McEvoy's Musings - Favorite & Influential Books

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Most Influential Books 2012

 Zebrafish

- Peter H. Reynolds, Sharon Emerson and Renee Kurilla

Alienation - CHAOS Book 2 - Jon S. Lewis

Every Body Matters - Gary Thomas

Firegirl - Tony Abbott

How
To Think Like A Neandertal - Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge

Most Influential Books 2011

 Airborn

- Kenneth Oppel

The

Poison
Eaters
and
Other

Stories - Holly Black

Tunnels

-
Roderick
Gordon
&

Brian Williams

Invasion

-
CHAOS
Book
1

- Jon S. Lewis

Shades:

17
Startling
Stories
-

Arthur Slade

Ghetto

Cowboy - G. Neri

Black

as
Night
-
Regina

Doman

40
Days
to

Optimal
Health
-
Church

Health Center - Dr. Scott Morris

The
Spiderwick Chronicles - Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi

A

Long, Long Sleep - Anna Sheehan

Lone

Wolf - Wolves of the Beyond 1 - Kathryn Lasky

Tithe:

A
Modern
Faerie
Tale

- Holly Black

Conspiracy

365
January
-
Gabrielle

Lord

Fugitives

- Escape from Furnace 4 - Alexander Gordon Smith

Why

God
Matters
-
Karina

Lumbert Fabiam and Deacon Steven Lumbert

Shadow
Wolf
-

Wolves
of
the
Beyond

2 - Kathryn Lasky

Red Glove - The Curse Workers Book 2 - Holly Black

Conspiracy 365 February - Gabrielle Lord

Children

- Maggie Clark

The

Capture - Gardians of Ga'Hoole Book 1 - Kathryn Lasky 

Beyond

The
Spiderwick
Chronicles
-

Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black

Gregor
The
Overlander

-
Underland
Chronicles
Book1

- Suzanne Collins

The
Journey
-

Gardians
of
Ga'Hoole
Book

2 - Kathryn Lasky

The
Prophecy
of

Bane
-
Underland
Chronicles

Book 2 - Suzanne Collins

Project Dad - Todd Cartmell

First

Day
On
Earth
-

Cecil Castellucci

The Rescue - Gardians of Ga'Hoole Book 3 - Kathryn
Lasky

Bluefish

- Pat Schmatz

Circle

the
Truth
-
Pat

Schmatz 

Mousetraps

- Pat Schmatz 

The
Unwritten
Girl
-

Unwritten Book 1 - James Bow

This Dark Endeavour: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein -
Kenneth Oppel

Breaking

Up:
A
Fashion
High

Graphic Novel - Aimee Friedman and Christine Norrie

Rose

Sees
Red
-
Cecil

Castellucci

The

P.L.A.I.N. Janes - Cecil Castellucci & Jim Rugg

Janes

in Love - Cecil Castellucci & Jim Rugg

Boy

Proof - Cecil Castellucci

The

Queen
Of
Cool
-

Cecil Castellucci

Beige

- Cecil Castellucci  

Gregor

and
the
Curse
of

the Warmbloods - Underland Chronicles Book 3 - Suzanne Collins

The
Siege
-
Gardians

of Ga'Hoole Book 4 - Kathryn Lasky

Empire

of
Ruins
-
Hunchback

Assignments #3 - Arthur Slade

The Brimstone Key - Grey Griffins Clockwork Chronicle 1 - Jon S. Lewis
and Derek Benz

Beauty

Queen's - Libba Bray

Mrs.

Estronsky
and
the
U.F.O.

