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Favorite Books of All Time
Recommended Authors
Fantasy (Young Adult)
Fiction (Young Adult)
Fiction & Fantasy (Adult)

Actually Worthwhile Classics
Things to Make You Think
Philosophical & Intellectual Literature
Christian Fiction
Christian Children's Books

Favorite Books of All Time

Moon, Elizabeth. The Deed of Paksenarrion.
Neville, Katherine. The Eight.
Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged.
Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead.

Recommended Authors

Fantasy (Young Adult)

Pullman, Phillip. The Golden Compass.
Pullman, Phillip. The Subtle Knife.

Fiction (Young Adult)

Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Alcott, Louisa May. Eight Cousins or the Aunt Hill.
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.
Burnett, Frances Scott. A Little Princess.
Burnett, Frances Scott. The Secret Garden.
Dahl, Roald. The BFG.
Dahl, Roald. The Witches.
Dahl, Roald. James and the Giant Peach.
Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Dahl, Roald. Matilda.
Dahl, Roald. Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Dahl, Roald. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More.
Dann, Colin. The Animals of Farthing Wood and the rest of the series.
Lewis, C.S. The Chronicles of Narnia (Boxed Set).
Porter, Gene Stratton. A Girl of the Limberlost.
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1).
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2).
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3).
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4).
White, E.B. Charlotte's Web.

Fiction & Fantasy (Adult)

Elliott, Kate. (Fantasy) Any of her work, especially the Jaran series.
Grisham, John. The Pelican Brief.
Grisham, John. The Firm.
Harris, Robert. The Fatherland.
Moon, Elizabeth. The Deed of Paksenarrion.
Neville, Katherine. The Eight.
Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged.
Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead.

Actually Worthwhile Classics

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.

Things to Make You Think

ten Boom, Corrie. Hiding Place.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451.
Hersey, John. Hiroshima.
Hirshmann, Maria Anne. Hansi: Captive of the Swastika.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World.
Orwell, George. 1984.
Prejean, Helen. Dead Man Walking.
Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged.
Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead.

Philosophical & Intellectual Literature

Machiavelli. The Prince.
More, Thomas. Utopia.
Shakespeare, William. Much Ado About Nothing.
Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will.
Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Hamlet.

Christian Fiction

Girzone, Joseph F. Joshua.
Peretti, Frank. This Present Darkness.
Peretti, Frank. Piercing the Darkness.
Peretti, Frank. Prophet.
Peretti, Frank. Tilly.

Christian Children's Books

Mains, David & Karen. Tales of the Kingdom.
Mains, David & Karen. Tales of the Resistance.
Mains, David & Karen. Tales of the Restoration.