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
