Take Up & Read
A compiled list of the books I recommend to nearly everyone
Novels
East of Eden, Peace Like a River, Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, True Grit, The Man Who Was Thursday, That Hideous Strength, The Old Man and the Sea, Right Ho Jeeves, Frankenstein, Robinson Crusoe, Howl’s Moving Castle, My Antonia, Dandelion Wine, Emma, Moby-Dick
Theology
Holiness, The Doctrine of Repentance, Practical Religion, The Worldly Saints, The Holiness of God, Church Reformed, The Institutes of the Christian Religion
Nonfiction
Amusing Ourselves to Death, Technopoloy, The Disappearance of Childhood, The Man Who Moved a Mountain, The Christian Mind, The Elements of Style, The View from a Hearse, The American Way, Men and Marriage, The Helpful Marriage Book, Daddy Tried, Monsters from the Id, The Rage Against God, The Closing of the American Mind, A Pint of Plain
Audiobooks
The Four Loves, The Code of the Woosters, The Unsettling of America, Return of the Strong Gods, Hannah’s Children, To Kill a Mockingbird, We Don’t Know Ourselves, Jack, The Meaning of Everything, R.C. Sproul A Life, Little House in the Big Woods
Literary Nonfiction
What’s Wrong with the World, On Writing, Heretics, Orthodoxy, The Writing Life
History
Revival and Revivalism, The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland, How the Irish Saved Civilization, Behold My Heart, Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America, God’s Battalions, The Crusades, The American Puritans
Books of Poetry
North, Psalms of My Life, The Branch Will Not Break, Sailing All Alone Around the Room
Children’s Books
The Wind in the Willows, The Witches, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Call of the Wild, Treasure Island, Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, Coraline, The Hobbit, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Boys of Blur, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six, The Jungle Book, The Railway Children, The Chronicles of Narnia, Hatchet, The Graveyard Book, Dragons and Dragon Slayers, Letters from Father Christmas