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