Good Reads

I am often asked to recommend a book or two so I decided to start a list of my favorite, or at least recommendable, books to read. I will add as I read, so check back often!

in no particular order....

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet; and Julius Ceasar

Give Them Grace, Elyse Fitzpatrick and Jessica Thompson
     for parents on raising kids
When All the World Was Young, Ferrol Sams
     Southern novel
Run With the Horseman, Ferrol Sams
     Southern novel
The Whisper of the River, Ferrol Sams
     Southern novel
The Sacred Romance, Brent Curtis and John Eldredge
      for married couples, or soon to be
The Furious Longing of God, Brennan Manning
       a wonderful work by Brennan Manning
The Signature of Jesus, Brennan Manning
       a wonderful work by Brennan Manning
The Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning
       a wonderful work by Brennan Manning
The Shack, Wm.Paul Young
        modern allegory, very controversial within the Evangelical set
The Prodigal God, Tim Keller
       provoking discourse on a familiar parable
The Great Santini, Pat Conroy
       Southern novel
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
       a classic
Last Orders, Graham Swift
      Irish novel
A Movable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
      a classic
Carryin' On, R. Scott Brunner
      Southern stories
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
     a classic
The Beautiful and the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald
     a classic
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
       a classic
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, T.S. Eliot
       a classic
Due South, R. Scott Brunner
     Southern stories
The Beauty and The Sorrow, Peter Englund
      Collection of diaries and letters from WWI era.  
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts, Neil White
     True story of the last leper colony in the US
Peachtree Road, Ann Rivers Siddons
     Southern novel
Mcnally series, Lawrence Sanders
     Detective mysteries
The Churchills: In Love and War, Mary S. Lovell
     Well written history of the Churchills
All Over But the Shoutin', Rick Bragg
     Southern memoir
The Diary of Ann Frank
     a classic
Chanel, Edmunde Charles-Roux
     Coco Chanel bio
Humility- Andrew Murray
      will change the way you view the word "humility"
Understood Betsy, Dorothy Canfield
     Turn of the century novel
The Education of Little Tree, Forrest Carter
     Southern novel
John Newton,  Jonathan Aitken
     Biography of John  Newton the infamous slave trader turned preacher
New York: The Novel. Edward Rutherford
     starts in the 1600 to present tracing several families and the history of the City
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
     American novel about the Japanese internment during WWII