Easter Is a Time for Reading, Too

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If you’ve been around for more then a couple weeks here on The Starving Artist, you know that I love reading lists, especially thematic ones. I have lists for most of the major American holidays, at this point, but not Easter. That’s all about to change. Though, to be honest, this list isn’t that great. I’d love to have you all weigh in with your recommendations, because I couldn’t really find many suggestions with the usual Google searches. And boy is this list random. Easter is kind of that way, anyway, like Christmas: a hodgepodge of sacred and secular, of adult and children. There weren’t enough titles to sort them, but there’s a range from picture books to novels to nonfiction, Christian to heresy (at least I think it likely).

Ben-Hur, Lew WallaceThe Robe, Lloyd C. DouglasThe Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis (perhaps heretical)The Message: New TestamentChocolat, Joanne HarrisThe Testament of Mary, Colm Toibin (perhaps heretical)Rechenka’s Eggs, Patricia PolaccoMiz Fannie Mae’s Fine New Easter Hat, Melissia MilichThe Berenstain Bears and the Easter Story, Jan and Mike BerenstainThe Parables of Jesus, Tomie dePaolaJunie B. Jones: Dumb Bunny, Barbara ParkGod Gave Us Easter, Lisa Tawn BergenThe Golden Egg Book, Margaret Wise BrownThe Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes, Du Bose HeywardKilling Jesus, Bill O’ReillyThe Cross and the Lynching Tree, James H. ConeThe Women of Easter, Liz Curtis HiggsBread and Wine (anthology)Easter is Coming¸ Christopher GreerEaster Stories (anthology)Journey to the Cross, Paul David TrippEastertide, Phyllis TickleThe Glory of the Cross, Tim ChesterHis Passion: Christ’s Journey to the Resurrection, David R. VeermanThe Crucified Is My Love, Johann Ernst Von Holst