Best Contemporary Christian Fiction Books
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1. The Letter Keeper (A Murphy Shepherd Novel Book 2)
Author: by Charles Martin
B08NHX9L64
June 8, 2021
English
Combining heart-wrenching emotion with edge-of-your-seat tension, New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin explores the true power of sacrificial love. Murphy Shepherd has made a career of finding those no one else couldsurvivors of human trafficking. His life’s mission is helping others find freedom …
But then the nightmare strikes too close to home. When his new wife, her daughter, and two other teenage girls are stolen, Murphy is left questioning all he has thought to be true. With more dead ends than leads, he has no idea how to find his loved ones.
After everything is stripped away, love is what remains. Hope feels lost, but Murphy is willing to expend his last breath trying to bring them home. Praise for The Letter Keeper:A man broken by events beyond his control accepts the challenge to walk dark ways in order to bring the lost and helpless home, but he comes close to losing himself in the process.
Despite the hardship and heartache, Martin’s story shines with the light of eternal hope. Davis Bunn, writing for Christianity TodayIt is unequivocally, hands down, a remarkable read. It’s everything you want (and a whole lot more) from a sequel … Y’all better get ready.
2. The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity
Author: by William P. Young
Windblown Media
English
256 pages
Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.
Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant The Shack wrestles with the timeless question, “Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?” The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him.
You’ll want everyone you know to read this book!
3. When Crickets Cry
Author: by Charles Martin
B004S7XCTW
April 2, 2006
English
Charming characters and twists that keep the pages turning. Southern LivingA man with a painful past. A child with a doubtful future. And a shared journey toward healing for both their hearts. It begins on the shaded town square in a sleepy Southern town.
A spirited seven-year-old has a brisk business at her lemonade stand. But the little girl’s pretty yellow dress can’t quite hide the ugly scar on her chest. Her latest customer, a bearded stranger, drains his cup and heads to his car, his mind on a boat he’s restoring at a nearby lake.
The stranger understands more about the scar than he wants to admit. And the beat-up bread truck careening around the corner with its radio blaring is about to change the trajectory of both their lives. Before it’s over, they’ll both know there are painful reasons why crickets cry …
And that miracles lurk around unexpected corners. Praise for When Crickets Cry: A testament to the power of wordsfrom Shakespeare and Longfellow to Ezekielto heal and empower humanity. Lynne Thomas, retail manager, Jekyll Books at the Old InfirmaryIf you read any book this year, this is the one.
4. The Pilgrim's Progress: A Readable Modern-Day Version of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Revised and easy-to-read)
Author: by John Bunyan
English
236 pages
194848112X
The most readable version of Pilgrim’s Progress available! Reading The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan can be a bit challenging even for the best of readers. Not so with this new, easy-to-read version that translates the original archaic language into simple conversational English allowing readers of all ages to easily navigate the most popular Christian allegory of all time.
The story chronicles the epic adventure of a man named Christian who leaves his home in the City of Destruction and begins a life-long quest to the Celestial City. Set against the backdrop of a hazardous journey, this powerful drama unfolds as Christian’s adventures lead him into fascinating lands and encounters with interesting people who either help or hinder his progress along a narrow way.
With a gallery of memorable characters and visits to colorful places, Bunyan’s allegorical narrative describes one man’s extraordinary adventure on his journey to faith. Without losing any faithfulness to the original text, now you can read Bunyan’s timeless classic and reimagine this famous quest that has challenged and encouraged believers for centuries.
5. Long Way Gone
Author: by Charles Martin
B01CXE9UR4
Thomas Nelson
October 4, 2016
For anyone who has ever longed to go home again, Long Way Gone is a radical retelling of the prodigal son story that takes us from tent revivals to the Ryman Auditorium to the tender relationship between a broken man and the father who never stopped calling him home.
At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O’Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a six-string guitar and the bold wager that he had talent. But his wager soon proved foolish.
Five years after losing everything, he falls in love with Daley Cross, an angelic voice in need of a song. But just as he realizes his love for Daley, Cooper faces a tragedy that threatens his life as well as his career.
