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Cory Hartman Author Of Future Church: Seven Laws of Real Church Growth

From Cory's 3 favorite reads in 2026.

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Cory's 3 favorite reads in 2026

Cory Hartman Why Cory loves this book

As others have said, Andy Weir puts the science in science fiction. Simultaneously grounded and inventive, thrilling and heartwarming, and unexpectedly funny.

By Andy Weir ,

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114 authors picked Project Hail Mary as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.

Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through…


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These Blue Mountains by Sarah Loudin Thomas,

A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.

German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…

Book cover of The Mythmakers

Cory Hartman Author Of Future Church: Seven Laws of Real Church Growth

From Cory's 3 favorite reads in 2026.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author

Cory's 3 favorite reads in 2026

Cory Hartman Why Cory loves this book

I knew the lives of both these men—and their relationship—well, but I found myself learning more: not because of so much new information but because the text, the telling, the and imaginative drawings made them so lucid. And it did something more: it awoke in me, however briefly, that delicious longing that Lewis called "Joy."

By John Hendrix ,

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1 author picked The Mythmakers as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 10, 11, 12, and 13.

What is this book about?

From New York Times bestselling, award-winning creator John Hendrix comes The Mythmakers, a graphic novel biography of two literary lions-C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien-following the remarkable story of their friendship and creative fellowship, and how each came to write their masterworks

"Masterful. . . Effortlessly blending fantasy and reality." (BCCB, starred review)

Through narrative and comic panels, Hendrix chronicles Lewis and Tolkien's near-idyllic childhoods, then moves on to both men's horrific tour of the trenches of World War I to their first meeting at Oxford in 1929, and then the foreshadowing, action, and aftermath of World War II.

He reveals…


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