
South Main Summer 2018 Reading List

Are you looking for some enriching reading for the summer? South Main's Discipleship Committee has polled our ministers and some fellow congregants to collect this terrific list of books for the upcoming vacation season. You’ll find all sorts of picks from the spiritually edifying and deeply educational to the pleasantly amusing and simply entertaining. We hope you’ll grab a few of these titles, some of which are in the church library, enjoy them this summer, and have some conversations in the upcoming months with those who have shared some of their favorite reads.
Jane Jefferies | Devotional | You are the Beloved by Henri Nouwen |
Jeanne Luedemann | Devotional | Listening to Your Life by Frederick Buechner |
Jeanne Luedemann | Devotional | Beyond Words by Frederick Buechner |
Carey Cannon | Fiction | Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett |
Jane Jefferies | Fiction | A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman |
Jeanne Luedemann | Fiction | The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber |
Chris Dove | Fiction | The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky |
Greg Funderburk | Fiction | Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin |
Greg Funderburk | Fiction | A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles |
Susan Moore | Non-Fiction | The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace by Gary Chapman and Paul White |
Carol Shattuck | Non-Fiction | Lincoln on Leadership by Donald P. Phillips |
Carol Shattuck | Non-Fiction | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann |
Steve Rader | Non-Fiction | Stories Jesus Still Tells - The Parables by John Claypool |
Greg Funderburk | Non-Fiction | The Road to Character by David Brooks |
Greg Funderburk | Non-Fiction | Being Mortal by Atul Gawande |
Jane Jefferies | Non-Fiction | My Southern Journey by Rick Bragg |
Dolores Rader | Non-Fiction | We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
Brad Jernberg | Non-Fiction | The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell |
Dolores Rader | Parenting | Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood by Lisa Damour |
Greg Funderburk | Poems | The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins |
Jane Jefferies | Spiritual | Telling Secrets by Frederick Buechner |
Dave Shattuck | Spiritual | The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering our Hidden Life in God by Dallas Willard |
Dave Shattuck | Spiritual | What's So Amazing about Grace? by Philip Yancey |
Greg Funderburk | Spiritual | At Eternity’s Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent Van Gogh by Kathleen Powers Ericson |
Greg Funderburk | Spiritual | I Asked for Wonder, A Spiritual Anthology by Abraham Joshua Heschel edited by Samuel H. Dresner |
Steve Wells | Spiritual | Simply Christian: Why the Gospel Makes Sense by N.T. Wright |
Steve Wells | Spiritual | How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels by N.T. Wright |
Steve Wells | Spiritual | Simply Good News: Why the Gospel is News and What makes it Good by N.T. Wright |
Steve Wells | Spiritual | Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness by Richard Hays |
Steve Wells | Spiritual | Thinking Through Paul: A Survey of His Life, Letters, and Theology by Todd D. Still |