A Well-Rounded list of Good Reading For a Rainy Day
Discover the ultimate rainy day reading list, packed with well-rounded book recommendations for every mood. From gripping fiction by Dan Brown, Dean Koontz, and James Patterson to epic fantasy like His Dark Materials and timeless classics such as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, this curated collection features thrilling mysteries, Christian fiction, and adventure tales. Perfect for cozying up indoors, explore standout titles like Angels & Demons, Odd Thomas, and The Bourne Identity, all in one versatile list for literature lovers and bookworms alike.
Book
Beyond the Summerland
by L. B. Graham
It was foretold after Malek's first fall that twice more he would bring war, and that the last time, the very waters of the sea would obey him and fight for him. If this be so, then I cannot imagine how Sulare will escape his wrath... Book jacket.
Book
Relic
by Douglas Preston
Relic: The #1 New York Times bestselling thriller by Douglas Preston's and Lincoln Child, with more than one million copies sold to date Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human... But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who--or what--is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?
Book
Light Of Eidon
by Karen Hancock
Book 1 of Legends of the Guardian King which follows the life of Abramm Kalladorne in his turbulent search for truth and self--a search that will transform him from a sickly, head-in-the-clouds youth to a legendary hero of strength and courage. Set in a world of swords and cloaks, of glittering palaces and mystical temples, of galley ships and ancient, mist-bound cities, his journey illustrates how God pursues and how He uses suffering to mold His children into something greater than was ever thought possible. Written by Karen Hancock, the acclaimed author of Arena.
Book
Arena
by Karen Hancock
Dropped into a terrifying, alien world with only a few cryptic words to guide her, can Callie survive the battle raging between good and evil?
Book
Black
by Ted Dekker
Thomas Hunter works to save the world from a deadly virus by travelling through time and space.
Book
Thr3e
by Ted Dekker
A nightmare world begins for Kevin, a young seminarian, when he receives a cell phone call from an unknown man directing him to confess his sin to the world in three minutes or be blown to bits.
Book
Angels & Demons
by Dan Brown
The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno—now a major film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones. Angels & Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war. This is the book that started it all: we meet Robert Langdon for the first time, caught up in a race against time to find an apocalyptic time-bomb, planted by an ancient secret society that has surfaced to carry out its ultimate threat: to destroy the Vatican.
Book
The Left Behind Collection
by Tim LaHaye
This collection includes five soft cover editions of the best-selling Left Behind series. Set 1 consists of the first five books in the series. Left Behind products have sold more than 40,000,000 copies and continue to be a national phenomena.
Book
Eragon; Eldest
by Christopher Paolini
In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
Book
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (adult)
by C. S. Lewis
Four English school children enter the magic land of Narnia through the back of a wardrobe and assist Aslan, the golden lion, in defeating the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
Book
1st to Die
by James Patterson
Four crime-solving friends face off against a killer in San Francisco in the Women's Murder Club novel that started James Patterson's thrilling series. Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle. But the usual procedures aren't bringing them any closer to stopping the killings. So these women form a Women's Murder Club to collaborate outside the box and pursue the case by sidestepping their bosses and giving each other a hand. The four women develop intense bonds as they pursue a killer whose crimes have stunned an entire city. Working together, they track down the most terrifying and unexpected killer they have ever encountered--before a shocking conclusion in which everything they knew turns out to be devastatingly wrong. Full of the breathtaking drama and unforgettable emotions for which James Patterson is famous, 1st to Die is the start of the #1 New York Times bestselling series of crime thrillers.
Book
Soon
by Jerry B. Jenkins
When Paul Stepola's life is turned upside down, he is forced to change his perspective on life--and reevaluate his job as an agent for the National Peacekeeping Organization (NPO) to enforce a prohibition on religion.
Book
A Simple Plan
by Scott Smith
Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreakage of a plane--the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash.
Book
His Dark Materials
by Philip Pullman
Lyra Belacqua tries to prevent kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments, helps Will Parry search for his father, and finds that she and Will are caught in a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by her uncle, Lord Asriel.
Book
House
by Frank E. Peretti
Two stranded couples find shelter in an inn but find themselves trapped in a game with rules setting up a life-or-death situation.
Book
Still Life with Crows
by Douglas Preston
A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland. No one is safe.
Book
The Bourne Identity
by Robert Ludlum
A man has been shot and now has no memory and as he searches for his origins he comes to fear he may have been an international assassin.
