Are you looking for some enriching reading for the summer? South Main's Discipleship Committee has polled our ministers and some fellow congregants to collect this terrific list of books for the upcoming vacation season. You'll find all sorts of picks from the spiritually edifying and deeply educational to the pleasantly amusing and simply entertaining. We hope you'll grab a few of these titles, some of which are in the church library, enjoy them this summer, and have some conversations in the upcoming months with those who have shared some of their favorite reads.
Devotional/Spiritual
Jane Jefferies
- You are the Beloved by Henri Nouwen
- Telling Secrets by Frederick Buechner
Jeanne Luedemann
- Listening to Your Life by Frederick Buechner
- Beyond Words by Frederick Buechner
Dave Shattuck
- The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering our Hidden Life in God by Dallas Willard
- What's So Amazing about Grace? by Philip Yancey
Greg Funderburk
- At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent Van Gogh by Kathleen Powers Ericson
- I Asked for Wonder, A Spiritual Anthology by Abraham Joshua Heschel, edited by Samuel H. Dresner
Steve Wells
- Simply Christian: Why the Gospel Makes Sense by N.T. Wright
- How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels by N.T. Wright
- Simply Good News: Why the Gospel is News and What makes it Good by N.T. Wright
- Spiritual Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness by Richard Hays
- Thinking Through Paul: A Survey of His Life, Letters, and Theology by Todd D. Still
Fiction
Carey Cannon - Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Jane Jefferies - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Jeanne Luedemann - The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber
Chris Dove - The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
Greg Funderburk
- Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Non-fiction
Susan Moore - The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace by Gary Chapman and Paul White
Carol Shattuck
- Lincoln on Leadership by Donald P. Phillips
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Steve Rader - Stories Jesus Still Tells - The Parables by John Claypool
Greg Funderburk
- The Road to Character by David Brooks
- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Jane Jefferies - My Southern Journey by Rick Bragg
Dolores Rader - We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Brad Jernberg - The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell
Dolores Rader - Parenting Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood by Lisa Damour
Poetry
Greg Funderburk - The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins
