I asked y’all to list your favorite book ever on this IG post and WOAH! Y’all left SO many options! I actually hadn’t planned on doing a post listing them out, but I know Instagram isn’t always the best place to source info from. I’m getting a post together on my favorite books of all time (and why I keep coming back to them) for next week, but in the meantime, I definitely wanted to share this list. Mainly because now I want to read SO many of these! I honestly haven’t heard of more than half of these and can’t wait to check them out.
Here are most of them (there were 300 responses but I tried to grab them all. Everything in bold was mentioned more than once.) Thank you for everyone who left their book and definitely let me know in the comments if y’all have read any of these!
- Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
- Educated by Tara Westover
- The Four Agreements
- You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
- Redeeming Love or Mark of the Lion series by Francine Rivers
- Everybody Always
- The Boys in the Boat
- East of Eden
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- The Goldfinch
- Outlanders Series
- The Great Alone
- Rules of Civility
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan
- Rebecca
- It’s Not Supposed to be This Way by Lysa Terkeurst
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffengger
- Jane Eyre
- The Great Alone
- The Kite Runner
- Pride and Prejudice
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- The Insanity of God
- The Help
- The Harry Potter Series
- The Bible
- The Alchemist
- Uninvited by Lysa Terkeurst
- To Kill A Mockingbird
- The Glass Castle
- Same Kind of Different As Me
- The Art of Racing in the Rain
- The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
- The Catcher in the Rye
- A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson
- Wild Mind
- The Thirteenth Tale
- The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
- Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxes
- Wait and See by Wendy Pope
- Count of Monte Cristo
- Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
- Atonement Child by Francine Rivers
- First We Have Coffee by Margaret Jensen
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- A Painted House by John Grisham
- Hope Heals by Katherine and Jay Wolf
- Last Painting of Sara De Vos
- Night by Elie Weisel
- English Garden series by Lori Wick
- Garden City by John Mark Comer
- The Wedding
- Sarah’s Key
- The Universe Has Your Back
- The Great Gatsby
- The Truest Thing About You
- A Little Life
- Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life by Elyse M Fitzpatrick
- The Red Queen series
- This Present Darkness
- The Dinner List
- Present Over Perfect
- Love Does by Bob Goff
- Pursuit of holiness
- The Prodigal Son (or basically anything ever) by Henri Nouwen
- A house in the sky
- Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
- Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
- The O’Malley Series by Dee Henderson
- Remember God by @anniefdowns
- Nineteen Minutes
- Tuesdays with Morrie
- How We Love
- Laws of POWER
- The Road to Character by David Brooks
- Bright Flows the River
- A Very Small Farm
- The Four Loves by CS Lewis
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- One Thousand Gifts by @annvoskamp
- The Horse Whisperer
- Asking for It by Louise O’Neill
- Year of Yes by Shondra Rhimes
- The Lake House by Kate Morton
- How to Win Friends and Influence people
- Anne of Green Gables
- The Sacred Search
- Wuthering Heights
- What Alice Forgot
- The Woman in Cabin 10
- Little Women
- Little Fires Everywhere
- “Thrive” by Ariana Huffington
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- In The Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
- The Defining Decade
- A Million Miles In A Thousand Years by Donald Miller
- Lean In
- Fresh Wind Fresh Fire by Jim Cymbala
- Spiritual Letters by Sister Wendy Beckett
- Story of a Soul by St. Thérèse
- Hinds Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard
- The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
- Eve by W. Paul Young
- The Series Of Unfortunate Events
- The Giver
- The Royal We
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- A tale of two cities
- All The Missing Girls
- Captivating by Stasi Eldredge
- Blue Sky July
- The Traveler’s Gift
- Behind Closed Doors by BA Paris
- April Gold by Grace Livingston Hill
- Where the Crawdads sing by Delia Owens
- What I Know for Sure by Oprah
- Flowers in the Attic
- Grace Not Perfection
- Case for Christ
- Beach Music by Pat Conroy
- The Language of Flowers
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- The Middle Place and Tell me More by @kellycorrigan
- A Complaint after World
- All the Light We Cannot See
- “Soul Keeping” by John Ortberg
- Narnia