The world is made up of stories, not atoms.
- Adams, Richard. Watership Down.
- Alcorn, Randy. Safely Home.
- Allender, Dan. To Be Told.
- Alexander, Lloyd. The Black Cauldron.
- —. The Book of Three.
- —. Westmark.
- Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio.
- St. Athanasius. On the Incarnation.
- Baum, L. Frank. The Wizard of Oz.
- Bernanos, Georges. Diary of a Country Priest.
- Berry, Wendell. “Fidelity.”
- —. Hannah Coulter.
- —. “The Boundary.”
- —. The Memory of Old Jack.
- —. The Way of Ignorance.
- —. Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World.
- Birkerts, Sven. The Gutenberg Elegies.
- Blanchard, Ken and Spencer Johnson. The One Minute Manager.
- Bowditch, Eden Unger. The Atomic Weight of Secrets.
- Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles.
- Brooks, Geraldine. March.
- —. People of the Book.
- Buechner, Frederick. The Sacred Journey.
- Burgess, Thornton W. Now I Remember: The Autobiography of Thornton W. Burgess.
- Burnham, Gracia. In the Presence of My Enemies.
- Bush, George W. Decision Points.
- Cain, Susan. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking.
- Canin, Ethan. America, America.
- Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.
- Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
- Challies, Tim. The Next Story: Life and Faith after the Digital Explosion.
- Chesterton, G.K. Orthodoxy.
- —. The Everlasting Man.
- —. The Man Who was Thursday.
- Clarke, Susanna. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.
- Cloud, Henry and John Townsend. Boundaries with Kids.
- Collins, Frances S. The Language of God.
- Collins, Suzanne. Catching Fire.
- —. Mockingjay.
- —. The Hunger Games.
- Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness.
- Danticat, Edwidge. Brother, I’m Dying.
- DeJong, Meindert. The Singing Hill.
- —. The Wheel on the School.
- DeLillo, Don. Falling Man.
- DeMoss, Nancy Leigh. Brokenness: The Heart God Revives.
- Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Dillard, Annie. The Maytrees.
- Dodson, Shireen. The Mother-Daughter Book Club.
- Drabble, Margaret. The Seven Sisters.
- DuMaurier, Daphne. Rebecca.
- Eldredge, John. Waking the Dead.
- —. Walking with God.
- Elliot, Elisabeth. The Shaping of a Christian Family.
- —. Through Gates of Splendor.
- Enger, Leif. So Brave, Young, and Handsome.
- Farmer, Penelope. Charlotte Sometimes.
- Fields, Leslie Leyland. Parenting Is Your Highest Calling: And Eight Other Myths That Trap Us In Worry and Guilt.
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield. Understood Betsy.
- Flexner, James Thomas. Washington: The Indispensable Man.
- Forster, E.M. A Room with a View.
- Frangipane, Frances. The Three Battlegrounds.
- Freedman, Russell. Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade against Child Labor.
- Funke, Cornelia. Inkheart.
- Gaiman, Neil. Stardust.
- Garrett, Helen. Rufous Redtail.
- Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cranford.
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Herland.
- Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers.
- Godden, Rumer. The Dragon of Og.
- Goudge, Elizabeth. I Saw Three Ships.
- —. Linnets and Valerians.
- —. Pilgrim’s Inn.
- —. The Bird in the Tree.
- —. The Dean’s Watch.
- —. The Heart of the Family.
- —. The Joy of the Snow.
- —. The Little White Horse.
- —. The Scent of Water.
- —. The White Witch.
- Grafton, John. The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History.
- Guinness, Os. Fit Bodies, Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don’t Think and What to Do About It.
- —. God in the Dark.
- —. Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance.
- Hanff, Helene. 84, Charing Cross Road.
- Hart, David Bentley. The Doors of the Sea: Where was God in the Tsunami?
- Helgoe, Laurie. Introvert Power.
- Henry, Marguerite. Brighty of the Grand Canyon.
- —. Justin Morgan Had a Horse.
- —. White Stallion of Lipizza.
- Hersey, John. Hiroshima.
- Hession, Roy. The Calvary Road.
- Hillenbrand, Laura. Unbroken.
- Hoban, Russell. The Mouse and His Child.
- Hosseini, Khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns.
- —. The Kite Runner.
- Hunkin, Oliver. Dangerous Journey: The Story of Pilgrim’s Progress.
- Hurnard, Hannah. Hinds’ Feet on High Places, adapted for children.
- Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God.
- Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go.
- Jackson, Wes. Becoming Native to This Place.
- Jacobs, Alan. The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis.
- James, P.D. The Children of Men.
- Jethani, Skye. The Divine Commodity.
- Jewett, Sarah Orne. The Country of the Pointed Firs.
- St. John of the Cross. Dark Night of the Soul.
- Johnson, David and Jeff VanVonderen. The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse.
- Jones, Timothy Paul. Christian History Made Easy.
- Jordan, River. Praying for Strangers: An Adventure of the Human Spirit.
- Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis.
- Keller, Timothy. The Prodigal God.
- Kelly, Jacqueline. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate.
- Kephart, Beth. A Slant of Sun.
- —. Seeing Past Z: Nurturing the Imagination in a Fast-Forward World.
- Kingsolver, Barbara. The Poisonwood Bible.
- Kline, David. Great Possessions: An Amish Farmer’s Journal.
