I’m a passionate reader. Always have been. These are books that have had an impact on my life in one way or another. Whether they’re fiction, non-fiction, self-help, or spiritual books, they’ve made an impact on my life and I hope they’ll do the same for you! (Click on the cover images to buy the books from thriftbooks.com)

FICTION

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

Anyone’s Ghost

August Thompson

Razorblade Tears

S.A. Cosby

All the Colors of the Dark

Chris Whitaker

11/22/63

Stephen King

Till We Have Faces

C.S. Lewis

The Night Always Comes

Willy Vlautin

NON-FICTION

RESOURCES

The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott

The 1619 Project

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Careless People

Sarah Wynn-Williams

I’m Still Here

Austin Channing Brown

A People’s History of the United States

Howard Zinn

Devotions

Mary Oliver

SELF-HELP

The Myth of Normal

Gabor Mate

It Didn’t Start With You

Mark Wolynn

Don’t Believe Everything You Think

Joseph Nguyen

Memento Mori

Joanna Ebenstein

When Religion Hurts You

Laura Anderson

Holy Hurt

Hillary McBride

It’s Not You, It’s Everything

Eric Minton

SPIRITUALITY

Searching for Sunday

Rachel Held Evans

Jesus Feminist

Sarah Bessey

Nervous Systems

Sara Billups

Her Gates Will Never Be Shut

Bradley Jersak

The Road Away from God

Jonathan Martin

All is Grace

Brennan Manning

In the Low

Scott Erickson & Justin McRoberts