16 Best Books for Single Christian Women

Today, I’m going to list out the 16 Best Books for Single Christian Women. No matter what stage you’re at or your vocation, I think these are some of the best books for single Christian women. I’ve read most, if not all of them.

16 Best Books for Single Christian Women

31 Prayers For My Future Husband: Preparing My Heart for Marriage by Praying for Him

Marriage is one of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity, besides His son Jesus. In the Garden of Eden, God said that it was not good that man was alone. So He created Eve out of Adam’s side (Genesis 2). Desiring a counterpart and oneness with another person is built into the deepest and oldest parts of our human nature. God also tells us in His Word to present all of our requests to Him (Philippians 4:6). We want to encourage you in your desire for marriage by encouraging you and inspiring you. To pray for your heart and the heart of your future husband. We wrote 31 Prayers For My Future Husband for single or engaged women, women currently in a serious relationship, and women who are already engaged that are planning for their special day!

You don’t need to wait until after you’re married to start praying for your husband. Start praying for your future husband today!

I Kissed Dating Goodbye

Joshua Harris’s first book, written when he was only 21, turned the Christian singles scene upside down…

And people are still talking. More than 800,000 copies later, I Kissed Dating Goodbye, with its inspiring call to sincere love, real purity, and purposeful singleness, remains the benchmark for books on Christian dating.

The national #1 bestseller is honest and practical. It challenges cultural assumptions about relationships and provides solid, biblical alternatives to society’s norm.

Tired of the game? Kiss dating goodbye.

Going out? Been dumped? Waiting for a call that doesn’t come? Have you tasted pain in dating, drifted through one romance or, possibly, several of them? Ever wondered, Isn’t there a better way?

I Kissed Dating Goodbye shows what it means to entrust your love life to God. Joshua Harris shares his story of giving up dating and discovering that God has something even better. A life of sincere love, true purity, and purposeful singleness.

Praying for Your Future Husband: Preparing Your Heart for His

Have you ever thought about praying for your future husband?
Will it make a difference?
There’s only one way to find out…
 
From when we were small girls, most of us dream of “The One,” our future husband. We think about what it would be like to be a bride. We wonder who that special guy is and when we’ll find him. The great news is that what you do now can make a difference in your life and the life of your future husband!
 
Authors and good friends Robin Jones Gunn (Christy Miller series) and Tricia Goyer (author and former teen mom) believe God answers women’s prayers for husbands. Even husbands they may not meet for years. They invite young women to pray boldly for their future mate … while also asking God to prepare their own hearts.
 
In Praying for Your Future Husband, Robin and Tricia share their two vastly different experiences. Including the things they did right and the mistakes they made on the path to meeting and marrying their husbands. Each chapter includes helpful Bible verses, prayers, and practical application. With true stories of women who prayed for a husband and how God answered in remarkable ways.
 
God has a beautiful romance prepared for you. Prayer is the key to unlocking the love story … with your future husband and with God, the lover of your soul.

The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

Falling in love is easy. Staying in love—that’s the challenge. How can you keep your relationship fresh and growing amid the demands, conflicts, and just plain boredom of everyday life?

In the #1 New York Times international bestseller The 5 Love Languages, you’ll discover the secret that has transformed millions of relationships worldwide. Whether your relationship is flourishing or failing, Dr. Gary Chapman’s proven approach to showing and receiving love will help you experience deeper and richer levels of intimacy with your partner—starting today.

The 5 Love Languages is as practical as it is insightful. This new edition reveals intrinsic truths and applies relevant, actionable wisdom in ways that work.

The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

What on earth am I here for? A 40 day purpose campaign to discover the answer.

The New York Times #1 bestselling book by Pastor Rick Warren that helps you understand and live out the purpose of your life.

Before you were born, God already planned your life. God longs for you to discover the life he uniquely created you to live–here on earth, and forever in eternity. Let The Purpose Driven Life show you how. As one of the bestselling nonfiction books in history, with more than 35 million copies sold, The Purpose Driven Life is far more than just a book; it’s the road map for your spiritual journey. A journey that will transform your life.

Designed to be read in 42 days, each chapter provides a daily meditation and practical steps to help you discover and live out your purpose, starting with exploring three of life’s most pressing questions:

  1. The Question of Existence: Why am I alive?
  2. Question of Significance: Does my life matter?
  3. The Question of Purpose: What on earth am I here for?

