Friday, December 28, 2018

Top Books Read in 2018

George MacDonald
1.  Sir Gibbie (David Jack)
2.  Castle Warlock (David Jack)
3.  Robert Falconer (David Jack)
4.  Phantastes
5.  The Golden Key
6.  The Light Princess
7.  The Shepherd's Castle (Michael Phillips)
8.  The Minister's Restoration (Michael Phillips)

Charles Williams
1.  War in Heaven
2.  Many Dimensions
3.  The Greater Trumps
4.  Taliessin through Logres
5.  The Region of the Summer Stars
6.  He Came Down from Heaven
7.  The Forgiveness of Sins
8.  Collected Plays
9.  Three Plays
10.  Witchcraft
11.  The Silver Stair
12.  The Chapel of the Thorn
13.  The Celian Moment and Other Essays
14.  Outlines of Romantic Theology
15.  Letters to Lalage

Others in Alphabetical Order by Author
1.  The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
2.  Sherlock Holmes and The Needle's Eye - Len Bailey
3.  The Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius
4.  Hobbit Lessons - Devin Brown
5.  The Man Who Knew Too Much - G. K. Chesterton
6.  Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories - Agatha Christie
7.  Reflecting the Eternal - Marsha Daigle-Williamson
8.  Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
9.  Lenten Lands - Douglas H. Gresham
10.  King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
11.  The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
12.  Beowulf and Other Old English Poems - Constance B. Hieatt
13.  A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
14.  Out of the Silent Planet - C. S. Lewis
15.  Surprised by Joy - C. S. Lewis
16.  The Magician's Nephew - C. S. Lewis
17.  The Screwtape Letters - C. S. Lewis
18.  Charles Williams: The Third Inkling - Grevel Lindop
19.  Paradise Lost - John Milton
20.  Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus - Nabeel Qureshi
21.  A Comedian's Guide to Theology - Thor Ramsey
22.  The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club - Dorothy L. Sayers
23.  The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
24.  The Narnia Code - Michael Ward
25.  Surprised by Agape - Justin Wiggins
26.  Stars Through the Clouds - Donald T. Williams
27.  A Bounty of Blandings - P. G. Wodehouse
28.  Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
29.  God The Trinity - Malcolm B. Yarnell III
30.  The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings - Philip Zaleski & Carol Zaleski

Saturday, September 01, 2018

August Reading

1. A Comedian's Guide to Thoelogy - Thor Ramsey
2. The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings - Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski
3. Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories - Agatha Christie
4. The Romantic Rationalist - John Piper and David Mathis (editors)
5. Sherlock Holmes and The Needle's Eye - Len Bailey
6. The Greater Trumps - Charles Williams
7. Out of the Silent Planet - C. S. Lewis
8. The Submarine Pitch - Matt Christopher
9. Church Evangelism - John Mark Terry
10. The Beer Drinker's Guide to God - William B. Miller
11. The Magician's Nephew - C. S. Lewis
12. The Narnia Code - Michael Ward

Monday, August 06, 2018

July Reading

1. Beowulf and Other Old English Poems - Constance B. Hieatt (Ed.)
2. He Came Down From Heaven - Charles Williams
3. The Shepherd's Castle - George MacDonald (edited by Michael R. Phillips)
4. Taliessin through Logres - Charles Williams
5. The Region of the Summer Stars - Charles Williams
6. The Personal Heresy - C. S. Lewis and E. M. W. Tillyard

Friday, July 06, 2018

June Reading

1. Image and Imagination - C. S. Lewis
2. Healthy Kingdom Churches - J. Robert White
3. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
4. Innovation's Dirty Little Secret - Larry Osborne
5. Phantastes - George MacDonald
6. A Family Guide to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - Christin Ditchfield
7. Roverandom - J. R. R. Tolkien
8. The Story of Kullervo - J. R. R. Tolkien
9. The QPB Companion to The Lord of the Rings - Brandon Geist (ed.)
10. The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue - Katrina C. Attwood (ed.)
11. The Minister's Restoration - George MacDonald (edited by Michael Phillips)
12. The C. S. Lewis Hoax - Kathryn Lindskoog
13. The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth - Ruth S. Noel

Thursday, May 31, 2018

May Reading


  1. A Confession - Leo Tolstoy
  2. The 20 Essential Qualities of an Authentic Christian - Warren W. Wiersbe
  3. The Table Talk of Martin Luther
  4. Heaven's War - Micah Harris
  5. The Golden Key - George MacDonald
  6. Father Brown and the Ten Commandments - G. K. Chesterton
  7. War in Heaven - Charles Williams
  8. From the Library of C. S. Lewis - James Stuart Bell
  9. Surprised by Joy - C. S. Lewis
  10. A Family Guide to Prince Caspian - Christin Ditchfield
  11. Robert Falconer - George MacDonald
  12. The Air Freight Mystery - W. E. Butterworth

Monday, April 30, 2018

April Reading

1. The Cocktail Party - T. S. Eliot
2. A Grief Observed - C. S. Lewis
3. The Discarded Image - C. S. Lewis
4. Letters to an American Lady - C. S. Lewis
5. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club - Dorothy S. Sayers
6. Oxford Book of Poetry for Children - Edward Blishen
7. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - A. Conan Doyle
8. C. S. Lewis: Images of His World - Douglas Gilbert & Clyde S. Kilby
9. The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri

Sunday, April 01, 2018

March Reading

1. Becoming a Welcoming Church - Thom S. Rainer
2. Broadchurch - Erin Kelly
3. Amoretti and Epithalamion - Edmund Spenser
4. The Saga of the Volsungs - Jesse L. Byock
5. Beren and Lúthìen - J. R. R. Tolkien
6. J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography - Humphrey Carpenter
7. Lenten Lands - Douglas H. Gresham

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

January/February Reading

1. Hobbit Lessons: A Map for Life's Unexpected Journeys - Devin Brown
2. The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children - Eden Ross Lipson
3. The Children of Húrin - J. R. R. Tolkien
4. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
5. Out of the Silent Planet - C. S. Lewis
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6. A Light in the Attic - Shel Silverstein
7. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - Alvin Schwartz
8. More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - Alvin Schwartz
9. The Iliad: Retold from the Homer Original - Kathleen Olmstead
10. Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones - Alvin Schwartz
11. C. S. Lewis: Mere Christian - Kathryn Ann Lindskoog
12. The Light Princess - George MacDonald

Friday, December 29, 2017

Top 8 Agatha Christie Books Read in 2017















  1. Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
  2. And Then There Were None (1939)
  3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
  4. The A.B.C. Murders (1936)
  5. 4.50 From Paddington (1957)
  6. The Pale Horse (1961)
  7. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (1975)
  8. Hallowe'en Party (1969)

Top 15 Books by C. S. Lewis Read in 2017














  1. The Great Divorce (1945)
  2. Letters of C. S. Lewis (1966)
  3. Mere Christianity (1952)
  4. The Four Loves (1960)
  5. The Screwtape Letters (1942)
  6. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)
  7. The Horse and His Boy (1954)
  8. The Magician's Nephew (1955)
  9. Prince Caspian (1951)
  10. The Silver Chair (1953)
  11. On Stories and Other Essays on Literature (1982)
  12. God in the Dock (1970)
  13. The Dark Tower and Other Stories (1977)
  14. Spirits in Bondage (1919)
  15. Spenser's Images of Life (with Alistair Fowler) (1967)