Summer Reading List


Welcome to St. John's Summer Reading list! 
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Books you recommended:

  • Sensible Shoes by Sharon Garlough Brown
  • The Cousins of the Dove book series by Mindy Stearns Clarke
  • The Six Conversations: Pathways to Connection in an Age of Isolation and Incivility by Heather Holleman
  • Interstellar Bag Man by Alan Root Robertson
  • Nero Wolfe Mysteries by Rex Stout
  • The Mitford Series by Jan Karon
  • Any publication by Fannie Flagg by Fannie Flag
  • Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan
  • A Praying Life by Paul E. Miller
  • The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
  • What Is the Mission of the Church? by Kevin DeYoung & Greg Gilbert 
  • Evangelism: How the Whole Church Speaks of Jesus by J. Mack Stiles
  • The Princess Bride by William Goldman 
  • Fawkes by Nadine Brandes 
  • The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic by Jennifer Trafton
  • The Arrival by Shaun Tan 
  • The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
  • The Dragon Lord Saga by Jonny Jimison 
  • When Going on a Dragon Hunt by Mark T. Collins, illustrated by Jonny Jimison
  • The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd 
  • The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson 
  • A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza 
  • Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
  • The Gospel Comes with a House Key by Rosaria Butterfield 
  • Art of War by Sun Tzu 
  • The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald R 
  • The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt 
  • A Place Called Simplicity by Claire Cloninger 
  • The Friendships of Women by Dee Brestin 
  • Back Home in Williamson County by Lyn Sullivan Pewitt 
  • Art + Faith by Makoto Fujimura 
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré 
  • Every Moment Holy by Douglas McKelvey 
  • Ordinary Saints Living Everyday Life to the Glory of God by Douglas McKelvey
  • Becoming by Beholding by Lanta Davis 
  • Love Thy Body by Nancy R. Pearcey
  • Anglican Spirituality: An Introduction by Greg Peters
  • Grace Based Parenting by Dr. Tim Kimmel 
  • The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese 
  • Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano 
  • A Season for That by Steve Hoffman 
  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 
  • The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 
  • Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
  • The Thursday Murder Club Mystery series by Richard Osman
  • Burial Rites by Hannah Kent 
  • Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
  • The 7 1⁄2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
  • Sum It Up - Pat Summitt
  • The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County - Claire Swimarski