I made a database with most of my books in it and was surprised to find that I had so many. And the great thing about it is that there's even more in boxes in the garage. The bad thing about it is that I don't have bookshelves for all of them. The overwhelming majority of my books are classics. My favorites?
- The Thornbirds
- Gone With the Wind
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Anything Mark Twain)
- The Scarlet Letter
- Wuthering Heights
- Robinson Crusoe
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Sue Grafton
- John Grisham
- Agatha Christie
- Victoria Holt
These are only the fiction. I love biographies and inspirational motivational books too. Most of those belong to hubby. What are some of yours?
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Oh, I l-o-v-e those historical novels by Tricia Goyer. She includes all the elements I enjoy in fiction :-)
Seriously, my favorite authors are Francine Rivers and Brock and Bodie Thoene. I'm reading a REALLY good novel right now by Dale Cramer called "Levi's Will." It's excellent.
Mostly, I read research books, because of . . . deadlines!
Well, I have read almost all of the books on your list. Almost all, but not quite, and have liked them all.
But man, I might have to try out that Tricia Chick, I keep seeing her name everywhere. hee hee.
I'm doing the blog tour. Great site.
Thanks for stopping by!
LOVE GWTW. I can practically quote along with the movie. And I'm in the middle of The Broker right now. Realized I hadn't read it and there's a new Grishom coming out in a couple weeks!
Someone pointed out that I left off the most important Book of all--and I have several in my library. The Oxford Annotated Bible, Nave's Topical Bible, The Parallel Bible, The Open Bible, Dakes Annotated Bible, Hitchcock's Topical Bible, The Promise Bible, The New International Version, and I'm sure there are more, including the King James Version. Be SURE YOU READ THIS ONE IF YOU DON'T READ ANY OTHERS.
I'd love to compile a database of all my books--how long did this take you? Hope you're doing well. Thought I'd stop by and say hi.
Well, I started out doing title, author, copyright, publisher, hardback, leather, or paperback. But that got to be way too time consuming, and I decided it would have to be a work in progress. Right now the majority is just title and author. I hope to be able to divide them up into genre later. It took about 2 hours. But like I said, I shortened the process quite a bit. I took my laptop and sat down in front of my bookshelves, going from room to room. And on groups like Sue Grafton, for the time being I put A-S novels. Bible commentaries -- 10 volumes, etc.
I have read all the books on your list including the authors mentioned. If you like John Grisham you'll probably like Craig Parshall as well.
I also highly recommend the Thoene's and Francine Rivers. I also love all the Jane Austen books.
Like you many of my beloved books are in boxes and my husband and I are adding two walls of bookshelves to our den. I can't wait!
Thanks for sharing.
My 8 yo and I LOVED reading Robinson Crusoe together last year...such a good story! One of my favorites, not sure it's still in print is Follow the River by James Alexander Thom. Wow...based on a true story of a white woman's capture by Indians and her long journey home.
I also love Francine Rivers books, and was delighted to find so many new Christian authors to try out when I joined ACFW! You have a beautiful blog!
Thank you, Mary. I look forward to reading some of these classics to my son as well.
you left out a timeless classic, one that's been on the best selling list for centuries. It is full of drama, education, history, poetry, and most any genre you would want to read. It is however void of fiction. I'm sure you have many diferent versions of it around. I suppose they are not all dusty, given your entry on the Holy Spirit.
Would parables be considered christian fiction?
I suppose they would at that.
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