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Hello everyone. I thought I’d ask what are your favorite books and who are some authors you just love. I’ll get the ball rolling:

I’m a huge James Ellroy fan. I’ve read half the L.A. quartet, but out of order (The Black Dahalia and L.A. Confidential). I love how his books draw you into 1940’s & 1950’s Los Angeles.

Others would have to be Stephen King *Eyes of the Dragon, Salems’ Lot, and The Dark Tower *series.
 
what??? a favorites list!! i thought these were banned…

just kidding. putting a lighthearted spin on the latest drama on the CA boards. i mean no offense to either side of the issue.

i’ve posted a top 5 list already, but i’ll be more specific here, and add some.

this is a ‘favorite subject’ of mine. shhhhh… 😉

here are some of my fav books of all time. the first 10 or so are in descending order (my very fav listed first), then just as i remember them after that.

i don’t mean to hurt the feelings of any books i neglect to mention. 😉
  1. the last battle (the last book in the chronicles of narnia, by cs lewis.)
  2. the other narnia books
  3. 'til we have faces by lewis
  4. les miserables by hugo
  5. celebration of discipline by foster
  6. the science fiction trilogy by lewis
  7. the great divorce by lewis
  8. mere christianity by lewis
  9. the weight of glory by lewis
  10. george mueller by faith coxe bailey
  11. orthodoxy by chesterton
  12. the man who was thursday by chesterton
  13. the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy trilogy (all 5 books) by douglas adams
  14. lamb’s supper by scott hahn
  15. godric, brendan, the storm, speak what we feel, alphabet of grace, the bebb books, and hungering dark by frederick buechner
  16. the firm by grisham
  17. a wrinkle in time, and a wind in the door by l’engle
  18. anna karenina by tolstoy
  19. count of monte cristo by dumas
  20. purpose of theology by ratzinger (benedict xvi)
i’ll stop there. but i’ll probably chime in with ‘oh ya!!!’ when other people post…
 
M.R. James: The Complete Ghost Stories
E.F. Benson: The Complete Ghost Stories
Lord Dunsany: The Gods of Pegana
Arthur Machen: The Three Imposters
Manly Wade Wellman: Who Fears the Devil?
Algernon Blackwood: Any of his ghost/supernatural stories, with “The Willows” and “The Wendigo” being standouts.
E.R.R. Eddison: The Worm Orobouros
H.R. Wakefield: They Return at Evening
William Hope Hodgson: Everything!
Tolkien: Everything!
Lovecraft: Everything!
Guilty Pleasure: Stephen King’s The Shining and Salem’s Lot
Guilty Pleasure #2: Anything by James M. Cain

Peace.

PS: Cthulhu loves you (for dinner!!)
 
Luther - I mean, who else would have thought about putting sola before fide? 😉
 
oooh, this is going to be mucho fun!

i love books, books have literally been part of my life since i was 7.

besides, i can find titles of books to get from the library.

i think stephen king is one of the greats. he makes the characters actuall live. and (i know i shouldn’t) i think he is actually a closet catholic. except that catholics don’t fly to well in maine. in massachusetts, that is a different story.

right now i am going to wait and see what shows up. books are so much fun. much better than movies.

i have seen one movie and book the same. the maltese falcon. when you read the book, you can hear humphrey bogart, peter lorre, the fat man in your head.“did you bring the bundle?” the words are actually the same.

right now i want to figure out how to subscribe to this thread. i know very little about diong things here. i don’t know how to do (smileys? those ball things that jump around.)
 
I am in mid-life but I love to re-read one of the Little House on the Prairie series or the Anne of Green Gables books every summer at the beach.

In the past couple of years, I have enjoyed:

The Man Who Ate the 747 by Ben Sherwood (a romantic comedy)

One Tuesday Morning by Karen Kingsbury (a 9/11 novel with characters of a Christian viewpoint)

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (a sci-fi type mystery with a modern day ethical twist that is chilling in the characters’ complacency regarding what their purpose in life is)
 
I just finsihed reading The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis. Wow!

Some of you may remember I started a thread asking for book recommendations as our Church book club just got started a month ago.

