Top 40 General Reading Books (since May 21, 2003)

As of August 4, 2003

5   Parenting with Scripture : a topical guide for teachable moments / Kara Durbin
4   The brother of Jesus : the dramatic story & meaning of the first archaeological link to Jesus & his family / Hershel Shanks & Ben Witherington, III
4   Zoya's story : an Afghan woman's struggle for freedom / Zoya with John Follain and Rita Cristofari
3   A promise a day : promises of peace from scripture / Mark Finley
3   As we set forth : Battle Creek College & Emmanuel Missionary College / Meredith Jones Gray
3   Coral seas / Roger Steene
3   First in his class : a biography of Bill Clinton / David Maraniss
3   Go down to silence : a novel / G.K. Belliveau
3   Leonardo da Vinci : artist, inventor, and scientist of the Renaissance / [Text] Francesca Romei ; illustrated by Sergio, and Andrea Ricciardi
3   The Life millennium : the 100 most important events & people of the past 1,000 years / [editor, Robert Friedman]
3   Lost discoveries : the ancient roots of modern science--from the Babylonians to the Maya / Dick Teresi
3   Men are like waffles, women are like spaghetti / Bill & Pam Farrel
3   The power of a praying parent / Stormie Omartian
3   Unshaken / Francine Rivers
3   Weddings
3   Why normal isn't healthy : how to find heart, meaning, passion, and humor on the road most traveled / Bowen Faville White
2   A city not forsaken / Lynn Morris & Gilbert Morris
2   All together in one place : a novel of kinship, courage, and faith / Jane Kirkpatrick
2   Born to be king : Prince William of Wales / text by Trevor Hall ; designed by Philip Clucas ; produced by Ted Smart and David Gibbon
2   Catch me if you can : the amazing true story of the youngest and most daring con man in the history of fun and profit / Frank W. Abagnale, Jr. ; with Stan Redding
2   Catherine's heart / Lawana Blackwell
2   Character matters! : raising kids with values that last / John & Susan Yates
2   The Clinton years : the photographs of Robert McNeely / introduction by Douglas Brinkley ; afterword by Robert McNeely
2   Collision with history : the search for John F. Kennedy's PT 109 / Robert D. Ballard, with Michael Hamilton Morgan ; introduction by senator Edward M. Kennedy
2   The confession / by Beverly Lewis
2   Do what you are : discover the perfect career for you through the secrets of personality type / Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger
2   Driven with the wind / Lynn Morris & Gilbert Morris
2   Every knee shall bow : the truth and tragedy of Ruby Ridge and the Randy Weaver family / Jess Walter
2   Every living thing / James Herriot
2   Everything I long for / Melody Carlson
2   The face of God / Bill Myers
2   Fat land : how Americans became the fattest people in the world / Greg Critser
2   Figure skating now : Olympic and world stars / Gerard Chataigneau & Steve Milton
2   Finding fish : a memoir / Antwone Quenton Fisher with Mim Eichler Rivas
2   Follow me : how to walk with Jesus every day / Miroslav M. Kis
2   Gilligan unbound : popular culture in the age of globalization / Paul A. Cantor
2   Girls : ordinary girls and their extraordinary pursuits / Jenny McPhee, Laura McPhee, Martha McPhee
2   Glimpses of grace : scenes from my journey, c2001
2   hagar : god's beloved stranger / hester thomsen
2   How much is enough? : hungering for God in an affluent culture / Arthur Simon
2   I raise my eyes to say yes / Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer and Steven B. Kaplan
2   In person : the Prince and Princess of Wales / Alastair Burnet ; photographs by Tim Graham
2   In the twilight, in the evening / Lynn Morris & Gilbert Morris
2   Island of the innocent / Lynn Morris & Gilbert Morris
2   Leota's garden / Francine Rivers
2   Let not your heart be troubled / Randy Maxwell
2   Lilia's haven / Kay D. Rizzo
2   Local heroes changing America : indivisible / edited by Tom Rankin with the Indivisible Project staff; foreword by Ray Suarez
2   The lost boy : a foster child's search for the love of a family / Dave Pelzer
