Posted on 10/01/2010 8:36:26 PM PDT by MNDude
Everyone's opinion, what would be three books that every adult should read?
How about three books every kid should read?
(besides the Bible, since that's a given for most)
Darwin’s Black Box by Behe
Ender’s Game by Card
Protector by Niven
All girls should read Little Women.
I would also add To Kill a Mockingbird to an adult list.
Ah, good, so it wasn't just me.
To Kill A Mockingbird.
The Hobbit.
Pilgrim’s Progress.
Just to know what great literature can be, to get a feeling for it. Also, generally, you should be a better person for reading each book above.
I never saw the appeal of Tolkein. Now Gormenghast, that’s another matter altogether. Everyone should read Peake.
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
I enjoyed:
As a child:
Jayne Erye
Withering Heights
Little Woman
As Adult:
Mere Christianity
The Coming Economic Armageddon
Case for Christ
Fiction:
Screwtape Letters
Ezekiel Option
Left Behind Series
Rules and Order — Hayek
Freedom & the Law — Bruno Leoni
The Robot Trilogy — Asimov
kids
Black Beauty
Oliver Twist
The Jungle Books
Other than the Bible:
CHRISTIANITY/THEOLOGICAL:
“Mere Christianity” - C.S. Lewis
“Seeds” - Thomas Merton
“Simply Christian” - N.T. Wright
“Beyond Tragedy” - Reinhold Neibuhr
“Christianity and Liberalism” - Gresham Machen
“A History of Fundamentalism” - Truman Dollar
“The Great Evangelical Disaster” - Francis Schaeffer
“Escape From Reason” - Francis Schaeffer
“God’s Plan for the Ages” - Louis T. Talbot
“Roaring Lambs” - Bob Briner
“The Cost of Discipleship” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Church History in Plan Language” - Bruce Shelley
CONSERVATISM/IDEOLOGICAL:
The Declaration of Independence & The Constitution of the United States
“The Federalist Papers”
“The Anti-Federalists”
“The Rise & Fall of the Confederate Government” (2 Vols) -
Jefferson Davis
“When Free Men Shall Stand” - Senator Jesse Helms
“Treason” - Ann Coulter
“No More Vietnams” - Richard M. Nixon
“Why Not Freedom!” - James & Walter Kennedy
“A Patriots History of the United States” - Larry Schweikart
& Michael Allen
“The Five Thousand Year Leap” - W. Cleon Skousen
“The Confederate Constitution of 1861” - Marshall DeRosa
FICTION/NOVELS:
“The Chronicles of Narnia” - C.S. Lewis (children & Adults)
The “Ashes” Series - William W. Johnstone (Adults)
The “Mitch Rapp” Novels - Vince Flynn (Adults) ALL of them!
The “Scot Harvath” Novels - Brad Thor (Adults) ALL of them!
“Atlas Shrugged” & “The Fountainhead” - Ayn Rand (Adults)
“Wisdom Hunter” - Randall Arthur
“When the Almond Tree Blossoms” - David Aikman
“One Second After” - William Forstchen
......HUNDREDS left out! SO many greats and classics left out! This would keep most people busy for YEARS though....
From the replies, it does not seem so "given"... It certainly should be read, in its entirety, at least once by unbelievers and once a year by Christians.
Beyond that, I believe political "thinkers," including most Freepers, should wade through D.C. Somervell's two-volume abridgment of Arnold Toynbee's 12-volume A Study of History (and maybe a couple of critiques of it, which will send them back to the text for a closer read).
After that (or maybe before it), Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book, and Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind (yes, I know about Bloom, but the book should be read anyway).
One more? A good summary book on "worldviews," perhaps Sire's The Universe Next Door or Pearcey's Total Truth, and then maybe Francis Schaeffer's How Should We Then Live?
Three? How would one get by on just three books? Maybe the next thread should ask for ten, or fifty, for, you know, the "desert island" or nuclear war scenario. Just don't break your glasses...
Federalist Papers
The Scarlet Letter
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Kids:
Green Eggs and Ham (!!!) —little kids, I loved this book!!
Animal Farm
Harry Potter
I read it. I enjoyed it. But why would you choose that book as a must read?
Not a must read but suggested reading. The Earth Chronicles by Zecharia Sitchin especially The 12th Planet and Genesis Revisited. That is if you are interested where humans, as we are today came from, but not life as such as this is an altogether different story.
It also may offers an explanation of some of the UFO sightings, as I do believe our Custodians or the Gods of Antiquity still keep an eye on us for obvious reasons. You may refer to an article which appeared a few days ago on FR UFO incursions on nuclear sites and if you cant find it you always can Google it.
Kids: The Hobbit, and also
Boys: Robinson Crusoe, Kidnapped
Girls: Heidi, Little Women
Sucked having to limit it to three.
Wow..... another Will Durant FReeper.
Reading the 11 volumes is a big challenge. The work is my constant reference. I have read most if not all.
For everyone,,,,,,
For an understanding of why things are as they are...
War and Peace.... Leo Tolstoy
Centennial/Chesapeake.....James Mitchner
Winds of War and War and Remembrance....Herman Wouk.
Also for shaping the future....
Atlas Shrugged.....Ann Rand
For Children
The Complete Book of Marvels ....... Richard Halliburton
The Tree in the Trail.... Holling C. Holling
The Flamingo Feather..... Kirk Monroe
Correction: That should have been A Patriots History of the United States.
“Witness” Whitaker Chambers
Liberty and Tyranny is an important book to read (I have a signed copy from the book signing) but Men In Black is not only Levin’s best book, it really explains how we got to this point in American history.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.