Please list 5 books

[Bain_Adaneth]

List 5 books that have changed the way you think....has had a great impact on your life...or that you think is worthy to be read.....if someone has already mentioned the book you want to put down, please recommend a different one.....I want to read these great books...

These are some that I've read so far or don't want you to mention, so don't recommend these to me again....and don't put down the Bible, because I'm reading it right now....remember you have only 5 books to list, choose wisely....it may change one's life....(please list author too if possible)...

-A People's History of the United States- Howard Zinn
-Vampire chronicles-Anne Rice
- Chaim Potok books
- the Lord of the rings series-JRR tolkien
- Rebbeca Brown books
-Ernest Hemmingway books
- Scott fitzgerald books
-Leo Tolstoy books
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez books
-John steinbeck books
-the hatchet
-My side of the mountain
-wilson rawls books

 

[Kelly]

Here's 4
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
The Social Contract - Jean Rousseau
Chickenhawk - Robert Mason

 

[MoonlessNight]

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
1984 - George Orwell
"The Unnamable" - HP Lovecraft
The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
Phaedo - Plato

 

[peteey]

C.S. Lewis Til We Have Faces and The Screwtape letters
Atlas Shrugged (don't know the author right now)
Traveling mercies by anne lamont

 

[Bain_Adaneth]

thanks for the book recommendations....anyone else have some books in mind?

 

[Reader Nilus]

Here is the list of my books:

1. Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoevsky
2. All Hallow's Eve by Charles Williams
3. Beginning to Pray by Met ANTHONY (Bloom)
4. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
5. The Quotations of Chairman Jesus

Jeff the Finn

 

[Durelen]

These are a MUST!


More than a Carpenter

Screwtape letters

Pilgrim's Progress

Fox's book of Martyrs

Go get them!!

Bonus book:
The Late Great Planet Earth


Enjoy!

 

[MoonlessNight]

Oh, and if you were specifically looking for a Christian book, I recommend Brideshead Revisted by Evelyn Waugh. Quite entertaining, and has quite a bit to do with Christianity at the end.

(MINOR SPOILER AHEAD)


(though nothing you can't figure out if you pay attention in the prologue, and nothing that would ruin the book)


By the way I've heard Warner Bros. is making a movie out of this, but leaving out Charles's conversion. Quite a shame, if that's true. It would be like making a movie out of Romeo and Juliet and not having them die at the end. Kind of defeats the purpose of the story.

 

[kt92]

Um.....

Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
Experiencing God by Blackaby
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Choosing Gods Best by Dr. Don Raunikar
Jesus Freaks by D.C Talk and The Voice of the Martys

The stories in Jesus Freaks honestly could make you cry - it opens your eyes to the world and what people really go through for their faith. Choosing Gods Best may have some radical ideas when it comes to your relationships w/ the opposet sex - but has some good thoughts on purity and how to gaurd your heart. Purpose Driven Life and Experiencing God just really make your relationship w/ God much more real and close. Mere Christianity is just one of those standby's you can read over and over again. Actually, all the books I listed you could read over and over again and learn new little tid bits eachtime.

 

[LadyBird]

1. Christy Millers series by Robin Jones Gunn
2. Having a Martha heart in a Mary World...can't remember the author.
3. Purpose Drive Life by Rick Warren
4. Rachael's Tears
5. Jesus Freaks

 

[LiberalChristian]

The Patriots Handbook -
Empire Falls
East of Eden
Grapes of Wrath
Confederacy of Dunces
The Blank Slate
Summer of the Gods
Angle of Repose
Humbolts Gift
The Image - Or anything written by Boorstin
Battle Cry of Freedom
ALl the Harry Potter Books
The Culture of Fear
The Future of Ideas
War - Four Christian Views
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
The Trees, The Fields, The Town (It's a trilogy)
Soul Survivor

Is that Five Yet?

I got a lot more......