- Lamott, Anne. Traveling Mercies.
- Brother Lawrence. The Practice of the Presence of God.
- Lawson, James Gilchrist. Deeper Experiences of Famous Christians.
- Lawson, Robert. Rabbit Hill.
- L’Engle, Madeleine. A Circle of Quiet.
- —. A Live Coal in the Sea.
- —. A Severed Wasp.
- —. Certain Women.
- —. The Irrational Season.
- —. The Love Letters.
- —. Trailing Clouds of Glory: Spiritual Values in Children’s Literature.
- —. Walking on Water.
- Levertov, Denise. To Stay Alive.
- Lewis, C.S. A Grief Observed.
- —. An Experiment in Criticism.
- —. Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer.
- —. Miracles.
- —. Reflections on the Psalms.
- —. That Hideous Strength.
- —. The Abolition of Man.
- —. The Four Loves.
- —. The Problem of Pain.
- —. The Weight of Glory.
- —. Till We Have Faces.
- Lewis, Gill. Wild Wings.
- Lightman, Alan. Einstein’s Dreams.
- Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn. Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures.
- Lowry, Lois. The Giver.
- Macaulay, Susan Schaeffer. For the Children’s Sake.
- MacDonald, George. At the Back of the North Wind.
- —. Diary of an Old Soul.
- —. Phantastes.
- —. The Golden Key.
- —. The Light Princess.
- —. The Portent.
- —. The Princess and Curdie.
- —. Unspoken Sermons.
- Magorian, Michelle. Goodnight Mr Tom.
- Marshall, Catherine. The Helper.
- Maxwell, William. So Long, See You Tomorrow.
- McClure, Wendy. The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie.
- McGuire, Richard. Passionate Attention: An Introduction to Literary Study.
- McKibben, Bill. The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation.
- McKinley, Robin. Beauty.
- McQuay, Peri Phillips. A Wing in the Door: Life with a Red-Tailed Hawk.
- Merton, Thomas. A Book of Hours.
- Miller, Donald. Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality.
- Miller, John E. Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend.
- Miller, Laura. The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia.
- Miller, Sue. The Senator’s Wife.
- Mitchell, Stephen, trans. The Book of Job.
- Montgomery, Elizabeth Rider. The Story Behind Modern Books.
- Morton, Kate. The Forgotten Garden.
- Nesbit, Edith. The Book of Dragons.
- O’Brien, Michael. A Landscape with Dragons.
- O’Connor, Flannery. Wise Blood.
- Orwell, George. 1984.
- Pace, Mildred Mastin. Old Bones the Wonder Horse.
- Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country.
- Pearcey, Nancy. Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity.
- Peet, Bill. Bill Peet: An Autobiography.
- Perkins, Hal. If Jesus Were a Parent.
- Philbrick, Nathaniel. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War.
- Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death.
- —. Technopoly.
- Potok, Chaim. Davita’s Harp.
- Preston, Richard. The Wild Trees.
- Randall, Rona. Watchman’s Stone.
- Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game.
- Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea.
- Rice, Jesse. The Church of Facebook.
- Roberts, Monty. The Man who Listens to Horses.
- Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead.
- —. Home.
- —. Housekeeping.
- —. The Death of Adam.
- Rosenberg, Joel. Epicenter.
- —. The Last Days.
- Schaeffer, Frances. No Little People.
- —. True Spirituality.
- Sedore, Emma. Hiawatha Island: Jewel of the Susquehanna.
- Shaffer, Mary Ann and Annie Barrows. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
- Shea, Ammon. Reading the OED.
- Shortt, Bruce N. The Harsh Truth about Public Schools.
- Sibley, Brian. The Land of Narnia.
- Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
- Spires, Elizabeth. The Mouse of Amherst.
- Stewart, Trenton Lee. The Mysterious Benedict Society.
- Still, James. River of Earth.
- Stockett, Kathryn. The Help.
- Stratton-Porter, Gene. A Girl of the Limberlost.
- Sutcliff, Rosemary. Black Ships Before Troy.
- Ten Boom, Corrie. The Hiding Place.
- The Way of a Pilgrim.
- Therkelsen, Margaret. The Love Exchange: An Adventure in Prayer.
- Tolkien, J.R.R. The Children of Hurin.
- Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace.
- Townsend, John. Hiding from Love.
- Tozer, A.W. The Knowledge of the Holy.
- Turkle, Sherry. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other.
- Ulin, David L. The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time.
- Vega, Suzanne. The Passionate Eye.
- Voskamp, Ann. One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are.
- Welty, Eudora. One Writer’s Beginnings.
- —. The Optimist’s Daughter.
- White, T.H. The Book of Merlyn.
- —. The Candle In the Wind.
- —. The Ill-Made Knight.
- —. The Queen of Air and Darkness.
- —. The Sword In the Stone.
- Widdemer, Margaret. The Red Castle Women.
- Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray.
- Willard, Dallas. Hearing God.
- —. Knowing Christ Today.
- —. The Divine Conspiracy.
- Williams, Charles. Descent Into Hell.
- —. The Place of the Lion.
- Winner, Lauren. Girl meets God.
- —. Mudhouse Sabbath.
- Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway.
- Yates, Elizabeth. Amos Fortune: Free Man.
- Yousef, Mosab Hassan. Son of Hamas.