I like fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction (middle ages, mostly), detective and mystery novels. I'm not so big into thrillers, but if it's good enough AND it's by a Christian author, then I'm fine with that. Also, good classics, like George MacDonald and J.R.R. Tolkein.
At the moment all I've got to read is Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations", which is fine, but I need a bit of literary variation. Thanks everyone!
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If you've never read "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle, you should ;) It's got some middle ages reference and it's a really thought-provoking mystery...like most Sherlock Holmes mysteries are ;)
Great Expectations is a good book. I also like Bleak House and A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, but that probably doesn't help you to much since you want variaty ;)
I also really like "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne, it's more of an adventure novel.
Anyways, hope this helps :)
Adam, if you like fantasy, you should have a look at the "Ranger's Apprentice" series by John Flanagan. They are written for children - but so what? Narnia and George MacDonald's books were written for children, but there's a lot in them for older readers. Of course, this Rangers Apprentice series isn't in the same league as Narnia, but my brother and I still loved reading them.
Dang, I wish I could say that. I prepetually have a long list that does nothing but get longer! Ahh!
As to medieval fiction, the absolute best author ever (I'm a big fan, let's put it that way) is GA Henty. Get one of the medieval ones (he wrote all periods, usually about a war). Action, adventure, wonderful Christian characters, and fantastic history. I'd recommend, in order, In Freedom's Cause, The Dragon and the Raven, Wulf the Saxon, A March on London, and Both Sides the Border. :-D I bought mine from Vision Forum (linked on my blog) but they've switched publishers...they actually appear to be a better publisher now, but I'm not sure if it matters to you now, haha! Just try not to get a modernized, edited copy.
I also like Jeff Shaara's WWII series (I reviewed them on my blog), as well as nonfiction, loads and loads of it. If you want my favorites here...lemme know. :-D
As for scifi I don't know much, I've just been watching some thought-provoking movies lately in the genre. No books yet.
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Right now I'm re-reading the entire Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (just finished book 3), and Eldest, sequel to Eragon. Interestingly I gave Eldest to a friend on her birthday a few years ago, then later borrowed it from her to read it myself but never finished and eventually gave it back. I borrowed it again yesterday- which was again her birthday and thus the same day that I had originally given it to her, to try and finish. But it's been so long that I can't remember where I left off so I just started over.
I have quite a long reading list that I'm slowly working on, mostly sci-fi and fantasy.
Lord Of The Flies is definitely worth reading.
The Banks of the Boyne: A Quest for Christian Ireland,
Glastonbury: The Novel of Christian England,
and The Fields of Bannockburn: A Novel of Christian Scotland from Its Origins to Independence, all by Donna Fletcher Crow are well worth reading.
Let's see...Well a lot of the books that I would recommend to people I know you have already read. Umm...
Have you read Men of Iron? REALLY good classic medieval historical fiction.
This one doesn't really fall into any of the categories you listed, but 'The Chosen' by Chaim Potok is a really good book - at least I remember it to be so. I am reading through it again as part of a summer reading requirement for JBU, and it seems to be as good (if not better) than I remembered it to be.
OH. The Lost Prince of Samavia. Well, that's the edited version's title. My mom, siblings, and I read it a few years ago and really enjoyed it. We didn't realize that it was the edited version when we started it, but the original version is called 'The Lost Prince.' I haven't read that version of it yet. It could possibly be under the category of historical fiction, I suppose, but it's in the 19th or 20th century, I believe.
Just out of curiosity, have you read Brisingr yet? I finally read it - I held out on it for about 6 months because the beginning was really, really dark and I didn't want to get into it if the whole thing was going to be that disturbing. I still don't like all of it. I mean plot-wise the story is as brilliant as the other two, but there were some spiritual issues that bothered me somewhat.
Have you read "A Wrinkle in Time?"
"The Outsiders" by S.E.Hinton is not in any of those catagories, but is well worth the read.
J. likes "Guns of Navarone" by Aleister McClean, if you havn't already read it.
"Wuthering Hieghts" is good, in a very stormy and diabolical way.
We have "The Chosen" if you want to borrow it.
I like the look of most of those books; thanks everyone!
Dr. Paleo: I've read quite a few of G.A. Henty's books already. I agree, he's very good.
WildWeazel: Eldest was an AWESOME book! Especially because it was about as thick as a study Bible! Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...hmm, I liked the movie, perhaps I SHOULD check out the books.
Briar: We've got Glastonbury. Good read.
NotMyOwn: No, I haven't read "A Wrinkle In Time". What's it about?
What about Bram Stokers "Dracula"? I am reading it at the moment and so far it is very good! And by the way cool blog. =)
Thanks everyone! I've put in some book requests at the library, which will hopefully come in soon. :-)
Let us know which ones you read and how you liked them! :-)
'A Wrinkle in Time' is a fairly modern science fiction...The main characters are a sister, brother, and friend who get caught up unexpectedly in a search for the siblings' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with something called a tesseract for the government (without giving it away, I'll say that this somewhat involves dimensions and space travel). ;-) It's really quite good.
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