2   The maiden of Mayfair / Lawana Blackwell
2   The map that changed the world : William Smith and the birth of modern geology / Simon Winchester ; [illustrations by Soun Vannithone]
2   Mars and Venus in the workplace : a practical guide for improving communication and getting results at work / John Gray
2   Mission pilot : high adventure in dangerous places : the David Gates story / Eileen E. Lantry
2   Necessary measures / Hannah Alexander
2   Not a sparrow falls / Linda Nichols
2   Piloting Palm : the inside story of Palm, Handspring, and the birth of the billion-dollar handheld industry / Andrea Butter & David Pogue
2   Prophecy made easy : experience the future now! / Glen Walker
2   The proposal / Lori Wick
2   Putting their hands in His : teaching children how to pray / Ruthie Jacobsen ; personal applications by Noelene Johnsson
2   Raising sons and loving it! : helping your boys become godly men / Gary and Carrie Oliver
2   Redeeming love / Francine Rivers
2   Reflections for ragamuffins : daily devotions from the writings of Brennan Manning / Brennan Manning ; edited by Ann McMath Weinheimer
2   Renaissance / Alison Cole
2   The rescue / Lori Wick
2   Sacred honor : a biography of Colin Powell / by David Roth
2   Shattered dreams : God's unexpected pathway to joy / Larry Crabb
2   Silent pledge / Hannah Alexander
2   Somewhere a song / Judith Pella
2   Stories we heard about joy on our trip across America / Bruce Bickel & Stan Jantz
2   The treasury of clean church jokes / Tal D. Bonham
2   Understanding the man in your life / H. Norman Wright
2   Unspoken / Francine Rivers
2   What once we loved : a sisterhood of friendship and faith / Jane Kirkpatrick
2   Where two seas met / Lynn Morris, Gilbert Morris
2   Wild grows the heather in Devon / Michael Phillips
1   100 ways to teach your child about God / by Karyn Henley
1   20 communication tips for families : a 30-minute guide to a better family relationship / Eric Maisel
1   A child called "It" : one child's courage to survive / Dave Pelzer
1   A Day in the life of California / photographed by 100 of the world's leading photojournalists on one day, April 29, 1988 ; [project directors, Rick Smolan and David Cohen]
1   A Day in the life of Canada : photographed by 100 of the world's leading photojournalists on June 8, 1984 / project directors, Rick Smolan and David Cohen
1   A Day in the life of Hawaii / photographed by 50 of the world's leading photojournalists on December 2, 1983 ; project directors, Rick Smolan and David Cohen
1   A Day in the life of Italy / photographed by 100 of the world's leading photojournalists on one day, April 27, 1990
1   A day in the life of Spain / photographed by 100 of the world's leading photojournalists on one day, May 7, 1987 / [directores del projecto: Rick Smolan y David Cohen]
1   A Day in the life of the Soviet Union / photographed by 100 of the world's leading photojournalists on one day, May 15, 1987 ; project directors, Rick Smolan and David Cohen
1   A dream of the tattered man : stories from Georgia's death row / Randolph Loney
1   A fine and pleasant misery / Patrick F. McManus ; edited and with an introd. by Jack Samson
1   A friend in need-- : how to help when times are tough / Sol Gordon
1   A gentle thunder : hearing God through the storm / Max Lucado
1   A man named Dave : a story of triumph and forgiveness / Dave Pelzer
1   A marriage made in heaven-- or, too tired for an affair / Erma Bombeck
1   A new dawn over Devon / Michael Phillips
1   A painted house / by John Grisham
1   A place to come home to / Melody Carlson
1   A voice in the wind / Francine Rivers
1   Adventist family traditions to bless your heart and home : making memories that last a lifetime / Celeste Perrino Walker
1   The Afghans / Willem Vogelsang
1   American road : the story of an epic transcontinental journey at the dawn of the motor age / Pete Davies
1   Among the gently mad : perspectives and strategies for the book hunter in the twenty-first century / Nicholas A. Basbanes
