My home library houses many of my favorite books, the ones I return to time and again. These treasured titles are categorically listed below for your enjoyment. You’ll find books to inform, inspire, and engage your heart and spirit. Visit this page often. It’s a work in progress and new titles will be added periodically.
Creativity and Art
The Artist Inside: A Spiritual Guide to Cultivating your Creative Self, Tom Crocket
Living Life in Full Bloom, Elizabeth Murray
The Paper Garden, Molly Peacock
The Artist’s Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom, Christine Valters Paintner
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert
500 Handmade Books: Inspiring Interpretations of a Timeless Form, Steve Miller
Spirituality, Feminine Wisdom, Monasticism, and Prayer
The Age of the Cloister, Christopher Brooke
Traditions of the Ancients, Marcia Ford
Art & Prayer, Timothy Verdon
The Circle Way, Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea
Psalms for Praying, Nan Merrill
Seven Sacred Pauses, Macrina Wiederkehr
Seeking Spiritual Intimacy, Glenn E. Myers
The Wisdom of the Beguines, Laura Swan
Brides in the Desert: The Spirituality of the Beguines, Saskia Murk-Jansen
Experiencing Hildegard, Avis Clendenen
Poustinia, Catherine Doherty
The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, Cynthia Bourgeault
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Karen King
The Poems of Jesus Christ, Willis Barnstone
The Son of Man, Andrew Harvey
Prayer Seeds, Joyce Rupp
I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body, Rubem Alves
Healing
Feeling Our Way: Embracing The Tender Heart
Fiction
The Testament of Mary, Colm Toibin
Mariette in Ecstasy, Ron Hansen
Girl With a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
A Woman of Independent Means, Haily Elizabeth Forsythe
The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker
The Nightengale, Kristan Hannah
A Movable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
Biography and Non-Fiction
The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War and Peace, Editors: Patricia and Robert Malcomson
The Bronte Cabinet, Deborah Lutz
Isadora: A Sensational Life, Peter Kurth