- Pat Schmatz

Clockwork
Prince
-
Invernal

Devices book 2 - Cassandra Clare

Shideshow - Ed. by Deborah Noyes

Watch
Wolf
-
Wolves

of the Beyond #3 - Kathryn Lasky

The Start-Up - Sadie Hayes

The Visitors - Clone Codes Book 3 - The McKissacks

Stink and the Midnight Zombie Walk - Megan McDonald and Peter H Reynolds

The Battle Begins - Underworlds Book 1 - Tony Abbott  
   
Most Influential Books 2010

 Geektastic

-
Holly
Black
&

Cecil Castellucci

Unearthing

Your
Ten
Talents
-

Dr. Kevin Vost

Iorich

- Steven Brust

Rose

Sees
Red
-
Cecil

Castellucci

Lockdown

-
Escape
from
Furnace

Book 1 - Alexander Gordon Smith

Thirteen

Days
to
Midnight
-

Patrick Carman

Called

to
Life
-
Jacques

Philippe

The

Poison
Eaters
-
Holly

Black

The

Hunchback
Assignments
-
Arthur

Slade

The

Clone
Codes
-
The

McKissacks

The

Haunting
of
Derek
Stone

Books 1-4 - Tony Abbott 

Bite

Me - Christopher Moore

White

Cat
-
The
Curse

Workers Book 1 - Holly Black

The

Chestnut
King
-
100

Cupboards Book 3 - N.D. Wilson

Boom!

(or
70,000
light
years)

- Mark Haddon

The

P.L.A.I.N.
Janes
-
Cecil

Castellucci & Jim Rugg

Janes

in
Love
-
Cecil

Castellucci & Jim Rugg

Jacob the Baker - Noah benShea

 Jacob's Journey - Noah benShea

 Jacob's Ladder - Noah benShea

Bench Press - Sven Lindqvist 

The

Primal
Blueprint
-
Mark

Sisson

Boy

Proof - Cecil Castellucci

The

Queen
of
Cool
-

Cecil Castellucci

Beige

- Cecil Castellucci

Dead

Water
Zone
-
Kenneth

Oppel

When

You
Reach
Me
-

Rebecca Stead

Mercury

- Hope Larson

Goth

Girl
Rising
-
Barry

Lyga

Sea

Change - Aimee Friedman

Leepike

Ridge - N.D. Wilson  

Not

That
Kind
Of
Girl

- Siobhan Vivian

39
Clues - Various

The

Live-Forever
Machine
-
Kenneth

Oppel

Alex

O'Donnell
and
the
40

Cyber Thieves - Regina Doman

Clockwork

Angel - Cassandra Clare

The

CrossBones
-
Skeleton
Creek

#3 - Patrick Carman

Mockingjay

-
Hunger
Games
Book

3 - Suzanne Collins

The

Huanting
of
Drang
Island

- Northern Frights #2 - Arthur Slade

Half

Brother - Kenneth Oppel

Draugr

-
Northern
Frights
#1

- Arthur Slade

Eternal

- Cynthia Leitich Smith

Tantalize

- Cynthia Leitich Smith

City

of
Bones
-
Mortal

instruments Book 1 - Cassandra Clare

City

of
Ashes
-
Mortal

instruments Book 2 - Cassandra Clare

Plain
Kate - Erin Bow 

Blessed

- Cynthia Leitich Smith

Rain

Is
Not
My
Indian

Name - Cynthia Leitich Smith

The

Loki
Wolf
-
Arthur

G. Slade

City

of
Glass
-
Mortal

Instruments 3 - Cassandra Clare

Emiko

Superstar
-
Mariko
Tamaki

& Steven Rolston

The

Knife
Of
Never
Letting

Go - Chaos Walking #1 - Patrick Ness      

Most Influential Books 2009

 Orphan's

Alliance - Robert Buettner 

Jolted

- Arthur Slade

Starclimber

- Kenneth Oppel 

Terra

Nullius
-
Sven
Lindqvist

Ghost

in
the
Machine
-

Skeleton Creek Book 2 - Patrick Carman

On

Juno
Beach
-
Hugh

Brewster

At

Vimy
Ridge
-
Hugh

Brewster  

Most Influential Books 2008

 Fit

for
Eternal
Life
-

Dr. Kevin Vost

 Memorize

the
Faith
-
Dr.