1   An illustrated treasury of song : The National Gallery of Art
1   And when you pray : the deeper meaning of the Lord's prayer / Ray Pritchard
1   Ava's man / Rick Bragg
1   Baby minds : brain-building games your baby will love / Linda Acredolo and Susan Goodwyn
1   Bad news : where the press goes wrong in the making of the president / Robert Shogan
1   Bake your own bread / by Floss and Stan Dworkin ; illustrations by Floss Romm Dworkin
1   Before the deluge : the vanishing world of the Yangtze's Three Gorges / Deirdre Chetham
1   Before the Flood : understanding the biblical flood story as recalling a real-life event / Ian Wilson
1   Behind the seen / Larry Lichtenwalter
1   The beloved land / Janette Oke & T. Davis Bunn
1   Biohazard : the chilling true story of the largest covert biological weapons program in the world, told from the inside by the man who ran it / Ken Alibek with Stephen Handelman
1   The birth order book : why you are the way you are / Kevin Leman
1   Blood of the prophets : Brigham Young and the massacre at Mountain Meadows / Will Bagley
1   The Blue Bottle Club / Penelope J. Stokes
1   Book of common prayer|The daily book of common prayer : readings and prayers through the year / compiled by Owen Collins
1   Color : a natural history of the palette / Victoria Finlay
1   Corvette : fifty years / written by Randy Leffingwell; photographed by Randy Leffingwell and David Newardt
1   The covenant / by Beverly Lewis
1   Cuba : picturing change / photographs by E. Wright Ledbetter ; essays by Louis A. Perez, Jr. and Ambrosio Fornet
1   Cut the clutter and stow the stuff : the Q.U.I.C.K. way to bring lasting order to household chaos / edited by Lori Baird
1   Dana's valley / by Janette Oke, Laurel Oke Logan
1   Dangerous diplomacy : the story of Carl Lutz : Rescuer of 62,000 Hungarian Jews / Theo Tschuy ; foreward by Simon Wiesenthal
1   The dark room / Rachel Seiffert
1   The dating trap : helping your children make wise choices in their relationships / Martha Ruppert
1   Daughter of China / by C. Hope Flinchbaugh
1   David's secret demons : messiah, murderer, traitor, king / Baruch Halpern
1   Davita's harp / Chaim Potok
1   The distant beacon / Janette Oke & T. Davis Bunn
1   Do not be sad : a chronicle of healing : children's letters and artwork sent after 9/11 from across America to Engine 24 Ladder 5 FDNY
1   The dowry of Miss Lydia Clark / Lawana Blackwell
1   Egypt / [main contributors, Jane Dunford ... et al.]
1   Eve's daughters / Lynn Austin
1   Events that shaped the century / by the editors of Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia ; with a foreword by Buzz Aldrin
1   Ever after : Diana and the life she led / Anne Edwards
1   Extending your heritage / J. Otis Ledbetter & Randy Scott
1   Fall in love, stay in love / Willard F. Harley, Jr
1   Finders keepers / Catherine Palmer
1   Five quarters of the orange / Joanne Harris
1   Flags of our fathers / James Bradley with Ron Powers
1   Focus on the Family presents great stories remembered III / compiled and edited by Joe L. Wheeler
1   Four sisters of Hofei : a history / Annping Chin
1   Freefall / William Hoffer and Marilyn Mona Hoffer
1   Fresh power : experiencing the vast resources of the spirit of God / Jim Cymbala, with Dean Merrill
1   God's little devotional book for the class of 2001
1   God's most precious jewels are crystalized tears / Barbara Johnson
1   Google hacks / Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest
1   Grace at 30,000 feet and other unexpected places / Kent Hansen
1   The grasshopper trap / Patrick F. McManus
1   Hannah's prayer and its answer : an exposition for Bible study / Ronald S. Wallace
1   Happy Mondays : putting the pleasure back into work / Richard Reeves
1   He chose the nails : what God did to win your heart / Max Lucado
1   Heart to heart stories of love / compiled and edited by Joe L. Wheeler
1   Heathersleigh homecoming / Michael Phillips
1   Herbs & spices / Jill Norman ; photography, Dave King
1   Hidden places : a novel / Lynn N. Austin