Book
A Snowball's Chance
by Ted L. Duncan
So, you've read all the latest books on prophecy, and you know what to expect in the future. Are you really sure about that? Will Russia really invade Israel before the rapture occurs? Will those who have repeatedly rejected Christ before the rapture really be able to accept Him and be saved afterwards? Will the tribulation really begin with the signing of a peace treaty between Israel and its Arab neighbors? Will the first half of the tribulation really be three and a half years of relative peace, and the second half, three and a half years of intense suffering? Will the newly saved believers really be able to outsmart and outmaneuver the Antichrist during the tribulation? Answers to these and other probing questions are addressed in this fast-paced and absorbing novel. A Snowball's Chance reveals how the lives of young college athletes become embroiled in greed, treachery, robbery, and murder. Their situation becomes even more impossible as they try to cover their tracks and avoid the consequences of their actions. A thrown-together Bible study, taught by an ex-con turned preacher, offers them hope of forgiveness and new life in Christ. But are they willing to pay the price? And will they have enough time to decide before God's time clock ticks down to the rapture of the church and their door of opportunity closes forever?
Book
Heaven's Wager
by Ted Dekker
The first novel from New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker. " Heaven's Wager is] genuinely exciting . . . fast paced . . . spine-tingling . . ." --Publishers Weekly It was an absolutely perfect day . . . until everything went absolutely perfectly wrong. Kent Anthony is a brilliant software engineer who is cashing in on a brilliant career. He's finally living the idyllic life, far from thoughts of theft and murder and other kinds of horrible criminal behavior. He's left his past far behind . . . or so he thinks. Ted Dekker delivers a fascinating story of the almost perfect crime, interwoven with a tale of bittersweet love that is almost enough to save a soul. A story that will bring you face-to-face with a hidden world more real than most people ever realize; a world where the unseen is more powerful than anything seen. "Well, well, guess what I've found. A fiction writer with a rare knack for a compelling story, an expansive reservoir of clever ideas, and a unique dry wit that makes me laugh." --Frank Peretti, New York Times bestselling author "Rarely does a novel grip a reader's heart and soul the way Heaven's Wager does. Dekker is among a very small number of writers who have mastered the challenge of blending sound theology with knock-your-socks-off storytelling." --Robert Liparulo, novelist and contributing editor of New Man magazine
Book
2012
by Whitley Strieber
On December 21, 2012, the date prophesied as the end of the world, a mysterious alien presence bursts from sacred sites across the globe, ripping human souls from their bodies and plunging the world into a time of chaos and darkness.
Book
Double Cross
by James Patterson
Alex Cross returns in this high action, stunning murder mystery. Alex Cross and his new girlfriend Detective Brianna Stone are caught up in the terror.
Book
Odd Thomas
by Dean Koontz
Meet Odd Thomas, the unassuming young hero of Dean Koontz’s dazzling New York Times bestseller, a gallant sentinel at the crossroads of life and death who offers up his heart in these pages and will forever capture yours. “The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Sometimes the silent souls who seek out Odd want justice. Occasionally their otherworldly tips help him prevent a crime. But this time it’s different. A stranger comes to Pico Mundo, accompanied by a horde of hyena-like shades who herald an imminent catastrophe. Aided by his soul mate, Stormy Llewellyn, and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock ’n’ Roll, Odd will race against time to thwart the gathering evil. His account of these shattering hours, in which past and present, fate and destiny, converge, is a testament by which to live—an unforgettable fable for our time destined to rank among Dean Koontz’s most enduring works.
Book
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, the #1 New York Times bestseller A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. “Just as good, if not better, than Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling first book, The Kite Runner.”—Newsweek Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival. A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.
Book
Abduction
by Wanda L. Dyson
Abduction is now available in an inexpensive mass market paperback edition! Even as she breathes out her baby's name, Karen Matthews knows that her worst nightmare has become a reality. Her seven-month-old is gone, stolen during the night. When the police call a famous psychic, Zoe Shefford, to use her mysterious "powers" to locate the child, Karen hesitates. When her husband suddenly disappears as well, Karen becomes the prime suspect. Apparently, God has forgotten about poor Karen Matthews, left to mourn the loss of her baby, her husband, and even her faith-or has He? That's what Karen-and Zoe-must find out before it's too late.
Book
Skin
by Ted Dekker
Ex-cult member Wendy Davidson seeks to recover from her traumatic past in a small Nevada town, but finds herself threatened by a serial killer known as Red.
Book
The Rift
by Walter J. Williams
A massive earthquake centered in New Madrid, Missouri, wreaks destruction on America's heartland, leaving a huge fracture in the earth and chaos in its wake, as the terrified survivors struggle to cope with catastrophe and the turmoil that follows. Reprint.
Book
The Crystal Cavern
by Hannah Alexander
When an ice storm strands Dr. Sable Chamberlin and paramedic Paul Murphy in the southern Missouri hills, they assume they're safe from the mysterious killer responsible for murdering Sable's grandfather and Paul's uncle. But while searching Sable's childhood home and connecting caves for clues, it becomes clear that real danger has followed them. Soon, Sable and Murph, fighting for their lives, discover secrets worth killing for. . .and unexpected treasure more costly than gold. Combining the rich setting of the Ozark hills with compelling and diverse characters, Hannah Alexander has crafted a fast-moving novel sure to keep readers asking the question--whodunit?
