The readers of JumpingTandem recommended the books on this list. Believe me – there is something for everyone! I’ll add to the list from time to time.
In no particular order:
1.The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver *
2.Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding and Tara McPherson
3.Blue Eyed Devil – Lisa Kleypas
4.Fidelity – Wendell Berry
5.Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – John LeCarre
6.Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (tried, and failed)
7.Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien
8.Anatomy of the Spirit – Carline Myss
9.A New Earth – Eckhart Tolle
10.Life of Pi – Yann Martell *
11.A Pair of Blue Eyes – Thomas Hardy
12.Tess of the D’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy
13.The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
14.The Man In The Iron Mask – Alexandre Dumas
15.Watership Down – Richard Adams
16.Tigana – Guy Gavriel Kay
17.Thorn in My Heart – Liz Curtis Higgs
18.Fair Is The Rose – Liz Curtis Higgs
19.Healing Waters – Nancy Rue and Stephen Arterburn
20.The Stepmother – Carrie Adams
21.Hinds Feet On High Places – Hannah Hurnard *
22.Odd Thomas – Dean Koontz
23.Outlander (series) – Diana Gabaldon
24.Harry Potter (series) – J. K. Rowling
25.Awakening Mercy – Angela Benson
26.The Irrational Season – Madeleine L’Engle
27.Dakota – Kathleen Norris *
28.Team of Rivals – Doris Kearns Goodwin
29.One Basket – Edna Ferber
30.Provenance – Laney Salisbury
31.The 12th Imam – Joel Rosenburg
32.The Giving Tree – Shel Siverstein *
33.Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpra Lahiri
34.The Red Tent – Anita Diamant *
35.Property – Valerie Martin
36.Distant View of a Minaret – Alifa Rifaat
37.The Bookseller of Kabul – Asme Seoerstad
38.Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
39.A Long Obedience in the Same Direction – Eugene Peterson
40.Village School – Miss Read
41.The Christmas Mouse – Miss Read
42.No Holly For Miss Quinn – Miss Read
43.Glittering Images – Susan Howatch
44.The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
45.Not A Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus – Kyle Idleman
46.The Happiness Project – Gretchen Rubin
47.Living Artfully – Sandra Magsamun
48.To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee *
49.Radical – David Platt*
50.The Hunger Games (series) – Suzanne Collins *
51.Beautiful In God’s Eyes – Elizabeth George
52.The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger *
53.Bel Canto – Ann Patchett *
54.On The Occasion Of My Last Afternoon – Kaye Gibbons
55.The Promise – Chaim Potok
56.The Chosen – Chaim Potok
57.Summer of the Monkeys – Wilson Rawls
58.Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri
59.How to Breathe Underwater – Julie Orringer
60.The Forgotten Garden – Kate Morton
61.March – Geraldine Brooks
62.The Help – Kathryn Stockett *
63.Knowledge of the Holy – A. W. Tozer
64.The Rest of God – Mark Buchanan
65.Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
66.State of Wonder – Ann Patchett
67.Peace Like a River – Leif Enger
68.Gilead – Marilynne Robinson *
69.Lying Awake – Mark Salzman
70.Dancing Priest – Glynn Young
71.The Greater Journey – David McCullough
72.Jane of Lantern Hill – L. M. Montgomery
73.One Thousand Gifts – Ann Voskamp *
74.When Wall Flowers Dance – Angela Thomas
75.The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East – Sandy Tolan
76.The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
77.The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (series) – Stieg Larsson *
78.Spying In High Heels – Gemma Halliday
79.Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese *
80.Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading – Nina Sankovitch
81.East of Eden – John Steinbeck
82.The Unlkely Missionary – Dan King *
83.The Glass Castle – Walls
84.The Last American Man – Gilbert
85.A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin
86.All Together in One Place – Elyse Fitzpatrick
87.Captivating – Stasi Eldredge
88.My Wife, My Kids, My God! – David Asbery
89.The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows *
90.The #1 Ladies Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith *
91.Turn of the Screw – Henry James
92.Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
93.Arcadia – Tom Stoppard (play)
94.Vagina Monologues – Eve Ensler (play)
95.A Long Fatal Love Chase – Louisa May Alcott
96.Years of Wonder – Geraldine Brooks
97.Expecting Adam – Martha Beck *
98.To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
99.Peace Like a River – Leif Enger
100.House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
101.Persuasions – Jane Austen
102.Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
103.Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
104.Emma – Jane Austen
105.Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
106.In The Arena – Isobel Kuhn
107.Girl of the Limberlost – Gene Stratton-Porter
108.An Altar in the World – Barbara Brown Taylor*
109. Leaving Church – Barbara Brown Taylor*
110.Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith – Kathleen Norris*
111.The Reason For God – Tim Keller*
112.Everything – Mary DeMuth*
113.Secrets of the Vine – Bruce Wilkinson*
114.You’re Already Amazing – Holley Gerth*
115.Bossypants – Tina Fey*
116.7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess – Jen Hatmaker*
117.Amazing Grace – Kathleen Norris*
118.You’re Made For A God-Sized Dream – Holley Gerth*
119.Zora and Nicky: A Novel in Black and White – Claudia Mair Burney*
*books I’ve read
