Friday, October 20, 2017

Fantastic Fiction

Greetings!  Happy Friday to you!
After looking over my shelves, here's some recommended reading from the fiction category.  I've placed these in alphabetical order by author's last name.

I consider the following to be Fantastic Fiction:


Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

L. Frank Baum - The Wizard of Oz

Alan Bennett - An Uncommon Reader

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

John Bunyan - Pilgrim's Progress

Albert Camus - The Stranger

Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales

G. K. Chesterton - Father Brown, The Flying Inn, The Ballad of the White Horse, Four Faultless Felons, The Ball and the Cross, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, Manalive, The Man Who Was Thursday, The Man Who Knew Too Much

Agatha Christie - 4.50 from Paddington, Murder on the Orient Express

Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG

Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol, The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield

Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov

Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

E. M. Forster - A Room with a View

Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows

Roger Lancelyn Green - King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - Grimm's Fairy Tales

Ernest Hemmingway - The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises

Homer - The Illiad, The Odessey

James Howe - Bunnicula, Howliday Inn, Nighty-Nightmare, Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow

Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle

Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Alice Kimberly - The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman

Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera

C. S. Lewis - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength, The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Great Divorce, Till We Have Faces

George MacDonald - Phantastes, Lilith, The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie

Thomas Malory - Le Morte d'Arthur

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

John Milton - Paradise Lost

Christopher Morley - Parnassus on Wheels, The Haunted Bookshop

George Orwell - Animal Farm

Ovid - Metamorphoses

Christopher Paolini - Eragon

Frank Peretti - The Visitation, The Oath, This Present Darkness, Piercing the Darkness

Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Gold-Bug

Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson & The Olympians

Barbara Robinson - The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Thomas Rockwell - How to Eat Fried Worms

J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter

Dorothy Sayers - Clouds of Witness, Striding Folly, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion

Charles M. Sheldon - In His Steps

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events

John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Bram Stoker - Dracula

J. R. R. Tolkien - Smith of Wootton Major, Farmer Giles of Ham, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings

Leo Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Anthony Trollope - The Warden

Jules Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Virgil - The Aeneid

H. G. Wells - The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau

Charles Williams - Descent into Hell, All Hallows' Eve

P. G. Wodehouse - Right Ho, Jeeves

Sunday, October 01, 2017

We Don't Have to Go to Hell

Wonder of wonders!
Jesus loves us
Despite our blunders

That Christ should choose us
And use us, after all
We deserve the blunderbuss

The mystery!  So profound!
The captain-pastor spoke well
Once lost, yes, but found
We don't have to go to hell

September Reading


  1. The Four Loves - C. S. Lewis
  2. The Great Divorce - C. S. Lewis
  3. The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
  4. Miles of Smiles - Bruce Lansky
  5. Revise Us Again - Frank Viola
  6. Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee
  7. The Ultimate Fender Book - Paul Day & Dave Hunter
  8. The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
  9. The Dark Tower and Other Stories - C. S. Lewis
  10. The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1662
  11. Descent into Hell - Charles Williams
  12. Guitar World Presents Stevie Ray Vaughan