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Because a book is included in this list does not suggest that I agree with every sentence of it or with everything else the author ever thought or wrote.  This is a list of books that were of help to me in understanding or enjoying the topic and that led to my betterment of soul and understanding.  This is not a list of the most important books ever written nor is it intended to be comprehensive; it is a general list of books that I would commend to your soul and understanding.

You Can’t Go Wrong with This List

Last updated 11/09

Biography

• Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage — Alfred Lansing
• Evidence Not Seen: A Woman’s Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of WWII — Darlene Deibler Rose
• George Mueller: He Dared to Trust God for the Needs of Count — Faith Coxe Bailey
• In the Presence of My Enemies — Gracia Burnham
• John Adams – David McCullough
• Jonathan Edwards: A Life — George Marsden
• The Journals of Jim Elliot — Elizabeth Elliot (ed.)
• Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War — Nathaniel Philbrick
• Shadow of the Almighty — Elizabeth Elliot
• Through Gates of Splendor — Elizabeth Elliot
• William Bradford: Plymouth’s Faithful Pilgrim — Gary Schmidt
• William Carey — S Pearce Carey & Peter Masters

Christian Living

• Changed Into His Image: God’s Plan for Transforming Your Life — Jim Berg
• Created for His Glory: God’s Purpose for Redeeming Your Life — Jim Berg
• Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist — John Piper
• The God-Centered Life: Insights from Jonathan Edwards for Today – Josh Moody
• If — Amy Carmichael
• Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate — Jerry Bridges

Devotionals

• A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life — John Piper
• Morning and Evening — Charles Spurgeon
• The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions

Education

• The Case for Classical Christian Education — Douglas Wilson
• Repairing the Ruins — Douglas Wilson
• The Well-Trained Mind — Jessie Wise/Susan Baur

Family

• Disciplines of a Godly Man — R. Kent Hughes
• Future Men — Douglas Wilson
• My Life for Yours: A Walk through the Christian Home — Douglas Wilson
• Reforming Marriage — Douglas Wilson
• Shepherding a Child’s Heart — Tedd Tripp
• Standing on the Promises: A Handbook of Biblical Childrearing — Douglas Wilson

Ministry

• Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands — Paul David Tripp
• A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness — Gene Edwards

Non-Fiction

• 1776 — David McCollough
• Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God’s Spoken World – N.D. Wilson
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln – Doris Kearns Goodwin
• The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century — Thomas Friedman
• Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were — Leland Ryken

Other

• The Complete Calvin and Hobbes — Bill Watterson
• Focus on the Family Radio Theatre
  • The Chronicles of Narnia (Radio Theatre)
  • Les Miserables

Children

• The Big Picture Story Bible – David Helm
• The Chronicles of Narnia — C.S. Lewis
• Hero Tales: A Family Treasure of True Tales from the Lives of Christian Heroes – Dave and Neta Jackson
• The Jesus Storybook Bible – Sally Lloyd-Jones
• Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder
• On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness — Andrew Peterson. Here’s what I thought.