What should I read?

[lostlamb99]

I thought this was teh right place to put this so... what good christian fiction novels would you recommend? I need to read more book but since I'm currently "out of reach" of any Christian bookstore at teh moment suggestions would be great so I'll know what to buy when I go home for vacation. Thanks.

[Scribs]

This ought to be in the book corner, but no big deal.

The Chronicles of Narnia are always good, and can be found at almost any bookstore with the movie comming out soon. Other things by CS Lewis are good too. The great divorce is one of my favourites (though it is more of an alagory than a novel) and I hear that the Space Trillogy is very good.

[Shepherdmoon]

Chronicals of Narinia by C.S.lewis[Note scribs posted while i was posting so sorry for the same idea posted?]

[Anna Mae]

The space trilogy is good. I recommend it.

I recommend 'The Presence' and 'The Maestro.' I think that they might be written by H.B. Wells, but it has been a long time so I am not sure if I am remembering correctly.

[rii namuras]

(The Circle Trilogy, by Ted Dekker. Black: The Birth of Evil, Red: The Heroic Rescue, and White: The Great Pursuit. A bit hard to get into, but once you get to Red at the least, you'll be hooked.)

[mitsuki lover]

Anything by Charles Dickens or Victor Hugo.Also try the poems of Emily Dickenson
and some Ralph Waldo Emerson.Mark Twain is also good.In short don't neglect
the more recent classics even if some of them weren't written by Christians.
Expand your reading horizons.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

Anything by Charles Dickens or Victor Hugo.Also try the poems of Emily Dickenson
and some Ralph Waldo Emerson.Mark Twain is also good.In short don't neglect
the more recent classics even if some of them weren't written by Christians.
Expand your reading horizons.

I don't like Emerson. He's all trancendentalist and such

Do you want fiction? or nonfiction? Some books I am reading are by Ravi Zacharias and Lee strobel. Such as "Can man live without God", "Jesus among other Gods" and "The Case for a Creator"

[~Natsumi Lam~]

I like frank parette's books...


Like Peirce the Darkness... th Oath,... and so on.

~NL~

[Slater]

Space Trilogy ftw

[Ashley]

anything by C.S. Lewis
Case for Christ, Case for Faith, Case for a Creator - Lee Strobel
Reason for the Hope Within - Michael J. Murray (featuring one of my proffs!)
Socrates Meets Jesus - Peter Kreeft
Oxygen - Randall Olson and John Ingermanson

I think apologetic stuff is some of the most helpful and applicable reading you can do outside of the Bible, because it teaches you WHY you should/shouldn't believe something. That's where my focus would go.

[Arnobius]

For fiction, Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz. A moving novel of the Early Christians in the first century in Rome, showing the Christian community in the time of the persecutions of Nero. If you saw the awful 1950's movie, the book is much better.

For non fiction, Ashley is right about CS Lewis. I'd add The Screwtape Letters-- advice from a senior devil to a minor tempter on how to bring his charge to damnation. Insightful in that it makes you step back and ask yourself if any of this sounds familiar in your own life.

GK Chesterton is another interesting English Christian writer from around the same time period as CS Lewis. He writes with great wit in defending Christianity against "modernist" attacks.

Peter Kreeft has two good books (he's written others, but those tend to be more denominational in view and thus not something I'd recommend for the general CAA audience):
Between Heaven and Hell. Taking the premise that CS Lewis, John F Kennedy and Aldous Huxley all died the same day, Kreeft creates a Socratic dialogue between them arguing the validity of the claims of the Bible and the importance of Jesus Christ.
Interviews with an Absoluteist. Similiar to the above, it argues the importance of moral absolutes in a series of mock debates between a Professor of Philosophy and a moral relativist. Useful reference for dealing with people who won't accept the Bible as a viable source of reference.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

I've always wanted to read G.K. Chesterton. And if Malcolm Muggeridge wrote anything, i'd want to read his stuff too

I also recommend the following, none I have read but all I want to read


Cries of the Heart - Ravi Zacharias
True for You, But Not for Me - Paul Copan
Deals with pluralism in today's society

Sense and Sensuality - Ravi Zacharias (Fictional where Jesus talks with Oscar Wilde)
The Lotus and the Cross - Ravi Zacharias (Jesus talks with Buddha)
The Lamb and the Führer: Jesus Talks with Hitler - Ravi Zacharias (Jesus talks with Hitler)

yeah haha, they're nearly all apologetics!

[lostlamb99]

thanks to all who replied.

[mitsuki lover]

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson are always good for serious food for thought.
Even though he was not orthodox in his theology he always had something thought
provoking to say.
Also Emerson's poems

[hawaiishirtguy]

If you're looking for more sci/fi - ish christian fiction try to find a copy of "Transgression" by Randall Ingermanson. Also Frank Peretti is a good Christian fic. author, and C.S. Lewis (both fic and nonfic) is always good.

[Rambo]

well the left behind series are good.