Marriage books
The Surprising Secrets of Highly Successful Marriages by Shaunti Feldhahn
You and Me Forever by Francis Chan
For Men Only/ For Women Only by Shaunti Feldhahn
Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman
Romancing Your Husband/Wife by White-Smith
The 5 Love Languages by Chapman
If Only He Knew by Smalley (for men)
The Language of Love by Smalley and Trent
Great books for parents, in general:
Don’t Make Me Count to Three by Ginger Plowman
Transforming the Difficult Child by Howard Glasser and Jennifer Easley
The Well Versed Family by Caroline Boykin
Shepherding a Child’s Heart by Trip
The Blessing by Gary Smalley & John Trent
Why Christian Teens Rebel by Tim Kimmel
Raising Kids for True Greatness by Tim Kimmel
The Last Child in the Woods by Louv
Great Books for parents of boys:
Bringing Up Boys by James Dobson
Raising a Modern Day Knight by Robert Lewis
Compleat Gentleman by Miner
King Me by Steve Farrar
The Gauntlet by me, Chris Legg
Great books for parents of girls:
Mothers & Daughters by Gary Chapman
She Calls me Daddy by Wolgemuth
Keeping a Princess Heart by Johnson
Do You Think I’m Beautiful by Thomas
Great books for teen boys and their dads to read together:
Who Moved the Goalpost? by Gresh
The Hidden Value of a Man by Gary Smalley & John Trent
Tender Warrior by Stu Weber
Great books for teen girls and their moms to read together:
And the Bride Wore White by Gresh
Captivating by John Eldredge
Becoming a Woman of Excellence by Cynthia Heald
Disorders
ADD: Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception by Thom Hartmann. (www.thomhartmann.com)
Narcissism: The World According to Me Wilson & Emotional Blackmail by Forward
Borderline: I Hate You Don’t Leave Me by Kreisman
Other recommendations for Women
A Chance to Die by E. Elliot
Any studies by Beth Moore
The Fragrance of Beauty by Landorf
Books for kids to read that we have liked:
The Redwall Books by Jacques
Little House series by L. Ingalls Wilder
The FableHaven Series by Brandon Mull
The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson
The Chronicles of Narnia by Lewis
Robot Wars by Sigmund Brouwer
Holes by Sachar
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory by Dahl
Harry Potter Series by Rowling
A Wrinkle in Time by L’Engle
The Hobbit (and the Lord of the Ring Series) by Tolkein
Robert Louis Stevenson books
H.G. Wells books
Many of Robert Heinlein’s books for kids are excellent. Make completely sure it is a book for kids, though. His adult fiction can be very adult.
Pendragon Cycle Books by Stephen Lawhead (Christian author, but for older boys bc of violence)
The biography series called “Childhood of famous Americans”