1   The hiding place / Trezza Azzopardi
1   How to get your husband to talk to you / Nancy Cobb, Connie Grigsby
1   The hyperactivity hoax / Sydney Walker III
1   I could do anything if I only knew what it was : how to discover what you really want and how to get it / Barbara Sher with Barbara Smith
1   If success is a game, these are the rules : ten rules for a fulfilling life / Cherie Carter-Scott
1   In search of the mountain of God : the discovery of the real Mt. Sinai / Robert Cornuke and David Halbrook
1   Ina May's guide to childbirth / Ina May Gaskin
1   The incredible four-year adventure : finding real faith, fun, and friendship at college / John Yates and Chris Yates
1   Into the tangle of friendship : a memoir of the things that matter / Beth Kephart
1   Invitation to a royal wedding / by Kathryn Spink ; foreword by Alan Webster
1   King : the photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Charles Johnson & Bob Adelman ; photo editor & historian, Robert Phelan ; editor, Mary Beth Brewer ; designed by Will Hopkins & Mary K. Baumann
1   Lifestyles of the remnant / Keavin Hayden
1   Living beyond the daily grind : reflections on the songs and sayings in scripture / Charles R. Swindoll
1   Love taking shape : sermons on the Christian life / Gilbert Meilaender
1   Madeleine Albright and the new American diplomacy / Thomas W. Lippman
1   Martha to the max! : balanced living for perfectionists / Debi Stack
1   Meeting God at every turn : a personal family story / Catherine Marshall
1   The meeting place / Janette Oke & T. Davis Bunn
1   Men and friendship / Stuart Miller
1   Mere Christianity : a revised and amplified edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, Broadcast talks, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality / C.S. Lewis
1   My pride and joy / George Adamson
1   The myth of the American superhero / John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett
1   No eye can see : a novel of kinship, courage, and faith / Jane Kirkpatrick
1   No more broken strings : the Jaime Jorge story / Jaime Jorge
1   Not without my daughter : a true story / by Betty Mahmoody with William Hoffer
1   Notes from the pianist's bench / Boris Berman
1   The nurse's story / by Carol Gino
1   Opening your child's spiritual windows : ideas to nuture your child's relationship with God / Cheri Fuller
1   Opposites attract|I love you, but why are we so different? / Tim LaHaye
1   The Orion mystery : unlocking the secrets of the Pyramids / Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert
1   Out of the hot tub, into the world : the cure for comfort-zone Christianity / Karl Haffner
1   Parenting in the pew : guiding your children into the joy of worship / Robbie Castleman ; foreword by Ruth Bell Graham
1   Pearl's secret : a Black man's search for his white family / Neil Henry
1   Plundering paradise : the hand of man on the Galapagos islands / Michael D'Orso
1   Pretense : [a novel] / Lori Wick
1   Quest for adventure : ultimate feats of modern exploration / Chris Bonington
1   Rachel's tears : the spiritual journey of Columbine martyr Rachel Scott / Darrell Scott and Beth Nimmo with Steve Rabey
1   Raising resilient children : fostering strength, hope, and optimism in your child / Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein
1   Ratty bathrobes, cranky kids, and other romantic moments : moving your marriage from simmer to sizzle ; Tamyra Horst
1   Real family values : leading your family into the 21st century with clarity and conviction / by Robert Lewis
1   The real James Herriot : a memoir of my father / Jim Wight
1   The reckoning / Beverly Lewis
1   Red sorrow : a memoir / by Nanchu
1   The remember box / Patricia Sprinkle
1   Rise to rebellion / Jeff Shaara
1   Sacred trust / by Hannah Alexander
1   Scuba diving / Claire Walter
1   Second opinion / Hannah Alexander
1   Secret place of thunder / Lynn Morris & Gilbert Morris
1   Sew it yourself home decorating : creative ideas for beautiful interiors
1   Shades of light / Melody Carlson
