34+ of Your Favorite Books About Faith and Doubt
This giveaway is sponsored by Eden West by Pete Hautman.
Tackling faith, doubt, and transformation, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman explores a boy’s unraveling allegiance to an insular cult.
Twelve square miles of paradise, surrounded by an eight-foot-high chain-link fence: this is Nodd, the land of the Grace. It is all seventeen-year-old Jacob knows. Beyond the fence lies the World, a wicked, terrible place, doomed to destruction. When the Archangel Zerachiel descends from Heaven, only the Grace will be spared the horrors of the Apocalypse. But something is rotten in paradise. A wolf invades Nodd, slaughtering the Grace’s sheep. A new boy arrives from outside, and his scorn and disdain threaten to tarnish Jacob’s contentment. Then, while patrolling the borders of Nodd, Jacob meets Lynna, a girl from the adjoining ranch, who tempts him to sample the forbidden Worldly pleasures that lie beyond the fence. Jacob’s faith, his devotion, and his grip on reality are tested as his feelings for Lynna blossom into something greater and the End Days grow ever closer. Eden West is the story of two worlds, two hearts, the power of faith, and the resilience of the human spirit.
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The best books tackle the biggest questions, and there are few questions bigger than those surrounding faith and doubt. Characters struggling with those questions captive us, no matter what conclusions they come to (if they even come to any). So for this giveaway, we wanted to know: what are your favorite books that tackle faith and doubt?
From those responses, we pulled together 34+ of your favorite titles. Here’s a nice reading list for those of you who love a good book about faith and/or doubt. Dig in!
Appointments with Heaven by Reggie Anderson
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
The Dark Path by David Schickler
“Doubt: A Parable” by John Patrick Shanley
The End of Faith by Sam Harris
Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande
Found: A Story of Questions, Grace, and Everyday Prayer by Micha Boyett
The Genesis Trilogy by Madeline L’Engle
Gilead by Marilyn Robinson
Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Godric by Frederick Buechner
A Grief Observed by CS Lewis
Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom
Holy Mother by Gabrielle Donnelly
Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlöf
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
The Miracle Stealer by Neil Connolly
The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin
No Parking at the End Times by Bryan Bliss
Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Prayer by Philip Yancey
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Rapture Practice: A True Story About Growing Up Gay in an Evangelical Family by Aaron Hartzler
The Shack by William Paul Young
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal
Tender Mercies by Ann Lamott
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
