Christian fiction
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Adult fictionWar in the Wasteland
by Douglas Bond 273 pages / 2016 RATING: Gift “Second Lieutenant C.S. Lewis in the trenches of WWI” – if that doesn’t grab you, I…
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Book ReviewsInnocent Heroes: Stories of animals in the First World War
by Sigmund Brouwer 2017 / 186 pages RATING: Gift Animals had a way bigger role in WWI than you probably ever realized. Sigmund Brouwer’s fantastic…
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Book ReviewsPiet Prins’ Wambu trilogy
Wambu: the Chieftain’s Son Wambu: In the Valley of Death Wambu: Journey to Manhood by Piet Prins 2025 / each 350-ish pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT Cannibals,…
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Book ReviewsProject Artifact: the Spear
by Trey Bowling & Lori Fausak 2025 / 169 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Gift As the author confidently declared, “Project Artifact: the Spear is going to be the…
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Adult fictionEve’s Daughters
by Lynn Austin 1999 / 432 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give This book was recommended to me by a good friend. I was a little skeptical (Christian women’s…
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Book lists50 “Great Books”
What are the “Great Books”? There is no one list, but the term is meant to describe a compilation of classics from Western Literature. Some…
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Book ReviewsSleuth Family Robinson: fighting evil around the world
by Christopher P.N. Maselli 2025 / 160 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Gift The Robinsons are an undercover spy family working for the UK. When someone hacks the British…
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Book ReviewsThe Found Boys
by S.D. Smith 2024 / 172 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT Author S.D. Smith is best known for his rabbits-with-swords Green Ember series, and while this is…
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Adult fictionWhere the blue sky begins
by Katie Powner 2022 / 343 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give The back cover pitched this as, quirky dying woman meets confident cute guy. Hmmm…. I don’t know…
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Book ReviewsMooses with Bazookas
by S.D. Smith 2023 / 160 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT I liked this book so much that right after I finished it, I read it again,…
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Adult fictionThe Dark Harvest Trilogy
The Dark Faith 368 pages / 2012 by Jeremiah W. Montgomery The Scarlet Bishop 304 pages / 2013 by Jeremiah W. Montgomery The Threefold Cord…
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Adult fictionShoofly Pie
by Tim Downs 2003 / 371 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Did you know that insects have been known to help solve murder investigations? One of the…
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Book ReviewsSir Badalot and the Cranky Danky Dragon
by Rachel Jankovic Illustrated by Forrest Dickison 32 pages / 2022 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give “Now this cranky danky dragon Liked to drink a dragon whine That he…
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Book ReviewsHostage Lands
by Douglas Bond 2006 / 235 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give “When am I ever going to use this?” It’s a question that comes up frequently in…
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Adult fictionWinterflight
by Joseph Bayly 1981 / 216 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give In this dystopian novel, Joseph Bayly takes us to a not-so-distant future in which abortion for…
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Adult fictionThe White Rose Resists: a novel of the German students who defied Hitler
by Amanda Barratt 2020 / 320 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give In Amanda Barratt’s novel The White Rose Resists, a candle is being lit in the midst of…
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Book listsChristian fantasy after Tolkien: a Top 10
If your kids are just gobbling books, and have already worked their way through all 7 books of Lewis’s Narnia, then what’s next? If you’ve…
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Book ReviewsUrchin of the Riding Stars
by M.I. McAllister 2021 / 299 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This was so good I just had to read bits of it out loud to my…
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Book ReviewsThe Secret Code
by Coen Hartman 1980 / 195 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Hank and Dick are two average teenagers who dive into the deep end of adventure and espionage….
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Adult fictionFather Brown and the Ten Commandments: Selected Mystery Stories
by G.K. Chesterton 2017 / 249 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give An heiress of a large fortune has fallen to her death, and suicide seems the obvious explanation….
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Adult fictionThe Battle for Seattle
by Douglas Bond 2016 / 303 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Even Canadians have probably heard of Paul Revere’s daring midnight ride to Lexington, Massachusetts…but have you heard…
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Book ReviewsThe Hobgoblins: a novel on John Bunyan
by Douglas Bond 2020 / 268 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give There are people who carry out such heinous acts and live such immoral lives that we’d think,…
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Adult fictionThe Gospel Blimp (And Other Parables)
by Joe Bayly 2013 / 155 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give We all have people in our lives that we should share the Gospel with but we…
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Book ReviewsAfterwards I Knew: stories from the First and Second World Wars
by Christine Farenhorst 2010, 208 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give When it comes to this author, I am not an objective reviewer – I love every story Christine…
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Adult fictionLetters Along The Way, from a Senior Saint to a Junior Saint
by D.A. Carson & John Woodbridge 2022 / 373 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Christians have long had the chance, in C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, to eavesdrop…
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Adult fictionSugar Birds
by Cheryl Grey Bostrom2021 / 328 Pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give This page-turner takes place in the Pacific Northwest, a little north of Seattle, and tells the story of two girls…
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Book ReviewsThe Charlatan’s Boy
by Jonathan Rogers 2010/ 305 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give I love love loved Jonathan Rogers’ Wilderking Trilogy, a children’s fantasy series that echoes the story of David…
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Adult fictionThe Journey
A Spiritual Roadmap for Modern Pilgrims by Peter Kreeft 1996 / 128 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This is an allegorical journey, reminiscent of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s…
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Book ReviewsThe New Has Come
by Christine Farenhorst 2022 / 262 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give I’ve seen another reviewer suggest that this might be Christine Farenhorst’s best book yet, and I…
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Book ReviewsMedallion