With nowhere else to go, he returns home to the remote Colorado mountains, searching for answers about his father and his faith. When Daley shows up on his street corner twenty years later, he wonders if it’s too late to tell her the truth about his pastand if he is ready to face it himself.
6. Even Now (Lost Love Series Book 1)
Author: by Karen Kingsbury
B000MAHCJU
Zondervan
September 9, 2008
A young woman seeking answers to her heart’s deepest questions. A young man longing for a long-lost love. A man and woman separated by lies and long years. With hallmark tenderness and power, New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury weaves a tapestry of lives, loss, love, and faithand the miracle of resurrection.
Shane Galanter is a man ready to put down roots after years of searching. But is he making the right choice? Or is there a woman somewhere who even now remembersas does hethose long-ago days … And a love that hasn’t faded with time?
Lauren Gibbs is a successful international war correspondent who gave up on happily-ever-after years agowhen it was ripped away from her. Since then, she’s never looked back. So why can’t she put to rest the one question that haunts her: Why is life so empty?
Emily Anderson is a college freshman raised by her grandparents and about to take her first internship as a journalist. But before she can move ahead, she discovers a love story with a tragic ending that came accompanied her birth.
7. Wrapped in Rain: A Novel
Author: by Charles Martin
B005HEEX84
September 5, 2011
English
An internationally famous photographer, Tucker Mason has traveled the world, capturing things other people don’t see. But what Tucker can’t see is how to let go of his traumatic childhood and forgive his father. On a sprawling Southern estate, Tucker and his younger brother, Mutt, were raised by their housekeeper, Miss Ella Rain, who loved the motherless boys like her own.
Hiring her to take care of Waverly Hall and the boys was the only good thing their abusive and alcoholic father ever did. When his brother escapes from a mental hospital and an old girlfriend appears with her son and a black eye, Tucker is forced to return home and face the agony of his tragic past.
Though Miss Ella has been gone for many years, Tucker can still hear her voiceand her prayers. “Life is a battle, but you can’t fight it with your fists. You got to fight it with your heart.” But finding peace and starting anew will take a measure of grace that Tucker scarcely believes in.
Wrapped in Rain follows Tucker’s journey from brokenness to healing through the everlasting power of love. Praise for Wrapped in Rain:”Charles Martin is changing the face of inspirational fiction one book at a time. Wrapped in Rain is a sentimental tale that is not to be missed.” Michael Morris, author of A Place Called Wiregrass and Live Like You Were Dying”This is the story of a real person’s real struggle with the uncertainties of faith, unadorned with miracles of the deus ex machina sort but full of the sort of miracles that attend everyday life if you bother to notice.
8. Chasing Fireflies: A Novel of Discovery
Author: by Charles Martin
B006IEFUNE
February 10, 2008
English
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mountain Between Us comes a powerful story about fishing, baseball, home cooking, and other matters of life and death … Never settle for less than the truth, she told him. On a stifling summer day, an old Chevy Impala ignored the warning signals and was annihilated by the oncoming train.
What no one realized until much later was that the driver had paused just before entering the tracks and kicked a small boy out of the car. A small boy with broken glasses who is clutching a notebook with all his might …
But who never speaks. Chase Walker was one of the lucky ones. He was in foster care as a child, but he finally ended up with a family who loved him and cared for him. Now, as a journalist for the local paper, he’s moved on and put the past behind him.
But when he’s assigned the story of this young boy, painful, haunting questions about his own childhood begin to rise to the surface. And as Chase Walker discovers, learning the truth about who you are can be as elusiveand as magicalas chasing fireflies on a summer night.
9. Dead Sea Rising: A Novel
Author: by Jerry B. Jenkins
B07NZ49S78
English
3044 KB
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jerry B. Jenkins comes a heart-stopping adventure of historical proportions. Nicole Berman is an archaeologist on the brink of a world-changing discovery. Preparing for her first dig in Jordan, she believes she has found concrete evidence of a biblical patriarch that could change history books forever.
