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Recommended Nonfiction
On Reading and Writing
One Writer’s Beginnings
Eudora Welty
On Writing
A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King
Bird by Bird
Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Anne Lamott
The Writing Life
Annie Dillard
My Reading Life
Pat Conroy
Reading Like a Writer
A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Francine Prose
Writing About Your Life
A Journey into the Past
William Zinsser
How to Read a Book
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Story
Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Robert McKee
The Uncommon Reader
(This book is fiction but makes an excellent argument for reading)
Alan Bennett
Biography
Oswald Chambers
Abandoned to God
Dave McCasland
Max Perkins, Editor of Genius
Andrew Scott Berg
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Her Life
Susan Hertog
Lindbergh
(Pulitzer Prize winning)
Andrew Scott Berg, Chris L. Demarest
Memoir
Created for Commitment
Founder of Bible Study Fellowship
A. Wetherell Johnson
Gift from the Sea
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
Mrs. Kennedy and Me
An Intimate Memoir
Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin
So Long, See You Tomorrow
William Maxwell
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
Sarah Hepola
Let’s Take the Long Way Home
A Memoir of Friendship
Gail Caldwell
Spiritual Formation
Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis
Where Is God When It Hurts?
Philip Yancey
Soul Survivor
Philip Yancey
Secrets in the Dark
A Life in Sermons
Frederick Buechner
Eat This Book
A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading
Eugene H. Peterson
The Mind of the Maker
Dorothy L. Sayers
Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering
Timothy Keller
No Place for Truth
Or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology?
David F. Wells
Prayer is a Place
America’s Religious Landscape Observed
Phyllis Tickle
The Broken Way
A Daring Path Into the Abundant Life
Ann Voskamp
Living with the Giants
The Lives of Great Men of the Faith
Warren W. Wiersbe
Living by the Book
Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks
In His Image
Dr Paul Brand & Philip Yancey
Counterfeit Gods
The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
Timothy J. Keller
Walking on Water
Reflections on Faith and Art
Madeleine L’Engle
Personal Development
Try Softer
A Fresh Approach to Move Us Out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode–And Into a Life of Connection and Joy
Aundi Kolber
The Gifts of Imperfection
Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Brené Brown
Daring Greatly
How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts
Brené Brown
Why Gender Matters
What Parents And Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
Leonard Sax
Necessary Endings
The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward
Henry Cloud
TED Talks
The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking
Chris Anderson
“All truth is from God; and consequently, if wicked men have said anything that is true and just, we ought not to reject it; for it has come from God.”
