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Book List 2022
- * Neighborliness - David Docusen
- * Life of the Beloved - Henri Nouwen
- * The Hero and the Crown - Robin McKinley
- * Emotionally Healthy Spirituality - Peter Scazzero
- * The Idle Beekeeper - Bill Anderson
- * God's Grace In Your Suffering - David Powlison
- * Dear White Peacemakers - Osheta Moore
- * Gentle and Lowly - Dane Ortlund
- * Splendid and the Vile - Eric Larson
Book List 2021 (* means recommended)
- * Prayers from the Heart - Richard Foster
- * Garden City - John Mark Comer
- * The First 90 Days - Michael D. Watkins
- * Beyond Loneliness - Trevor Hudson
- * How To Be An Anti-Racist - Ibram X. Kendi
- * The Deeply Formed Life - Rich Villados
- ** The Divine Conspiracy - Dallas Willard
- * With All Your Heart - Craig Troxel
- ** Talking To Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell
- * Whiteout - Ken Follett
- * The Evening and the Morning - Ken Follett
- * Journey with Jesus - Larry Walker
- * The Power to Bless - Alan Wright
- ** A Failure of Nerve - Edward H. Friedman
- The Throne of Fire - Rick Riordan
- * The Beautiful Community - Irwyn Ince
- * The red Pyramid - Rick Riordan
- * Beauty of the Cross - Tim Chester
- ** The Murmur of Bees - Sofia Segovia
- * Adulting 101 - Josh Burnette and Pete Hardesty and
- * Rooted - Raymond Cannata and Joshua Teitano
- * Children of Blood and Bone - Toni Adeyemi
- * Storypole Legends - Emerson Matson
- ** My Utmost for His Highest - Oswald Chambers
Books of 2020 (* means recommended)
- * Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi
- * the Black Pearl - Scott O'Dell
- * Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
- * Catalyst for Change - John Bost
- * The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- * The Inward Jounrey - Howard Thurman
- * The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
- * The Negotiators Toolbox - Heribert von Feilitzsch
- * The Speed of Trust - Stephen M.R. Covey
- * the Gift of Being Yourself - David Benner
- Wizard's First Rule - Terry Goodkind
- * Oh Fix Me - Dr. Anthony Jones Jr.
- ** Jesus and the Disinherited - Howard Thurman
- * Mindset - Dr. Carol Dweck
- * Dream Big - Bob Goff
- ** Together - Dr. Vivek Murthy
- * Overstory - Richard Powers
- * The Mystery of Marriage - Mike Mason
- * The Why Cafe - John Strelecky
- * Life Together - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- * The Very Good Gospel - Lisa Sharon Harper
- * All Blood Runs Red - The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard - Phil Keith and Tom Clavin
- * Jesus, My Father, the CIA and Me - Ian Cron
- * The Future is Faster than you Think - Peter Diamandis and Steve Kotler
- * The Power of a Humble Life - Richard Simmons
- * The Yadkin Melting Pot - Larry Tise
- * The Purpose Linked Organization - Alaina Love
- *Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
- Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
Books of 2019 (* means recommended)
- ** Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Stone Cold - David Baldacci
- * I Claudius - Robert Graves
- * Shakespeare - The World as Stage - Bill Bryson
- * Benjamin Ashwood - AC Coble
- * Leadership in Turbulent Times - Doris Kearns Goodwin
- ** Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
- In Shock - Dr. Rana Awdish
- ** On the Brink of Everything - Parker Palmer
- The Book of Fate - Brad Meltzer
- * Bread and Wine - Shauna Niequist
- * Ready Player One - Earnest Cline
- * 7 Lessons from Heaven - Dr. Mary Neal
- * Simply Jesus - N.T. Wright
- * Hope for the Flowers - Trina Paulus
- ** The Autobiography of Dr. Martin Luther King
- * Simply Christianity - N.T. Wright
- * Redwall - Brian Jacques
- * Pirate Latitudes - Michael Crichton
- * The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
- ** When the Heart Waits - Sue Monk Kidd
- * Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
Books of 2018 (* means recommended)
- ** Trust in the Age of Arrogance - FitzSimons Allison
- Dare to Lead - Brene Brown
- Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
- * Truly, Madly, Guilty - Liane Moriarty
- * Fear, Love and Worship - Fitzsimmons Allison
- The Mysterious Affiar at Styles - Agatha Christie
