A World of Stories for Preachers and Teachers: and all who love stories that move and challenge, Twenty-Third Publications, 1998. 372 Stories/Anecdotes/Homilies. A treasure chest of stories.

Storytelling: Imagination and Faith, Twenty-Third Publications, 1989. Excellent resource – a book of stories and a book about storytelling.

The Yellow Brick Road, Twenty-Third Publications, 1999. A storytellers approach to the Spiritual Journey. Contains many stories.

Timely Homilies
Telling Stories, Compelling Stories
More Telling Stories, Compelling Stories
Storytelling the Word

The above four books contain over 130 story-homilies that cover the three cycles of the liturgical years. The fourth book (Storytelling the Word) contains an index according to season, year (ABC), scripture and which book the found in. All are published by Twenty-Third Publications.

William Bausch has more books than I have listed here, but I am not familiar with them, so I have not included them.

The Tale of Three Trees. A very tellable folk tale about a wish coming true in a surprising way.

Tales of the Kingdom, Chariot Books, 1983.
Tales of the Resistance, Lamplighter Publishing, 1986.
Tales of the Restoration, Chariot Books, 1996.

Allegorical tales of the Christian journey. Sometimes compared to The Chronicles of Narnia or Pilgrim’s Progress. With adaptations, I have used them with great success in retreat and healing story work.

Keepers of the Story *
Leave Her Alone
Lent: The Daily Readings
Lent: The Sunday Readings *

* (Written with Tony Cowan)

The two books on Lent combine to walk you through the forty days of Lent and Holy Week, with stories and reflections for all three liturgical cycles.

Not Counting Women and Children: Neglected Stories from the Bible Parables

Megan McKennas’s books are written from a social justice perspective and deal with scripture stories in a narrative fashion. The books with * are packed with stories. The other books have occasional stories interspersed with reflections from her comprehensive study of scripture. All of her books are published by Orbis. Megan McKenna has published more books than I have listed. These are the ones I am familiar with, and have found helpful.

Keeping the Fires of Faith Alive: Telling Biblical Stories. Twenty-one original stories created out of the School of Sacred Storytelling Sessions. Ordering information – Contact Terry Foxx, editor, storyteller@comcast.net or 505-672-9056.

Doorways to the Soul: 52 Wisdom Tales From Around the World, The Pilgrim Press, 1998. A collection of short wisdom tales, parables, and anecdotes from around the world.

Daughters of Eve: Strong Women of the Bible, Barefoot Books, 2000.

Stories for the Telling
Stories for the Journey
Stories for the Gathering

These books contain a collection of folk tales, fables, stories by other classic storytellers, and stories set in modern times. Most are very short entries, with an occasional longer story. Books are published by Augsburg.

This website ( www.storyfest.com/lectionarystorybook.html) is for an eLectionary Storybook series that spans years A,B and C of the Lectionary. For each week, Bob sends a story (short and long version), a process of learning the story, and reflections on the story. There are currently 156 stories in the Storybook.