Here are some books I am reading of have recently read and can very much recommend. For some of them, there are links to where I refer to them in a sermon or reflection.

Comments are welcome, especially with recommendations for further reading.

Non-fiction

• The Shattering of Loneliness by Erik Varden
• When Breath becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
• War Gardens by Lalage Snow
• Cold War Letters by Thomas Merton
• Reclaiming the Common Good by Virginia Moffatt
• For Good: The Church and the Future of Welfare by Samuel Wells
• East West Street by Philippe Sands
• The Enduring Melody by Michael Mayne
• The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

Fiction

• A Gentleman in Moscov by Amor Towles
• Nobody’s Fool by Richard Russo
• The Noise of Time by Jules Barnes
• We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas
• A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev