113 Books To Read In 2013

- 2013 Jan 25
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Last week I asked you to tell help me make a list of books I should read in 2013 and your response was overwhelming. Many of you requested I put the list together in one place so you could reference it. Well, here it is! 113 books in all.
I’ll pay you 113 bucks if you can read all 113 of them this year (just kidding. maybe).
Since it would obviously be really time consuming for me to research every book on the list and give a case for why you should read it, I’ve highlighted a few of my favorites. These are books I’ve read and highly recommend, or books I’m planning to read in the next twelve months. Thank you for your suggestions.
As for giving a case for each book, I’ll leave that part to you! Happy reading and commenting.
- Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde
- Imaginary Jesus by Matt Mikalatos
- Grace for the Good Girl by Emily Freeman
- Interrupted by Jen Hatmaker
- Seven by Jen Hatmaker
- The Circle Trilogy by Ted Dekker
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- Silent Resolve by Susan VonVokenburg
- The God Who Let Me Down by Susan VonVokenburg
- Red Letter Revolution by Shane Claiborne
- The Signature of Jesus by Brennan Manning
- Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
- Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp
- Pharisectomy by Peter Haas
- Insurrection by Peter Rollins
- Still by Lauren Winner
- Your Beautiful Purpose by Susie Larson
- Stuck by Jenny Allen
- Fup by Jim Dodge
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Mended by Angie Smith
- The Space Trilogy by C.S Lewis
- Divergent
- Insurgent by Veronica Roth
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron
- Till We Have Faces by C.S Lewis
- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
- Wise Blood by Kristin Lavransdatter
- A Meal With Jesus by Tim Chester
- Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper
- Unbroken by Laura Hildenbrand
- A Girl of the Limberlost by Stratton Porter
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Glittering Vices by Rebecca Konyndyke DeYoung
- The River Why by David James Duncan
- Sights Unseen by Kaye Gibbons
- Half Broke Horse by Jeanette Wells
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
- Girl Meets God by Lauren F. Winner
- Behind the Beautiful Forever by Katherine Boo
- Desperate for His Presence by Rhonda Hugh
- The Marriage Plot by Jeffery Eugenides
- Think Differently Live Differently by Bob Hamp
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- The Reader by Bernard Schlink
- Heroes and Monsters by Josh Riebok
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemmingway
- Unepected Gifts by Chris Heuertz
- Kisses from Katie by Katie Davis
- Torn by Justin Lee
- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
- A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
- The Time Machine by H.G Wells
- Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
- Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba
- Writing to Change The World by Mary Pipher
- Soul Detox by Craig Groeschel
- The Circle Maker by Mark Batterson
- What’s It Like to be Married to Me by Linda Dillow
- Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken
- Pilgrimage of A Soul by Phileena Heuertz,
- Beauty Will Save The World by Brian Zahnd
- About You by Dick Staub
- Paper Towns by John Green
- Fatherless Generation by John Sowers
- 20,000 Days & Counting by Robert D. Smith
- Fresh Air by Chris Hodges
- Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
- Glorious Ruin by Tullian Tchividjian
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed
- The Purpose of Chosen by Dayna R. Bickham
- Falling Upward: Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
- Confessions by Augustine
- Love Is An Orientation by Andrew Marin
- Safely Home by Randy Alcorn
- Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers.
- Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole
- Trusting in God Even When Life Hurts by Jerry Bridges
- The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman
- Crazy Love by Francis Chan
- The Unlikely Missionary: From Pew-Warmer to Poverty-Figher by Dan King
- Heft: A Novel by Liz Moore
- Finding Hannah by John Kess
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- Trusting God by Jerry Bridges
- Disciplined Eating by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
- Dangerous Calling by Paul David Tripp
- Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Otherness, Identity & Reconciliation by Miroslav Volf
- Mortal by Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee
- Descended ~ Jett by Dana Pratola
- Love’s Sacred Song by Mesu Andrews
- Be Still My Soul by Joanne Bischoff
- Missing by Susan D. Williams
- The Meaning of Marriage by Timothy Keller
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- Not a Fan by Kyle Idleman
- Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
- Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Piccoult
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Love Does by Bob Goff
- The Raft by Robert Trumbull
- Shadow of the Almighty, the story of Jim Elliot
- The Brothers K by David James Duncan
- To Own a Dragon by Donald Miller
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer
- Travels with Charlie by John Steinbeck
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