Some people have been asking for a book list.  Here is my first blush at it.  I know I am leaving out things I am reading now and have read in the past, so I will have to add to it over time… but here we are:

First, the most important books in my life…

1.  The Screwtape Letters by Lewis…

has been the most personal impacting book in my life outside of the Bible (my favorite books of the Bible, are incidentally, Mark, Ruth, Hebrews, John, Galatians, 1 Peter and 1 & 2 Samuel. The rest are good too 😉

2.  The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning – a must read for all Christians.  The follow-up book (Abba’s Child) is also great stuff.  And Rich Mullins, my favorite poet, was greatly inspired by this book.  Meeting Brennan would be a life goal, I think.  In fact, it turns out that it is the Truth that sets us free, after all.

3.  The Tale of Three Kings – this one probably saved my heart in the last 3 years.  Its not as biblically precise as I would like, but I have decided to look past the errors, because the message is very biblical.

4.  Life Together by Bonheoffer – this changed even the basic things about how I see the Christian life.

and

5.  The Listener by Taylor Caldwell – probably the most important book in regards to my counseling

other big impact books:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Dahl

Black Swan Green by Mitchell

Other favorites:

The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings
The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen R Lawhead
Robinson Crusoe by Defoe
Sharpe Series by Bernard Cornwell
The Last Child in The Woods by Louv

Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide series

For Men Only and For Women Only by Feldhahn

other Taylor Caldwell books
Hidden Value of a Man By Smalley and Trent
Stranger in a Strange Land & Starship Troopers by Heinlein
Robert The Bruce by Scot
Eisenhower and Churchill by Ambrose
Devotional Classics

I, Robot by Asimov

ALL of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe mysteries

Spin by Wilson

The Three Investigators by various authors

I am a big fan of romantic and post civil war era poetry too:  Tennyson, Byron, etc.

What I am reading right now:

Hurt by Chap Clark

A Soldier of the Great War by Helprin 

A Right to Die by Rex Stout

Series I am in the middle of:

The brand new Strain Series

The Eragon Series (nobody knows them by their real name)

One of  George Martin’s series  (been forever)

The Way of Shadows Series by Weeks

The Lost Fleet Series by Campbell (these are great!)

I am reading out loud to Ginger:

Matthew by Matthew (as inspired by the Holy Spirit)

Hood by Lawhead