Kevin Vost

 Interior

Freedom - Jacques Philippe

 The

Way,
Furrow,
Forge
-

St. Josemaria Escriva 

 My

Own
Kind
of
Freedom

(A  firefly Novel) - Steven Brust 

 Dark

Hills
Divide:
The
Land

of Elyon Book 1 - Patrick Carman

 Acoustic

Ladyland
Kathy
Shaidle
Unplugged

- Kathy Shaidle

 The

Shadow
of
the
Bear

- Regina Doman

 Jhegaala

- Steven Brust

 Orphan's

Journey - Robert Buettner

 Beyond

the
Valey
of
Thorns

- Patrick Carman

Kenny

&
the
Dragon
-

Tony DiTerlizzi 

Skeleton

Creek - Patrick Carman   

 Most
Influential Books 2007

 Life After God - Douglas Coupland

Byzantium

- Stephen R. Lawhead 

The Afterlife - Federico Suarez

The Sacrafice of the Altar - Federico Suarez

 The
Way of the Cross - St. Josemaria Escriva

A Way to Holiness - Cormac Burke

Seeking Christ in Reading - Eugene Boylan

 The

Way,
Furrow,
Forge
-

St. Josemaria Escriva

 In

Conversation
With
God
-

Francis Fernandez

 Sherman

Oak
and
the
Magic

Potato - S. William Shaw

 Ideals in Youth -
Cormac Burke

 Searching

for
and
Maintaining
Peace:

A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart - Fr. Jacques Philippe

 Time

for
God
-
Jacques

Philippe

 Interior

Freedom - Jacques Philippe

 The

Dark
River
-
John

Twelve Hawks

 Twisted

- Laurie Halse Anderson

 Darkwing

- Kenneth Oppel

Most Influential Books 2006

 Amazing

Church:
A
Catholic
Theologian

Remembers a Half-Cenury of Change - Gregory Baum

 In

Conversation
With
God:
Vol.

#1 Advent and Christmastide - Francis Fernandez

 The
Way of the Cross - Josemaria Escriva

 In

Conversation
With
God
(All

7 Volume's) - Francis Fernandez

 The

Tent - Margaret Atwood

 May

Crowning,
Mass,
and
Merton:

And Other Reasons I Love Being Catholic -  Liz Kelly

Christian Meditation - Joseph Ratzinger

 The

Way - Josemaria Escriva

 The

Forge - Josemaria Escriva

 Furrow

- Josemaria Escriva

 The
Way of The Cross - Pope Benedict XVI

 Who

Am
I?
-
Irma

Zaleski

 God

is
Not
Reasonable
-

Irma Zaleski

 God

Rides
a
Yamaha
-

Kathie Shaidle

 In

Conversation
With
God:
Vol.

#2 Lent & Eastertide - Francis Fernandez

 Waking

the
Dead
-
John

Eldredge

 Guidebook

to
Waking
the
Dead

- John Eldredge

 In

Conversation
With
God:
Vol.

#6 Special Feasts - Francis Fernandez

 In

Conversation
With
God:
Vol.

#3 Ordinary Time Weeks 1-12 - Francis Fernandez

 Plgrimage

and
Exile:
Mother
Marianne

of Molokai - Sister Mary Lawrence Hanley & O.A. Bushnell

 In

Conversation
With
God:
Vol.

#4 Ordinary Time Weeks 13-23 - Francis Fernandez

 The

Unaborted
Socrates
-
Peter

Kreeft

 Jacob the Baker - Noah benShea

 Jacob's Journey - Noah benShea

 Jacob's Ladder - Noah benShea

Teaching Empathy - William J. I'Malley S.J.

 Call

Him
Father
-
Edward

G. Maristany

 Loving

the
Holy
Mass
-

Edward G. Maristany

 In

Conversation
With
God:
Vol.

#5 Ordinary Time Weeks 24-34 - Francis Fernandez

 In

Conversation
With
God:
Vol.

