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

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

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

September Reading

• What Would You Like On Your Mashed Potatoes? - Tom Davis
• Growing Up in Vienna, Georgia - Tom Davis
• What America Is - Neil Joiner
• The Jewel of Seven Stars - Bram Stoker
• Yours, Jack - C. S. Lewis
• Jack's Life: The Life Story of C. S. Lewis - Douglas Gresham
• At Home in Mitford - Jan Karon
• A Grief Observed - C. S. Lewis
• The Book of the Duchess - Geoffrey Chaucer
• In the Days of the Comet - H. G. Wells

July Reading

• The Book on Leadership - John MacArthur
• Henry XIII - Frank Dwyer
• The Blackstone Chronicles - John Saul
• Ephesus - Anita Gillett
• The Sacred Journey - Charles Foster
• Jack: C. S. Lewis and His Times - George Sayer