What are your fave books?

February 26, 2008 Personal

Ever since high school I’ve kept an ongoing mental list of my favorite books. The list has very slowly grown. Half of these are biographical in nature but extremely well-written!

So here’s my general list, in no special order:

A Separate Peace by John Knowles
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black by Lorraine Hansberry
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Color of Water by James McBride
Part of My Soul Went With Him by Winnie Mandela
Paris to The Moon by Adam Gopnik
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

These next are my all-time favorite inspirational, Christian books. I consider these to be “must-haves”!

Let Me Be a Woman by Elisabeth Elliot
These Strange Ashes by Elisabeth Elliot
The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozier
Sit, Walk, Stand by Watchman Nee
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
Humility by Andrew Murray
My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers
The Mystery of Marriage by Mike Mason
The Christian Employee by Robert Mattox
The Bondage Breaker by Neil T. Anderson
If by Amy Carmichael
A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael by Elisabeth Elliot
The Cross and The Switchblade by David Wilkerson
And The Bible (of course!!) this is where I find out all that I need to know……

Can you share some of your favorites? I’d love to hear! If I pick yours, I’ll feature a little something about you on my blog in April!
wendy g

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March 3, 2008 - 10:43 pm allison - Hi, wendy, Long time to no speak to..I need to read the mystery of marriage that looks good.

March 3, 2008 - 10:44 pm allison - Also" let me be a woman by Elizabeth Elliott is a great book. It's written to her daughter on her engagement and it talks about what to do, expect and not in marriage. A great read.

March 3, 2008 - 11:40 pm wendy - Hi Allison, Yeah, those two books are really good. Elisabeth Elliot is actually my favorite author. And she recommends The Mystery of Marriage. Let Me Be A Woman encompasses so, so much. Definitely helpful to her daughter (or anyone contemplating marriage) but also refreshing and substantial for any woman. "In order to learn what it means to be a woman, we must start with the One who made her." Best sentence in the book: "What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the Serpent's offer, and had said to him instead, 'Let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be--let me be a woman.'?" A MUST read! wg

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