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
8 comments:
Good idea. I haven't read N.T. for several years, and this is a fairly recent list. Hmmm...
But anyway, he'd be in the list below (which I haven't really started yet).
Good list except for Tess of the D'Urbervilles. It was a brutal and unrelentingly atrocious read during my high school days.
Catherine,
I have not been able to continue reading Tess...I started Jude...yikes...I do not think I share your love for these books...they may be returned to you unread in full.
Catherine--
I figured your book list blog was a good way to answer your query regarding Eragon. Let me put it this way: Paolini is a good storyteller. He creates a fantastic world that hints at the influence of classic authors like Tolkien while making it quite distinct. That said, he is not a brilliant writer. His sentences are short and often seem hacked and he fails to create the sense of majesty or alienness of an environment the way Tolkien does with his descriptions of Minas Tirith and the Dead Swamps respectively. If you want a good story, read Eragon. Just don't expect to get the same joy you get out of something so juvenile as the Harry Potter series (which I love).
Secondly, a question for you:
I have a new post on my blog asking for classic book recommendations. Please drop by, as you seem to be a great resource to answer my need.
Far from giving you more ideas I think I'm here to nab some. I instinctively trust the taste of a fellow C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Madeleine L'Engle and Orson Scott Card fan. I also love Anna Karenina and Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Oh, and The Princess Bride! So differently lovely from the movie.
I'd highly recommend Terry Pratchett. Fabulously funny yet deeply thought provoking.
u have got a lot of classical texts there! by any chance are you classy?
Loved reading all these suggestions. Has anyone read "When We Get There" by Shauna Seliy? It's new, out this month. I loved it! Beautiful story, talented new writer.
Hi Catherine, I remember you asked for book recommendations few weeks (months?) ago. I'm not sure if you still need more ideas, but I think you would enjoy
Kahlil Gibran - so far I only read The Prophet and want to quote nearly every line from that book
and
The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
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