Anyone who knows me (or reads this blog, really!) knows just how much I LOVE, love, love reading! I wanted to pull together one big + cumulative blog post about books and reading so that I have lots of great and helpful links and lists in one place, for your sake and mine. I’m often asked for book recommendations and lists of favorite reads, which I adore. Poring over all of these past blog posts was so fun, as I think it’s clear just how passionate I am about reading and good, powerful writing. I’ve been an incredibly avid reader since I was really young, and I’m so glad this love of reading has followed me all of my life. So, here we go with several lists and links of favorite books and authors…
my ALL-TIME favorite books:
- Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
- Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
- Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- East of Eden, John Steinbeck
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis
- Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
- Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery
- The Help, Kathryn Stockett
- Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
- The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert
- Angels & Demons and The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
- Bread and Wine, Shauna Niequist
- Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis
My very first blog post on books: Let’s Talk About Books
This list of all-time favorite books has been thoughtfully curated over the last many years, and very few new books make the cut onto my ALL-time favorite list. I’ve read many of these books many times, and they’re ones that have changed my life in some way. They are my go-tos when I’m recommending books to others, and they are beloved to me!
A huge synopsis and review: all the best books I read in 2014
Another huge synopsis and review: all the best books I read in 2013
- Mere Christianity + The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
- Bread & Wine + Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist
- Make it Happen by Lara Casey
- The Reason for God by Tim Keller
- Crazy Love + Forgotten God by Francis Chan
- Radical by David Platt
- The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
- Love Does by Bob Goff
- Love, Skip, Jump by Shelene Bryan
- Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
- The Best Yes by Lysa Terkeurst
Life-changing reads:
- Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
- Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
- Crazy Love, Francis Chan
- A Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren
- The Reason for God, Tim Keller
- To Kill a Mockingbird + Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
- South of Broad + Beach Music by Pat Conroy
- The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
- any books by Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies, The Husband’s Secret, What Alice Forgot)
- The Cuckoo’s Calling and The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith aka JK Rowling
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen
A blog post on: Summer Reads + Christian Books I Love
Best Southern Books:
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Book reviews of: The Signature of All Things, East of Eden, The Invention of Wings, and The Rosie Project (all books I would highly, highly recommend)
Book reviews of: Molokai, The Ragamuffin Gospel, The Fault in Our Stars, The Kitchen House, & Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore
Book reviews of: Love Skip Jump, The Best Yes, and the Business Romantic
Recommendations for: Business Books
I hope these links and links are helpful, informative, and inspiring to you! It’s a little bit of a hodge-podge, but I’m constantly finding new books to read and recommend. I would LOVE to know from you, friends: what is the most vivid book you’ve ever read?
You can also follow along with books I’m reading on Instagram (@stephaniescholl) with the hashtag #stephaniereads
“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he re-reads.” – Francois Mauriac
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