Wednesday, June 3, 2009

BOOK SERIES READ
"Little House on the Prairie" Laura Ingalls Wilder
"Love Comes Softly" Janette Oke
"Anne of Green Gables" L.M. Montgomery
"Chronicles of Narnia" C.S. Lewis
"Lord of the Rings Trilogy" J.R.R. Tolkien
Beverly Lewis - Amish Culture Beverly Lewis
"Grandma's Attic" Richardson
"The Meeting Place" - Janette Oke and T. Davis Bunn

SCIENCE-FICTION
"A Wind in the Door" Madeleine L'Engle
"A Wrinkle in Time" Madeleine L'Engle

CHILDREN'S BOOKS
"The Princess and the Goblin" George MacDonald
"The Princess and Curdie" George MacDonald
"The Lost Princess" George MacDonald
"Never Miss a Sunset" Jeanette Gilge
"A Little Princess" Frances Hodgson Burnett
"Old Yeller" Fred Gipson
"Pinocchio" Carlo Collodi
"The Tutor's First Love" George MacDonald
"The Trumpet of the Swan" E.B. White
"The Secret Garden" Frances Hodgson Burnett
"Heidi" Johanna Spyri
"Amelia Earheart, Kansas Girl" Jane Moore Howe
"Johnny Tremain" Esther Forbes
"Pilgrim's Progress" John Bunyan
"Little Women" Louisa May Alcott
"The Wind in the Willows" Kenneth Grahame
"Days of Dreams and Laughter" L.M. Montgomery
"Hans Brinker" Mary Mapes Dodge
"Black Beauty" Anna Sewell
"Around the World in Eighty Days" Jules Verne

"A Treasury of Hans Christian Andersen"
All the short stories ever written by this author

ADVENTURE
"A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf" John Muir
"My First Summer In The Sierra" John Muir
"Alice in Wonderland" Lewis Carroll
"The Gauntlet" James Street
"Kidnapped" Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Rush for Gold" Frank L. Beals
"Hunting for Hidden Gold" Franklin W. Dixon
"Treasure Island" Robert Louis Stevenson
"Adventures of Tom Sawyer" Mark Twain
"Huckleberry Finn" Mark Twain
JACK LONDON'S STORIES
"Call of the Wild"
"White Fang"
"Son of the Wolf'
"In the Forests of the North"
"The Men of Forty-Mile"
"In a Far Country"
"The Wisdom of the Trail"
"The God of His Fathers"
"All Gold Canon"
"The Sea-Wolf"
"The Cruise of the Dazzler"
"To Repel Boarders"
"The Man with the Cash"
"The Master of Mystery"
"The Great Interrogation"
"Grit of Women"
"The Wife of a King"
"The Law of Life"
"The White Silence"

NOVELS
"Farewell to Arms" Ernest Hemmingway
"My Losing Season" Pat Conroy
"An Unquiet Mind" Kay Redfield Jamison
"A Raisin in the Sun" Lorraine Hansberry
"At Home in Mitford" Jan Karon


NON-FICTION
"A Small Place" Jamaica Kincaid
"L'Abri" Edith Schaeffer
"A Song from L'Abri" Betty Carlson
"The Story of the Trapp Family Singers Maria Augusta Trapp
"Mount Vernon Love Story" Mary Higgins Clark

FICTION/HISTORICALLY BASED
"Oregon" Birdie L. Etchison

HISTORY
"1776" David McCullough
"Undaunted Courage" Stephen Ambrose
"Voyagers to the West" Bernard Bailyn

SOCIOLOGY/PSYCHOLOGY
"Landscapes of the Soul, The Loss of Moral Meaning in American Life" Douglas V.
Porpora

PLAYS
"Oedipus Rex" Sophocles
"Lysistrata" Aristophanes
"A Doll House" Henrik Ibsen
"The Cherry Orchard" Anton Chekhov
"The Glass Menagerie" Tennessee Williams
"Endgame" Samuel Beckett
"Death of a Salesman" Arthur Miller
"Trifles" Susan Glaspell
"Top Girls" Caryl Churchill
"Master Harold...and the boys" Athol Fugard
"The Piano Lesson" August Wilson
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
Twelfth Night
Antony and Cleopatra

POETS
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Amy Lowell
Gertrude Stein
Robert Frost
Carl Sandburg
Wallace Stevens
William Carlos Williams
Shakespeare
Marianne Moore
T.S. Elliot
Claude McKay
Genevieve Taggard
E.E. Cummings
Charles Reznikoff
Langston Hughes
Countee Cullen
Carl Rakosi
Aqua Laluah
John Beecher
Robert Penn Warren
John Berryman
William Stafford
Thomas McGrath
Roberl Lowell
Geoffrey Chaucer
Sir Walter Scott
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
William Morris
Lord Byron
Robert Browning
Christina Rossetti
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Thomas Moore
Issac watts
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Michael Drayton
Richard Lovelace
Sir Philip Sidney
William Blake
Robert Louis Stevenson
William Woodsworth
Walt Whitman
John Milton

