Library
Beloved Books
Come sit with me awhile.
Literature, history, art, philosophy, faith, beautiful children’s books, and other books that have mattered.
Pulled from the shelves.
These are not recommendations so much as companions — the volumes I find myself returning to, lending, and thinking with.
Faith beside fiction. Children’s stories beside the old epics. Each one has made the world a little more beautiful.
Faith
Book of Mormon
The Robe
Lloyd C. Douglas
Lloyd C. Douglas
The Hiding Place
Corrie ten Boom
Corrie ten Boom
A Train to Potevka
Mike Ramsdell
Mike Ramsdell
The Screwtape Letters
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
Keepers of the Covenant
Lynn Austin
Lynn Austin
Look unto Christ in Every Thought
Dr. Dennis R. Deaton
Dr. Dennis R. Deaton
The Bronze Bow
Elizabeth George Speare
Elizabeth George Speare
Newbery Medal
Stories
Theo of Golden
Allen Levi
Allen Levi
The Red Tent
Anita Diamant
Anita Diamant
Becoming Mrs. Lewis
Patti Callahan
Patti Callahan
A Girl Called Samson
Amy Harmon
Amy Harmon
When Crickets Cry
Charles Martin
Charles Martin
My Dear Hamilton
Stephanie Dray
Stephanie Dray
Oil and Marble
Stephanie Storey
Stephanie Storey
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
Kristin Hannah
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion
Beth Brower
Beth Brower
A series
Libraries of Hope
A series
With gratitude
Library of Hope literature has been an inspiration to me in seeking goodness, beauty, truth, and God — and in seeing learning as something that forms mind, heart, and soul.
The old books
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
1984
George Orwell
George Orwell
The Odyssey
Homer
Homer
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Stephen Langdon
Stephen Langdon
History
Will in the World
Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt
The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown
Daniel James Brown
The Oxford Inklings
Colin Duriez
Colin Duriez
The Diary of Anne Frank
Anne Frank
Anne Frank
Philosophy
Plato’s Apology
Plato
Plato
The Four Agreements & The Mastery of Love
Don Miguel Ruiz
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis
Jason M. Baxter
Jason M. Baxter
The Untethered Soul
Michael A. Singer
Michael A. Singer
Children’s storybooks
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls
Wilson Rawls
Charlotte’s Web
E. B. White
E. B. White
Newbery Honor
You Are Special
Max Lucado
Max Lucado
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy
Charlie Mackesy
Waterstones Book of the Year and Barnes & Noble Book of the Year, 2019
Always Remember
Charlie Mackesy
Charlie Mackesy
#1 New York Times instant bestseller
What Do You Do with an Idea?
Kobi Yamada
Kobi Yamada
What Do You Do with a Problem?
Kobi Yamada
Kobi Yamada
What Do You Do with a Chance?
Kobi Yamada · Mae Besom
Kobi Yamada · Mae Besom
His Gift
Richard Paul Evans
Richard Paul Evans
Heidi
Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri
The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
Shel Silverstein
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
Lloyd & Karmel Newell
Lloyd & Karmel Newell
The Chronicles of Narnia
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
And his other books for children
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry
Newbery Medal
The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats
Ezra Jack Keats
Caldecott Medal
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Treasures of the Snow
Patricia St. John
Patricia St. John
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
L. M. Montgomery
The aim of all knowledge is, and ever has been, to know the love of God.
— Thomas à Kempis —