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Frederick Buechner Books In Order

Book of Bebb Books In Order

  1. Lion Country (1971)
  2. Open Heart (1966)
  3. Love Feast (1974)
  4. Treasure Hunt (1977)

Novels

  1. A Long Day’s Dying (1950)
  2. The Return of Ansel Gibbs (1957)
  3. The Entrance to Porlock (1970)
  4. Godric (1980)
  5. Brendan (1987)
  6. The Storm (1998)

Novellas

  1. The Wizard’s Tide (1990)

Non fiction

  1. The Final Beast (1965)
  2. The Magnificent Defeat (1966)
  3. The Hungering Dark (1968)
  4. The Alphabet of Grace (1970)
  5. Wishful Thinking (1973)
  6. The Faces of Jesus (1974)
  7. Telling the Truth (1975)
  8. The Sacred Journey (1982)
  9. Now And Then (1983)
  10. A Room Called Remember (1984)
  11. Whistling in the Dark (1988)
  12. Peculiar Treasures (1990)
  13. Telling Secrets (1991)
  14. Family Album (1992)
  15. Listening to Your Life (1992)
  16. The Clown in the Belfry (1992)
  17. The Son of Laughter (1993)
  18. The Longing for Home (1996)
  19. On The Road With Archangel (1997)
  20. Speak What We Feel (1999)
  21. The Eyes of the Heart (2000)
  22. Beyond Words (2004)
  23. Secrets in the Dark (2006)
  24. The Yellow Leaves (2008)
  25. A Crazy, Holy Grace (2017)
  26. The Remarkable Ordinary (2017)
  27. Faith That Matters (2018)
  28. Learning to Speak (2019)
  29. One Life, Four Seasons (2019)

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Frederick Buechner Books Overview

A Long Day’s Dying

A Long Day’s Dying is a mid twentieth century Jamesian novel that foreshadows many of the themes in Mr. Buechner’s later writing faith, trust, and the complex relations of family and friends. The story follows Tristram Bone, a rotund man of wealth and ‘organized leisure’ but a failure with women, and Elizabeth Poor, a rich, charming, and beautiful widow and Bone’s unrequited love interest, through a series of encounters with friends and family, affairs real and imagined, gossip, jealousy, and innuendo. We also meet Bone’s servant Emma and his pet monkey Simon; the novelist George Motley; the arrogant and seductive academic Paul Steitler, Elizabeth’s na ve son Lee, and her omniscient mother Maroo.

Godric

Frederick Buechner’s Godric ‘retells the life of Godric of Finchale, a twelfth century English holy man whose projects late in life included that of purifying his moral ambition of pride…
Sin, spiritual yearning, rebirth, fierce asceticism these hagiographic staples aren’t easy to revitalize but Frederick Buechner goes at the task with intelligent intensity and a fine readiness to invent what history doesn’t supply. He contrives a style of speech for his narrator Godric himself that’s brisk and tough sinewed…
He avoids metaphysical fiddle, embedding his narrative in domestic reality familiar affection, responsibilities, disasters…
All on his own, Mr. Buechner has managed to reinvent projects of self purification and of faith as piquant matter for contemporary fiction in a book notable for literary finish…
Frederick Buechner is a very good writer indeed.’ Benjamin DeMott, The New York Times Book Review ‘From the book’s opening sentence…
and sensible reader will be caught in Godric‘s grip…
Godric glimmers brightly.’ Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek ‘Godric is a memorable book…
a marvelous gem of a book…
destined to become a classic of its kind.’ Michael Heskett, Houston Chronicle ‘In the extraordinary figure of Godric, both stubborn outsider and true child of God, both worldly and unworldly, Frederick Buechner has found an ideal means of exploring the nature of spirituality. Godric is a living battleground where God fights it out with the world, the Flesh, and the Devil.’ London Times Literary Supplement ‘Wityh a poet’s sensibly and a high reverent fancy, Frederick Buechner paints a memorable portrait.’ Edmund Fuller, The Wall Street Journal

Brendan

An acclaimed author interweaves history and legend to re create the life of a complex man of faith fifteen hundred years ago. Winner of the 1987 Christianity and Literature Book Award for Belles Lettres.

