Books

Some books I've read.
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• The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantin Wamariya 
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
• Without a Country by Ayse Kulin 
• A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss by Jerry L. Sittser
• Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
• The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine by A. W. Tozer
• I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse by Lee Gutkind
• Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant
• Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones 
• Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant
• Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks
• Married to the Trail: Hiking the Continental Divide Trail by Mary Moynihan 
• We Never Asked for Wings by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
• Behind a Thin Green Line: The Memoir of an Undercover Game Warden by Tony H. Latham
• Craig & Fred: A Marine, a Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other by Craig Gossi
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? by David Bentley Hart
• I Only Say This Because I Love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives by Deborah Tannen
• The Magnolia Story by Chip and Diana Gaines
• Out of the Blue: The Unexpected Adventure of Life Interrupted by Greg Murtha 
• Divide By Two Wheels: Racing a Mountain Bike Unsupported, 2,700 Miles from Canada to Mexico On the Continental Divide by Michael J. Devitt
• The Listening Life: Embracing Attentiveness in a World of Distraction by Adam S. McHugh
• ESV Single-Column Journaling Bible
• Coming Clean by Kimberly Rae Miller
• Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose by Joe Biden
  Strange Days: Life in the Spirit in a Time of Terrorism, Populist Politics, and Culture Wars by Mark Sayers
• Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life by Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush
• Walking with Peety: The Dog Who Saved My Life by Eric O'Grey
• Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival by Jeffrey Gettleman
• Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder
• Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown
• The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide: Tools and Techniques to Hit the Trail by Andrew Skurka 
• A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Melissa Fleming 
• Rising Strong by Brené Brown
• Walking on Eggshells: Navigating the Delicate Relationship Between Adult Children and Parents by Jane Isay
• Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story by Jewel
• Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart 
• Option B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
• The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live by Edie Littlefield Sundby 
• One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War by Bing West
• Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life by Jen Hatmaker
• A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea by Eunsun Kim and Sébastien Falletti
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi 
• Simple Fly Fishing: Techniques for Tenkara and Rod and Reel by Yvon Chouinard 
• Everybody's Got Something by Robin Roberts
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
• Why Won’t You Apologize?: Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts by Harriet Lerner PhD
• A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland in the Forties and Fifties by Tom Brokaw
• Dream with Me: Race, Love, and the Struggle We Must Win by John M. Perkins
• My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman 
• Half the World: Refugees Transform the City of Trees by by Todd Shallat and Kathy Hodges
• Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush by Jon Meacham
• Rose Then and Now Bible Atlas by Paul H. Wright
• Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy M.D.
• The Geography of Genius: One Man's Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley by Eric Weiner
• Picnic in Provence: A Memoir with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard
• I Don't Know Why I Swallowed the Fly: My Fly-Fishing Rookie Season by Jessica Maxwell
• Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy by Anne Lamott
• God Has a Name by John Mark Comer
• Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan
• Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human by John Mark Comer
• A Remarkable Mother by Jimmy Carter
• Charis: God's Scandalous Grace for Us by Preston Sprinkle
• A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter
• Resolving Everyday Conflict by Ken Sande and Kevin Johnson
• Adventures in Saying Yes: A Journey from Fear to Faith by Carl Medearis and Chris Medearis
• Simply Good News: Why the Gospel Is News and What Makes It Good by N. T. Wright
• The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
• My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
• Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: It's Impossible to Be Spiritually Mature, While Remaining Emotionally Immature by Peter Scazzero
• Cinnamon and Gunpowder: A Novel by Eli Brown
• Born a Crime by Noah Trevor
• The Undoing of Saint Silvanus by Beth Moore
• Uninvited, Living Loved When you Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely by Lysa TerKeurst
• Befriend: Create Belonging in an Age of Judgment, Isolation, and Fear by Scott Sauls
• North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Don't Call Me Lady: The Journey of Lady Alice Seeley Harris by Judy Pollard Smith
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Very Married: Field Notes on Love and Fidelity by Katherine Willis Pershey
• Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living, by Shauna Niequist 
• The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide, by Jean Hatzfeld
• Generous Spaciousness: Responding to Gay Christians in the Church, by Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter
• The Answer to Our Cry: Freedom to Live Fully, Love Boldly, and Fear Nothing, by Rick McKinley
