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10 best books like Given (Wendell Berry): Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, Felicity, A Thousand Mornings, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2, At the Back of the North Wind, The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems, Selected Poems, Why I Wake Early, Otherwise: New and Selected Poems, Dog Songs

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
AuthorMadeleine L'Engle
In this classic book, Madeleine L'Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the relationship between faith and art? Through L'Engle's beautiful and insightful essay, readers will find themselves called to what the author views as...
Felicity
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN1594206767
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems  

“If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger,”

Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in her stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse...
A Thousand Mornings
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN1594204772
In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. In these pages, Oliver shares the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, and the transformative power...
New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
AuthorMary Oliver
This volume of poetry is supremely accessible. While it would be exhausting and difficult to read straight through a volume by most poets, I glided from cover to cover of this book in less than two hours. Oliver is so gentle and transparent with her readers, whom she directly addresses with great frequency,...
At the Back of the North Wind
AuthorGeorge MacDonald
ISBN0375413359
Diamond, son of a poor coachman, is swept away by the North Wind -- a radiant, maternal spirit with long, flowing hair. His life is transformed by a brief glimpse of the beautiful country -- at the back of the north wind.

This Victorian fairy tale has enchanted readers for more than a hundred years,...
The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems
AuthorCharles Simic
Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, the sardonic humor all his own. Gathering much of his material from the seemingly mundane minutiae of contemporary...
Selected Poems
AuthorLangston Hughes
With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America.  The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of...
Why I Wake Early
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0807068799
The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in...
Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
AuthorJane Kenyon
ISBN1555972667
Otherwise collects a lifetime's work by one of contemporary poetry's most cherished talents. Opening with twenty new poems and including generous selections from Jane Kenyon's four previous books—From Room to Room, The Boat of Quiet Hours, Let Evening Come, and Constance—this collection...
Dog Songs
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN1594204780
Mary Oliver's Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet's relationship to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver's poems begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers,...
The Book of Light
AuthorLucille Clifton
ISBN1556590520
Lucille Clifton was born in Depew, New York in 1936, and educated at the State University of New York at Fredonia and at Howard University. Her awards include the Juniper Prize for Poetry, two nominations for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and...
Spiritual Formation: Following the Movements of the Spirit
AuthorHenri J.M. Nouwen
ISBN0061686123
“Henri Nouwen was one of the great spiritual masters of the modern age. His beloved writings have helped millions understand that no matter where we are, God can meet us there. Read this brand-new compilation of his writings and conferences, and let Henri Nouwen accompany you—with his trademark...
Red Bird
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0807068926
Red bird came all winter / firing up the landscape / as nothing else could. So begins Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, and the image of that fiery bird stays with the reader, appearing in unexpected forms and guises until, in a postscript, he explains himself: "For truly the body needs / a song, a spirit,...
Blue Iris: Poems and Essays
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0807068837
This is my favourite poem in the collection, not because it's the most exceptional poem, but because it's the poem that wound itself most firmly round my heart, and reminded me of the final days I spent with my grandmother, when she knew and I knew that she was dying, but she chose not to speak of it, but did...
How I Discovered Poetry
AuthorMarilyn Nelson
ISBN0803733046
A powerful and thought-provoking Civil Rights era memoir from one of America’s most celebrated poets.
 
Looking back on her childhood in the 1950s, Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Marilyn Nelson tells the story of her development as an artist and young woman through...
Introverted Mom: Your Guide to More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy
AuthorJamie C. Martin
ISBN0310354978
Motherhood is beautiful; motherhood is hard. All moms understand this paradoxical truth. Yet introverted mothers face unique challenges. When our quiet nature collides with our often loud role, frustration and guilt result. We wonder why motherhood feels at odds with our personality, and in our...
Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life
AuthorSarah Clarkson
ISBN1496425804
When you hear a riveting story, does it thrill your heart and stir your soul? Do you hunger for truth and goodness? Do you secretly relate to Belle's delight in the library in Beauty and the Beast?

If so, you may be on your way to being a book girl.

Books were always Sarah Clarkson's delight....
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
AuthorMichael O. Emerson
ISBN0195147073
Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face-to-face interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed the grassroots of white evangelical America. They found that despite recent efforts by the movement's leaders to address the problem of racial discrimination,...
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