113 Books To Read In 2013

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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.

1. Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde
2. Imaginary Jesus by Matt Mikalatos
3. Grace for the Good Girl by Emily Freeman
4. Interrupted by Jen Hatmaker
5. Seven by Jen Hatmaker
6. The Circle Trilogy by Ted Dekker
7. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
8. Silent Resolve by Susan VonVokenburg
9. The God Who Let Me Down by Susan VonVokenburg
10. Red Letter Revolution by Shane Claiborne
11. The Signature of Jesus by Brennan Manning
12. Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
13. Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
14. One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp
15. Pharisectomy by Peter Haas
16. Insurrection by Peter Rollins
17. Still by Lauren Winner
18. Your Beautiful Purpose by Susie Larson
19. Stuck by Jenny Allen
20. Fup by Jim Dodge
21. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
22. Mended by Angie Smith
23. The Space Trilogy by C.S Lewis
24. Divergent
25. Insurgent by Veronica Roth
26. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron
27. Till We Have Faces by C.S Lewis
28. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
29. Wise Blood by Kristin Lavransdatter
30. A Meal With Jesus by Tim Chester
31. Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper
32. Unbroken by Laura Hildenbrand
33. A Girl of the Limberlost by Stratton Porter
34. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
35. Glittering Vices by Rebecca Konyndyke DeYoung
36. The River Why by David James Duncan
37. Sights Unseen by Kaye Gibbons
38. Half Broke Horse by Jeanette Wells
39. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
40. Looking for Alaska by John Green
41. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
42. Girl Meets God by Lauren F. Winner
43. Behind the Beautiful Forever by Katherine Boo
44. Desperate for His Presence by Rhonda Hugh
45. The Marriage Plot by Jeffery Eugenides
46. Think Differently Live Differently by Bob Hamp
47. Atonement by Ian McEwan
48. The Reader by Bernard Schlink
49. Heroes and Monsters by Josh Riebok
50. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemmingway
51. Unepected Gifts by Chris Heuertz
52. Kisses from Katie by Katie Davis
53. Torn by Justin Lee
54. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
55. A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans
56. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
57. Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
58. The Time Machine by H.G Wells
59. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
60. Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba
61. Writing to Change The World by Mary Pipher
62. Soul Detox by Craig Groeschel
63. The Circle Maker by Mark Batterson
64. What’s It Like to be Married to Me by Linda Dillow
65. Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken
66. Pilgrimage of A Soul by Phileena Heuertz,
67. Beauty Will Save The World by Brian Zahnd
68. About You by Dick Staub
69. Paper Towns by John Green
70. Fatherless Generation by John Sowers
71. 20,000 Days & Counting by Robert D. Smith
72. Fresh Air by Chris Hodges
73. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
74. Glorious Ruin by Tullian Tchividjian
75. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
76. The Purpose of Chosen by Dayna R. Bickham
77. Falling Upward: Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr
78. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
79. Confessions by Augustine
80. Love Is An Orientation by Andrew Marin
81. Safely Home by Randy Alcorn
82. Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers.
83. Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole
84. Trusting in God Even When Life Hurts by Jerry Bridges
85. The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman
86. Crazy Love by Francis Chan
87. The Unlikely Missionary: From Pew-Warmer to Poverty-Figher by Dan King
88. Heft: A Novel by Liz Moore
89. Finding Hannah by John Kess
90. Bossypants by Tina Fey
91. Trusting God by Jerry Bridges
92. Disciplined Eating by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
93. Dangerous Calling by Paul David Tripp
94. Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Otherness, Identity & Reconciliation by Miroslav Volf
95. Mortal by Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee
96. Descended ~ Jett by Dana Pratola
97. Love’s Sacred Song by Mesu Andrews
98. Be Still My Soul by Joanne Bischoff
99. Missing by Susan D. Williams
100. The Meaning of Marriage by Timothy Keller
101. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
102. Not a Fan by Kyle Idleman
103. Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
104. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Piccoult
105. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
106. Love Does by Bob Goff
107. The Raft by Robert Trumbull
108. Shadow of the Almighty, the story of Jim Elliot
109. The Brothers K by David James Duncan
110. To Own a Dragon by Donald Miller
111. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
112. The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer
113. Travels with Charlie by John Steinbeck

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