• Jesus Outside the Lines: A Way Forward for Those Who Are Tired of Taking Sides, by Scott Sauls
• Unbreakable, What the Son of God Said About the Word of God, by Andrew Wilson
• Reflecting the Glory, Meditations for Living Christ's Life in the World by N.T. Wright
• City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp by Ben Rawlence
• Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey Into the New Heart of Africa by Will Ferguson
• The Lord and His Prayer by N. T. Wright
• Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
• Matthew for Everyone Part Two by N. T. Wright
• For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards by Jen Hatmaker
• The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz
• Salt and Light: Living the Sermon on the Mount by Arnold Eberhard
• The Noble Dream! From the Jungles of Uganda to the Hills of Rwanda Faith Prevails, by Charles Mugisha Buregeya
• Rwanda, Inc.: How a Devastated Nation Became an Economic Model for the Developing World by Patricia Crisafulli, Andrea Redmond 
• A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It, by Stephen Kinzer
• African Friends and Money Matters: Observations from Africa by David E. Maranz
• Brimstone: Why Jesus's Final Word on Judgment Is Good News for You by Hugh Halter
• Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda by Rosamond Halsey Carr
• Matthew for Everyone: Part One, Chapters 1-15 by N.T. Wright
• Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence by David A. Livermore
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert,
• Foreign to Familiar: A Guide to Understanding Hot - And Cold - Climate Cultures by Sarah A. Lanier
• Redeeming Sex: Naked Conversations about Sexuality and Spirituality by Debra Hirsch
• Messy Spirituality by Michael Yaconelli
• Relentless Hope: Extracting the Precious from the Worthless by  Beth Guckenberger
• Unconditional?: The call of Jesus to radical forgiveness by Brian Zahn
• Led by Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide by Immaculee Ilibagiza
• Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza
• Bold Love by Dr. Dan B. Allender and Dr. Tremper Longman III
• The Last Word by N. T. Wright
• Embracing Grace: A Gospel for All of Us by Scot McKnight
• Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God by Timothy Keller
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Dream Work by Mary Oliver
• Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador by Angelina Jolie
• Pilgrimage of a Soul: Contemplative Spirituality for the Active Life by Phileena Heuertz
• Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim's Tale by Ian Morgan Cron
• Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed by Glennon Doyle Melton
• Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy by Donald Miller
• Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed by Hawa Abdi
• A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life by Donald Miller
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope, and a Restaurant in Rwanda by Josh Ruxin
• Speak: How Your Story Can Change the World by Nish Weiseth
• Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire by Jim Cymbala
• The Invisible Girls: A Memoir by Sarah Thebarge
• I'm Not Leaving by Carl Wilkens
• Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War by Ben Rawlence
• Interrupted - When Jesus Wrecks Your Comfortable Christianity by Jen Hatmaker
• Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion by Sara Miles
• Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle
• Help Thanks Wow: Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott
• A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, & Mission Around the Table by Tim Chester
• The Artisan Soul: Crafting Your Life into a Work of Art by Erwin Raphael McManus
• Children of the Day by Beth Moore
• Paul by Walter Wangerin, Jr.
• Clout by Jenni Catron
• Hope Runs: An American Tourist, a Kenyan Boy, a Journey of Redemption by Claire Díaz-Ortiz
• Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s by Jennifer Worth
• Gone to New York: Adventures in the City by Ian Frazier
• Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway
• Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church by N. T. Wright
• The Rock That Is Higher: Story as Truth by Madeleine L'Engle
• To Live is Christ by Beth Moore
• ChiRunning: A Revolutionary Approach to Effortless, Injury-Free Running by Danny Dreyer
• Surprised by Motherhood: Everything I Never Expected about Being a Mom by Lisa-Jo Baker
• In the Steps of the Apostle Paul by F. F. Bruce
• Mapping Manhattan: A Love (And Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers by Becky Cooper
• Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life by Shauna Niequist
• The Cry of the Soul: How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepset Questions about God by Dan B. Allender, Tremper Longman III,
• Incarnate: The Body of Christ in an Age of Disengagement by Michael Frost
• Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World by Henri Nouwen
• Flesh: Bringing the Incarnation Down to Earth by Hugh Halter
• Loveology: God. Love. Marriage. Sex. and the Never-Ending Story of Male and Female. by John Mark Comer
• The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters by Dave Lomas
• Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith by Francis S. Collins
• In Search of Deep Faith: A Pilgrimage into the Beauty, Goodness and Heart of Christianity by Jim Belcher
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Cradle and the Crown: A Regent College Advent Reader by Richard G. Thompson
• Where Love Is, There God Is Also by Leo Tolstoy
• The Message of Ephesians by John R. W. Stott
• Why I Am a Christian by John R. W. Stott
• Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint by Nadia Bolz-Weber
• Exiled: Memoirs of a Camel by Kathleen Karr
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women by Sarah Bessey
• Basic Christianity by John R. W. Stott
• Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way by Shauna Niequist
• The Book of God: The Bible as a Novel by Walter Wangerin Jr.
