Not necessarily in any particular order
Books with a “*” indicate that I highly recommend the book
(although I do not necessary not recommend books that are unmarked…)
Anna Karenina – Tolstoy
Harry Potter 7 – JKR
A Thousand Splendid Suns –
Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
His Dark Material (in three volumes) – Philip Pullman
The Vaccine Book – Dr. Sears
No God but God – Reza Aslan
So Much More: An Invitation to Christian Spirituality - Debra Rienstra
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth - Mahatma Gandhi
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress -Dai Sijie
The Bhagavad Gita As It Is - A. C. Prabhupada
The Book of Miracles: The Meaning of the Miracle Stories in Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam - Kenneth L. Woodward
Chocolat - Joanne Harris
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hinduism - Linda Johnsen
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
The Essential Rumi
The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding - Ranya Idliby
Gathering Blue -Lois Lowry
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith - Anne Lamott
Hinduism (Religions of the World) - James B. Robinson
Hinduism: A Short History (Oneworld Short Guides) - Klaus K. Klostermaier
Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion - Stephen Huyler
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
Messenger - Lois Lowry
Midwives - Chris Bohjalian
Opening the Doors of Wonder: Reflections on Religious Rites of Passage - Arthur J. Magida
The Qur’an (in part)
The Ramayana and Mahabharata Condensed into English Verse (in part)
River Teeth - David James Duncan
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Kidd
The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything - Brian McLaren
The Silent Boy - Lois Lowry
Teachings of the Hindu Mystics - Andrew Harvey
Wisdom of the Vedas - J. C. Chatterji
*Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
The Red Tent -by Anita Diamant
*Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
*Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
*A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
*Great With Child - Debra Rienstra
*The Brothers K - David James Duncan
*The River Why - David James Duncan
*River Teeth - David James Duncan
My Life as Told By Water - David James Duncan
*A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
*Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
*To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
*Things as They Are - Amy Carmichael
*Till We Have Faces – C. S. Lewis
*The Four Loves – C. S. Lewis
*Chronicles of Narnia – C. S. Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra; That Hideous Strength – C. S. Lewis
*Wrinkle; Wind; Planet; Waters; - Madeline L'engle
A Live Coral in the Sea - Madeline L'engle
The Young Unicorns – Madeline L’engle
*The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom
*God's Smuggler - Brother Andrew
*A Severe Mercy - Sheldon Vanouken
*Traveling Mercies - Anne Lamott
Plan B - Anne Lamott
*A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
*Lord of the Rings trilogy- JRR Tolkien
*A New Kind Of Christian – Brian McLaren
*The Story We Find Ourselves In - Brian McLaren
*The Last Word and the Word After That – Brian McLaren
*A Generous Orthodoxy - Brian McLaren
*The Secret Message of Jesus - Brian McLaren
*Girl Meets GOD – Lauren Winner
*Mudhouse Sabbath – Lauren Winner
*Walking Home -- Kelly Winters
*The Kite Runner -- Khaled Hosseini
*The Secret life of Bees – Sue Kid Monk
* Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
*The Giver - Lois Lowry
Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry
The Messenger - Lois Lowry
*The Silent Boy - Lois Lowry
*The God of Small Things – Arundati Roy
*Nectar in a Sieve – Kamala Markandaya
*Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
*Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller
*Searching for God knows what - Donald Miller
*Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
Shadow of the Hegemon – Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
*Xenocide – Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind – Orson Scott Card
*The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
*The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan
*Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
*Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
*Yellow Raft on Blue Water – Michael Dorris
*Harry Potter (entire series) - J.K. Rowling
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight - Alexandra Fuller
Because of Winn Dixie – Kate DiCamillo
Arrow of God - Chinua Achebe
Younger Evangelicals - Robert Webber
Blink - Malcome Gladwel
My Name is Acher Lev - Chaim Potuk
*Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
‘Tis – Frank McCourt
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
The Color of Water - James McBride
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemmingway
Girl with a Pearl Necklace - Tracy Chevalier
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
Grapes of Wrath - Steinbach
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
The Samarai's Garden - Gail Sukiama (J
The Small Woman - Gladys Aylward
Crescent - Diana Abu-Jaber
Beneath the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air – Jon Krackauer
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful - Alan Paton
Hinds Feet on High Places – Hannah Hurnard
Jacob Have I Loved – Katharine Patterson
The Bridge to Terabithia – Katharine Patterson
Sound and Fury - Faulkner
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Princess Bride – William Goldman
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Barbara Robinson
The Love Comes Softly Series – Janette Oke
Why the Sky Is Blue – Susan Meissner
The Iron Lance – Stephen Lawhead