- * Botany of Desire - Michael Pollan
- * John Adams - David McCullough
- * Crazy Rich Asians- Kevin Kwan
- * Purpose Driven Life - Rick Warren
- * Grace (Eventually) - Anne Lamotte
- * The EQ Edge - Steven Stein, Howard Book
- * Ben Franklin - Walter Isaacson
- Twilight - Stephanie Myers
- * Everybody, Always - Bob Goff
- * The Afghan - Frederick Forsyth
- * Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson
- * Change We Can Believe In - Barack Obaama
- * The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman
- * Defining Decade - Meg Jay
- * Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
- * Barking at the Choir - Gregory Boyle
- * The Way of Kings - Brian Sanderson
- * True Self False Self - Basil Pennington
- * The Golden Ocean - Patrick O'brian
- * The Gospel-Centered Life at Work - Rob Alexander
- * It Worked for Me - Colin Powell
- Practices of Love - David Kyle Bennett
- * Self to Lose. Self to Find - Marilyn Vancil
- * Zorro - Isabel Allende
- ** The Gift of Being Yourself - David Benner
- * Wonder - R.J. Palacio
Books of 2017 (*means recommended)
- * The Road to Character - David Brooks
- * The Incredible Journey - Sheila Burnford
- Iron House - John Hart
- * When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
- Inferno - Dan Brown
- * Five for the First Five - Allison McWilliams
- * Tattoos on the Heart - Greg Boyle
- Valley of Horses - Jean Auel
- * Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean Auel
- * The Road Back to You - Ian Morgan Cron & Suzanne Stabile
- Emotional Intelligence 2.0 - Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves
- * The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
- * South of Broad - Pat Conroy
- ** A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towels
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - John Tiffany and Jack Thorne
- * The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
- * A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engel
- * The Worst Class Trip Ever - Dave Barry
- * The Maytrees - Annie Dillard
- * Creativity, Inc. - Ed Catmull
- * Insane City - Dave Barry
- * Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- ** The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe
- * Hondo - Louis L'Amour
- * The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking
- * The Life and Adventures of Jack Engle - Walt Whitman
- * A Man Called Ove - Fredrick Backman
- * 1776 - David McCullough
- ** Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
- * Moneyball - Michael Lewis
- * SALT: A World History - Mark Kurlansky
- * Chop Wood, Carry Water - Joshua Medcalf
- * Stepping Up - David Rainey
- Serafina and the Black Cloak - Robert Beatty
- ** Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
- The Last Olympian - Rick Riordan
- * Present over Perfect - Shauna Niequist
- * Some Do Care - Anne Colby and William Damon
- * Our Kids - Richard Putnam
- * You are What You Love - James K.A, Smith
- The Battle of the Labyrinth - Richard Riordan
- * Perfect - John Wagner
Book List 2016 *means recommended
- * Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- * Cure for the Common Life - Max Lucado
- * How Will You Measure Your Life? - Clay Christensen
- * Life's Golden Ticket - Brendon Burchard
- Strong and Weak - Andy Crouch
- * The Happiness Advantage - Shawn Achor
- Doing Good is Simple - Chris Marlow
- * Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown
- * Travels with Charlie - John Steinbeck
- The Red Pony - John Steinbeck
- * Deliverance - James Dickey
- Me Before You - JoJo Moyes
- The Lightning Thief - Richard Riordan
- The One Thing - Gary Keller
- * The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories - Dorothy Sayers
- Epic - John Eldridge
- * Visions of Vocation - Steve Garber
- * Telling the Truth - Frederick Buechner
- ** The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom
- * Desiring the Kingdom - James K. A. Smith
- * The Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
- * Praus - Hunter Lambeth
- * Quiet - Susan Cain
- * Every Good Endeavor - Tim Keller
- * Within the Walled City - Ginny Evans
- * The Half-Blood Prince - JK Rowling
Book List 2015 (* means recommended)
- Rising Strong - Brene Brown
