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Rachel E.
01-25-2008, 10:06 PM
I never can remember all the titles of my favorites when I sit down to actually write them down:rolleyes: But...I will try!

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Princess Bride - William Goldman (goldman didn't really write it, he edited it)
Lord of the Rings (including The Hobbit) - JRR Tolkien
Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Christy - Catherine Marshall
Julie - Catherine Marshall
Eternity in Their Hearts - Don Richardson

And I can't think of any more right now. I'll get back to you later!:cool:
What are ya'lls favorites?

ProfessorAlan
01-25-2008, 10:30 PM
On A Pale Horse -- Piers Anthony
The Cost of Discipleship -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Complete Sherlock Holmes -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tess of the D'urbervilles -- Thomas Hardy
Fever Pitch -- Nick Hornby
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold -- John LeCarre
Girl Meets God -- Lauren Winner

Katibriah
01-25-2008, 11:30 PM
Lord of the Rings
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Icewind Dale Trilogy
Cleric Quintet
Legacy of the Drow
The Dark Elf Trilogy
The Secret Garden
The Diary of a Young Girl
Piercing the Darkness
This Present Darkness
The Oath

Rachel E.
01-26-2008, 12:39 PM
Ya'll make me remember some more of the ones I like.

Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Murder on the Orient Express - Agathe Christie
The Complete Hurcule Poirot - Agathe Christie
The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank

Again, stumped... I'll think of some more later..lol
Anybody else?? What are your favorites?

Ransom v. Unman
01-26-2008, 01:45 PM
All time favourite: The Lord of the Rings

Period. :)

Other fiction notables, however, include...

Paradise Lost
Beowulf
'Til We Have Faces
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Notes from the Underground
At the Mountains of Madness
Frankenstein
The Chronicles of Narnia (esp. The Last Battle)
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Jungle
A Clockwork Orange
Breakfast of Champions
Fight Club
Guards! Guards!
Good Omens
Neverwhere


Non-fiction notables:

Jesus: the Sage from Galilee
Anarchy and Christianity
The Technological Society
The Revolt of the Masses
Spirit of 69
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The Abolotion of Man
Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics
Fast Food Nation
6 Modern Myths

kshsj777
01-26-2008, 11:06 PM
The Firebird Trilogy by Kathy Tyers:

Firebird
Fusion Fire
Crown of Fire

Best sci-fi novels I have ever read in my life!!!!

kshsj777
01-26-2008, 11:07 PM
Oh and the Chronicles of Narnia are my favorite, too!

ProfessorAlan
01-27-2008, 10:42 AM
The Firebird Trilogy by Kathy Tyers:
Firebird
Fusion Fire
Crown of Fire


I agree -- these are quite good.

Tamera
01-27-2008, 04:00 PM
My favorites are in a constant flux and change often. But here are some of them.

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Chronicles of Narnia Series by CS Lewis
The Princess Bride
The Prophet by Frank Peretti
The Left Behind Series
Little Women by Loiusa May Acott
Little House On the Prarie Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickins
Crime and Punishment by Dostrovsky
The Left Hand of God by Barrett
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The Time Machine by HG Wells
Guns of Wolf Valley by Ralph Cotton

The list may change if you ask me again next week.

ProfessorAlan
01-27-2008, 08:53 PM
Non-fiction notables:

Jesus: the Sage from Galilee
Anarchy and Christianity
The Technological Society
The Revolt of the Masses
Spirit of 69
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The Abolotion of Man
Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics
Fast Food Nation
6 Modern Myths


No "Fever Pitch?" -- it's about girls and Arsenal, two of my favorite things.

Ransom v. Unman
01-28-2008, 10:42 AM
No "Fever Pitch?" -- it's about girls and Arsenal, two of my favorite things.

It's nice... I'm not nice though, especially when it comes to football.

Look up "Steaming In" for my favourite Arsenal book... >-)

Cymrugirl
02-01-2008, 06:50 PM
Errreeeeep! Always difficult. Let me try:

Les Miserables
The Lord of the Rings
Til We Have Faces
Henry V
The Chronicles of Narnia
Middlemarch
A Christmas Carol
The Old Wives Tale
Persuasion
Hamlet
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Neverwhere
Jane Eyre
1984
Dracula
Frankenstein
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Good Omens
The Secret Garden
How Green Was My Valley
A Room With a View
Northanger Abbey
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Tales of Edgar Allen Poe

As for non-fiction:

Orthodoxy
Blue Like Jazz
Searching for God Knows What
Albion, the Origins of the English Imagination
A Year in Provence
The Knowledge of the Holy
The Cross and the Switchblade
Mere Christianity
The Screwtape Letters

Xenia
02-11-2008, 08:31 AM
I'm always reading something but I have a terrible memory for titles. I will try though. The book that got me hooked on reading was Exodus. After reading it I had to have more!

The Lion Trilogy - Francine Rivers
Mila 19 - Leon Uris
Trinity - Leon Uris
Safely Home - Randy Alcorn

Tons more I'm sure but can't bring their titles to mind....:eek:

kluchar70
02-18-2008, 07:59 PM
Any of the Vampire Chronicles-Anne Rice
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Anything by Neil Gaimen(Especially Neverware)
Left Behind series
C.S. Lewis's space trilogy
The Fall of Lucifer-Wendy Alec