best books ever!!

EveningStar said:
I WOULD LIKE TO REMEMBER SOME NOW DECEASED/ENDANGERED CLASSICS:

The Telephone Book, though I tend nowdays to search on computer. For those of us old enough, the telephone was the closest thing we had to the internet, and a phone number the closest thing we had to an email address.

The long-deceased Sears Catalog, forerunner of ordering things off the web. I particularly miss the big Christmas WishBook and its promise of all sorts of great gadgets like film-based cameras and home movie cameras. Woot, I have Super-8 with sound!
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Having loved both of these well, I feel sad about losing or the threat there of. JCPenney's Catalogue probably would have made my list too. But then too, my Grandfather managed at JC Penneys for years.

Others that make my list:
The BIBLE

Narnia of Course

Pretty much anything by Jane Austin but especially: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma

Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series, as well as his Kane Chronicles Series and his Heroes of Olympus Series

SHERLOCK HOLMES- as in any of the adventures actually written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Swiss Family Robinson

The Scarlet Pimpernel and related books by Baroness Orczy

A somewhat guilty pleasure as they are made for girls a lot younger than I but The Dear America, My Name is America, and Royal Diary Series put out by Scholastic

Nancy Drew
 
ooooo...this is hard.... *thinks*

ok this is my little list:

Psalms&Proverbs (in the King James Version Bible) :D

Most books by Janette Oke
I'm too lazy to type them down... :cool:

Home to Blessing series (by Lauraine Snelling)
-I learned a LOT from this series


there is more...but I just can't think of them right now...
 
Funny when threads come alive....

By C. S. Lewis
-the Chronicles (of course)
-Surprised by Joy
-Till We Have Faces

By G. K. Chesterton
-Orthodoxy
-The Ballad of the White Horse

By George MacDonald
-Phantastes

By Elizabeth Marie Pope
-The Perilous Gard

By Flannery O'Connor
-Mystery and Manners

I could name more, but then I'd be typing all night. :waldo:
 
Most books by Janette Oke
I'm too lazy to type them down...
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Oh I love Janette Oke - especially her Songs of Acadia series with Davis T. Bunn.

Gosh I love Christian Fiction! I have a whole list of authors I take to the bookstore with me!

As for actual books.. Why would you make a person do that?? LOL. Um. I love:

Pompeii by T.L. Higley

Eve's Daughtersby Lynn Austin (or anything else by her, really)

Sanctuary by Beverly and David Lewis

Emma by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

I love Percy Jackson and the newer series as well. Those books are amazing LOL.

And of course Narnia and the Bible LOL. Probably a few others but those are my favorites lol.

A somewhat guilty pleasure as they are made for girls a lot younger than I but The Dear America, My Name is America, and Royal Diary Series put out by Scholastic
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YES! I feel ridiculous looking at those in the store, but I love reading them! If they made historical journal/diary style books for older audiences I would buy them in a heartbeat. Those books are little treasures lol!
 
(In no particular order)

The Bible
The Chronicles of Narnia
Lord of the Rings
The Silmarillion
The Hobbit
The Archives of Anthropos
The Ranger's Apprentice
Warriors: Original series, The New Prophecy, Power of Three, Omen of the Stars
Robin Hood :)D)
How to Train your Dragon
The Inheritence Cycle
Maximum Ride
The Odyssey
Redwall

Those some of them, I'll probably think of more later.:D
 
I reading the Help right now, and It's a very good book. I also just read Lily's Crossing and Harry Potter will always be my favorite.
 
The Hunger Games is a good series (I'm sure it has been previously mentioned).

If you're Christian and enjoy romance, Francine Rivers is your go-to-girl. She is amazing. My favorite series of hers (one that I will read again and again) is called the Mark of the Lion.

Frank E. Peretti also puts out amazing, Christian books, though they lean toward Thrillers.
 