For benefit of anyone interested in the book, a few thoughts of why I think this is a must read:
  1. Lewis uses a series of letters between a “senior administrative devil” and “a junior devil temptor on earth” to use IRONY to really get you thinking about your faith.
  2. The letters are all discussion about how to capture the soul of an individual for eternal damnation. So you get incredible CS Lewis insight into what our faith is about through reading the OPPOSITE position from the devil!
  3. The power of the message is significant, because instead of saying somoething bland like “Be careful in the simple habits you start making that are disobedient to God, this can be a slippery slope to Hell”, you read a letter of what appears to be on the surface a very innocent set of ploys to move the earthly target in the wrong target, and you realize the faith message in a most powerful way.
This book really reinforced my faith. It’s also a book I suspect you could read many times and get new things from it each time!
 
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I just finsihed reading The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis. Wow!

Some of you may remember I started a thread asking for book recommendations as our Church book club just got started a month ago.

For benefit of anyone interested in the book, a few thoughts of why I think this is a must read:
  1. Lewis uses a series of letters between a “senior administrative devil” and “a junior devil temptor on earth” to use IRONY to really get you thinking about your faith.
  2. The letters are all discussion about how to capture the soul of an individual for eternal damnation. So you get incredible CS Lewis insight into what our faith is about through reading the OPPOSITE position from the devil!
  3. The power of the message is significant, because instead of saying somoething bland like “Be careful in the simple habits you start making that are disobedient to God, this can be a slippery slope to Hell”, you read a letter of what appears to be on the surface a very innocent set of ploys to move the earthly target in the wrong target, and you realize the faith message in a most powerful way.
This book really reinforced my faith. It’s also a book I suspect you could read many times and get new things from it each time!
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very good, cs lewis is a great theologian.

for anybody, especially RCIA, and new converts. his “mere christianity” is highly reccommended reading. it is almost like a catechism in simple terms. all his books are good.
 
I enjoy many books, but I must have read the five books in the “Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy Trilogy” at least one a year since 1980 (as they came out).

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My all time favorite book is And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmeyer. She was in her 90’s when she finished it, and it may have been the only book she ever wrote.

I just started some short stories by Flannery O’Connor, but haven’t gotten too far. My daughter and I just finished A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, which was a good story. —KCT
 
“The Courage to be Catholic” by George Weigel. It’s about the priest abuse scandal. It really explain a lot about the workings of the Catholic church that I didn’t know. I love all books by Mr. Weigel although I admit I haven’t made it through “Witness to Hope”.

Maggie
 
So many books, such a short reading life…

Gone with The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
My Brother’s Keeper - Marcia Davenport
The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis
The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron
The Answer - Philip Wylie
Hawaii, The Source, Covenant - James Michner
Resistance - Anita Shreve
Gloriana (2 volume set) - Mary Luke
Hitler’s Willing Executioners - Daniel Goldhagen
The Bounty Trilogy - Nordoff & Hall
Sacajawea - Anna Lee Waldo

Oh, how I love to read!
 
PS - I am reading “The Moviegoer” by Walker Percy as my next Book Club book!
 
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin (I’m overdue due for a reread)

and all the books in the Jack Aubrey series by Patrick O’Brian
 
I love love love Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. They are absolutely awesome…my favorite things to read of all time.

Eamon
 
You really don’t want to know that answer to that!
Yo’ve just opened up a HUGE can of wroms- 😃 Thanks!!

Wrinkle in Time, Wind in the Door- Madalne L’engle
Plantation- dorothea benton frank
Les Mis- Hugo
Imitation of Christ- Thomas A Kempis
Anything by Robert Ludlum
Patriot Games, Hunt for Red October, Clear and Present Danger- Tom Clancy
Diary- Divine Mercy in my Coul- St. Faustina
The Agony in the Garden- Padre Pio
CCC
The Joy of Listening ( a book on contemplative prayer)
Anything by Augustine
and currently- Julian of Norwich.

I’ll stop, otherwise I’ll never end!
 
I have many favorites but a poor memory, lol.

I love phychological thriller novels. Dean Koontz is one of my favorite authors.

I really like Patrick Madrid’s Suprised By Truth series. Really great insight into conversion stories.

Hubby and I are working our way through Peter Kreeft’s great books. I just finished The Unaborted Socrates. Good stuff:thumbsup:

Malia

p.s. I vaguely remember liking the Narnia series in school… I think it’s time to read it again.
 
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wabrams:
Hello everyone. I thought I’d ask what are your favorite books and who are some authors you just love.

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The Blackie Ryan mysteries by Andrew Greeley
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Wilbur Smith, Frank Herbert, Stephen Lawhead, Glenn Cook, Dave Duncan, J.M. Coetzee, Jon Cleary, Poul Anderson and a host of others… I’m not so great at remembering names.
 
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