#7 Special Feasts July - December - Francis Fernandez

 Life

After
God
-
Douglas

Coupland

Most Influential Books 2005

 Infected

Christianity:
A
Modern
Study

of Racism - Alan Davies

 Waking

the
Dead
-
John

Eldredge

 Life After God - Douglas Coupland

 Red:

Passion
and
Patience
in

the Desert - Terry Tempest Williams

 Hominids

- Robert J. Sawyer

 With

Bound
Hands:
Alfred
Delp

A Jesuit in Nazi Germany - MF Coady

 Orphanage

- Robert Buettner

A Jewish Doctor in Auschwitz - Sima Vaisman

 Refuge

An
Unnatural
History
-

Terry Tempest Williams

 Waking

the
Dead
Guidebook
-

John Eldredge

 Jacob the Baker - Noah benShea

 Jacob's Journey - Noah benShea

 Jacob's Ladder - Noah benShea

Traveler

- John Twelve Hawks

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

Night - Elie Wiesel

Dead Man Walking - Sr. Helen Prejean

 Weight

- Jeanette Winterson

 The

Skull
Measurer's
Mistake
-

Sven Lindqvist

 A

Holy Meal: The Lord's Supper in the Life of the Church - Gordon T. Smith

Most Influential Books 2004

 Waking the Dead - John Eldredge

 Invisible Monsters -
Chuck Palahniuk

 Life After God - Douglas Coupland

 Bodybuilding 101 - Robert
Wolff

 Messenger - Lois Lowry

 Wizard of EarthSea - Ursula K. LeGuin

 The Cousels of Cormac -
Trans. Thomas Cleary

 Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk

 Holes - Louis Sachar

 God and I broke Up - Katrina Mazetti

 Hank ZipZer (whole
Series)- Henry Winkler

 Ish ..., The Dot - Peter
H. Renyolds

 Bench Press - Sven Lindqvist

 The Painted Bird - Jerzy
Kosinski

 Sleeping with Bread -
Linns & Linns

 Most
Influential Books 2003

 Wild @ Heart - John Eldredge

 Waking the Dead - John Eldredge

 A prayer for Owen Meany -
John Irving

Jacob the Baker - Noah benShea

 Jacob's Journey - Noah benShea

 Jacob's Ladder - Noah benShea

 The Devil and Miss Prym -
Paulo Coelho

 As you Think - James Allen

 The Story of B - Daniel Quinn

 The Navigator - Robert D.
Foster

 Heart Speaks to Heart -
Henri J.M. Nouwen

 Mentoring - Edward C.
Sellner

 Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry

 Stardust - Neil Gaimen

 Being There - Jerzy
Kosinski

 Hana's Suitcase - Karen
levine

 Blue Like Jazz - Donald
Miller

 Autumn Lightening - Dave
Lowry

 Most
Influential Books 2002

 The Fools of Chelm -
Isaac Bashevis Singer

 As you Think - James Allen

 No Great Mischief -
Alistair MacLeod

 Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson

 Tribes - Arthur Slade

 The Way of Repentance - Irma Zaleski

 The Tale of the Unknown
Island - Jose Saramago

 Ishmael - Daniel Quinn

 The Boy Who Cried Abba -
Brennan Manning

 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

 My Ishmael - Daniel Quinn

 The Fifth Mountain -
Paulo Coelho

 The Story of B - Daniel Quinn

 Morrie in His own Words -
Morrie Schwartz

 The Pilgramage - Paulo
Coelho

 A Scientific Romance -
Ronals Wright

 Love in the Tme of
Cholera -Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 Of Love and Other Demons
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 Meditations - Marcus
Aurelius