• Preemptive Love: Pursuing Peace One Heart at a Time by Jeremy Courtney
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out by Brennan Manning
• The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others by Scot McKnight
• The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible by Scot McKnight
• Nice Girls Don't Change the World by Lynne Hybels
• Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace by Cathleen Falsani
• Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
• Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think? by Jonathan Martin
• The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed or Desperate by Harriet Lerner
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
• The Feasts of the Lord: God's Prophetic Calendar From Calvary to the Kingdom by Kevin Howard
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• The Art of Neighboring: Building Genuine Relationships Right Outside Your Door by Pathak, Jay
• Stepping Up: A Journey Through the Psalms of Ascent by Beth Moore
• In The Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time by Peter Lovenheim
• However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph by Aimee Molloy
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Bread & Wine: Finding Community and Life Around the Table by Shauna Niequist
• The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time by Bob Harris
• Freefall to Fly: A Breathtaking Journey Toward a Life of Meaning by Rebekah Lyons
• Conversation Peace by Mary Kassian
• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
• The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community by Mary Pipher
• Love Does by Bob Goff
• All Things Must Fight to Live, stories of war and deliverance in Congo by Bryan Mealer
• The Patriarchs, Encountering the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob by Beth Moore
• Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption by Katie Davis
• Feathers from My Nest: A Mother's Reflections by Beth Moore
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown
• Believing God by Beth Moore
• Surprised by Oxford by Carolyn Weber
• Nowhere But Up: The Story of Justin Bieber's Mom by Pattie Mallette
• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh 
• The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage by Michael Frost
• Nehemiah: A Heart That Can Break by Kelly Minter
• Sacrilege: Finding Life in the Unorthodox Ways of Jesus by Hugh Halter
• The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown
• Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
• James: Mercy Triumphs by Beth Moore
• Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose
• The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day by Ryan Cornelius
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
• Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
• Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books by Leah Price
• Living Free by Beth Moore
• The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow
• How I Changed my Mind About Women in Leadership by Alan F. Johnson
• Washed Out and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality by Wesley Hill
• Wherever Grace is Needed by Elizabeth Bass
• The Pastor: A Memoir by Eugene Peterson
• Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? By Steven Tyler
• Holman Bible Atlas: A Complete Guide to the Expansive Geography of Biblical History by Thomas Brisco
• The Resignation of Eve: What if Adam’s Rib is No Longer Willing to be the Church’s Backbone? By Jim Henderson
• My Name is Hope: Anxiety, depression, and life after melancholy by John Mark Comer
• The Holy Bible, Good News Translation
• How to Read the Bible Book by Book: A Guided Tour by Gordon Fee
• 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess by Jen Hatmaker
• Barefoot Church: Serving the Least in a Consumer Culture by Brandon Hatmaker
• Just Walk Across the Room:  Simple Steps Pointing People to Faith by Bill Hybels
• Traveling with Pomegranates:  A Mother-Daughter Story by Sue Monk Kidd
• Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony Doerr
• The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith by Timothy Keller
• The Power of a Whisper by Bill Hybels
• 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
• The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter
• Cherries in Winter by Suzan Colon
• A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue by Wendy Shalit
• I Love you Like a Tomato by Marie Giordano
• Blue Like Jazz: Non Religious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller
• Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch
• Jesus, the One and Only by Beth Moore
• Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality by Rob Bell
• Disappointment with God by Philip Yancey
• Speaking of Jesus: The Art of Not-Evangelism by Carl Medearis
• Muslims, Christians and Jesus by Carl Medearis
• The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey
• A Praying Life by Paul E. Miller
• The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller
• What's So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey
• Breaking Free by Beth Moore
• Living Beyond Yourself by Beth Moore
• Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard
• So Long Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us by Beth Moore
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The House at Royal Oak by Carol Eron Rizzoli
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
• 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement by Jane Ziegelman
• Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Complete Book of Running for Women by Claire Kowalchik
• Comfort Me With Apples, More Adventures at the Table by Ruth Reichl
• A Parrot in the Pepper Tree by Chris Stewart
• Tender at the Bone, Growing up at the Table by Ruth Reichl
• The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards
• The Little Guide to Your Well Read Life by Steve Leveen
• 1000 Sisters by Lisa Shannon
• Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
• The Post Mistress by Sarah Blake
• Appetite for Life by Noel Riley Fitch
• Mayflower:  a story of courage, community and ware by Nathaniel Philbrick
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffers and Annie Burrows
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• 1776 by David McCullough
• Chocolate by Joann Harris
• Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver