Meditations book series in reading order

Max Lucado

278 books• 6 series

Max Lucado has 278 books in the catalogue, published between 1985 and 2026, and subject headings centre on Christian life, the Bible, Jesus Christ, meditations and biblical teaching. Lucado, born January 11, 1955, is an American author and minister at Oak Hills Church, formerly Oak Hills Church of Christ, in San Antonio, Texas. The earliest titles are No Wonder They Call Him the Savior and On the Anvil (both 1985), then God Came Near (1986), The Applause of Heaven (1990) and He Still Moves Stones (1992). Series include Life Lessons, Hermie & Friends, Max Lucado's Wemmicks and Just in Case, and children's fiction is also among the subjects. The newest listed title is Unbreakable Courage Bible Study Guide (2026).

Melody Carlson, born March 2, 1956 in San Francisco, is an American author of more than 250 books for women, teens and children, including the Diary of a Teenage Girl series. The catalogue lists 298 books from 1995, when Contemplative Bible Reading and How to Start a Quality Childcare Business in Your Home appeared, to All Booked Up (2026). Series include Carter House Girls, On The Runway, TrueColors, 86 Bloomberg Place, Secret Life of Samantha McGregor, Beary Patch Bears and Fruit Troops. Subjects include Christian life, high schools, friendship, Bible stories and stories in rhyme. Carlson grew up in Springfield, Oregon, attended Lane Community College and lives in Sisters, Oregon.

Philip Yancey

71 books• 1 series

Philip Yancey writes about Christian faith and spiritual questions. Born November 4, 1949, and now retired, the American author has sold more than 15 million books in English, with translations into 40 languages. The Jesus I Never Knew won the ECPA Christian Book of the Year Award in 1996, and What's So Amazing About Grace? won it in 1998. Publishers include Hachette, HarperCollins Christian Publishing, InterVarsity Press, Rabbit Room Press and Penguin Random House. The catalogue lists 71 titles, from After the Wedding (1976) to Undone: A Modern Rendering of John Donne's Devotions (2023). Grace, pain, the Bible and theology lead the subject tags.

Madeleine L'Engle (November 29, 1918 to September 6, 2007) was an American writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. A Wrinkle in Time (1962) earned L'Engle the Newbery Medal, and the American Library Association gave L'Engle its Margaret A. Edwards Award in 1998. The catalogue lists 70 books, beginning with The Small Rain (1945). Series include the Austin Family Chronicles, the Crosswicks Journals, the O'Keefe Family and the Time Quintet. Subjects run from science fiction and space and time to Christian life and meditations.

Randy Alcorn

59 books• 2 series

Randy Alcorn is an American Christian author of more than sixty fiction and non-fiction books, which have sold over 12 million copies in 70 languages. C.S. Lewis, A.W. Tozer and Francis Schaeffer are named as influences. Alcorn founded and directs Eternal Perspective Ministries, a nonprofit Bible teaching organization. The catalogue lists 59 Alcorn books, from Money, Possessions and Eternity (1989) to All God's Creatures (2026), including Deadline (1994), Dominion (1996), Safely Home (2001) and The Treasure Principle (2001). Ollie Chandler is the series on record, and subjects include heaven and wealth.

Anne Graham Lotz is an American evangelist and the second daughter of Billy Graham and his wife Ruth. Lotz founded AnGeL Ministries and writes devotional and Bible-study books; Just Give Me Jesus (2000) is the best known of them. Thirty-eight titles are catalogued, from Daily Light Devotional (1985) to God Won't Leave You There (2026), including The Vision of His Glory (1996), God's Story (1997) and several daily-reading journals. Scripture, Christian life and meditation are the standing subjects.

C.S. Lewis

59 books• 9 series

C.S. Lewis wrote fantasy fiction and Christian apologetics, and the two meet in Narnia. Spirits in Bondage (1919) opens a catalogue of 59 books that holds the Chronicles of Narnia, the Cosmic Trilogy beginning with Out of the Silent Planet (1938), The Screwtape Letters (1942) and Mere Christianity (1943). The 1950s carry the largest share of the list, and catalogued editions run to 2022.

Janette Oke, born Janette Steeves on 18 February 1935, is a Canadian author of inspirational fiction, often set in pioneer times with women as the lead characters. Bethany House published Love Comes Softly, the first Oke novel, in 1979. When Calls the Heart (1983) opened the Canadian West series and became the basis for a television series with the same title. The catalogue holds 79 Oke books, with The Pharisee's Wife (2025) the newest. Series include Love Comes Softly, Prairie Legacy, Women of the West, Song of Acadia and Janette Oke's Animal Friends. Subjects include women pioneers, Canada and Christian fiction.

Maya Angelou

51 books• 3 series

Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014), born Marguerite Annie Johnson, was an American memoirist, poet, essayist and civil rights activist. Angelou published seven autobiographies, three books of essays and several books of poetry. The first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), covers Angelou's life up to age 17. Other catalogued titles include Gather Together in My Name (1974), Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976), The Heart of a Woman (1981) and All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986). The catalogue counts 51 books, including And Still I Rise (1978), and ends with Strategies of Abundance (2014). Angelou received more than 50 honorary degrees.

Richard Rohr

37 books

Richard Rohr writes on Christian spirituality from within the Catholic tradition, on contemplation, scripture and the inner life of men. 37 catalogued titles run from The Wild Mans Journey (1986) through The Enneagram (1989), Simplicity: The Art of Living (1991), Near Occasions of Grace (1993), Radical Grace (1993) and Quest for the Grail (1994). The newest is The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage.

Matthew Kelly, born 12 July 1973 in Sydney, is an Australian motivational speaker, business consultant and founding partner of the management consulting firm Floyd Consulting. The catalogue lists 48 Kelly books from Our Father (1995) to Nothing Is Random (2025). Subjects include the Catholic Church, spirituality, self-help, happiness, parenting and business. Titles include The Rhythm of Life (1999), Rediscover Catholicism (2002) and The Dream Manager (2007).

Terri Blackstock's catalogue holds 78 books published between 1984 and 2021, beginning with Blue Fire (1984), issued under the name Terri Herrington. Recorded subjects place the work in Christian fiction, mystery and detective writing, romantic suspense, and stories of sisters and of mothers and daughters. Series in the listing include Newpointe 911, Sun Coast Chronicles, Cape Refuge and If I Run. Three titles also carry a credit for Tracy Hughes. No new book has been catalogued since Aftermath (2021).

Eugenia Price wrote Christian non-fiction before turning to historical novels of the American South. Discoveries (1953) opens a catalogue of 40 books, with the fiction starting in 1965. The Savannah Quartet, the St. Simons Trilogy, the Florida Trilogy and the Georgia Trilogy make up the series work, set in Georgia and on St. Simons Island, with religious life and women's biography among the subjects.

Corrie ten Boom

32 books• 1 series

Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983) was a Dutch watchmaker who became a Christian writer and public speaker. Arrested for sheltering Jewish people from the Nazis in her family home, ten Boom was imprisoned at the Ravensbruck concentration camp, and The Hiding Place (1971) is her autobiography of those years. Her 32 catalogued books run from Amazing Love (1953) to a 2022 illustrated edition of The Hiding Place, and return to Christian life, consolation and wartime testimony.

Jimmy Carter

51 books• 1 series

Jimmy Carter (1924-2024) served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981, and wrote 51 books. Carter's subjects cover his own childhood and career, American politics and government, peace negotiation, the Arab-Israeli conflict and Christian faith. The catalogue opens with Why Not the Best?: The First Fifty Years (1975), two years before he took office, and takes in Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President (1982) and The Blood of Abraham: Insights into the Middle East (1986). Later titles turn to the Bible and devotional writing, the most recent dated 2020. Books median 224 pages, and the 2000s were Carter's most productive decade.

Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) was an American missionary, author and speaker, born Elisabeth Howard. Her first husband, Jim Elliot, was killed in 1956 while attempting to reach the Waorani people of eastern Ecuador, and Elliot afterwards spent two years living as a missionary among the people who killed him. Through Gates of Splendor (1957) opens a catalogue of 48 titles running to Heart of God (2022), including Shadow of the Almighty (1958), The Savage My Kinsman (1960) and Let Me be a Woman (1966). Christian life, missions, marriage and biography are the recurring subjects. Elliot lectured across the United States into her seventies.

Tricia Goyer is an American author of Christian fiction, with 68 books catalogued from From Dust and Ashes (2003) to Twist of Time (2026). Series include World War II Liberator, Chronicles of the Spanish Civil War, Big Sky Amish, Pinecraft Pie Shop, Seven Brides for Seven Bachelors, Swiss Agents, London Chronicles and Clockwork Chronicles. Non-fiction on parenting appears too, such as Life Interrupted: The Scoop on Being a Young Mom (2004). The Second World War and the Amish recur in the subjects.

