{"id":498,"date":"2016-12-19T23:31:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T06:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/?p=498"},"modified":"2018-09-05T22:24:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T05:24:35","slug":"what-books-do-you-recommend-most-highly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"What Books Do You Recommend Most Highly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Katie-Drumm-Photography-48-1-e1482785869767.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2744\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Katie-Drumm-Photography-48-1-e1482785869767.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a>Everyone who loves books, selects certain books as their favorites. Through 54 years of Christian faith and over 50 years of ministry and study, I have\u00a0come to appreciate a large number of authors and\u00a0titles. A full listing remains outside the purpose of this post.\u00a0Here I will highlight key books on a variety of topics. <strong>This list will fluctuate and grow over time\u00a0as\u00a0I expand the list in the weeks and months ahead. The arrangement will be by topic and the topics arranged alphabetically.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Each thumbnail is\u00a0linked to Amazon or some other web site from which the volume can be obtained.<\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Sometimes the link is in the heading, when the image could not be linked directly&#8211;or an image was not available.<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/drbarrick.org\/2016\/what-books-do-you-recommend-most-highly-part-2\/\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>What Books Do You Recommend Most Highly?&#8211;Part 2<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0and, <a href=\"\/2016\/books-ive-endorsed\/\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Books I&#8217;ve Endorsed<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"\/2016\/dr-barricks-books\/\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve consolidated all my recommended resources on the <a href=\"\/recommendations\">Recommendations page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone who loves books, selects certain books as their favorites. Through 54 years of Christian faith and over 50 years of ministry and study, I have\u00a0come to appreciate a large number of authors and\u00a0titles. A full listing remains outside the purpose of this post.\u00a0Here I will highlight key books on a variety of topics. 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