Good Reads for 2014

Every other year Calvin College offers my favorite conference, the Festival of Faith and Writing. Here's their recommended book list for this April's event: 

Swati Avasthi: Chasing Shadows(young adult) [I just read her work, Split. A great read, but R rated.]

Carlene Bauer: Frances and Bernard(fiction)

Christopher Beha: What Happened toSophie Wilder (fiction)

Donna Bowman: The Divine Decision:A Process Doctrine of Election (nonfiction)

Sharon Garlough Brown: SensibleShoes (fiction)

Christine Byl: Dirt Work: AnEducation in the Woods (memoir/non-fiction)

Scott Cairns: Compass of Affection(poetry)

Jeff Chu: Does Jesus Really LoveMe? (nonfiction)         

Hugh Cook: The Homecoming Man(fiction)

Rachel Held Evans: A Year ofBiblical Womanhood (memoir)

Suzanne Woods Fisher: The Choice(fiction)

Richard Foster: Celebration ofDiscipline (spirituality)

Eliza Griswold: The Tenth Parallel(non-fiction)

Tracy Groot: The Sentinels ofAndersonville (fiction, available February 2014)

Sean Hill: Blood Ties & BrownLiquor (poetry)

Kimberly Johnson: A MetaphoricalGod (poetry)

Devin Johnston: Sources(poetry)

Verlyn Klinkenborg: The Rural Life(non-fiction)

Ron Koertge: Coaltown Jesus(young adult)

Andrew Krivak: The Sojourn(fiction)

William Kent Krueger: OrdinaryGrace (fiction)

Anne Lamott: Traveling Mercies(memoir)

Amy Leach: Things That Are(non-fiction)

John Leax: Out Walking (poetry)

Bret Lott: Jewel (fiction)

Ashley Lucas: Razor Wire Women(non-fiction)

Peter Marty: The Anatomy of Grace (spirituality)

James McBride: The Good Lord Bird(fiction)

Okey Ndibe: Foreign Gods,Inc. (fiction, available January 2014)

Marilyn Nelson: Carver: A Life inPoems (poetry)

Mitali Perkins: Bamboo People (youngadult)

Peter Orner: Esther Stories(short stories)

Janisse Ray: The Seed Underground(non-fiction)

David Rhodes: Driftless (fiction)

Sarah Ruden: Paul Among the People(non-fiction)

Pam Muñoz Ryan: Esperanza Rising (youngadult)

Valerie Sayers: The Powers(fiction)

Jim Schaap: Romey’s Place: A Novel(fiction)

Luci Shaw: The Angels of Light (poetry)

Raymond Singer: Ground Operations:Battlefields to Farmfields (documentary)

Julia Spencer-Fleming: In theBleak Midwinter (mystery fiction)

Mary Szybist: Incarnadine(poetry)

Dan Taylor: Creating a SpiritualLegacy (spirituality)

Tom Troeger: Music as Prayer: TheTheology and Practice of Church Music (spirituality)

Miroslav Volf: A Public Faith(spirituality)

Jeanne Murray Walker: TheGeography of Memory (memoir)

Valerie Weaver-Zercher: Thrill ofthe Chaste (non-fiction)

G. Willow Wilson: Alif the Unseen(fiction)

Michele Wood: I See the Rhythm(children’s)

Gene Luen Yang: Boxers & Saints (graphic novel)