But someone doesn’t want the truth revealed. While urgently trying to connect pieces of an ancient puzzle, a dangerous enemy is out to stop her.
11. Cormac McCarthy 3 Books Collection Set (The Road, Blood Meridian & No Country for Old Men)
Author: by Cormac McCarthy
English
1529064430
978-1529064438
Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively: Cormac McCarthy 3 Books Collection Set: The Road: A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast.
Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. They have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves against the men who stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food – and each other.
Blood Meridian: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
12. The Amish Quiltmaker's Unexpected Baby
Author: by Jennifer Beckstrand
B089NHZ8ZM
February 23, 2021
English
In the first in an engaging new series, an Amish quiltmaker moves from Pennsylvania to a new settlement in Colorado, where adventure, challenges, and love are waiting … Esther Zook is starting over after her father’s death, piecing together a new life with as much care as she puts into her intricate quilts.
When her wayward sister abandons her baby, it throws all those plans for a fresh start asunder. Esther had accepted her status as an old maidbut a mother? And a single one, at that? Not that she hasn’t noticed Levi Kiem, the eligible young man who’s making repairs in her house.
Yet he surely has no interest in Esther as anything other than a friend … It’s true that Levi has plenty of marriage prospects. His dat has even offered to send him to Ohio to find a wife. Yet the more time he spends with Esther, the more intrigued he becomes.
Feisty and independent, she’s nothing like the wife he once imagined for himself. Yet just as a quilt is crafted from contrasting cloth, they might find that together, they can create a family to cherish … Praise for Jennifer Beckstrand and Abraham This is an endearing romance that fans of Wanda Brunstetter will love.Publishers Weekly
13. Trial and Error
Author: by Robert Whitlow
English
432 pages
0785234659
A small-town lawyer has been searching for his daughter for eighteen years. Now another young woman is missing, and he’s determined to find them bothno matter the cost. Buddy Smith built his law practice around tracking down missing children. After all, he knows the agony of being separated from a child.
Not long after his daughter’s birth, her mother ran away and Buddy never saw either one again. Gracie Blaylock has known Buddy her entire life, and now that she is clerk of court for the county, their paths cross frequently.
When Gracie hears that a teenager in town has gone missing, she knows Buddy is the one for the case. The girl’s parents are desperate for answers. Together with Gracie and Mayleahthe new detective in townBuddy chases all leads, hoping to reach the missing teen before it’s too late.
And as he pursues one girl, he uncovers clues that could bring him closer to the girl he thought he lost forever: his own daughter. Master legal writer Robert Whitlow will keep you guessing in this gripping legal drama while reminding you of the power of God’s restoration.
14. Safely Home
Author: by Randy Alcorn
141434855X
English
406 pages
Is this the day I die? Li Quan asks himself this question daily, knowing that he might be killed for practicing his faith. American businessman Ben Fielding has no idea what his brilliant former college roommate is facing in China.
He expects his old friend has fulfilled his dream of becoming a university professor. But when they are reunited in China after twenty years, both men are shocked at what they discover about each other. Thrown together in an hour of encroaching darkness, both must make choices that will determine not only the destinies of two men, but two families, two nations, and two worlds.
15. A Single Day of Peace: An Inspirational Novel Revealing 50 Principles That Can Transform Your Life
Author: by Stephen D’Angelo
English
255 pages
1637460333
This inspirational novel was written to help people achieve a more happy and successful life while better connecting to their spirituality. To provide direction for anyone that is seeking self-improvement, growth, motivation, and more fulfillment from life. We all have parts of our lives that are flourishing and parts that need healing.
Things we would like to change and improve. The proper mindset and actions we put into these life circumstances make all the difference. The essence of the book is about the universal search we all undertake to find our true spirit, happiness, self-worth, and life success.
This search for self-realization often requires courage to challenge the status quo to find and be whom we are meant to be. The 50 success principles outlined provide direction for anyone that is seeking a more happy and successful life. WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT THIS BOOK:A Single Day of Peace takes the reader on a fictional journey between two seemingly opposite worlds: the corporate business landscape of New York City and the austere Catholic Church.