1   Shadow of the mountains / Lynn Morris, Gilbert Morris
1   Share Jesus without fear / by William Fay with Linda Evans Shepherd
1   Should I get married? / M. Blaine Smith
1   The shunning / Beverly Lewis
1   Solemn oath / Hannah Alexander
1   Someone to belong to / Melody Carlson
1   Spiritual leadership : moving people on to God's agenda / Henry & Richard Blackaby
1   The St. Matthew passion : a text for voices / John Reeves
1   The stars for a light / Lynn Morris & Gilbert Morris
1   Stasia's gift / Brian and Alsie Kelley, with Mark Littleton
1   Stolen lives : twenty years in a desert jail / Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi ; translated by Ros Schwartz
1   Stories from beyond the edge : going where Christ is not known/ Sarah Coleman Kelnhofer, editor
1   Stories we heard about courage on our trip across America / Bruce Bickel & Stan Jantz
1   Stories we heard about hope on our trip across America / Bruce Bickel & Stan Jantz
1   Stories we heard about love on our trip across America / Bruce Bickel & Stan Jantz
1   The story jar / Robin Lee Hatcher, Angela Elwell Hunt, Deborah Bedford
1   The story of Ruth : twelve moments in every woman's life / Joan D. Chittister ; art by John August Swanson
1   The sunflower / Simon Wiesenthal ; with a symposium
1   The survival guide for christians on campus : how to be students and disciples at the same time / Tony Campolo, William Willimon
1   The tale of the rose : the passion that inspired The little prince / Consuelo de Saint-Exupery ; translated by Esther Allen
1   This American river : five centuries of writing about the Connecticut / edited by W.D. Wetherell
1   Tibet : the secret continent / Michel Peissel
1   Till my tale is told : women's memoirs of the Gulag / edited by Simeon Vilensky ; translated by John Crowfoot ... [et al.]
1   Time lord : Sir Sandford Fleming and the creation of standard time / Clark Blaise
1   The Titus diary / Gene Edwards
1   Tongue in check|The weight of your words : measuring the impact of what you say / Joseph M. Stowell
1   Toward the sunrising / Lynn Morris & Gilbert Morris
1   Traveling light : releasing the burdens you were never intended to bear / Max Lucado
1   Treasured recipes : 200 prizewinning dishes from America's hometown cooks / [editor, Kristi M. Fuller]
1   Trial by ice : the true story of murder and survival on the 1871 Polaris expedition / Richard Parry
1   True devotion / Dee Henderson
1   Tugging on God's hand : stories you love from Women of spirit / Penny Estes Wheeler, editor
1   Unafraid / Francine Rivers
1   The undoing of death : sermons for Holy Week and Easter / Fleming Rutledge
1   Unveiled / Francine Rivers
1   Wayward winds / Michael Phillips
1   The weight of glory and other addresses / C.S. Lewis
1   When all alone I stand : the story of a soldier whose convictions cost him a mother's love / Jan S. Doward
1   When all else fails-- read the instructions / James W. Moore
1   When death isn't fair : coping with overwhelming grief / Joy Swift
1   When I was a young man : a memoir / Bob Kerrey
1   Who moved my cheese? : an amazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life / Spencer Johnson
1   Why can't we get along? : healing adult sibling relationships / Peter Goldenthal
1   Why Jesus waits : how the sanctuary message explains the delay in the Second Coming / Herbert E. Douglass
1   Why religion matters : the fate of the human spirit in an age of disbelief / Huston Smith
1   The widow of Larkspur Inn / Lawana Blackwell
1   Wild at heart : discovering the passionate soul of a man / John Eldredge
1   Wings of refuge / Lynn Austin
1   Witnesses through trial|Yet will I serve Him : stories of great faith through adversity / Marvin Moore
1   Written on the wind / by Judith Pella
1   Zlata's diary : a child's life in Sarajevo / Zlata Filipovic ; with an introduction by Janine Di Giovanni ; translated with notes by Christina Pibichevich-Zoric
1   Zoo : a history of zoological gardens in the West / Eric Baratay and Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier