Episode #8: Must-Have Books for Your Home Library
Updated: May 19, 2020
What's the difference between buying books and building a home library? In this episode, I answer this question and help you systematically build a library for yourself, your children, and your grandchildren!
The books children grow up with live on in their lives. Give them the very best!
Here's a list of over 75 books to get you started building your home library:
Foundational Classic Books
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Dangerous Journey
Emma by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer by C.S. Lewis
Wee Sir Gibbie of the Highlands by George MacDonald, Michael Phillips
The Parish Papers by George MacDonald
Gifts of the Child Christ by George MacDonald
At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald
Lord Peter Whimsy novels by Dorothy Sayers
Father Brown crime stories by G.K. Chesterton
Vanity Fair by Thackeray
Henry James
Edith Wharton
Howards End by E.M. Forster
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Oh Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Potok
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Boy's King Arthur by Sidney Lanier
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
David Balfour by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Christian Classics
Strong's Concordance
Vine's Expository Dictionary by W.E. Vine
Book of Common Prayer
My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers
Phillips Translation of Bible
ESV Bible
Amplified Bible
KJV Bible
What the Bible is All About by Henrietta Mears
Operation World by Johnstone
Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Hinds' Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard
Knowing God by J.I. Packer
The Emotionally Healthy Church by Peter Scazzero
Your God is Too Small by J.B. Phillips
The Way of the Heart by Henri Nouwen
How to Study the Bible by R.A. Torrey
The Greatest Thing in the World by Henry Drummond
The Prodigal God by Tim Keller
Counterfeit Gods by Tim Keller The Seeking Heart by Francois Fenelon
Let Go by Francois Fenelon
Christian Biographies
John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace by Jonathan Aitken
Father ten Boom by Corrie Ten Boom
Give Me This Mountain by Dr. Helen Roseveare
Tramp for the Lord by Corrie ten Boom
A Passion for Souls by Lyle Dorsett
Seeking the Secret Place by Lyle Dorsett
Dream Big: The Henrietta Mears Story by Henrietta Mears
Teacher: The Henrietta Mears Story by Marcus Brotherton
When God Says Go: The Amazing Journey of a Slave's Daughter by Lorry Lutz
And God Came In by Lyle Dorsett
Gifted Hands by Ben Carson
Never Give In: The Extraordinary Character of Winston Churchill by Stephen Mansfield
Trailblazer books
Susanna Wesley: Servant of God by Sandy Dengler
Women of Faith by Bethany House Publishers
Men of Faith by Bethany House Publishers
Chuck Smith: A Memoir of Grace by Chuck Smith Jr.
The Word for Today App
The Hidden Smile of God by John Piper
The Swans are Not Silent Series by John Piper
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