Books

Once again, I don't like picking favorites because I have a really hard time with it, but here are some of mine.  There are a lot of books I have enjoyed, but I'm trying to be picky with the favorites.  This list is a work in progress, so I'll be changing it as I read new things.  As always, if you've got any questions about anything I've read or suggestions for things I should read, let me know.  I'm always looking for good books to read.  Unfortunately, I'm not sure I'll ever get through all of them.  Also, Goodreads.com is a good place to look for books to read.  You can also make a list of books to read.

Note: I don't want to deal with splitting everything into genres, so I'm using the most generic genres I can: fiction and non-fiction.  Not all books fall neatly into one of the categories (like religious books or philosophical books), so I'll just group them as best I can.

Favorite Books and Authors:
Fiction
  • Card, Orson Scott: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Speaker for the Dead
  • Christie, Agatha
  • Cussler, Clive
  • Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: Sherlock Holmes
  • Hughes, Dean: Children of the Promise series, Hearts of the Children series
  • Jacques, Brian: Redwall series, Flying Dutchman series
  • Lewis, C.S.: Screwtape Letters, Chronicles of Narnia
  • Rowling, J.K.: Harry Potter series
  • Stewart, Chris: The Great and Terrible series
  • Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Non-fiction
  • Frankl, Viktor: Man's Search for Meaning
  • Lewis, C.S.: Mere Christianity
  • McCullough, David: 1776
  • Grietens, Eric: The Heart and the Fist

Books and Authors to Read:
Fiction
  • Asimov, Isaac: I, Robot; Foundation series
  • Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
  • Aw, Tash: Map of the Invisible World; The Harmony Silk Factory
  • Baer, Robert: Blow the House Down
  • Bennett, R. William: Jacob T. Marley
  • Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451
  • Brooks, Max: World War Z
  • Christie, Agatha
  • Clancy, Tom: Every Man a Tiger
  • Clavell, James: Shogun
  • Crichton, Michael: Timeline
  • Cussler, Clive
  • Dante: The Divine Comedy 
  • Dashner, James: Maze Runner
  • de Cervantes, Miguel: Don Quixote
  • Dick, Philip K.: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • Diamond, Jared: Guns, Germs, and Steel; The World Until Yesterday
  • Doerr, Anthony: All the Light we Cannot See
  • Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo; The Three Musketeers
  • Estleman, Loren: Sugartown
  • Eugenides, Jeffrey: The Virgin Suicides; Middlesex
  • Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
  • Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables
  • Ignatius, David: Body of Lies; Agents of Innocence; The Sun King
  • Jordan, Robert: Wheel of Time series
  • Koch, Christopher J.: The Year of Living Dangerously
  • L'amour, Louis
  • Leithauser, Brad: The Art Student's War
  • L'Engle Madeleine: A Wrinkle in Time
  • Lewis, C.S.: Out of the Silent Planet
  • Lowry, Lois: The Giver
  • Lund, Gerald: The Work and the Glory series
  • Matheson, Richard: I am Legend, Somewhere in Time
  • McCarthy, Cormack: The Road
  • Multatuli: Max Havelaar
  • Orwell, George: Animal Farm
  • Rand, Ayn: Atlas Shrugged
  • Roth, Veronica: Divergent series
  • Sanderson, Brandon: Mistborn series, Elantris
  • Setiawan, Erick: Of Bees and Mist
  • Shakespeare, William: Hamlet, Othello
  • Thor, Brad: The Apostle
  • Toer, Pramoedya Ananta: Buru Quartet: This Earth of Mankind; Child of All Nations; Footsteps; House of Glass
  • Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina, War and Peace
  • Turtledove, Harry: The Guns of the South
  • Twain, Mark: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  • Valmiki: Ramayana
  • von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang: Faust
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Zusak, Markus: The Book Thief
Non-fiction
  • Alder, Shannon L.: 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage
  • Anderson, Jr, Clinton Joe: How Can You Possible be a Mormon and a Democrat?
  • Anderson, Scott: Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
  • Baer, Robert: Sleeping With the Devil, See No Evil
  • Barry, Sam and Kathy Kamen Goldmark: Write That Book Already!
  • Barry, Steve
  • Bartlett, Dale and Michelle: Day Trips from Salt Lake City
  • Baty, Chris: No Plot? No Problem!
  • Ben Amor, Taoufik: Developing Writing Skills in Arabic
  • Bergin, M. Sue: Am I a Saint Yet?  Healing the Pain of Perfectionism
  • Beschloss, Michael: Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How they Changed America 1789-1989
  • Cambridge: The Cambridge Biblical Hebrew Workbook: Introductory Level
  • Carnegie, Dale: How to Win Friends and Influence People
  • Chamberlain, Mark D., Daniel D. Gray, and Rory C. Reid (eds): Confronting Pornography: A Guide to Prevention and Recovery for Individuals, Loved Ones, and Leaders
  • Conrad, Penne D.: Out of the Killing Fields and Into the Light: Inspirational Interviews with Mormon Converts from Cambodia
  • Engel, Richard: A Fist in the Hornet's Nest: On the Ground in Baghdad Before, During, and After the War
  • Faulconer, James E.: The Old Testament Made Harder: Scripture Study Questions
  • Finn, Peter and Petra Couvee: The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book
  • Gladwell, Malcolm: Blink; David and Goliath
  • Goodfellow, Rob: The Green Iguana
  • Gormley, Beatrice: C.S. Lewis: The Man Behind Narnia
  • Husni, Ronak and Daniel L. Newman: Modern Arabic Short Stories: A Bilingual Reader
  • Isby, David: Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires
  • Kaufman, Josh: The First 20 Hours: How To Learn Anything...Fast
  • Kelly, Clara Olink: The Flamboya Tree: Memories of a Mother's Wartime Courage
  • Kuegler, Sabine: Child of the Jungle: The True Story of a Girl Caught Between Two Worlds
  • Lewis, Benny: Fluent in 3 Months
  • Lewis, C.S.: Weight of Glory, The Great Divorce
  • Martin, Shad and Dustin Smith: Especially for Athletes: Leadership On and Off the Field
  • McKay, Brett and Kate: The Art of Manliness
  • Mendenhall, Bronco: Running Into the Wind
  • Miller, Haley: 150 Unforgettable Dates
  • Mills, Sherri: Marriage 101 for Men
  • Noor, Queen: Leap of Faith: Memories of an Unexpected Life
  • Orbach, Benjamin: Live From Jordan: Letters Home from My Journey Through the Middle East
  • Owen, Mark: No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL
  • Pearl, Nancy: Book Lust
  • Pope, Hugh: Dining with Al-Qaeda
  • Rough Guides: The Rough Guide to Jordan
  • Schwalm, Tony: The Guerrilla Factory
  • Steed, Brian L.: Bees and Spiders: Applied Cultural Awareness and the Art of Cross-Cultural Influence
  • Thubron, Colin: To a Mountain in Tibet
  • Tu'inukuafe, Edgar: A Simplified Dictionary of Modern Tongan
  • Turow, Scott: One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
  • Marguerite van Geldermalsen: Married to a Bedouin
  • Wheelan, Charles: Naked Economics
  • Wiesel, Elie: Night trilogy

1 comment:

  1. Zach has read The Road and some others, so he might be a good person to discuss the book with as you read. Did you know that A Wrinkle In Time is part of a series? The other books generally follow other each of Meg's siblings, if I remember right. It's been a while since I read them, but I remember enjoying them.

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