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

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

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 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

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

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

June Reading

1. The Sacrament of Evangelism - Jerry Root & Stan Guthrie
2. Everyday Evangelism - Matt Queen
3. The Bookshop on the Corner - Jenny Colgan
4. The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
5. Saint Francis of Assisi - G. K. Chesterton
6. Nighty-Nightmare - James Howe
7. Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow - James Howe
8. Runaway Ralph - Beverly Cleary
9. The Furious Flycycle - Jan Wahl
10. Smith of Wootton Major & Famer Giles of Ham - J. R. R. Tolkien
11. The Bookshop Book - Jen Campbell
12. C. S. Lewis: Christian and Storyteller - Beatrice Gormley
13. The Wife of Bath and Other Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer (Translated by Nevill Coghill)
14. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing - Judy Blume
15. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores - Jen Campbell
16. Parnassus On Wheels - Christopher Morley
17. The Flying Inn - G. K. Chesterton

May Reading

1. George MacDonald: An Anthology - C. S. Lewis
2. God in the Dock - C. S. Lewis
3. Living the Braveheart Life - Randall Wallace
4. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
5. The Sacred Journey - Frederick Buechner
6. Church Elders - Jeramie Rinne
7. Song of the Sun - St. Francis of Assisi
8. Defiant Joy: The Remarkable Life of G. K. Chesterton - Kevin Belmonte
9. The Magician's Nephew - C. S. Lewis
10. The Return of the King - J. R. R. Tolkien
11. Clouds of Witness - Dorothy L. Sayers
12. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
13. One for the Books - Joe Queenan
14. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Edward Fitzgerald
15. Right Ho, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
16. Unidentified Flying Oddball - Vic Crume

April Reading

1. 1 Peter: Message of Encouragement - John H. McClanahan
2. The NIV Application Commentary: 1 Peter - Scot McKnight
3. Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
4. The Most Reluctant Convert - David C. Downing
5. C. S. Lewis: Images of His World - Douglas Gilbert & Clyde S. Kilby
6. Letters of C. S. Lewis - W. H. Lewis & Walter Hooper (editors)
7. Reading Spenser: An Introduction to The Faerie Queene - Roger Sale
8. Mere Christianity - C. S. Lewis
9. Jane Austen - Peter Leithart
10. Preparing for Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings - C. S. Lewis
11. Lilith - George MacDonald
12. Spirits in Bondage - C. S. Lewis
13. Spenser's Images of Life - C. S. Lewis with Alastair Fowler

March Reading

1. The Great Divorce - C. S. Lewis

2. Teaching Christianity (De Doctrina Christiana) - Augustine

3. Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life - C. S. Lewis

4. The Oxford Inklings - Colin Duriez

5. Chilvalry: The Path of Love - Jeremy Catto

6. The Blood of Olympus - Rick Riordan

7. A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War - Joseph Loconte

8. Devotional Talks on Everyday Objects - Robert J. Hastings

9. On Stories and Other Essays on Literature - C. S. Lewis

10. Prince Caspian - C. S. Lewis

11. Discussing Mere Christianity - Devin Brown

12. The Divine Comedy I: Hell - Dante (translated by Dorothy L. Sayers)

13. The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton

February Reading

1. C. S. Lewis: An Apologist For Education - Louis Markos
2. Dancing on the Head of a Pen - Robert Benson
3. Striding Folly - Dorothy L. Sayers
4. C. S. Lewis At The Breakfast Table - James T. Como
5. The Silver Chair - C. S. Lewis
6. The Song of Songs - Marcia Falk
7. The Laws of Marie de France - Robert Hanning & Joan Ferrante
8. Four Quartets - T. S. Eliot
9. The Pilgrim's Guide: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness - David Mills
10. The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library - Alice Kimberly (Cleo Coyle)
11. Letters to Heaven: Reaching Beyond the Great Divide - Calvin Miller
12. William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back - Ian Doescher
13. Cupside Down - Terry Cliett

January Reading

1. C. S. Lewis Through the Shadowlands - Brian Sibley

2. Chivalry - Zach Hunter

3. The Ballad of the White Horse - G. K. Chesterton

4. The Horse and His Boy - C. S. Lewis

5. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany, & Jack Thorne

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

7. To Live Is Christ To Die Is Gain - Matt Chandler & Jared C. Wilson

8. Understanding Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings - William Ready

9. The Pastor as Scholar & The Scholar as Pastor - John Piper & D. A. Carson

10. Quest for Celestia - Steven James

11. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C. S. Lewis

12. The Screwtape Letters - C. S. Lewis

December Reading

• An Experiment in Criticism - C. S. Lewis
• A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
• The Practice of the Presence of God - Brother Lawrence
• Clive Staples Lewis: A Dramatic Life - William Griffin
• The Southern Poets - William Lander Weber
• The Chimes - Charles Dickens
• Glorifying God: A Yearlong Collection of Classical Devotional Writings - Thomas Watson
• Holy Bible: English Standard Version
• A Severe Mercy - Sheldon Vanauken
• The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
• That Hideous Strength - C. S. Lewis
• Walking with Bilbo - Sarah Arthur
• Diary of a Jackwagon - Tim Hawkins
• C. S. Lewis, My Godfather: Letters, Photos and Recollections - Laurence Harwood

