As promised, here are some great books I recommend as you prepare your 2011 reading lists! I’m sure I’m missing a whole bunch of other favorites, but this list is at least a start!
Biblical Womanhood
Lies Women Believe and the Truth that Sets Them Free by Nancy Leigh DeMoss (there is also one called Lies Young Women Believe for teen girls)
Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World by Joanna Weaver
Biblical Manhood and Womanhood edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem
Dating/Courtship/Preparing for Marriage
Boy Meets Girl by Joshua Harris
Of Knights and Fair Maidens by Jeff Myers
I, Isaac, Take Thee Rebeckah by Ravi Zacharias
Passion and Purity by Elisabeth Elliot
Marriage
When Sinners Say “I Do” by Dave Harvey
Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas
The Excellent Wife by Martha Peace
Sheet Music by Kevin Lehman
Parenting
Don’t Make Me Count to Three by Ginger Plowman
Gospel Powered Parenting by William Farley
Loving the Little Years: Motherhood in the Trenches by Rachel Jankovic
Parenting in the Pew by Robbie Castleman
General/Other
Humility by C.J. Mahaney
Just Do Something by Kevin DeYoung (about biblical decision making)
Get More Done in Less Time by Donna Otto
Hinds Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard
Tad’s Top Picks – Non-fiction
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kirkeguaard
Just Do Something by Kevin DeYoung
Desiring God by John Piper
Grasping God’s Word by J. Scott Duvall and J. Daniel Hayes
Conversing with the Emerging Church by D.A. Carson
Tad’s Top Picks – Fiction
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkein
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkein
