Books

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home" 

- Anna Quindlen

Anyone who knows me knows that my world would stop spinning without books. Here are a few of my favourites:

Contemporary Fiction

Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
Writers & Lovers - Lily King
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
State of Wonder - Ann Patchett
Crossing to Safety - Wallace Stegner
Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward

The Falconer - Dana Czapnik

Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead 

Deacon King Kong - James McBride

Classics

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The 'Anne' Series - L. M. Montgomery (Favourite in the series: Anne of the Island)

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell 

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

I'm Nobody! Who are you? - Emily Dickinson (Poems)

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 

Memoirs & Essays

On Trails - Robert Moor
Crazy Love - Francis Chan
Cold Tangerines - Shauna Niequist
Every Good Endeavour - Timothy Keller
Run with the Horses - Eugene Peterson
Bossypants - Tina Fey
Come Matter Here - Hannah Brencher
Surprised by Oxford - Carolyn Weber
A Circle of Quiet - Madeleine L'Engle
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl - Carrie Brownstein
Calypso - David Sedaris

(Layperson's) Theology

Liturgy of the Ordinary - Tish Harrison Warren

Prayer in the Night - Tish Harrison Warren

The Gospel Comes with a House Key - Rosaria Butterfield

God on Mute - Pete Greig

Run With the Horses - Eugene Peterson

The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis

Anonymous - Alicia Britt Chole