If you’ve not read CS Lewis’ Space Trilogy, I would highly recommend it.
The Bible................................
anything from Joel Rosenberg. He’s a Messianic Jew that writes geo political thrillers with the Bible woven in. All very good and exciting.
I’d start with C.S Lewis, Chesterton and Tolkein, if you haven’t done them already
Frank Peretti is terrific, until you’ve read about 4-5 of his books when they kind of get formulaic.
I second Frank Perretti and would add Ted Dekker. Dekker can be a little dark.
That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis is pertinent to today’s world. It is the last book of his Space Trilogy.
Stephen R. Donaldson.
J. Warner Wallace, Amir Tsarfati, N. T. Wright and Grace Livingston Hill (romance. Historical)
Thanks everybody. I have read the Bible, a lot of C.S. Lewis and Tolkien. I will definitely look into the others. Have a great day.
If you like crime novels, the Bosch series from Michael Connelly is excellent. While it deals with some of the seedier aspects of being a cop in Los Angeles, Bosch is ruthless in pursuit of bringing justice to the victims.
A. American
Publication Order of The Survivalist Books
Going Home (2012)
Surviving Home (2013)
Escaping Home (2013)
Forsaking Home (2014)
Resurrecting Home (2014)
Enforcing Home (2015)
Avenging Home (2016)
Home Invasion (2017)
Conflicted Home (2017)
Home Coming (2018)
American Marxism by Mark Levin.
not Christian, but if you like sci fi- Michael Crichton was pretty awesome to read- (Note, i can’t remember if he had any unsavory stuff- i don’t recall now-)
His book Prey was pretty cool, as was Andromeda Strain- He was a best selling author of sci fi-
Plot Summary
A military team is dispatched to recover a satellite that unexpectedly crashed to Earth near Piedmont, Arizona. Everyone in the small town has been mysteriously killed, including the recovery team. The military activates the Wildfire Project, a scientific initiative to deal with potential alien life appearing on Earth. The satellite was designed to collect samples from the upper atmosphere and bring them back to Earth to be studied.
The Wildfire team is led by Jeremy Stone. He worries that a deadly alien organism has returned to Earth with the satellite, killing everyone in Piedmont. Stone and another team member named Burton travel to Piedmont in sterilized suits. They find everyone dead except for an old man named Peter Jackson and a baby. They recover the satellite capsule and take it and the survivors back to their top-secret base.
The Wildfire laboratory is designed to study alien organisms without contaminating the outside world. The underground facility has five layers of increasingly strict contamination measures, as well as a nuclear bomb placed below the base and programmed to detonate in the case of contamination. Two more scientists—Hall and Leavitt—arrive at the base. Hall has been a part of Wildfire for a year, but he has never taken it seriously. He is the only unmarried member of the team, and he was chosen for this reason. A fictional theory named the Odd Man Hypothesis suggests that single men can be best trusted to make a life-or-death decision. Hall is given a key that can avert the automatic destruction of the facility. In such an event, he must decide between saving himself and his colleagues and potentially allowing the contamination to escape, thus threatening the entire world.
https://www.supersummary.com/the-andromeda-strain/summary/
[[I’m looking for realistic stories]]
Woops- didn’t see that when u recommended sci fi-
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (?) has pleased everyone in the three book groups I belong to.
Not novels, but fascinating history:
Patrick K. O’Donnell
Washington’s Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution
The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware
He’s got other titles as well - these are the two I REALLY want to read.
Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigred Undset.
Mrs. Crusher and I love T. Davis Bunn. Great writer and yarn spinner, built on Christian foundations but not crushing your head with a sledge hammer.
Also, Andrew Klavan’s YA fiction is engaging and immensely enjoyable. OTOH his adult fiction is pretty dark hardboiled detective fare. Again, Christian themes gently woven throughout the stories without hysterics.
Ditto previous comments about Lewis, Chesterton, et al.