 

[Mylinkay Asdara]

The Lord of the Rings plus the Hobbit - if you need to ask who the author is I don't think I want to talk to you anymore (jk)

Memnoch the Devil - Anne Rice - highly insightful and only somewhat sacreligious

To Kill a Mockingbird - I have actually forgot the author- someone please virutally smack me for that one

Two Against the Tide - you won't find it, there are only about 700 copies and the only reason I have one is because my friend's dad wrote it but it's very moving tale about two children taken from their home by their aunt to an island where everyone never grows older.... and their decision to give up immortality to grow as people after spending the summer there.

The Giver - no words, just read it

Brave New World - it deserves a second mention

Farenheit 451 - Brave New Worldish but with a separate aspect that distinguishes it

Expendables - don't know the author (again with the smacks please) but it's another sci-fi with morals story that is actually quite relevant to today's society

That's all I can think of for now, but I'll proabaly be back with more

 

[Bain_Adaneth]

Thanks guys/gals

 

[Mr.Cheese]

Chickenhawk was awesome!

 

[PHUMCgirl]

I'd like to list:

The Pendragon Series (Taliesin, Merlin, Arthur, Pendragon) by Stephen Lawhead (he's very Christian oriented).

The Warlord Series by Bernard Cornwell

When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman (historical fiction about King Stephen ursurper! and Maude)

And of course the Chronicles of Narnia!

 

[Tami]

A Full Quiver by Rick and Jan Hess (http://www.totallycheap.com/cgi-bin/details.php?isbn=0943497833. Can also be found less expensively at www.quiverfull.com, click on "Quiverfull Resources" and at www.aboverubies.org)

Home by Choice: Raising Emotionally Secure Children in an Insecure World by Brenda Hunter, Ph.D (http://www.totallycheap.com/cgi-bin/details.php?isbn=1576737217)

Liberated Through Submission by P.B. Wilson http://www.totallycheap.com/cgi-bin/details.php?isbn=1565077202

Professionalizing Motherhood by Jill Savage (http://www.totallycheap.com/cgi-bin/details.php?isbn=0310248175)

The Tightwad Gazette by Amy Dacyczyn
The Tightwad Gazette II by Amy Dacyczyn
The Tightwad Gazette III by Amy Dacyczyn
(http://www.totallycheap.com/cgi-bin/search.php?title=The+Tightwad+Gazette&author=Amy+Dacyczyn&subject=&isbn=&GO.x=15&GO.y=11)
I also saw all 3 volumes of The Tightwad Gazette on ebay





Tami

 

[tulc]

Pilgrams Progress (John Bunyon this one changed my life)
Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
Salem's Lot (Stephen King)
any of the Repairman Jack books (F Paul Wilson)
Practice of the Presence of God (Bro Lawrence)
tulc

 

[Wolseley]

Goodbye, Darkness; William Manchester

Story of a Soul; St. Therese of Lisieux

Armageddon; Leon Uris

Creation Rediscovered; Gerard Keane

God's Fool; Julien Green

The Death of the West; Patrick Buchanan

365 Days; Ronald Glasser

The Caine Mutiny; Herman Wouk.

 

[nicodemus]

Obviously, the Holy Scriptures would be #1, but as far as other books go:

1. Orthodox Spirituality According to St. Silouan the Athonite by Harry Boosalis
2. A Spiritual Psalter by St. Ephraim the Syrian
3. On Marriage & Family Life by St. John Chrysostom
4. The Spiritual Life & How to Be Attuned to It by St. Theophan the Recluse
5. Facing the World by Archbishop Anastasios (Yannoulatos) of Albania

I may post a list of influential fiction works later.

 

[Photini]

1) On the Incarnation, by St. Athanasius
2) The Way of a Pilgrim
3) The Forgotten Medicine; The Mystery of Repentance, by Arch. Seraphim
4) Eternal Wisdom from the Desert
5) the Life of St. Mary of Egypt

--also worthy of a 2nd mention...Beginning to Pray, by Met. Anthony Bloom