Sylvia Browne wrote about psychic phenomena and the afterlife. The American author, who described herself as a medium, published 55 catalogued books between 1990 and 2012, from Adventures of a Psychic (1990) to Past Lives of the Rich and Famous (2012). Spiritualism, parapsychology, the New Age movement and life after death are the recurring subjects, and the Journey of the Soul sequence collects part of the work. Browne appeared regularly on television and radio, including The Montel Williams Show and Larry King Live. Statements she made about missing persons were later shown to be false, and in 1992 she pleaded no contest to securities fraud. Browne was born in 1936 and died in 2013.

Torey Hayden, born Victoria Lynn Hayden in Livingston, Montana in 1951, is a special education teacher and university lecturer. Hayden writes non-fiction built from her own experience teaching and counselling children with special needs, and fiction alongside it. One Child (1980) opens a catalogue of 17 books that closes with The Invisible Girl (2021), taking in Somebody Else's Kids (1981), Ghost Girl (1991), The Tiger's Child (1995) and Beautiful Child (2002). Autism, Tourette syndrome, sexual abuse, fetal alcohol syndrome and elective mutism, her specialism, are among the subjects. The Sheila sequence is the one series catalogued, and nothing new has appeared since 2021.

Paranormal romance is the core of the Yasmine Galenorn catalogue, where subject tags name witches, vampires, fairies, shapeshifting, witchcraft and women mediums. 141 books are listed between 1997 and 2026. Early entries include Trancing the Witch's Wheel (1997), Embracing the Moon (1998), Tarot Journeys (1999) and Magical Meditations (2003), and a non-fiction heading sits among the series. Otherworld, Indigo Court and the Chintz 'n China Mystery recur as headings, alongside Wild Hunt, Moonshadow Bay, Bewitching Bedlam, Fury Unbound and Starlight Hollow. Yasmine Galenorn is still publishing.

Scott Hahn

86 books• 8 series

Scott Walker Hahn, born October 28, 1957, is an American Roman Catholic author, theologian and apologist who was a Presbyterian minister before converting. Hahn has written over 50 books on Catholic theology, Church history and Bible study, and teaches at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. Rome Sweet Home and The Lamb's Supper are among Hahn's works. The catalogue lists 86 books from The Acts of the Apostles (1991) to Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: Old and New Testaments (2024). Series include Ignatius Catholic Study Bible, Catholic for a Reason and Didache.

John C. Maxwell

208 books• 10 series

Leadership is the main subject of John C. Maxwell, an American author, speaker and pastor. Maxwell's leadership books include The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader and The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, and some have reached the New York Times Best Seller list. The catalogue lists 208 titles from Think on These Things: Meditations for Leaders (1979) to The Resilient Leader (2026). The Winning Attitude (1984), Be a People Person (1989), Developing the Leader Within You (1993) and The Power Of Attitude (1995) are earlier entries. Series include Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, Leadership Gold, John C. Maxwell's 101 and Lunch & Learn. Success, attitude and Christian life run through the subject tags.

Andrew M. Greeley's catalogue spans fiction, non-fiction and poetry, and runs to 82 books published between 1967 and 2010. Subjects settle on the Catholic Church, its clergy, Irish Americans and Chicago. Blackie Ryan and Nuala Anne McGrail are the recurring detectives; other groupings include the O'Malley's family saga, Time Between The Stars, Passover and the World Of Maggie Ward. The listing opens with Letters to Nancy (1967) and ends with Chicago Catholics and the Struggles Within Their Church (2010).

Sigmund Brouwer, born in 1959, is a Canadian author writing for children, young adults and adults, with more than 100 titles and four million books in print. Dead Man's Switch won the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award for best Canadian young adult mystery, and Shock Wave won the same award in 2025. Thief of Glory, a novel for adults, was named Book of the Year at the Christy Awards and also won an Alberta Readers Choice Award. The Last Disciple, co-authored with Hank Hanegraaff, was featured in Time magazine. The catalogue holds 162 books from Lost Beneath Manhattan (1990) to A Dangerous Game (2026), across series such as Accidental Detectives, Mars Diaries, Winds of Light, Lightning on Ice, Cyberquest and Robot Wars.