Here are some books I’ve read and highly recommend. Maybe you will find a few new favorites for yourself!
(The ones with an asterisk may contain some language and/or situations that are more for the general market than the Christian market.)
Fiction The Book Thief* - Markus Zusak All the Light We Cannot See* - Anthony Doerr The Nightingale* - Kristin Hannah The Great Alone* - Kristin Hannah The Four Winds* - Kristin Hannah We Were the Lucky Ones* - Georgia Hunter The White Rose Resists - Amanda Barratt The Invention of Wings* - Sue Monk Kidd The Mitford Years Series - Jan Karon Bathed in Prayer - Jan Karon The Seamstress - Allison Pittman Tidewater Bride - Laura Frantz An Uncommon Woman - Laura Frantz A Moonbow Night - Laura Frantz The Lacemaker - by Laura Frantz The Ballantyne Legacy Series - by Laura Frantz Whose Waves These Are - Amanda Dykes Set the Stars Alight - Amanda Dykes Heroines Behind the Lines Series - Jocelyn Green The Mark of the King - Jocelyn Green A Refuge Assured - Jocelyn Green Between Two Shores - Jocelyn Green The Help* - Kathryn Stockett Before We Were Yours - Lisa Wingate The Book of Lost Friends - Lisa Wingate 11/22/63* - Stephen King The Traitor's Wife* - Allison Pataki The Underground Railroad* - Colson Whitehead All Manner of Things - Susie Finkbeiner Stories That Bind Us - Susie Finkbeiner Into the Free - Julie Cantrell Perennials - Julie Cantrell Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens When Crickets Cry - Charles Martin The Mountain Between Us - Charles Martin Send Down the Rain - Charles Martin The Butterfly and the Violin - Kristy Cambron A Sparrow in Terezin - Kristy Cambron Castle on the Rise - Kristy Cambron The Girl From the Train - Irma Joubert The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn - Lori Benton Many Sparrows - Lori Benton The King's Mercy - Lori Benton Mountain Laurel - Lori Benton When the Heart Sings - Liz Tolsma The Lady and the Lionheart - Joanne Bischof Redeeming Love - Francine Rivers The Preacher’s Bride - Jody Hedlund Unending Devotion - Jody Hedlund The Noble Groom - Jody Hedlund Luther and Katharina - Jody Hedlund Newton and Polly - Jody Hedlund The Shape of Mercy - Susan Meissner Lady in Waiting - Susan Meissner A Fall of Marigolds - Susan Meissner Secrets of a Charmed Life* - Susan Meissner Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine* - Gail Honeyman Freedom's Ring - Heidi Chiavaroli Words - Ginny Yttrup Christy - Catherine Marshall Julie -Catherine Marshall You Were Always Mine* - Nicole Baart High As the Heavens - Kate Breslin The Language of Flowers* - Vanessa Diffenbaugh Hidden Among the Stars - Melanie Dobson Chasing Lilacs - Carla Stewart Stardust - Carla Stewart The Hatmaker's Heart - Carla Stewart A Flying Affair - Carla Stewart Crossing Oceans - Gina Holmes To Whisper Her Name - Tamera Alexander This Fine Life - Eva Marie Everson Defiance Texas Triology - Mary DeMuth A Simple Amish Christmas - Vanetta Chapman Left Behind Series - Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye The Restoration Series - Terri Blackstock A Prairie Christmas Collection - Barbour Publishing The Hunger Game Series* - Suzanne Collins The Pawn - Stephen James Life After - Katie Ganshert Nonfiction Unbroken* - Laura Hillenbrand Sea Biscuit* - Laura Hillenbrand One Thousand Gifts - Ann Voskamp The Broken Way - Ann Voskamp The Greatest Gift - Ann Voskamp Love Does - Bob Goff Everybody Always - Bob Goff Live in Grace, Walk in Love - Bob Goff The Organic God - Margaret Feinberg Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World - Michael Hyatt So Long Insecurity - Beth Moore Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller Traveling Mercies* - Anne Lamott Grace Eventually* - Anne Lamott Plan B* - Anne Lamott Gifted Hands - Ben Carson and Cecil Murphey Jesus Calling - Sarah Young Grace for the Moment - Max Lucado Voices of the Faithful - Beth Moore & Friends Designed for Devotion - Dianne N. Matthews Beyond the Scars - F. Elaine Olsen Prayers for a Woman's Soul - Julie K. Gillies From Hot Mess to Blessed - Julie K. Gillies Uninvited - Lysa TerKeurst Whisper - Mark Batterson Hope Your Heart Needs - Holley Gerth Memoir The Glass Castle* - Jeanette Walls Same Kind of Different as Me - Ron Hall, Denver Moore, and Lynn Vincent Spoken From the Heart - Laura Bush I Can Only Imagine - Bart Millard with Robert Noland 90 Minutes in Heaven - Don Piper and Cecil Murphey Terror by Night - Terry Caffey and James H. Pence Running for My Life - Lopez Lomong Choosing to See - Mary Beth Chapman with Ellen Vaughn Between Heaven and the Real World - Steven Curtis Chapman with Ken Abraham The Year of Magical Thinking* - Joan Didion Classics Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Little Women - Louisa May Alcott Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery Christy - Catherine Marshall For Writers On Writing* - Stephen King Bird by Bird* - Anne Lamott The Art of Slow Writing - Louise DeSalvo Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World - Michael Hyatt Unleash the Writer Within - Cecil Murphey Writing for the Soul - Jerry Jenkins Write Your Heart Out - Rebecca McClanahan Word Painting - Rebecca McClanahan The Writer’s Workout - Christina Katz On Writing Well - William Zinsser Stein on Writing - Sol Stein Write Tight - William Brohaugh The First Five Pages - Noah Lukeman The Elements of Style - William Strunk, Jr.
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