Recommended Reading
Find yourself longing with ambition to read all the Festival authors but short on time? If you only have time to read one book by a 2008 Festival presenter, here's what we recommend.
Adult Fiction
Sefi Atta: Everything Good Will Come
Elizabeth Berg: Durable Goods, Open House
Mischa Berlinski: Fieldwork
Davis Bunn: Imposter
Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Hugh Cook: Cracked Wheat and Other Stories
Lawrence Dorr: A Bearer of Divine Revelation
Diane Glancy: Pushing the Bear
Mary Gordon: Pearl
Olga Grushin: The Dream Life of Sukhanov
Ingrid Hill: Ursula, Under
Eric Jager: The Last Duel
Edward P. Jones: The Known World
Yann Martel: Life of Pi
Jeffrey Overstreet: Auralia's Colors
Francine Rivers: Redeeming Love
James Schaap: Touches the Sky
Elizabeth Strout: Abide with Me
Brady Udall: The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
Helena Maria Viramontes: Under the Feet of Jesus
Young Adult Fiction
Joan Bauer: Hope Was Here
Katherine Paterson: Bridge to Terabithia
Gary Schmidt: The Wednesday Wars
Children's Books
Mordicai Gerstein: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
Barry Moser: The Dreamer (with Cynthia Rylant)
Jon J. Muth: Zen Shorts
Kadir Nelson: He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
Carole Boston Weatherford: Moses
Graphic Novels
Kevin Huizenga: Curses
Memoir
Scott Cairns: Short Trip to the Edge
Carlos Eire: Waiting for Snow in Havana
Mary Gordon: The Shadow Man
Mary Karr: The Liars' Club
Haven Kimmel: A Girl Named Zippy
Kathleen Norris: Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
Krista Tippett: Speaking of Faith
James Schaap: Things We Couldn't Say (with Diet Eman)
Jon Sweeney: Born Again and Again: Surprising Gifts of a Fundamentalist Childhood
Nonfiction
Rob Bell: Velvet Elvis
Brian Doyle: The Wet Engine
Edward Ericson: Solzhenitsyn and the Modern World
Cathleen Falsani: The God Factor
Robert Finch: Death of a Hornet and Other Cape Cod Essays
Ed Gilbreath: Reconciliation Blues
Alan Jacobs: The Narnian
Charles Marsh: God's Long Summer
Shauna Niequist: Cold Tangerines
Jeffrey Overstreet: Through a Screen Darkley
Luci Shaw: The Crime of Living Cautiously
Daniel Taylor: Tell Me a Story: The Life-Shaping Power of our Stories
Phyllis Tickle: The Divine Hours
Paul Willis: Bright Shoots of Everlastingness: Essays on Faith & the American Wild
Poetry
David Athey: Hunting and Gathering Heaven
Scott Cairns: Compass of Affection
Barbara Crooker: Radiance
Linda Nemec Foster: Amber Necklace from Gdansk
Rod Jellema: A Slender Grace
Patricia Johnson: Stain My Days Blue
Mary Karr: Sinners Welcome
John Leax: Tabloid News
Paul Mariani: Deaths and Transfigurations
Thom Satterlee: Burning Wyclif
Luci Shaw: What the Light Was Like
Franz Wright: God's Silence