[samadams2000]

Vince Flynn Novels-All
Unintended Consequences-Ross
The Virginian-Wister (the best ever)

[upsdriver]

Gopher Tails For Papa

[Stonewall Jackson]

For Adults

Non-Fiction
The Federalist Papers - Hamilton, Madison, Jay
Band of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose
The Battle Cry of Freedom - James McPherson

Fiction
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
Alas, Babylon - Pat Franks
The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara

For Children

Non-Fiction
Crusade in Europe - Dwight Eisenhower
The Passing of the Armies - Joshua Chamberlain
Shinano – The Sinking of Japan’s Secret Supership - Joseph Enright

Fiction
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Treasure Island - Robert Lewis Stevenson
The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Wyss

[PizzaDriver]

just “kid’s” Titles:

“The Pushcart War” by Jean Merrill

“Citizen of the Galaxy” by R.A.Heinlein

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain

[Fiji Hill]

For adults:

• Witness by Whittaker Chambers (New York: Random House, 1952)

• The Struggle for the World by James Burnham (New York: John Day, 1947)

• And Madly Teach: A Layman Looks at Public School Education (Chicago: Regnery, 1949)

For kids:

• On Growing Up: Letters to Boys and Girls, Including The Uncommon Man, and Other Selections by Herbert Hoover (New York: Morrow, 1962)

• From Canal Boy to President, or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield by Horatio Alger, Jr. (New York: Anderson, 1881)

• Sabre Pilot by Stephen Meader (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1956)

[februus]

1) Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? P.K. Dick (1968)
2) Journey To the End of the Night L.F.Celine (1932)
3)

[wyokostur]

My favorite books as a kid were Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows. My kids have loved all the Hank the Cow Dog series.

[FreeKeys]

for adults:
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
The Roosevelt Myth by John T. Flynn

for kids:
Tom Smith and his Incredible Bread Machine by R. W. Grant
The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible by Ken Schoolland
An Island Called Liberty by Joseph Specht

Also see the results of the Modern Library’s poll of 100 Best Novels here: http://tinyurl.com/2aotrcp
and 100 Best Non-Fiction books here: http://tinyurl.com/2c2rkfj

[beckysueb]

A Patriots History of America by Larry Schwiekart, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, Malevil by Robert Merle

[skintight buffoonery]

The Gulag Archipelago, by Solzhenitsyn.

[Imnidiot]

Darwin’s Black Box by Behe
Ender’s Game by Card
Protector by Niven

[luckystarmom]

All girls should read Little Women.

I would also add To Kill a Mockingbird to an adult list.

[Persevero]

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.

[skintight buffoonery]

I never saw the appeal of Tolkein. Now Gormenghast, that’s another matter altogether. Everyone should read Peake.

[Bhoy]

Rules and Order — Hayek
Freedom & the Law — Bruno Leoni
The Robot Trilogy — Asimov

kids
Black Beauty
Oliver Twist
The Jungle Books

[jonrick46]

The Second American Revolution by John W. Whitehead.

[patriot preacher]

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....

[umbagi]

(besides the Bible, since that's a given for most)

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...

[MacMattico]

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

[ExGeeEye]

Adult: Atlas Shrugged, Inside the Third Reich, and The GULAG Archipelago.

Kids: The Hobbit, and also

Boys: Robinson Crusoe, Kidnapped

Girls: Heidi, Little Women

Sucked having to limit it to three.