Healing Presence Read during my grandma’s illness. Commentary here.	Miller, James E.		4 stars			Apr 09, 2013
	The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change Some quotes and thoughts in this post.	Strong, Shari MacDonald *		4 stars			Apr 08, 2013
	She Is Everywhere! Volume 3: An Anthology of Writings in Womanist/Feminist Spirituality Have this as a digital copy that I somehow managed to lose and cannot find! So frustrating!	Saracino, Mary		4 stars			Apr 07, 2013
	The Art of Family: Rituals, Imagination, and Everyday Spirituality Talk Books post here.	Bria, Gina		3 stars			Mar 30, 2013
	The Alternative Medicine Cabinet	Gruver, Kathy		3 stars			Mar 25, 2013
	The Midwife’s Tale Author interview and brief review here.	Thomas, Sam *		4 stars			Mar 24, 2013
	Gift from the Sea Quotes and connections here.	Lindbergh, Anne Morrow		5 stars			Mar 16, 2013
	The Great Convergence (The Book of Deacon, #2)	Lallo, Joseph R. *		3 stars			Mar 11, 2013
	Foundations of Social Policy: Social Justice in Human Perspective Now I remember why I didn’t get as many books finished in 2013. Switched to a different, much shorter, textbook for the 2014 session of this course!	Barusch, Amanda S.		3 stars			Feb 24, 2013
	Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Written about here and referenced in this post about being an introverted mama.	Cain, Susan *		4 stars			Feb 24, 2013
	Refuse to Do Nothing: Finding Your Power to Abolish Modern-Day Slavery Read for Patheos book club and written about on that platform. Eventually will post here also!	Moore, Shayne		3 stars			Feb 17, 2013
	The Earth Speaks: An Acclimatization Journal	Matre, Steve Van		5 stars			Feb 02, 2013
	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) Listened to complete book on CD with kids.	Rowling, J.K.		5 stars			Jan 31, 2013
	Moods of Motherhood Very much enjoyed! Referenced in this post and this one too.	Pearce, Lucy H. *		5 stars			Jan 30, 2013
	The Magickal Retreat: Making Time for Solitude, Intention & Rejuvenation	Pesznecker, Susan		4 stars			Jan 20, 2013
	Child of the Mist (These Highland Hills, #1)	Morgan, Kathleen		2 stars			Jan 16, 2013
	Red Moon	Gray, Miranda		4 stars			Jan 13, 2013
	Gathering for Goddes, a Complete Manual for Priestessing Women’s Circles	Mihaltses, B. Melusine		4 stars			Jan 07, 2013
	Jump Up: Good Times Throughout the Seasons with Celebrations from Around the World	Teish, Luisah		2 stars			Jan 07, 2013
	Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World Touched upon in this post.	Noble, Vicki		5 stars			Jan 06, 2013
	Pagan Every Day: Finding the Extraordinary in Our Ordinary Lives	Ardinger, Barbara *		2 stars			Jan 06, 2013