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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

Top 15 Books Read in 2017 about C. S. Lewis and/or One or More Inklings

1. C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table - James T. Como
2. The Christian World of the Hobbit - Devin Brown
3. Bringing Narnia Home - Devin Brown
4. The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle - Colin Duriez
5. The Heroes of Tolkien - David Day
6. The Wisdom of the Shire - Noble Smith
7. Through Joy and Beyond - Walter Hooper
8. A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War - Jospeh Loconte
9. The Pilgrim's Guide: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness - David Mills
10. C. S. Lewis: Through the Shadowlands - Brian Sibley
11. The Most Reluctant Convert - David C. Downing
12. C. S. Lewis: Images of His World - Douglas Gilbert & Clyde S. Kilby
13. The Lion's World - Rowan Williams
14. C. S. Lewis: Christian and Storyteller - Beatrice Gormley
15. C. S. Lewis: An Apologist for Education - Louis Markos

Top 40 Books Read in 2017 (Excluding C. S. Lewis and Agatha Christie)

1. The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton
2. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
3. Right Ho, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
4. The Return of the King - J. R. R. Tolkien
5. The Sacrament of Evangelism - Jerry Root & Stan Guthrie
6. Parnassus On Wheels - Christopher Morley
7. Dancing on the Head of a Pen - Robert Benson
8. The Flying Inn - G. K. Chesterton
9. One for the Books - Joe Queenan
10. The Place of the Lion - Charles Williams
11. The Golden Key - George MacDonald
12. The Ballad of the White Horse - G. K. Chesterton
13. Defiant Joy: The Remarkable Life & Impact of G. K. Chesterton - Kevin Belmonte
14. Letters to Heaven: Reaching Beyond the Great Divide - Calvin Miller
15. All Hallows' Eve - Charles Williams
16. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
17. Cupside Down - Terry Cliett
18. The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
19. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. Thrones, Dominations - Dorothy L. Sayers & Jill Paton Walsh
21. A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
22. The Divine Comedy I: Hell - Dorothy L. Sayers
23. The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library - Alice Kimberly
24. Striding Folly - Dorothy L. Sayers
25. The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
26. Clouds of Witness - Dorothy L. Sayers
27. Quest for Celestia - Steven James
28. 84, Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
29. Chivalry - Zach Hunter
30. King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table - Roger Lancelyn Green
31. Lilith - George MacDonald
32. The Lair of the White Worm - Bram Stoker
33. Descent into Hell - Charles Williams
34. The Bookshop Book - Jen Campbell
35. Saint Francis of Assisi - G. K. Chesterton
36. Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham - J. R. R. Tolkien
37. Poor Folk - Fyodor Dostoevsky
38. Four Quartets - T. S. Eliot
39. De Doctrina Christiana - St. Augustine
40. The Pastor as Scholar & The Scholar as Pastor - John Piper & D. A. Carson

December Reading

1. The Epistle to the Galatians - Ronald Y. K. Fung
2. Galatians - Richard N. Longenecker
3. Galatians - Douglas J. Moo
4. The Epistle to the Galatians - F. F. Bruce
5. Galatians - R. Alan Cole
6. The Epistle to the Galatians - Floyd E. Hamilton
7. Galatians and You - C. Norman Bartlett
8. The Glory of Galatians - Fred M. Wood
9. Galatians: Saved by Grace - Thomas Lea
10. Spurgeon Commentary: Galatians - Elliot Ritzema
11. Galatians - Martin Luther
12. Galatians - John MacArthur
13. Exploring Galatians - John Phillips
14. The NIV Application Commentary: Galatians - Scot McKnight
15. The New American Commentary: Galatians - Timothy George
16. Galatians - J. Vernon McGee
17. The Place of the Lion - Charles Williams
18. The Christian World of the Hobbit - Devin Brown
19. Christ-Centered Exposition: Exalting Jesus in Galatians - David Platt and Tony Merida
20. The Lion's World - Rowan Williams
21. The Pale Horse - Agatha Christie
22. The Heroes of Tolkien - David Day
23. A Year with C. S. Lewis

November Reading

1. Hallowe'en Party - Agatha Christie
2. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case - Agatha Christie
3. Through Joy and Beyond - Walter Hooper
4. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
5. The A.B.C. Murders - Agatha Christie
6. Letters from Father Christmas - J. R. R. Tolkien
7. Bringing Narnia Home - Devin Brown

October Reading

1. The Latin Letters of C. S. Lewis - C. S. Lewis & Don Giovanni Calabria
2. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
3. All Hallows' Eve - Charles Williams
4. The Road Not Taken and Other Early Poems - Robert Frost
5. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
6. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
7. The Lair of the White Worm - Bram Stoker
8. The Golden Key - George MacDonald

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

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

August Reading

1. The Summer We Read Gatsby - Danielle Ganek
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
3. Thrones, Dominations - Dorothy L. Sayers & Jill Paton Walsh
4. Poor Folk - Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. The Diary of Samuel Pepys Volume One: 1660
6. The Wisdom of the Shire - Noble Smith
7. Heaven Bound: Creating a Funeral or Memorial Service for Your Pet - Paraclete Press
8. The Diary of Samuel Pepys Volume Two: 1661
9. The 40 Most Influential Christians - Daryl Aaron

July Reading

1. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce
2. A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemmingway
3. 4.50 From Paddington - Agatha Christie
4. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - T. S. Eliot
6. 84, Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
7. Playing for Pizza - John Grisham
8. The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin
9. Biblical Preaching - Haddon W. Robinson
10. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - Katarina Bivald
11. The New City Catechism