Defintely The Hunger Games. Also Harry Potter, Narnia, His Dark Materials, Vampire Academy series, The Inheritance Saga, Little House books, Anne of Green Gables, Where's Waldo, Lord of the Rings etc...
 
amdd97 said:
I reading the Help right now, and It's a very good book. I also just read Lily's Crossing and Harry Potter will always be my favorite.
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I tried recently to find a thread on The Help here and couldn't find one. Great book, good movie. I thought that Viola Davis and Dallas Bryce Howard were both the star performances of the movie.
 
amdd97 said:
I reading the Help right now, and It's a very good book. I also just read Lily's Crossing and Harry Potter will always be my favorite.
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I tried recently to find a thread on The Help here and couldn't find one. Great book, good movie. I thought that Viola Davis and Dallas Bryce Howard were both the star performances of the movie. The book was one of the best I've read in a while.
 
Les Miserables is and always will be my favourite book, I think.

I've mentioned it before but must mention it again.

I've read it four times now, and it's still incredibly moving.

It's about redemption. And hope, even in the darkest parts of life.

And it's is heartbreaking and beautiful.

It truly is something everyone should read.
 
The Spanish Inquisition said:
Les Miserables is and always will be my favourite book, I think.

I've mentioned it before but must mention it again.

I've read it four times now, and it's still incredibly moving.

It's about redemption. And hope, even in the darkest parts of life.

And it's is heartbreaking and beautiful.

It truly is something everyone should read.
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I love Les Miserables too! It is all of those things that you said. It's a deeply powerful and moving book. It's also highly emotional.
 
I see, I see.

Well, the Harry Potter books are excellent, in my opinion. I know a lot of people on this site probably can't/won't read the books because they deal with magic, but I have enjoyed the morals in the book series since I was a little girl... it also pulls my mother and I together when each movie was released. Even now, we will occasionally sit and watch a movie or two together...

The Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins is a great series if you're willing to delve into a fearful new world post the rapture. I used to read them when I was 13 and have been meaning to re-read the series as an adult, but I can never seem to find a full-set at a library (I'm a poor college student, buying the entire series is way out of my monetary reach.).

There is also the Kid's series of the Left Behind books which is also very well done. I enjoyed them as a child and have always wanted to go back and re-read them as an adult. Again, never had the opportunity, but it is something I will do someday.

I'll think of more soon.
 
Lady Chloe said:
I see, I see.

Well, the Harry Potter books are excellent, in my opinion. I know a lot of people on this site probably can't/won't read the books because they deal with magic, but I have enjoyed the morals in the book series since I was a little girl... it also pulls my mother and I together when each movie was released. Even now, we will occasionally sit and watch a movie or two together...

The Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins is a great series if you're willing to delve into a fearful new world post the rapture. I used to read them when I was 13 and have been meaning to re-read the series as an adult, but I can never seem to find a full-set at a library (I'm a poor college student, buying the entire series is way out of my monetary reach.).

There is also the Kid's series of the Left Behind books which is also very well done. I enjoyed them as a child and have always wanted to go back and re-read them as an adult. Again, never had the opportunity, but it is something I will do someday.

I'll think of more soon.
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I love the Harry Potter series, because it has the fantasy elements, but JKR took things to a whole different set of heights, and created such mesmerising books that count thousands to discover the joy of reading all over the world. Another series that is fantastic are the My Sister The Vampire series.
 
Oh! Another good Christian book is "The Last Sin Eater". It was turned into a movie, but I think I enjoyed the book so much better.
 
Fiction
CON
LOTR
HP series
Gone with the Wind
A Little Princess
To Kill a Mockingbird
Pride and Prejudice

Non-fiction
Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning
Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri Nouwen
Falling Upward by Richard Rohr

Did I already post all this? Oh well, sorry if I am repeating myself. Seems to be a habit.
 
Any book by Ted Dekker...some of which are:
Black
Red
White
Green
Immanuel's Veins
Martyr's Song
Kiss (Co-authored with Erin Healy)
Burn (Co-authored with Erin Healy)
Forbidden (co-authored with Tosca Lee)

The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
MockingJay (all three by Suzanne Collins)

Demon
Havah (both by Tosca Lee)

The DragonKeeper Chronicles by Donnita K. Paul


There are so many more that I love!
 
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