Top 20 Books Read for 2016

I should make two clarifications.  First, this is not a list of books written in 2016.  This will be obvious to most.  Second, the title of this post is greatly misleading because I have excluded all books written by C. S. Lewis and all books about C. S. Lewis that I read this year.  Just click on the links to see those posts.  OK, I should also admit that my number one book for this year is connected with C. S. Lewis.
Also, there is one particular and unique book that I do not include in a list such as this, and that is because it belongs on a plane of its own--the Bible.  If you read nothing else, read the Bible.  Read the Bible before you read anything else.  This year (as is my habit of some years now) I read through the Bible.  I chose the English Standard Version.  I try to select a different English translation to read through each year.
One other thing of note.  The final count of books read this year is 143.  This is the most I've read in a single year, and this list comes from those 143 books.
Without further ado, here is my list.

1. A Severe Mercy - Sheldon Vanauken
2. The Two Towers - J. R. R. Tolkien
3. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
4. Tremendous Trifles - G. K. Chesterton
5. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
6. Reading Between the Lines - Gene Edward Veith, Jr.
7. The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
8. The Princess and Curdie - George MacDonald
9. The Warden - Anthony Trollope
10. Dracula - Bram Stoker
11. The Quotable Chesterton - Kevin Belmonte
12. Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues - Mark Eddy Smith
13. At Home in Mitford - Jan Karon
14. Murder in the Cathedral - T. S. Eliot
15. Pymalion - George Bernard Shaw
16. Bunnicula - Deborah and James Howe
17. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
18. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Jessie L. Weston
19. The Book of the Duchess - Geoffrey Chaucer
20. Electra - Sophocles

Top Ten Books About C. S. Lewis

There are many books dealing with C. S. Lewis and his writings.  There are many good ones.  There are even some that are not so good, but they are few and far between.  This top ten list is compiled from the books that I have read only in 2016.  Some excellent ones not on this list I have already read (Devin Brown, Donald Williams, Colin Duriez, etc.), and I highly recommend them.  Others I still plan on reading (Alister McGrath, Michael Ward, etc.).
These have been a blessing to me, and I hope you read them, too!

1. Jack: C. S. Lewis and His Times - George Sayer
2. Jack's Life: The Life Story of C. S. Lewis - Douglas Gresham
3. Clive Staples Lewis: A Dramatic Life - William Griffin
4. Past Watchful Dragons - Walter Hooper
5. The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis - Alan Jacobs
6. The Soul of the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - Gene E. Keith, Jr.
7. If I Had Lunch with C. S. Lewis - Alister McGrath
8. On the Shoulders of Hobbits - Louis Markos
9. C. S. Lewis & Mere Christianity: The Crisis that Created a Classic - Paul McCusker
10. Aslan's Call: Finding Our Way to Narnia - Mark Eddy Smith

Post Script - I should add one more as an honorable mention.  I read this one after I compiled my list.

               C. S. Lewis, My Godfather: Letters, Photos and Recollections - Laurence Harwood

Top Twenty Books by C. S. Lewis Read This Year

A good portion of the 132 books I've read this year have been by C. S. Lewis, so I decided to do a list dedicated just to those.  Of course, who can really rank Lewis' books?  But everyone has his or her favorites.  Here is how I decided to do this one: I will rank each book according to how much I enjoyed reading it.  Certainly, I would recommend all of them.

1. Mere Christianity
2. The Great Divorce
3. Surprised by Joy
4. Out of the Silent Planet
5. Of Other Worlds: Essays & Stories
6. Miracles
7. Letters to an American Lady
8. An Experiment in Criticism
9. The Abolition of Man
10. Perelandra
11. Reflections on the Psalms
12. A Preface to Paradise Lost
13. That Hideous Strength
14. The Screwtape Letters
15. Till We Have Faces
16. Narrative Poems
17. The Problem of Pain
18. Christian Reflections
19. Letters to Children
20. A Grief Observed

November Reading

• The Preaching Event - John R. Claypool
• C. S. Lewis on Faith - Lesley Walmsley
• The Abolition of Man - C. S. Lewis
• Tremendous Trifles - G. K. Chesterton
• Thoroughly Married - Dennis Guernsey
• Christian Reflections - C. S. Lewis
• Past Watchful Dragons - Walter Hooper
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Jessie L. Weston
• The Great Divorce - C. S. Lewis
• Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Reflections on the Psalms - C. S. Lewis
• Shakespeare on Leadership - Frederick Talbott
• Who Moved My Pulpit? - Thom S. Rainer