The Storm

The Boston Globe calls Frederick Buechner ‘one of our finest writers.’ USA Today says he’s ‘one of our most original storytellers.’ Now this acclaimed author gives us his most beguiling novel yet a magical tale of love, betrayal, and redemption inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest. On wealthy Plantation Island in South Florida, an old man waits, Kenzie Maxwell is a writer, a raconteur, a rascal, an altruist, a mystic a charismatic figure who enjoys life with his rich third wife but muses daily on the sins of his past. Two decades ago, Kenzie had to leave New York because of a scandal. He’d been a volunteer at a runawat shelter, and he’d fallen in love with a seventeen year old girl a girl who died while giving birth to Kenzie’s daughter. His older brother, Dalton, a lawyer and board member at the shelter, decided to quell the rumors by releasing Kenzie’s note of apology to the press. Kenzie’s reputation and the girl’s were destroyed. He has never forgiven his brother. Now it’s the eve of Kenzie’s seventieth birthday, and a storm is brewing. His beloved daughter, Bree the child of the scandal is coming down from New York for his birthday party. But his brother Dalton is coming down, too, to do some legal work for the island’s ill tempered matriarch. Aided and abetted by Dalton’s happy go lucky stepson, a loutish gardener, a New Age windsurfer, a bumbling bishop, and a bona fide tempest, Kenzie must somehow contrive to reconcile with his brother and make peace with his past. Infused with humanity, and informed by faith. The Storm is Frederick Buechner’s most captivating novel since Godric a richly satisfying contemporary story of fragmented families and love’s many mysteries that will move you, make you laugh, and fill you with wonder.

The Wizard’s Tide

Focusing on the inner feelings more than outward events, this is the story of teddy Schroeder and his sister Bean is an account of a child growing out of mystery the mysteries of the world into understanding. The big event is the death of the narrator’s father and what it does to Teddy and Bean.

The Magnificent Defeat

In The Magnificent Defeat, Frederick Buechner examines what it means to follow Christ, the lessons of Christmas and Easter, the miracles of grace, and ‘The Magnificent Defeat‘ of the human soul of God.

The Hungering Dark

These powerful reflections on biblical themes by one of today’s most popular religious writers point up the truth that the darkness of doubt is often necessary to provoke a hunger for God. The Hungering Dark towers as one of Fredrick Buechner’s best statements on contemporary belief challenged by doubt. Drawing on texts from the Old and New Testaments, The Hungering Dark invites us to discover the hidden face of God, the manifestation of his grace, revealed in stillness, in unexpected places, often ‘through a glass, darkly.’ It invites us to say yes to ‘the possibility of God’, and to recover ‘this fantastic hope that the future belongs to God…
that holiness will return to our world.’

The Alphabet of Grace

With characteristic eloquence and insight, Buechner presents a three part series of reflections that probe, through the course of one day, the innermost mysteries of life. Blending an artist’s eye for natureal beauty, the true meaning of human encounters, and the significance of occurances momentous or seemly trival, with a wealth of personal, literacy, biblical, and spiritual insights, he offers a matchless opportunity for readers to discover the hidden wisdom that can be gleaned through a heightened experience of daily life.

Wishful Thinking

In Wishful Thinking, the first book in his much loved lexical trilogy, Frederick Buechner puts the language of God, the universe, and the human spirit under his wry linguistic microscope. In his often ironic and always keen sighted reflections on such terms as agnostic, envy, love, and sin, he invited us to look at theses everyday words in new and enlightening ways. Freshly revised and expanded for this edition, Wishful Thinking is a ‘beguiling’ Time adventure in language for the restless believer, the doubter, and all who love words.

The Faces of Jesus

With timeless insight, Frederick Buechner introduces readers to the Jesus of the Gospels. The old, old story begins to ring new as Buechner revisits the ancient stories and shows us different aspects of The Faces of Jesus. Award winning author Frederick Buechner retells the stories of the Gospels and reminds us that to see Jesus afresh is to be changed and challenged and to be put back on our feet. The Faces of Jesus is a distinctive and warm hearted look at this person, this God, this teacher, this wanderer, this man of suffering.

Telling the Truth

A fresh, creative look at the underlying meaning of the Gospels that stresses the many dimensions of God’s relationship to humanity.

The Sacred Journey

This memoir reflects on key moments of the author’s early life, from childhood to his entering seminary, that reveal how God speaks to us in a variety of ways every moment of every day.

Now And Then

Spiritual and autobiographical reflections on the author’s seminary days, early ministry, and writing career.

A Room Called Remember

A Room Called Remember brings together some of Buechner’s finest writings on faith, love, and the power of words in the form of essays, addresses, and sermons. Here Buechner explores autobiography as theology, offers exhilarating reflections on biblical passages, and leads us into the ‘room called Remember,’ that ‘still room within us all where the past lives on as part of the present,…
where with patience, with clarity, with quietness of heart, we remember consciously to remember the lives we have lived.’

Whistling in the Dark

Awry and thought provoking jaunt through the spiritual terrain of our everyday language a lexion of uncommon insight to jar the mind and nourish the soul. ‘I think of faith as a kind of Whistling in the Dark, because in much the same way,’ writes Buechner, ‘it helps to give us courage and to hold the shadows at bay.’

