Showing posts with label G. K. Chesterton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label G. K. Chesterton. Show all posts

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

Saturday, July 01, 2017

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

Thursday, June 01, 2017

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

Friday, March 31, 2017

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

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

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

Sunday, December 25, 2016

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

Thursday, December 01, 2016

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

Tuesday, November 01, 2016

October Reading


  • The MacArthur New Testament Commentary: Philippians - John MacArthur
  • Exploring Ephesians & Philippians: An Expository Commentary - John Phillips
  • The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
  • Christ-Centered Exposition: Exalting Jesus in Philippians - Tony Merida & Francis Chan
  • Be Joyful: Even When Things Go Wrong, You Can Have Joy - Warren W. Wiersbe
  • The Monkey and the Fish: Liquid Leadership for a Third-Culture Church - Dave Gibbons
  • Aslan's Call: Finding Our Way to Narnia - Mark Eddy Smith
  • The Art of Preaching Old Testament Narrative - Steven D. Mathewson
  • Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories - C. S. Lewis
  • The Quotable Chesterton - Kevin Belmonte
  • The Visionary Christian - C. S. Lewis
  • Perelandra - C. S. Lewis
  • Mere Christianity - C. S. Lewis
  • The Warden - Anthony Trollope
  • Lessons from the Ladder - Neil Joiner
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
  • Things That Cannot Be Shaken - K. Scott Oliphant & Rod Mays

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

August Reading


  1. The Case for Christianity - C. S. Lewis
  2. The Waste Land and Other Poems - T. S. Eliot
  3. Miracles: A Preliminary Study - C. S. Lewis
  4. Dracula - Bram Stoker
  5. Sound Doctrine - Bobby Jamieson
  6. C. S. Lewis on Joy - Lesley Walmsley
  7. Out of the Silent Planet - C. S. Lewis
  8. Favorite Father Brown Stories - G. K. Chesterton
  9. Mystery of the Midnight Message - Florence Parry Heide & Roxanne Heide
  10. Rhodes - D. &. I. Mathioulakis
  11. The Screwtape Letters - C. S. Lewis
  12. On the Shoulders of Hobbits - Louis Markos
  13. The Joyful Christian - C. S. Lewis
  14. The Power of Positive Praying - John Bisagno
  15. The Wisdom of Father Brown - G. K. Chesterton
  16. Three Score & Ten - Vance Havner
  17. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Thursday, December 31, 2015

Top 20 Books Read for 2015

  1. Evangelism: How the Whole Church Speaks of Jesus - J. Mack Stiles
  2. The Pastor As Public Theologian: Reclaiming a Lost Vision - Kevin J. Vanhoozer & Owen Strachan
  3. Mere Humanity: G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien on the Human Condition - Donald Williams
  4. The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume II: Books, Broadcasts, and the War 1931-1949 - Walter Hooper, Editor
  5. Tolkien: How an Obscure Oxford Professor Wrote the Hobbit and Became the Most Beloved Author of the Century - Devin Brown
  6. Why Church Matters - Joshua Harris
  7. The Spiritual World of the Hobbit - James Stuart Bell
  8. The Princess and the Goblin - George MacDonald
  9. On the Incarnation - Athanasius
  10. Preach: Theology Meets Practice - Mark Dever & Greg Gilbert
  11. Bedeviled: Lewis, Tolkien and the Shadow of Evil - Colin Duriez
  12. How to Be Rich - Andy Stanley
  13. The Knowledge of the Holy - A. W. Tozer
  14. Literature: A Student's Guide - Louis Markos
  15. Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  16. Gorgias - Plato
  17. Four Faultless Felons - G. K. Chesterton
  18. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  19. Credo: Believing in Something to Die For - Ray Pritchard
  20. Strange Fire - John MacArthur
This list of 20 books was compiled after reading 68 books this year.  As always, if you're only going to read one book, make sure it is the Bible.