 A Single Shard - Linda
Sue Park

 Mentoring - Edward C.
Sellner

 TNIV - Today's New
International Version

Most Influential Books 2001

 The Paul Quest - Ben Witherington III

 Jacob the Baker - Noah benShea

 Jacob's Journey - Noah benShea

 Jacob's Ladder - Noah benShea

 Magic Cup - Andrew M.
Greeley

 Way of the Peaceful Warrior - Dan Millman

 The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari - Robin S. Sharma

 Phule Me Twice - Robert
Asprin

 Body for Life - Bill Phillips

 The Giver - Lois Lowry

 Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay

 LOTR - J.R.R. Tolien

 NIV - New International
Version

Most Influential Books 2000

 Sky Stone - Jack Whyte

 Slverwing - Kenneth Oppel

 View from a Monastery -
Brother Benet Tvedten

 Starship Troopers -
Robert A. Heinlein

 Angela Ashes - Frank
McCourt

 Duncton Rising - William
Horwood

 Girl Interupted - Susana
Kaysen

Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life -
Donald S. Whitney

The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester

 Byzantium - Stephen R. Lawhead

 NAB - New American Bible

Most Influential Books 1999

 Dead Man Walking - Sister Helen Prejen

 Edge of Eternity - Randy
Alcorn

 The Jesuit Mystique - Letson & Higgins

 Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt

 Figgs & Phantoms -
Ellen Raskin

 Wiard of Earthsea - Ursula K. LeGuin

 The AlwaysPrayer Shawl -Sheldon Oberman

 The Isis Pedler - Monica
Hughes

 Meeting God in Change -
Stephen D. Eyre

 Anam Cara - John O'Donohue

 The Owl Service - Alan Garner

 Dragon - Steven Brust

 Julies Wolf Pak - Jean
Craighead Geoge

 Nigger of the Narcissus - Joseph Campbell

 A Phule and His Money -
Robert Asprin

 NRSV - New Revised
Standard

 Most
Influential Books 1998

 View from a Bouncy Castle
- Adrian Plass

 The Highland Clans - L.G.
Pine

 Expieriencing God - Henry
T. Blackaby

 Space Trillogy - C.S. Lewis

 An Alien A St. Wilfrid's
- Adrian Plass

 Mariet in Ecstasy - Ron Hansen

 The Crow - Poppy Z. Brite

 Heretic Blood - Michael W. Higgins

 Night Trilogy - Elie Wiesel

 Cloistered Walk -
Kathleen Norris

 The Confessions of St.
Patrick - St. Patrick

 Greater Health God's Way
- Stormie Omartin

 Conjectures of a Guilty
Bystander - Thomas Merton

 How to Get Better Grades - Jenssen & Douglas

 The Closing of the
American Mind - Allan Bloom

Tales

from
a
Magic
Monestary

- Theophane the Monk

 NASB - New American
Standard Bible

 Most
Influential Books 1997

 Angel Light - Andrew M.
Greeley

 The Cost of Commitment -
John White

 Tyranny of the Urgent -
Chales E. Hummell

 Lord of the Dance -
Andrew M. reeley

 A Wrinkle in Time -
Madeleine L'Engle

 Watership Down - Richard
Adams

 God's Armor Bearer - Terry Nance

 The Gravedigger File - Os
Guinness

 Man Born to be King -
Dorthy L. Sayers

 Stress Family Robinson -
Adrian Plass

 Valiant papers - Calvin
Miller

 Putting Away Childish
Things - David A. Seamands

 The Divine Plumbline -
Bruce Thompson

 God's Chosen Fast -
Arthur Wallis

 Gagoyles & Gentlemen
- Orlo Miller

 A Wolf Story - James Bryon Huggins

 Star Bright - Andrew M.
Greeley

 NKJV - New King James
Version

 Most
Influential Books 1996

 The Young Unicorns -
Madeleine L'Engle

 All Else is Bondage - Wei
Wu Wei

 Happy are Those who Mourn
- Andrew M. Greeley

 A Skeleton in God's
Closet - Paul C. Maier

 The Adversary - Mark I.
Bubeck

 Prophet - Frank E. Peretti

 Singer - Calvin Miller

 God Game - Andrew M.
Greeley

 Wolf Song - Robert Busch

 The Reckoning - James Bryon Huggins

 Know Why you Believe -
Paul Little

 Leviathan - James Bryon
Huggins

 NLT - New Living
Translation Bible

 Most
Influential Books 1995

 Joshua - Joseph F. Girzone

 The Lion, The Witch, and
the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

 Eros Redeamed - John White

 Seven Promises of a
Promise Keeper - Various

 Braveheart - Randall
Wallace

 The Reckoning - James Bryon Huggins

 A Wrinkle in Time -
Madeleine L'Engle

 Hand me Another Brick -
Chuck Swindall

 Dinotopia - James Gurney

NIV - New International
Version

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