by Dawn L. Watkins 1985 / 213 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give This will be a fun one for Grade 4/5 boys. Young Trave plans to be king one…
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Book ReviewsIn the Hall of the Dragon King
by Stephen Lawhead 1982 / 370 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This is an old-fashioned fantasy tale, with a loosely Christian underpinning. Quentin is a young man…
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Adult fictionThe Last Disciple
by Sigmund Brouwer and Hank Hanegraaff 2004 / 428 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give It’s the year 65 AD, and Gallus Sergius Vitas is one of the…
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Adult fictionEvening Star
by Sigmund Brouwer 2000 / 317 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Set on the 1870s American frontier, this might at first glance seem to be a Western. But…
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Book lists30+ Christian fiction suggestions for your 10-15-year-old boys
I was recently asked for some reading suggestions for boys aged 10-15. This is when boys can sometimes stop reading, so I didn’t want to…
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Book ReviewsScout: The Mystery of the Abandoned Mill
by Piet Prins 1982 / 127 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Piet Prins’ Scout: The Mystery of the Abandoned Mill is a book for all ages. It’s the…
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Book ReviewsOn the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
by Andrew Peterson 284 pages / 2008 Rating: Good/Great/GIFT My wife hasn’t read this book, but she enjoyed it too. As I made my way…
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Book ReviewsThe Bark of the Bog Owl
by Jonathan Rogers 2014 / 248 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT Our hero, Aidan Errolson, is a medium-sized twelve-year-old with dreams that are far bigger. When we…
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Book ReviewsEcho Island: the silence holds a secret
by Jared C. Wilson 251 pages / 2020 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give After celebrating their high school graduation with one last group camping trip, four friends return home…
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Book ReviewsJourney Through the Night
by Anne De Vries 372 pages / 1951 Rating: Good/Great/GIFT Christian writers these days, they just don’t know subtlety. They write miraculous stories where the…
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Book ReviewsBell Mountain
by Lee Duigon 267 pages / 2010 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Jack and Ellayne are two children on a mission from God: they are going to ring the…
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Adult fictionChasing Shadows
432 pages / 2021 by Lynn Austin Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Chasing Shadows takes place in WWII Holland and is a novel about choices and consequences. Miriam, a…
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Adult fictionA better brand of Christian historical fiction
As a history buff, historical fiction has long been one of my favorite genres. Unfortunately, I rarely read fiction anymore, as much of modern historical…
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Adult fictionDawn of Wonder
by Jonathan Renshaw 2015 / 708 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT This might, at first glance, seem to be your typical boy-meets-girl, boy-dares-girl-to-jump-off-of-a-thousand-foot-high-bridge-into-the-icy-cold-stream-below-and-girl-shows-him-up-by-actually-doing-it story. And, as many a…
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Adult fictionThe Auschwitz Escape
by Joel C. Rosenberg 2014 / 461 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Joel Rosenberg is a fantastic writer, a New York Times best-seller, but his political thrillers…
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Adult fictionFlags out front
A Contrarian’s Daydream by Douglas Wilson 196 pages / 2017 Rating: Good/Great/GIFT In Flags out Front, Douglas Wilson has crafted something that is as inspirational as…
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Book ReviewsIn Grandma’s Attic
by Arleta Richardson 1974 / 144 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT When Arleta was a little girl she would visit her grandma, where she’d play up in…
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Book ReviewsThe Green Ember
by S.D. Smith 365 pages / 2015 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give “Rabbits with swords” – it’s an irresistible combination, and all I had to say to get…
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Book excerptsWhen C.S. Lewis was an atheist…
An excerpt from Douglas Bond’s novel War in the Wasteland Editor’s note: This excerpt takes place during a prolonged Germany artillery barrage that has the…
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Book ReviewsHunger Winter
by Rob Currie 2020 / 236 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Author Rob Currie drops his readers right into the action in the opening scene, with an anxious…
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Adult non-fiction3 ways of confronting the problem of diminishing attention spans through the Great Books
How many books do you finish? How many blog posts do you really read? I am guessing that you, like me, are busy and are…
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Adult fictionThe Winter King
by Christine Cohen 351 pages / 2019 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give 15-year-old Cora lives in a time of horses, and swords, and meat pies. It’s also a…
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Adult fictionThe Seraph’s Path
by Neil Dykstra 2019 / 475 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Maybe I should have gotten someone else to review this, what with me sharing the same…
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Articles – BooksAfter Lewis and Tolkien
A conversation about Christian Fantasy with Bell Mountain author Lee Duigon It’s hard to believe but C.S. Lewis has been gone from this earth long…
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Adult fictionLord Foulgrin’s and Screwtape’s letters: why you should read this devilish correspondence
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis 1942 / 200 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Lord Foulgrin’s Letters by Randy Alcorn 2001 / 208 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Normally,…
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Book lists3 provocative, powerful, PG-rated, dystopian novels
The best dystopian books warn us of an undesirable future that seems far too likely for our peace of mind. The most famous examples are 1984…
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Adult fictionThe Man in the Dark
by Douglas Wilson 258 pages / 2019 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Some books only merit a quick read, others should be slowly savored, and a select few are…
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Book ReviewsHonoring God’s name in Christian fiction
“I didn’t expect the person killing me to yawn with boredom.” As opening lines go, this has to be one of the best. It’s from…
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Book ReviewsWings of Dawn
by Sigmund Brouwer 1999 / 456 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Why would anyone go through all the trouble of building an immensely strong castle in the…
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Adult fictionWhen Crickets Cry
by Charles Martin 2006 / 352 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give He is unkempt, a recluse, and heartsick. She is a pale thin young girl with a very…