Books
I love books, just about any genre if it’s a good story and written well. Here are some faves, fiction and non-fiction. Some I don’t recommend for folks with milder constitutions. Use your own discretion, which is, I suppose, a good word for any situation.
Fiction
- A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
- East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
- The Great Divorce, by C.S. Lewis
- The Wheel of Time series, by Robert Jordan
- The Aubrey/Maturin books by Patrick O’Brian
- The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
- Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
- Twilight of Courage, by Bodie and Brock Thoene
- The Stand, by Stephen King
- Odd Thomas, by Dean Koontz
- The Harry Potter books, by J.K. Rowling
- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
- The Sea Wolf, by Jack London
- The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
- Charles Dickens. Pick one. You can’t go wrong.
- Louis L’Amour books.
- The Percy Jackson series, by Rick Riordan
- The Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket
- The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
- The Lord of the Rings series, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
- All Hallows Eve, by Charles Williams
- Robin McKinley books: The Blue Sword, The Hero and the Crown, Beauty.
- Jackaroo, by Cynthia Voight
- The Secret Garden, by Francis Hodgson Burnett
- Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Montgomery
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
- My Name is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok
- The Dark is Rising series, by Susan Cooper
- Some favorite Star Trek authors: Diane Duane, Diane Carey, Michael Jan Friedman, Peter David
- Taliesin, by Stephen Lawhead
- Dream Thief, by Stephen Lawhead
- The Once and Future King, by T.H. White
- The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis
- True Grit, by Charles Portis
- Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
- The Gunseller, by Hugh Laurie
- This Present Darkness, by Frank Peretti
- Walking Across Egypt, by Clyde Edgerton
- Souls Raised from the Dead, by Doris Betts
- The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis
- Till We Have Faces, by C.S. Lewis
- The Long Walk, by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman, I think)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt
- Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Non-Fiction
Includes biographies, true tales, histories, inspirational/spiritual, how-to books, and poetry.
- Orthodoxy, by G.K. Chesterton
- Champagne for the Soul, by Mike Mason
- Polishing the Petosky Stone, by Luci Shaw
- Blue Like Jazz, by Donald Miller
- Ghost Soldiers, by Hampton Sides,
- A Voyage for Madmen, by Peter Nichols
- Close to the Wind, by Pete Goss
- Band of Brothers, by Stephen Ambrose
- No Name on the Bullet; A Biography of Audie Murphy, by Don Graham
- To Hell and Back, by Audie Murphy
- Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends, by Guarnere, Heffron, and Post
- How to Stop Acting, by Harold Guskin
- The Total Money Makeover, by Dave Ramsey
- On Writing, by Stephen King
- Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
- Traveling Mercies, by Anne Lamott
- In the Heart of the Sea, by Nathaniel Philbrick
- George MacDonald, an Anthology, compiled by C.S. Lewis
- How to Write a Damn Good Novel, by James Frey
- Miracle in the Andes, by Nando Parrado, with Vince Rause
- The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger
- Embracing the Love of God, by James Bryan Smith
- Rich Mullins; An Arrow Pointing to Heaven, by James Bryan Smith
- Righteous Gentile: The Story of Raoul Wallenberg, by John Bierman
- Reflections on a Journey to War, by Robert Scholten
- Walking on Water, by Madeleine L’Engle
- The Ragamuffin Gospel, by Brennan Manning
- All Over but the Shoutin’, by Rick Bragg
- I am a Soldier, Too, by Rick Bragg
- Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis
- No Greater Love, by Mother Teresa
- Gandhi, by Louis Fischer
- The Story of Christianity, by Price and Collins
- The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Reformation and Protestantism, by Bell and Sumner
- Sketches of Church History, by S.M. Houghton
- The Greatest Sailing Stories of All Time, edited by Christopher Caswell
- Running into Water; Mothers Immersed in the Pursuit of God, by Angela Blycker