Anne Lamott – Bird by Bird, Traveling Mercies, Operating Instructions, Plan B
Brian McClaren – A New Kind of Christian
Shane Claiborne – Irresistible Revolution
Brennan Manning – Anything by him, but especially Ruthless Trust and the Rabbi’s Heartbeat, which you have to read slllooooowly
Henri Nouwen – The Genessee Diary, Road to Daybreak, anything
Fredrich Buechner – Godric, A Room Called Remember and about anything else
C.S. Lewis – Til We Have Faces, Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, random sermon
Ann Kroeker – The Contempletive Mom (this is great for anyone, not just moms) Watch for her new book coming in the next few months
Steve Arterburn (with others) – his Every Man/Every Woman/ Every Heart Restored books are great. He’s also written a new fiction book that I loved: Healing Stones
Francine Rivers – the only one I’ve read of hers is Redeeming Love (see post by the same name). I LOVED this book.
John and Staci Eldridge – Captivating, and my all time favorite Wild at Heart – since I am surrounded by boys. Also The Journey of Desire, which Eldridge wrote w/the late Brent Curtis
Irv Yalom – Love’s Exectutioner
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns
Alan Paton – Cry My Beloved Country
Kaffir Boy (Mark Mathabane?)
Barbara Kingsolver – The Poisonwood Bible (watch out for the Green Mamba Snake)
Beth Booram – The Wide Open Spaces of God
Ken Gire – any of his books are great, but my fav is Windows of the Soul
Donald Miller – Blue Like Jazz and others
Corrie Ten Boom – The Hiding Place
Lauren Winner – Girl Meets God
Rob Bell – Sex God
Melody Beatty – The Language of Letting Go and Codependent No More
Thomas Merton
Addiction and Grace by Gerald May, and A commentary of The Dark Night of the Soul
Phillip Yancey – all of his are awesome but I really liked What’s So Amazing About Grace and Soul Survivor
John Perkins
John Howard Griffin – Black Like Me
Makes Me Wanna Holler
Three Cups of Tea
Jon Krakuer – Into Thin Ai
Jane Eyre
William P. Young – The Shack — this book has totally changed my ideas of God. I love this book. I love the ideas of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. It’s fiction, but I want to believe every word!
Markus Zusak – The Book Thief
Greg Paul – God in the Alley
Mel Levine, M.D. – A Mind at A Time, and They Myth of Laziness
Julia Cameron – the Artist’s Way
Annie Dillard – the Writing Life
Richard Foster – the Celebration of Discipline
Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
Little Women
Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet
Homer – the Odyssey
Jack London – The Call of the Wild
The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
The Distant Land of My Father
Flowers for Algernon
Reviving Ophelia – Mary Pipher
Sherri Reynolds – The Rapture of Caanan
Ibsen – The Doll’s House
Brother Lawrence – the Practice of the Presence of God
Whoa. I’m in powerful company there. Thanks so much for the nod–means a lot coming from a reader/writer/thinker like you!