CLASSICS
"Aesop's Fables"
"Vanity Fair" William Thackeray
"The Old Curiosity Shop" Charles Dickens
"Hard Times" Charles Dickens
"Oliver Twist" Charles Dickens
"A Tale of Two Cities" Charles Dickens
"A Christmas Carol" Charles Dickens
"The Odyssey" Homer
"Wuthering Heights" Emily Bronte
"Pride and Prejudice" Jane Austen
"Sense and Sensibility" Jane Austen

MYSTERY

WESTERNS
LOUIS L'AMOURS
"With These Hands"
"Jubal Sackett"
"Heller With A Gun"
"To Tame A Land"
"May There Be A Road"
"Conagher"
"The Man Called Noon"
"The Ferguson Rifle"
"End of the Drive"
"Monument Rock"
"Trouble Shooter"
"Dark Canyon"
"Down the Long Hills"
"Where the Long Grass Blows"
"Lonely on the Mountain"
"The Daybreakers"
"Ride the Dark Trail
"The Riders of High Rock"
"The Proving Trail"
"The Strong Shall Live"
"War Party"
"Over on the Dry Side"
"The Shadow Riders"

THEOLOGY

DEVOTIONAL
"My Utmost for His Highest" Oswald Chambers
"A Quiet Heart" Elisabeth Elliot
"How to Understand Your Bible" T. Norton Sterrett

BIBLICAL
"Evangelists in Chains" Elizabeth Wagler
"The Beauty of Beholding God" Darien B. Cooper
"Worship in Spirit and Truth" John M. Frame
"Worship - Rediscovering the Missing Jewel" Ronald Allen and Gordon Borror
"True Spirituality" Francis A. Shaeffer
"The Knowledge of the Holy" A. W. Tozer
"The Purpose Driven Life" Rick Warren
"Prayer" Philip Yancey
"What's So Amazing About Grace?" Philip Yancy
"The Bible Jesus Read" Philip Yancey
"The Holiness of God" RC Sproul
"Afflictions" Edith Schaeffer

WOMEN'S DEVOTIONALS
"Simple Prayers for Women" Kenneth and Karen Boa
"God's Tender Promises for Mothers"
"God's Little Devotional Book for Women"
"The Power of Being Positive" Joyce Meyer

PARENTING
"Parents and Teenagers" Jay Kesler
"Family Forum" Jay Kesler
"Dare to Discipline" Dr. James Dobson
"Spiritual Growth of Children" John Trent
"Children are from Heaven" John Gray, Ph.D.
"The Heart of Anger" Lou Priolo
"You Can't Make Me" Cynthia Ulrich Tobias
"The Five Languages of Children" Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell, M.D.
"Your Child's Prefession of Faith" Dennis Gundersen
"Teach Them Diligently" Lou Priolo
"Teaching Your Children Values" Linda and Richard Eyre
"Heirs of the Covenant" Susan Hunt
"Beautiful Girlhood" Karen Andreola
"Bringing Out the Best in Your Child" Cynthia Ulrich Tobias and Carol Funk
"Guiding Your Family in a Misguided World Dr. Anthony T. Evans
"Thoughts for Young Men" J.C. Ryle
"Standing on the Promises" Douglas Wilson

MARRIAGE
"Love Life for Every Married Couple" Ed Wheat, M.D.
"Strengthening Your Marriage" Wayne A. Mack
"Reclaiming Intimacy" Heather Jamison
"His Needs Her Needs" Willard F. Harley, Jr.
"Created to be His Help Meet" Debi Pearl

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
"A Severe Mercy" Sheldon Vanauken

CHRISTIAN BIOGRAPHIES
Jim Elliot
Amy Charmichael
Florence Nightengale
Corrie Ten Boom
Eric Liddel
C.S. Lewis
Fanny Crosby
David Livingston
Martin Luther
Hudson Taylor
"A Man Called Peter" Catherine Marshall

SECULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Abraham Lincoln
Christopher Columbus
"John Adams" David McCullough
"Benjamin Franklin" Edmund S. Morgan
RECOMMENDED BOOKS

"A Severe Mercy"
Sheldon Vanauken

"1776"
David McCullough

"John Adams"
David McCullough

"The Quotable Lewis"
C.S. Lewis; edited by Wayn Marindale and Jerry Root

"What's So Amazing About Grace?"
Philip Yancey

"My Utmost for His Highest"
Oswald Chambers

"Undaunted Courage"
Stephen Ambrose