Book Notes

        Here's a list of some of my favorite books. It's a work-in-progress...

Good Reads
  • The Gift: Cecilia Ahern
  • Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series by Ann Brashares
  • Crazy Love: Francis Chan
  • Stranger in the House of God: John Koessler
  • Searching For God Knows What: Donald Miller
  • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: Donald Miller
  • The Problem of Pain: C.S. Lewis
Books God has used in a big way
  • Heaven: Randy Alcorn
  • Forgotten God: Francis Chan
  • Gospel In Life: Tim Keller
  • Mere Christianity: C.S. Lewis
  • Closer Than Your Skin: Susan D. Miller
  • Cold Tangerines:  Shauna Niequiest
For Women:
  • Calm My Anxious Heart: Linda Dillow
  • Passion and Purity: Elisabeth Elliot (Pre-marriage focus)
  • Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World: Joanna Weaver
  • 1000 Gifts -Ann Voskamp
     

Relational/Counseling~ Helping Related
  • Changes that Heal: Henry Cloud
  • How People Change: Timothy Lane & Paul Tripp
  • Relationships: A Mess Worth Making: Paul Tripp

Educational/    Advocacy/   Adoption

  • Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew : Sherri Eldridge
  • Any book by Jonathon Kozol
  • Rules: Cynthia Lord
  • Orphanology: Tony Merida
  • Castaway Kid: r.b. Mitchell

 Fun Kids’ Books
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Roald Dahl
  • A Wrinkle in Time and other Madeleine L’Engle books
  • Freckle Juice: Judy Blume
  • The Pain and the Great One: Judy Blume
  • The One in the Middle is the Green Kangeroo: Judy Blume
  • Any Book by E.L. Konigsburg, especially From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and A View From Saturday
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins: Scott O'Dell
  • Boxcar Children series: Gertrude Chandler Warner