The Power of a Praying Woman

Stormie Omartian’s bestselling books have helped hundreds of thousands of individuals pray more effectively for their spouses, their children, and their nation. Now she has written a book on a subject she knows intimately: being a praying woman.

Stormie’s deep knowledge of Scripture and candid examples from her own prayer life provide guidance for women who seek to…

  • trust God with deep longings, not just pressing needs
  • cover every area of life with prayer
  • maintain a right heart before God

Each segment concludes with a prayer women can follow or use as a model for their own prayers.

Women of all ages will find hope and purpose for their lives with The Power of a Praying® Woman.

Savoring Single

Why savoring single? Because you were meant to enjoy it!

Finding purpose, knowing love, and experiencing adventure arent reserved solely for the married girls! You can enjoy a full and vibrant life even while being single. Its also a perfect time to partner with what God wants to develop in you through this once-in-a-lifetime part of your journey! Girl, being single is okay. There is a purpose for it, and it wont last forever. So savor it!

Finally the Bride: Finding Hope While Waiting

Why Would God Care About My Love Life? From the woman behind the screenplay and novel, Never the Bride, comes a roller coaster of a love story with God.

Cheryl McKay pulls no punches about what it’s really like to be single, with your age creeping up, and no end in sight to the wait for love and marriage.

It seems that many years ago, God asked Cheryl to surrender the pen she was using to write her love story. All He wanted was carte blanche. No problem, right? Cheryl tentatively conceded—that is, until it became apparent that the Almighty had no intention of conforming to her writing schedule, much less the tick of her biological clock.

In fact, He blew every deadline she ever attempted to set. As romance seemed to pass Cheryl by, she couldn’t help but question: Could God really be trusted to bring her the love of her life? Written during a long wait, this book opens up Cheryl’s painfully honest, personal journals. She explores what it’s like to enlist in God’s Marriage Boot Camp, and how to survive singlehood year after solitary year.

Cheryl wrestles with her Creator over multiple best friends that never see her “that way.” Then there are those lists of what she wanted. You know, the ones she revised a billion times then laminated for safekeeping. She watches, bewildered, as much younger women find love that seems to elude her. Through it all, she falls head over heels for a God who proves Himself to be as resistant to her controls as He is faithful beyond her wildest dreams.

Are you still waiting? Have you lost hope? Venture to victory with a woman who knows just how hard it is to wait for the day when you are Finally the Bride. 

Go Bravely: Becoming the Woman You Were Created to Be

As a young Christian woman, do you struggle with insecurities and feel bogged down by the pressures and expectations of society? Do you find it challenging to take care of yourself and be a faithful daughter of God?

Emily Wilson Hussem used to feel the same way. In Go Bravely, the Catholic musician and speaker offers twenty bits of advice. It will equip you to tackle your deepest concerns about relationships, self-esteem, and dating while strengthening your faith at the same time.

“Sometimes even the smallest acts of living out faith require great bravery.”

In Go Bravely, Wilson Hussem offers readers warm and friendly encouragement . She shares her experiences with other young women as their youth minister. And her own struggles with insecurity, relationships, loving and forgiving herself, and living her faith. You’ll feel right at home as she challenges you to be a light in the world while simultaneously offering you easy-to-digest advice on your most pressing questions.

Fresh off figuring out who she is as a daughter of God, how to cultivate healthy friendships, how to save sex for marriage, and how to develop a prayer life, Wilson Hussem gives you advice. That which she learned in the midst of becoming a young woman. Aware of the information overload that young people face today, she shares simple wisdom for bravely living your faith:
Always be kind to other women.
Work hard at what you love.
Recognize God’s plan for your life.
Remember that nobody is perfect.
Cultivate authentic friendships.
These are basic ideas, Wilson Hussem says, but taking care of yourself and loving others are easy tenets of our faith to forget. A book that can be read in short snippets or in one sitting, Go Bravely offers you the encouragement and tools you need to live out your Christian faith with purpose and zeal.

When God Writes Your Love Story

In their most popular book, bestselling authors Eric and Leslie Ludy challenge singles to take a fresh approach to relationships in a culture where love has been replaced by cheap sensual passion. When God Writes Your Love Story shows that God’s way to true love brings fulfillment and romance in its purest, richest, and most satisfying form. This new edition includes an extra chapter from Leslie Ludy about the surprises of life after marriage!

“I had dreamed of a perfect love story for my entire life. But somewhere in the midst of the endless cycle of temporary romances, my dreams had shattered.” How can I find a love worth waiting for?

Lay the foundation now—whether you’ve met your future spouse or not—for a lifelong romance. Bestselling authors Eric and Leslie Ludy invite you to discover how beautiful your love story can be when the Author of romance scripts every detail.

Eric and Leslie Ludy want to offer an exciting vision of hope, proving that the Author of romance is alive and well and that true and lasting love can become a reality. Using the “four secrets to an amazing love story,” Eric and Leslie present a Christ-centered approach to building a relationship that will stand the test of time.

Captivating: A Guided Journal to Aid In Unveiling the Mystery Of A Woman’s Soul

Every little girl has dreams of being rescued by the hero, of being swept away into a great adventure, of being the beautiful princess. Sadly, when women grow up, they are taught to be tough, efficient, and independent. Many Christian women are tired, struggling under the weight of the pressure to be a “good servant,” a nurturing caregiver, passionate lover, or capable home manager.

What the Wild at Heart Field Manual did for men, the Captivating: A Guided Journal can do for women. By revealing the three distinctly female desires every woman shares, John and Stasi Eldredge invite participants to recover their feminine hearts. Even some which may have suffered many wounds but were originally defined in the image of a passionate God.

The Seven Big Myths about Marriage: What Science, Faith and Philosophy Teach Us about Love and Happiness

This work explores some of the most interesting and vexing problems in contemporary life. Appealing to reason rather than religious authority, the book tackles the most controversial positions of the Catholic Church. On contraception, on marriage, on reproductive technologies, on cohabitation, and on divorce – arguing for the reasonableness of the Church’s views on these issues.

The book’s interdisciplinary approach, following the precedent of Thomas Aquinas. It looks to human happiness and fulfillment, properly understood, in seeking the answers to questions about how to live. The book aims to show to skeptical readers that what the Catholic Church teaches about controversial issues is rationally justified by considering evidence from psychology, sociology, and philosophy. The foundation of Kaczor’s approach is happiness. We all want to be happy. 

Get Lost: Your Guide to Finding True Love

Have you ever ditched a friend for a guy? Filled your journal with more thoughts about guys than God? Found yourself jealous because that other girl gets all the dates? Maybe it’s time to get lost—in God.
 
Discover how to get so lost in God that a guy has to seek Him to find you.

Dannah Gresh traces God’s language of love through Scripture to help you pursue your heart’s deepest desires. And seek love the way God designed it to be. Because once you identify your true longings and let God answer them. You’ll know just how to respond when romantic love comes along.
 
With a guided ten-day Love Feast Challenge, Get Lost will help you see for yourself how getting lost in God opens the door to lifelong fulfillment.

Love That Lasts: How We Discovered God’s Better Way for Love, Dating, Marriage, and Sex

In Love That LastsNew York Times bestselling author of Jesus > Religion Jefferson Bethke and his wife, Alyssa, expose the distorted views of love that permeate our culture and damage our hearts, minds, and souls.

Drawing from Jeff’s “prodigal son” personal history. Additionally, from Alyssa’s “True Love Waits” experience, the Bethkes point to a third and better way. Blending personal storytelling with biblical teaching, they offer readers an inspiring, realistic vision of love, dating, marriage, and sex.

Lady in Waiting: Becoming God’s Best While Waiting for Mr. Right

With humor, honesty, and biblical truths, the authors help point women to being the right woman and not just finding the right man. By studying the biblical character Ruth, women learn the characteristics that every woman of God should develop. This expanded edition of the original best-seller includes a personal journal and study guide.

Ten Reminders For The Single Christian Woman

Are you a single Christian woman wondering what’s going to happen next in your life?Is your faith wavering as you wait for that special “someone”?Have you been praying and enduring for months only to go though another breakup, failed relationship or bad decision?If this is you, then this book is for you. In Ten Reminders for the Single Christian Woman, Dr. Pamela Q. Fernandes talks about why you should stay optimistic and remain in God’s love. As a follow up book in her Ten Reminder Series, she talks about her own struggles with faith, discerning a vocation and finding meaning as single Christian woman.

Do You Have Any Recommendations?

These are just my recommendations of books for single Christian women. I’m sure there are tons more. Do you have any favorites that you’ve read and enjoyed. Share them in the comments below so others can read and be inspired.