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📚 BOOKS

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Books, books, books, and more books. Books I love, must reread, constantly talk about, or recommend!!! Classics, theology, series, whatever else sparks my fancy :) 🫖 🍵 📚
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Classics

The originals that you probably read in high school (or at least I did!!!)
 
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I read at least one of her books a year! Pride and Prejudice was her favorite and is mine, but Persuasion is a close second for me <3
Complete Works of Jane Austen
 
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A great George MacDonald book to start with!
The Tutor's First Love by George MacDonald
 
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My absolute FAVORITE of all of George MacDonald’s books!!!!!!!
The Musician's Quest by George MacDonald
 
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A phenomenal first G. A. Henry book to start your love of the author/ history/ historical fiction with!!
The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt
 
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Seriously love this book. Read it every couple of years!!! Did you know that Christmas really became a celebrated holiday in America after its publication?!
A Christmas Carol - Dickens, Charles: Books
 
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IF YOU HAVEN’T HEARD OF THESE BOOKS, DO YOU LIVE UNDER A ROCK?! 🤣 🤣 🤣 I read them once every couple years or so. ALL THE WAY recommend 👍 👍
The Lord of the Rings
 
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READ THIS BOOK. What else needs to be said!? Tolkien is the GOAT
The Hobbit
 
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Must read!!!! I read it about every two years!
Moby Dick - Melville, Herman: Books

Book series

Series of books that I really like
 
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With a hunger games meets the bachelorette vibe, I couldn’t put these down!!!
The Selection Series by Kiera Cass
 
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Did you read The Hunger Games first or not?
Order to read Hunger Games Saga : r/Hungergames
 
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I read divergent in two nights!! And the next two took a little longer but still couldn’t put them down!
Divergent Series by Veronica Roth

Theology

Theology books I love, recommend, and will read again. I’m a Reformed Presbyterian and I’m sure these books will reflect that
 
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A phenomenal book for brand new Christians, or someone starting to learn more about the Bible and what you believe and why you believe it
Everyone's a Theologian: R.C. Sproul - Hardcover, Book
 
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The Holiness of God is a book that makes me cry every single time. I don’t want to say that the Bible is not alive to me, but somehow any time R. C. Sproul writes something, it makes the Bible come more alive for me!!! 100/10!!!! I read this book eve...
The Holiness of God: R.C. Sproul - Hardcover, Book
 
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This book changed my heart through my suffering after my late husband’s passing less than a year ago. Whether you’ve been through that level of suffering or not, I recommend this book to absolutely any and everyone!!
Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

Board books

Toddler age board books
 
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My 3 year old currently LOVES this book- highly recommend for any kids who loves dinosaurs and/ or trucks 🛻
Dinotrux: Gall, Chris: 9780316133920
 
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Trying to finish potty training my toddler at the moment (he can go pee put doesn’t go to the toilet!!) and will not poo on the toilet!!! But he sits on the toilet and reads this book, so here’s hoping! 🤞
Pottysaurus - Children's Padded Board Book

Conspiracy theories

Don’t think I need to elaborate here 😆
 
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A book I think everyone should read. Extremely thought provoking
The Contagion Myth
 
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Whether you read The Contagion Myth first of The Truth About Contagion, please please please read both! Best birthday gifts I got this year!!!
Truth About Contagion: How Disease Spreads
 
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The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. He just “mysteriously” died right when he was finishing this book. READ IT
The Big Bamboozle

Christmas

I LOVE CHRISTMAS BOOKS
 
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My FAVE Christmas book this year!!!! 🎄
A Wondrous Mystery: Daily Advent Devotions

Baby board books

Books I read to my siblings and now to my children ❤️
 
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A classic every baby and toddler should read both
Goodnight Moon - Books
 
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Another book that should be read every night!!
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
 
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All the nostalgia here!!!!!
Time for Bed: Fox, Mem, Dyer, Jane: 9780152010669

Holistic health informational books

Holistic health/ preventative health information books/ cookbooks
 
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This is hands-down a book that should be required reading for everyone’s last year of high school. Or as soon as you heard about the book, as an adult. So much good preventative health information that no one seems to know anymore. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND...
The Truth about Cancer Fighting Foods
 
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All the way recommend this book to all folks!!! Whether you’re sold on holistic practices or you’re curious, please please read this!!
Cancer and the New Biology of Water by Dr. Thomas Cowan MD ...
 
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RECOMMEND IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE TO SAY IN WORDS!!!!! I read this book at least once a year and learn something new, or some fact stays in my brain better, every single time. ALL the freaking stars!! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Sugar Blues by William Dufty
 
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So much info here. Whether you are on the raw milk bandwagon or completely against it, learn something new facts. Has anyone who is 1000% against raw milk read anything on the other side!?? Because every person I know (1000s) who drink raw milk, have...
The Untold Story Of Milk: Green Pastures
 
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Highly highly highly recommend!! I’ve only read this book twice, and only because I heard of “The Untold Story of Milk” years before. I recommend both to everyone I meet. Whether you are for or against raw milk, please please read where both sides ar...
The Germ In The Dairy Pail: 200-Year War on Milk
 
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The first of the Nourishing Traditions books, for now there are many. A cookbook I recommend to absolutely anyone who wants to feed their children healthy meals, improve their own health, and for any preventative health help and holistic information ...<3
Nourishing Traditions