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2 recent favorites – 1) Kisses From Katie – best book I’ve read in a very long time, and 2) A Confident Heart by Renee Swope – very challenging!!
A new author I found and really like is Roseanna White – A Stray Drop of Blood…hard to put down!!
Enjoy!!!
My recommendations aren’t for books released this past year, sorry.
I don’t get around to fiction much, but I love Chris Fabry’s books. I liked Dogwood more than June Bug & haven’t gotten to the more recent one.
One of my all time favorites is by Susie Larson, The Uncommon Woman. Chockfull of Scriptural truths.
This book is a new book–Prayers for Today by Kurt Björklund. Wow!! I never thought I’d like a book of written prayers, but the author’s intro really opened my eyes to how to use the book & it’s changed my prayer life. I don’t feel like now I’m just bringing God a laundry list. And I look forward to each day’s prayers.
An older book I got from the library, I ended up ordering it from amazon, Praying God’s Promises for My Child by Linda Taylor. I love how it’s a little devotional, a teaching & scripture & just about every time I learn something reading it. It’s a nice small book.
And of course, One Thousand Gifts. Just so much to soak in, it’s taking me a while to get through it.
I feel like I’m forgetting one. Or some.
Kelly, thank you for the great list. I have to say that Calm My Anxious Heart by Linda Dillow changed my walk with God. So of course, I would say move that book to now on the list, not September.
Here are some of the ones on my wishlist:
Going Deep: Becoming A Person of Influence
by Gordon MacDonald
Finite and Infinite Games
by James Carse
The Power of Flow: Practical Ways to Transform Your Life with Meaningful Coincidence
by Meg Lundstrom
Grace for the Good Girl
by Emily Freeman
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
by Jon Ronson
Give Your Kids the Keys: Navigating Your Child to a Personal and Sustainable Faith
by Adam Stadtmiller (Paperback)
Nobody Told Me: What You Need to Know About the Physical and Emotional Consequences of Sex Outside of Marriage
by Pam Stenzel (Paperback)
The Twelve Sacred Traditions of Magnificent Mothers-in-Law
by Haywood Smith
Their Last Suppers: Legends of History and Their Final Meals
by Caldwell Andrew
The Jefferson Key: A Novel
by Steve Berry
Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God
by John Piper
Hungry for God: Hearing God’s Voice in the Ordinary and the Everyday
by Margaret Feinberg
WEIRD: Because Normal Isn’t Working
by Craig Groeschel
Love this list! I will add these. I need to get hoofing on my reading now!
You MUST read Glass Girl by Laura Anderson Kirk. Quick read, amazing fiction book! Radical is awesome, and also Crazy Love.
Hi Kelly,
Do you have any daily devotional books that you would recommend? You recommended one last year and I got through it all and loved it. It was Take My Heart, Oh God: Riches from the Greatest Christian Women Writers of All Time. I would love to start another one this year.
Thanks so much for all you do! Also, for posting all the free kindle books! I have read several and they were so hard to put down.
I read Calm My Anxious Heart as well by Linda Dillow- it was so great and I highly recommend. Also Leota’s Garden by Francine Rivers was a book I absolutely could not put down. I think I read it every chance I got between work and sleep and (you can forget cleaning 🙂 ). I read it within 2-3 days. To Love Anew (Sydney Cove Series) by Bonnie Leon was also a good read. So many books out there to read, so little time 🙂
Thanks so much!
Katie – My two favorites are Jesus Calling by Sarah Young and My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers.
Thank you for the ideas, will have to add them too!
Great- thanks!
Great list- thanks for sharing! I just got a Kindle and absolutely LOVE it… Ive just started my first book and can’t put it down… “Shepherding a Child’s Heart” by Tedd Tripp. I’m going to add several of these to my list- thank you