Peculiar Treasures

In this second book of his popular lexical trilogy, Frederick Buechner profiles more than 125 of the Bible’s most holy and profane people and one whale. In his lively and witty prose, Buechner brings to life such moments from scripture as:Adam’s pangs of regret for a remembered EdenDelilah’s last glimpse of Samson as they dragged him awayLazarus’s first impressions upon rising from the deadTo read Peculiar Treasures is to realize that many of these legendary figures are not who we thought they were. But they are in their human dreams,ambitions, and imperfections very much like us.

Telling Secrets

With eloquence, candor, and simplicity, a celebrated author tells the story of his father’s alcohol abuse and suicide and traces the influence of this secret on his life as a son, father, husband, minister, and writer.

Listening to Your Life

Daily meditations taken from the works of an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and preacher who has articulated what he sees with a freshness and clarity and energy that hails our stultified imaginations.

The Son of Laughter

Rich in family drama, passion, and human affinity, critically acclaimed author Frederick Buechner’s contemporary retelling of this captivating and timeless biblical saga revitalizes the ancient story of Jacob, delighted our senses and modern sensibilities and gracing us with his exceptional eloquence and wit.

The Longing for Home

In this deeply moving book of reflection and recollection, Frederick Buechner once again draws us into his deeply textured life and experience to illuminate our own understanding of home as both our place of origin and our ultimate destination. For Frederick Buechner, the meaning of home is twofold: the home we remember and the home we dream. As a word, it not only recalls the place that we grew up in and that had much to do with the people we eventually became, but also points ahead to the home that, in faith, we believe awaits us at life’s end. Writing at the approach of his seventieth birthday, he describes, both in prose and in a group of poems, the one particular house that was most precious to him as a child, the books he read there, and the people he loved there. He speaks also of the lifelong search we are all engaged in to make a new home for ourselves and for our families, which is at the same time a search to find something like the wholeness and comfort of home with ourselves. As he turns his attention to our dreams of the heavenly home still to come, he sees it as both hallowing and fulfilling the charity and the peach of our original home. Writing with warmth, wisdom, and compelling eloquence, Frederick Buechner once again enables us to see more deeply into the secret places of our hearts. The Longing for Home will help to bring clarity and guidance to anyone who searches for meaning in a world that all too often seems meaningless.

On The Road With Archangel

One of the brightest lights in late twentieth century literature, Frederick Buechner has published more than twenty five works of fiction and nonfiction that continue to dazzle critics and readers alike, adding continuously to the ranks of his fiercely loyal following. On the Road with the Archangel is sure to continue this tradition with its powerful blend of humor, artistry, and insight into the nature of the human and the divine. Inspired by events in the apocryphal Book of Tobit, from the second century B.C., this is the magical tale of two families brought together, as no mere coincidence, by the devilishly clever archangel Raphael. One is the family of Tobit, a virtuous man who can no longer support his wife and son because of Raguel, the quiet, devoted father of Sarah whose pact with the demon Asmodeus has left her life in tragic shambles. Assuming human form, Raphael appears before Tabias, Tobit’s devoted son, to help him retrieve his father’s fortune hidden in a faraway city. Together, they embark on a miraculous journey in search of the answers to both families’ prayers a journey that is made challenging and delightful by Rapheal’s artful efficiency. On the Road with the Archangel is a masterful combination of fluid writing, lyrical storytelling, and ancient truth blended with modern wisdom. And beneath it all lies a subtle, glowing meditation on the nature of the Holy. Hailed as ‘one of our most original storytellers’ USA Today, Pulitzer Prize nominated author Frederick Buechner has written an extraordinary new novel that shines with the mystery and wonder of the divine. Drawn from the ancient apocryphal Book of Tobit, On the Road with the Archangel unravels the tale of a eccentric blind father and his somewhat bumbling song who journeys to seek his family’s lost treasure. Narrated by the wry and resourceful archangel Raphael, Buencher’s tale is a pure delight, alive with vivid characters, delightful adventures and wondrous revelations.

