9 best-selling christian books like Home for Christmas: Stories for Young and Old by Elizabeth Goudge

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Home for Christmas: Stories for Young and Old

By: Elizabeth Goudge

4.09

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

"If you’re giving one book for Christmas, make it this one." —Jim Trelease, author, The Read-Aloud …

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1. Bella Tuscany

By: Frances Mayes

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition of this ISBN can be found here. Frances Mayes invites us back for a d… read more

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"He's already tan, and leaning on the rail in his yellow linen shirt, with the pure glory of Venice racing behind him, I think he looks like someone I'd like to run off with, if I already hadn't."

-Frances Mayes, Bella Tuscany

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2. Patty Fairfield

By: Carolyn Wells

3.91

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

Fourteen-year-old Patty Fairfield is sent for a year of visiting relatives to learn about moderatio… read more

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3. Beyond the Ashes (Golden Gate Chronicles, #2)

By: Karen Barnett

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Where better to rebuild and face one's fears than in 1906 San Francisco, a city rising from the ash… read more

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  • christian
  • fiction
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4. A Lantern in Her Hand

By: Bess Streeter Aldrich

4.18

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 45 minutes Part of: Bison Book (4 titles) Perfect for fans of … read more

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  • fiction
"You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try to make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've …"

-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

"What makes it smell so sweet?" they wanted to know. "Because everything,--every little wild plum-blossom, every little tiny crocus and anemone and violet and every tree-bud and grass-blade is working…"

-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

"Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him,—and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight mus…"

-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

"Far into the evening they sat around the old coal burner talking and laughing, with tears not far behind the laughter - the state legislator and the banker, the artist, the singer, and the college te…"

-Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

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5. A Woman of Independent Means

By: Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

3.82

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

A bestselling sensation when it was first published by Viking in 1978, A Woman of Independent Means… read more

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  • fiction
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6. Family Shoes (Shoes, #8)

By: Noel Streatfeild

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The children of Reverend Bell - Paul, Jane, Angus, and Ginny - find their plans for a summer holida… read more

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  • fiction

7. Bulfinch's Mythology

By: Thomas Bulfinch

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of… read more

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8. Alone Yet Not Alone

By: Tracy Michele Leininger

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Autumn of 1755 bestowed to the Leiningers' world, not only its rich beauties, but also a rewarding … read more

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9. JumpStart Your Growth: A 90-Day Improvement Plan

By: John C. Maxwell

5.00

Format: 646 pages, Hardcover

John C. Maxwell helps readers maximize their potential with this 90-day guide based on his #1 New Y… read more

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10. NIrV Adventure Bible for Early Readers

By: Anonymous , Lawrence O. Richards , Sue W. Richards

3.87

Format: None pages,

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11. The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry

By: Anna Rose Johnson

3.87

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Reading for the Love of God

By: Jessica Hooten Wilson

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

What if we viewed reading as not just a personal hobby or a pleasurable indulgence but a spiritual … read more

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  • christian
"We read because without books our world shrinks our empathy thins and our liberty wanes. We read for the same reason that people have read and shared poems or stories for thousands of years, because …"

-Jessica Hooten Wilson, Reading for the Love of God

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13. One Small Secret

By: Esther Hatch

4.02

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

Ruben Palmer is on every woman’s Christmas wish list. Except mine. I grew up with him and bested … read more

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  • christmas
  • holiday
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I don’t mean one of those fancy converted monster vans with tinted windows. I mean sliding doors and popcorn smashed between the seats."

-Esther Hatch, One Small Secret

"He narrows his eyes. “I see those wheels spinning. Fine, my gift isn’t that good. Go get whatever you’re getting. We both know you're only doing it to settle the score that only you are keeping."

