Favorites – 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.

  • A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, by Eugene Peterson
  • Bonhoeffer, by Eric Metaxes
  • The Disciplined Life, by Richard S. Taylor
  • 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