Instead of a curated, comprehensive list (a daunting, unfinished task many years after beginning the blog), you can find my recommended (or not-so-recommended) reads here in real time, beginning October 2020. (If you want an opinion of said reads, just ask!)
Christian Fiction
– Joanne Bischof: Sons of Blackbird Mountain
– Kristy Cambron: The Paris Dressmaker
– Amanda Dykes: All the Lost Places
– Amanda Dykes: Whose Waves These Are
– Amanda Dykes: Set the Stars Alight
– Amanda Dykes: Yours Is the Night
– Amy Lynn Green: The Lines Between Us
– Julie Klassen: A Castaway in Cornwall
– Miscellaneous (Representative of all the titles I read in two hours or less apiece but are too cringe to list individually. What can I say? ‘Tis the season of small children. Books in this category are good for such a time as this, haha.)
Fiction/Literature/YA:
– Jane Austen: Persuasion
– Esther Forbes: Johnny Tremain*
– James Herriot: All Creatures Great and Small
– James Herriot: All Things Bright and Beautiful
– James Herriot: All Things Wise and Wonderful
– James Herriot: The Lord God Made Them All
– James Herriot: Every Living Thing
– C. S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia
– Madeline Martin: The Last Bookshop in London
– L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables series
– Ann Patchett: The Dutch House
– J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter series (also *)
– Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows: The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
– Kathryn Stockett: The Help
Education/Parenting
– Sally Clarkson: Awaking Wonder – Opening Your Child’s Heart to the Beauty of Learning
– James Dobson: The Strong-Willed Child
– Abbie Halberstadt: M Is for Mama – A Rebellion Against Mediocre Motherhood
– Jason Helopoulos: Let the Children Worship
– Rachel Jankovic: Loving the Little Years: Motherhood in the Trenches
– Sarah Mackenzie: The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections With Your Kids
Life/Spiritual Development
– Gloria Furman: Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full – Gospel Meditations for Busy Moms
– Susan Hunt: Spiritual Mothering: The Titus 2 Model for Women Mentoring Women
– Shona Murray: Refresh – Embracing a Grace-Paced Life in a World of Endless Demands
– Gregory Koukl: Tactics
Church History/Theology/Christian Classics
– A.W. Pink: The Attributes of God
– Samuel Rutherford: The Loveliness of Christ
History/Current Events
– Rod Dreher: Live Not By Lies – A Manual for Christian Dissidents*
– Malcolm Gladwell: The Bomber Mafia*
*audiobook