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

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