-Esther Hatch, One Small Secret

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14. West

By: Carys Davies

3.70

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

When Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed father of Bess, reads in the newspaper that huge anci… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth by Catherine Pakaluk

15. Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth

By: Catherine Pakaluk

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A portrait of America's most interesting yet overlooked women. In the midst of a historic "birth d… read more

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  • christian
  • audiobook
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16. Troubled Waters

By: Mary Annaïse Heglar

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this intimate portrait of two generations, a granddaughter and a grandmother come to terms with … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Elisabeth Elliot: Joyful Surrender (Christian Heroes: Then & Now) by Janet Benge

17. Elisabeth Elliot: Joyful Surrender (Christian Heroes: Then & Now)

By: Janet Benge

4.44

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Since she was young, Elisabeth Elliot had been intrigued by missionaries who gave up so much to tel… read more

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  • christian
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18. The Nightmare Virus

By: Nadine Brandes

4.54

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Some viruses go after the body. But the Nightmare Virus goes after the mind.When dream technology g… read more

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  • christian
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You serve the Creator, right?' She nods but seems anxious. 'So create with Him."

-Nadine Brandes, The Nightmare Virus

"Nole used to say turning to God wasn't weakness. That being weak is where the true strength came from."

-Nadine Brandes, The Nightmare Virus

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19. The Good Ones

By: Polly Stewart

3.19

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing work of literary suspense that illuminates the push and pull of female friendship and… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs by Mo Rocca

20. Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs

By: Mo Rocca

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca, author of New York Times bestseller Mobitua… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Born of Gilded Mountains by Amanda Dykes

21. Born of Gilded Mountains

By: Amanda Dykes

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When newcomer Mercy Windsor arrives in Mercy Peak in 1948 after a scandal shatters her gilded world… read more

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  • christian
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Spatts is strong. - Rusty"

-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

"I sometimes think, when our dreams seem impossible to us, perhaps we just haven't seen yet how God will chase after our hearts with those very dreams, in the unlikeliest ways."

-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

"Sunsets here were more an experience than a sight. They marked the soul. Pierced it, rearranged things with all that shifting color and light, and sealed it up again, a little more whole than it was …"

-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

"On a stage of earth, beneath a canopy of stars, with a score of scattered laughter, Mercy watched a story unfold more enchanting than any the Dream Factory of Hollywood could have produced. Even the …"

-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

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22. Home for Christmas: Stories for Young and Old

By: Elizabeth Goudge

4.09

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

"If you’re giving one book for Christmas, make it this one." —Jim Trelease, author, The Read-Aloud … read more

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  • christian
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11) by Alan Bradley

23. What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11)

By: Alan Bradley

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the absence of adult supervision, Flavia has taken on the mentorship of her “pestilent” younger … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Candy Cane Crime (Amish Candy Shop Mystery #5.5) by Amanda Flower

24. Candy Cane Crime (Amish Candy Shop Mystery #5.5)

By: Amanda Flower

4.03

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

A candy-striped caper . . . Christmas is coming all too quickly for Harvest, Ohio’s famous choc… read more

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  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Tracking Tilly (The Little Red Truck Mysteries, #1) by Janice  Thompson

25. Tracking Tilly (The Little Red Truck Mysteries, #1)

By: Janice Thompson

4.14

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Who Stole Tilly from the Auction Block?  Breathe in the nostalgia of everything old red truck in bo… read more

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  • christian
  • fiction
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26. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. The Incorrigibles

By: Meredith Jaeger

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From USA Today bestselling author Meredith Jaeger comes an emotionally resonant novel about two wom… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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28. Meddling with Mistletoe

By: Liz Johnson

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Whitney Garrett is preparing to enter culinary school in the spring, but first she has to sell enou… read more

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  • christmas
  • holiday
Cover of Virginia (Daughters of the Lost Colony, #4) by Shannon McNear

29. Virginia (Daughters of the Lost Colony, #4)

By: Shannon McNear

4.62

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

The White Doe of the Outer Banks Grows into Womanhood   Return to the “what if” questions surroundi… read more

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  • christian
Cover of So True a Love by Joanna  Barker

30. So True a Love

By: Joanna Barker

4.55

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Danger and passion collide when a plucky young woman becomes embroiled in a Bow Street investigatio… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Lady Flyer by Heather B. Moore

31. Lady Flyer

By: Heather B. Moore

4.29

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Based on a true story and set against the backdrop of WWII, a young woman’s love of flying becomes … read more

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  • audiobook

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