Speak What We Feel

In this compelling book, the great contemporary spiritual writer and novelist Frederick Buechner plumbs the mysteries and truths behind the literature that speaks to him most powerfully. Buechner presents the four authors who have been his greatest influences, focusing on the question that has emerged at the center of his life how to face mortality, failure, and tragedy. Through sensitive biographical exploration and close reading of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s sublime later sonnets, Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, G. K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday, and William Shakespeare’s most powerful play, King Lear, Buechner invites readers to discover the deeper joy and purpose of reading. He shows how these writers by putting their passion and pain into their work have enabled him to bear the weight of his own grief and sadness by ‘speaking out from under the burden of theirs.’ Buechner’s ruminations on their writings leads to the revelation that God accepts us for doing the best we can, even if our lives are in some ways a failure; even if we have lived a life haunted by tragedy, as Buechner’s has been haunted by his father’s suicide. Buechner connects his readings to the fabric of his life and the lives of his subjects as he explores the ways in which these writers have shaped him and enhanced his faith. Buechner’s insights into the power and imagination of their work resonate with his love for all that literature has given him throughout his life a passion he generously shares with us in Speak What We Feel.

The Eyes of the Heart

From critically acclaimed author and Pulitzer Prize runner up Frederick Buechner comes another powerfully honest memoir, The Eyes of the Heart. Full of poinant insights into his most personal relationships, this moving account traces how the author was shaped as much by his family’s secrets as by its celebrations. Within the innermost chambers of his consciousness, Buechner, in his characteristically self searching style, explores the mysteries and truths behind his deepest connections to family, friends, and mentors. Extraordinarily moving, this memoir follows not chronology but the converging paths of Buechner’s imagination and memory. Buechner invites us into his library his own Magic Kingdom, Surrounded by his beloved books and treasures, we discover how they serve as the gateway to Buechner’s mind and heart. He draws the reader into his recollections, moving seamlessly from reminiscence to contemplation. Buechner recounts events such as the tragic suicide of his father and its continual fallout on his life, intimate and little known details about his deep friendship with the late poet James Merrill, and his ongoing struggle to understand the complexities of his relationship to his mother. This cast of characters comprised of Buechner’s relatives and loved ones is brought to vibrant life by his peerless writing and capacity to probe the depths of his own consciousness. Buechner visits his past with an honest eye and a heart open to the most painful and life altering of realizations. heartbreaking and enlightening, The Eyes of the Heart is a treasure for any who have ever pondered the meaning and mystery of their own past. As ‘one of our finest writers,’ according to author Annie Dillard, Frederick Buechner provides yet another chapter in the tale of his life in this gripping memoir tracing the complicated roots and path of his inner life and family, with their multitude of intersections.’ The Eyes of the Heart stands as a touching testimonial to the significance of kinship to the author as well as to the legions of readers who have come to regard him as one of their own.

Beyond Words

Beyond Words n 1. Terms or names that point to the realm of mystery and depth that lies beyond our ordinary experience. 2. The reality that is beyond even the power of Beyond Words to convey, and that can be known only by experiencing it for yourself. ‘A word a day to keep the demons at bay.’ This is how Frederick Buechner likes to describe this witty and incisive dictionary. A daily devotional from one of today’s greatest spiritual writers, Beyond Words offers 366 entries from Buechner’s three alphabet books, Wishful Thinking, Peculiar Treasures, and Whistling in the Dark, including a new Introduction and nineteen new entries. Providing definitions of both sacred and ordinary words, as well as biblical characters, Buechner unabashedly brings his fresh perspective to words, concepts, and characters we thought we understood. This is a great introduction to Buechner’s work as well as a library staple for those already well versed in his writing. It is Buechner at his best. Whether readers find themselves tearful from a deeply moving insight or laughing out loud at an unexpected turn of phrase, they will always feel uplifted, illuminated, and enchanted by the wisdom of Frederick Buechner.

Secrets in the Dark

Frederick Buechner has long been a kindred spirit to those who find elements of doubt as constant companions on their journey of faith. He is a passionate writer and preacher who can alter lives with a simple phrase. Buechner’s words, both written and spoken, have the power to revolutionize and revitalize belief and faith. He reveals the presence of God in the midst of daily life. He faces and embraces difficult questions and doubt as essential components of our lives, rather than as enemies that destroy us. ‘Listen to your life!’ is his clarion call. This theme pervades this definitive collection of sermons, delivered throughout Buechner’s lifetime. Presented chronologically, they provide a clear picture of the development of his theology and thinking. Reflecting Buechner’s exquisite gift for storytelling and his compassionate pastor’s heart, Secrets in the Dark will inspire laughter, hope, and bring great solace. Turn the pages and rediscover what it means to be thoughtful about faith. See why this renowned writer has been quoted in countless pulpits and beloved by Americans for generations.

The Yellow Leaves

In these original essays, short stories, and poems, the beloved Frederick Buechner reflects on the moments of transcendence in the midst of his daily existence. In a myriad of commonplace activities, he finds the presence of the divine, and he elegantly describes these persons, events, and observations, nimbly transporting readers into these realities. With his masterly crafted prose, Buechner edifies, inspires, and offers a timeless model for approaching our human experience.

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