On my reading list in no particular order:
- The Adventist Home//Ellen White
- The Woman of Mystery//Hayley DiMarco
- Freakonomics//Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- Through Gates of Splendor//Elisabeth Elliot
- A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael//Elisbeth Elliot
- Redeeming Love//Francis Rivers
- Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye?: Trusting God with a Hope Deferred//Carolyn McCulley
- Teen 2.0//Robert Epstein
- George Muller of Bristol: His Life of Prayer and Faith//Arthur T. Pierson
- Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys by Kay S. Hymowitz
- When God Writes Your Love Story//Eric and Leslie Ludy
- John Adams//David McCullough
- The Feminist Mistake: The Radical Impact of Feminism on Church and Culture//Mary A. Kassian
- Up From Slavery: Autobiography of Booker T. Washington
- 1776//David McCullough
- Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter//Randy Schmidt
- Where Have All the Good Men Gone?: Why So Many Christian Women Are Remaining Single//Angela Kiesling
- One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are//Ann Voskamp
- The Tipping Point//Malcolm Gladwell
- Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther//Roland Herbert Bainton
- The 10 Best Decisions a Single Can Make: Embracing All God Has for You//Bill Farrel
- Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled – and More Miserable Than Ever Before//Jean M. Twenge
- The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement//Jean M. Twenge
- Fearlessly Single: Diary of a Single Christian Woman//Nathi Mhlaba
- The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30)//Mark Bauerlein
- Men and Women, Equal Yet Different: A Brief Study of Biblical Passages on Gender//Alexander Strauch
- 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She’s 30//Pamela Redmond Satran
- Redeeming Singleness: How the Storyline of Scripture Affirms the Single Life//John Piper
- Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It’s Not Bad to Be Good//Wendy Shalit
- What Women Fear: Walking in Faith that Transforms//Angie Smith
- I Cannot Tell a Lie: The True Story of George Washington’s African American Descendants//L. A. Hollis
- On My Own Two Feet: A Modern Girl’s Guide to Personal Finance//Manisha Thakor
- Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life//Emily P. Freeman
- Great Christian Hymn Writers//Edith Schaeffer
- Perfectly Unique: Praising God from Head to Foot//Annie F. Downs
- Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free//Nancy Leigh DeMoss
- Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild//Mary A. Kassian
- Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God: The Life Story of the Author of My Utmost for His Highest//Dave McCasland
- 20-Something, 20-Everything: A Quarter-life Woman’s Guide to Balance and Direction//Christine Hassler
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong//James W. Loewen
- William Wilberforce//Stephen Tomkins
- The Rich Single Life//Andrew Farmer
- Single Out For Him//Nancy Leigh DeMoss
- Feminine Appeal//Carolyn Mahaney
- Praying for Your Future Husband: Preparing Your Heart for His//Robin Jones Gunn
- Becoming the Women God Wants Me to Be: A 90-Day Guide to Living the Proverbs 31 Life//Donna Partow
- Sex is Not the Problem (Lust Is): Sexual Purity in a Lust-Saturated World//Joshua Harris
- Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring You Love Life Under Christ’s Control//Elisabeth Elliot
- Defiant Daughters: Christian Women of Conscience//Marcy Heidish
- Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy//Eric Metaxas
- 20 Something Manifesto: Quarter-Lifers Speak Out About Who They Are, What They Want, and How to Get It//Christine Hassler
- Fanny J. Crosby: An Autobiography//Fanny Crosby
- Those listed on my Classics Club reading list
Books that I recommend:
- Steps to Christ//Ellen White
- Messages to Young People//Ellen White
- Do Hard Things//Alex and Brett Harris
- Authentic Beauty//Leslie Ludy
- Set Apart Femininity//Leslie Ludy
- The Lost Art of True Beauty//Leslie Ludy
- Sacred Singleness//Leslie Ludy
- Crazy Love//Francis Chan
- I Kissed Dating Goodbye//Joshua Harris
- Boy Meets Girl//Joshua Harris
- The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know and Men Can’t Say//Suzanne Venker and Phyllis Schlafly
- Battered to Blessed – My Personal Journey//Brenda Walsh
- The Power of a Praying Woman//Stormie Omartian
- Bravehearted Gospel//Eric Ludy
- Dug Down Deep//Joshua Harris
- Teaching True Love to a Sex-at-13 Generation//Eric & Leslie Ludy
- A Return to Modesty//Wendy Shalit
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we totally have some common interests in book reading!!!
Really? Nice to hear! Are you currently reading or have you read any of these titles?
I’ve read most of Eric and Leslie Ludy’s books, as well as several by Josh Harris =)
Good stuff!
yes!
Absolutely love your blog and what you are doing, just wanted to suggest another book to you, Thirsting for God, by Gary Thomas. It’s been an awesome book for me, and I think it will be for you as well!!
Thank you so much! I’ll be sure to check it out =)
Elyssa,
Thank you so much for your comment on my blog. Your list of books above is great!! I have read several of them and have found them very helpful, encouraging and convicting. I will also look forward to coming back here to visit often. Thanks again for checking out my blog and for your sweet words.
Have a blessed weekend,
Libby
Hi Elyssa! Wow!:) I am a bookworm and your site is helpful. We have a common book interest from your list. Those books are really encouraging and motivating, it was awesome. I will check other books I haven’t read from your reading list… Have a great day! :)