These are the books that I see on my bookshelves and highlight when asked which have been most meaningful in my life, in no particular order. I’m not one to listen to audiobooks nor use a Kindle much, so my reading habits are slower than most, my tastes favoring non-fiction works:
Happiness by Randy Alcorn
Heaven by Randy Alcorn
Life Without Lack by Dallas Willard
Weakness is the Way by J.I. Packer
Your Best Life in Jesus’ Easy Yoke by Bill Gaultiere
Streams of Living Water by Richard Foster
60 Love Letters by Larry Crabb
Life of the Beloved by Henri Nouwen
If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
The Pursuit of God by AW Tozer
The Meaning of Marriage by Tim Keller
Growing Strong Daughters by Lisa Graham McMinn
Be Still My Soul by Elisabeth Elliot
Adorning the Dark by Andrew Peterson
The Green Letters by Miles J. Stanford
Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven by James Byran Smith
New Light on the Difficult Words of Jesus by David Bivin
The Preaching Life by Barbara Taylor
Recapture the Wonder by Ravi Zacharious
Ordering Your Private World by Gordan McDonald
Spiritual Depression by D. Martyn-Llyod Jones
True Spirituality by Francis Shaeffer
The Journey of Desire by John Elderidge
The Ultimate Blessing by JoAnne Lyons
Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray
Humility by Andrew Murray
The Wisdom of Tenderness by Brennan Manning
Ruthless Trust by Brennan Manning
The Gift of Being Yourself by David Brenner
Fearless by Max Lucado
No Little People by Francis Schaeffer
The Legacy of a Couple: Ruth & Billy Graham by Hanspeter Nuesch
The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning
For God’s Sake, Rest! by James L. Anderson
A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall (and all her other works of non-fiction, such treasures)
Visioneering by Andy Stanley
The Reflective Life by Ken Gire
Soul Survivor by Philip Yancey
Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis (and of course, the Narnia Chronicles and most everything else)
Wordliness edited by C.J. Mahaney
In Praise of Mortality by Rainer Maria Rilke
A Widening of Light by Luci Shaw
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Lost Women of the Bible and Half the Church by Carolyn Custis James
50 Women Every Christian Should Know by Michelle DeRusha
Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach
The Cruelest Journey by Kira Salak
The Soul of Shame by Curt Thompson
And of course, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, a Little Princess and all those delights from girlhood. And then all the mounds and mounds of children’s books and classics I have read to and with my children, often in place of personal reading through the years.
