Books worth reading (or your money back)

Posted on Saturday 6 March 2004

Now remember, I said worth
reading,
not, you are certain to
love.
Maybe you’ll love them; maybe you won’t. But there’s something worth
pondering, worth considering, worth sharing, in each and every one of them. Plus,
reading’s just good for you! Give one or two of them a try, and let me know
what you think by adding your comments below.

Here they are, in no particular order:


  • Telling the Truth : The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and
    Fairy Tale by Frederick Buechner

  • The Wizard’s Tide by Frederick Buechner

  • Son of Laughter by Frederick Buechner

  • An American Childhood by Annie Dillard

  • The Sacred Romance by Brent Curtis and John Eldredge

  • Journey of Desire by John Eldredge

  • A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall

  • Passion and Purity by Elizabeth Elliot

  • The Four Loves by CS Lewis

  • Mere Christianity by CS Lewis

  • Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis

  • The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
  • Acts
    by Larry Woiwode
  • Incarnation
    edited by Alfred Corn

  • Three Philosophies of Life by Peter Kreeft

  • Love is Stronger than Death by Peter Kreeft

  • Between Heaven & Hell by Peter Kreeft

  • A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

  • Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley

  • Young Men and Fire by Norman McLean

  • Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

  • True Notebooks by Mark Salzman

  • Here I Stand/A Life of Martin Luther by Roland H. Bainton
  • Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton
  • Everlasting Man by GK Chesterton
  • The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton

  • Endurance by Ernest Schackleton

  • The Reflective Life by Ken Gire

  • Reflections on the Word by Ken Gire

  • Dear Theo/The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh edited by Irving Stone

  • A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

  • Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster

  • Subversive Spirituality by Eugene Petersen

  • Under the Unpredictable Plant by Eugene Petersen

  • Desiring God by John Piper

  • The Pleasures of God by John Piper

  • Future Grace by John Piper

  • Walking on Water by Madeleine L’Engle

  • The Rock that is Higher by Madeleine L’Engle

  • Oh, the places you’ll go! By Dr. Seuss

  • Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss

  • Charlotte’s Web by EB White
  • Beautiful
    Joe by Marshall Saunders

  • Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

  • The Princess Bride by William Goldman

  • Story by Robert McKee

  • The Miracle of Language by Richard Lederer

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