- Order of the Phoenix - J.K.Rowling
- * The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
- * The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
- * The Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
- * King's Cross - Tim Keller
- * Being Mortal - Arul Gawande
- * Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
- * The Prisoner of Azkhaban - J.K.Rowling
- * The Chamber of secrets - J.K. Rowling
- * All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
- The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
- * The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- * Learning to Walk in the Dark - Barbara Brown Taylor
- ** Let Your Life Speak - Parker Palmer
- * The Practice of the Presence of God - Brother Lawrence
- * The Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling
- * Life of the Beloved - Henri Nouwen
- * Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
- Chasing Francis - Ian Morgan Cron
- * Better - Atul Gawande
- * The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
- Seven Longings of the Human Heart - Mike Bickle and Deborah Hiebert
- ** Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
Book List 2014 (*means recommended)
- Invited - Roger Wernette
- * The Gilded Leaf - Patrick Reynolds and Tom Shachtman
- The Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Nietzsche
- * Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain
- ** Daring Greatly - Brene Brown
- Spiritual Rhythms in Community - Keith Meyer
- Letters to a Young Life Leader - Bob Mitchell
- ** David v. Goliath - Macolm Gladwell
- * Searching for God Knows What - Donald Miller
- * Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
- Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
- * Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning
- *I am Malala - Malala Yousafzai
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- * It's Always Something - Gilda Radner
- ** Silas Marner - George Eliot
- A Loving Life - Paul E. Miller
- * Susan Butcher and the Iditarod Trail - Ellen M. Dolan
- * Walking with Arthur - Jim O'Donnell
- *Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
- *Younger Next Year - Chris Crowley and Henry Lodge
- When Your Neighbor is the Savior - Botrus Mansour
- *Speaking of Jesus - Carl Madearis
- 7 - Jen Hatmaker
Book List 2013 * means recommended
- The Mystic Arts of the Ninja - Stephen K. Hayes
- * In the Name of Jesus - Henri J.M. Nouwen
- The Wayward Bus - John Steinbeck
- * The Road - Cormac McCarthy
- Parenting with Love and Logic - Foster Cline and Jim Fay
- Wisdom Chaser - Nathan Foster
- The Wapshot Chronicle - John Cheever
- Sensing Jesus - Zack Eswine
- * Unbroken - Lauren Hillenbrand
- Paper Towns - John Green
- Surfing for God - Michael John Cusick
- * The Autobiography of Sir Edmund Hillary
- * Palestinian Memories - Alex Awad
- * Winnie The Pooh - A.A. Milne
- * Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- * Jeruslam - Simon Montefiore
- Luck of the Draw - Jack Tupper Daniels
- * The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
- Diaries of Jim Rayburn - edited by Kit Sublett
- ** Don Quixote - Cervantes
- * Love Does - Bob Goff
Book List 2012 * means recommended
- Messy Spirituality - Michael Yaconelli
- ** Jayber Crow - Wendell Berry
- * Memory of Old Jack - Wendell Berry
- * The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
- * Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
- * What the Dog Saw - Malcolm Gladwell
- * Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy
- Shift - Brian Haynes
- * Shrewd - Rick Lawrence
- The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
- ** Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
- Mary Pipher - Writing to Change the World
- ** The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
- Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
- ** Shane - Jack Schaefer
- Humilitas - John Dickson
- Chasing Fire - Suzanne Collins
- * Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
- * One Thousand Gifts - Ann Voskamp
- The Afghan - Frederick Forsyth
- * Story - Robert McKee
- * Sifted - Rick Lawrence
- The Lone Star Ranger - Zane Grey
Book List 2011 (In upside-down reading order) * highly recommended (I recommend them all!)
- * Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey
- * Little Bee - Chris Cleave
- What is the Mission of the Church? - Kevin DeYoung and Gary Gilbert
- * The Destiny of the Republic - Candice Millard
- Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
- The Testament - John Grisham
- * Born to Run - Christopher McDougall
- A Slight Trick of the Mind - Mitch Cullin
- * The View from Saturday - E.L. Konigsburg
- * Dangerous Wonder - Michael Yaconelli
- Miracles on Maple Hill - Virginia Sorensen
- * A Year Down Yonder - Richard Peck
- * The Higher Power of Lucky - Susan Patron
- Criss Cross - Lynn Rae Perkins
- * River of Doubt - Candice Millard
- * The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
- Rabbit Hill - Robert Lawson
- * The Man Who Was Thursday - GK Chesterton
- * Holes - Louis Sachar
- Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon - Dhan Gopal Mukerji
- * The Giver - Lois Lowry
- * The Twenty-One Balloons - William Pene du Bois
Book List 2010 (In upside-down reading order) * means recommended
- * Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
- Many Waters - Madeleine L'Engle
- The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
- * Radical - David Platt
- Tea with Hezbollah - Ted Dekker and Carl Medearis
- The Poor Will Be Glad - Paul Greer & Phil Smith
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
- Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
- * Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
- * The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
- * Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
- Gentlemen of the Road - Michael Chabon
- * Sinbad and other stories from the Arabian Nights - Husain Haddawy
- **The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
- * A Praying Life - Paul E. Miller
- Orient Express - Graham Greene
- A Long Obedience in the Same Direction - Eugene Peterson
- * Breaking the Rules - Fil Anderson
- **All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
- Berenice - Ruth Jordan
- Culture Clash - Dr. Mark A. Gabriel
- * Open - Andre Agassi
- * The King Will Make a Way - Lee Giles (My Sister)
- * Home - Marilynne Robinson
- * China Road - Rob Gifford
Book List 2009 (In upside-down reading order) *means recommended
- *Baudolino - Umberto Eco
- *The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
- *A Single Shard - Linda Sue Park
- *Illuminated - Matt Bronleewe
- *The Furious Longing of God - Brennan Manning
- *Walden - Henry David Thoreau
- Two for the Dough - Janet Evanovich
- *A Long and Happy Life - Reynolds Price
- *Cup of Gold - John Steinbeck
- One for the Money - Janet Evanovich
- 8 Modern Essayists - compiled by William Smart
- Wicked - Gregory Maguire
- The Copper Scroll - Joel Rosenberg
- The Trumpet of the Swan - E.B. White
- *Prodigal God - Tim Keller
- *Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
- Westminster Confession of Faith
- *A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
- American Lion - John Meacham
- *Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
- Operating Instructions - Ann Lamott
Book List 2008 (In upside-down reading order) *recommended
- *A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- *King of Lies - John Hart
- Trevayne - Robert Ludlum
- God's Gold - Sean Kingsley
- The Walking Drum - Louis L'amour
- Wild at Heart - John Eldridge
- The Sign and the Seal - Graham Hancock
- *The Shack - William P. Young
- *Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortnenson and David Oliver Relin
- Playing for Pizza - John Grisham
- Maybe a Miracle - Brian Strauss
- *Prydain Chronicles - Lloyd Alexander
- Samson and the Pirate Monks - Nate Larkin
- *Mountains Beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder
- Teeth of the Tiger - Tom Clancy
- *Second Coming - Walker Percy
- *Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
- **Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
- Come to Grief - Dick Francis
- *On Writing - Steven King
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We got to hear a "sing" after all:)
We got to hear a "sing" after all:)
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