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All of Tolkien's stuff
C.S. Lewis-The Screwtape Letters (especially)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-Sherlock Holmes
Jane Austen-I adore Pride & Prejudice
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Mark Twain and Stephen Ambrose.
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Southron Boy Wrote:Favorite two novelists: G.A. Henty and my brother, hands down!
Non-fiction:
James Ronald Kennedy & Walter Donald Kennedy (The South Was Right!), R.L. Dabney (Life & Campaigns of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson), H. Rondel Rumburg (Stonewall Jackson's Verse), Charles Adams (When In the Course of Human Events), Congressman B.H. Hill (Southern Secession and Northern Coersion)James Beller (America In Crimson Red)---Too many to list!
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What are some of your favorite Henty books? Our homeschool curriculum uses a lot of Henty and I want to pick up a few.
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I enjoy books, not necessarily all the works of a given Author. I have a few favorite books.
The Master and Margarita-Mikhail Bulgakov- (translated to English)
Hands down the finest book written in the past 100 years. Read it 3 times at different times in your life and you'll read 3 completely different stories.
Ox-Bow Incident- Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Great story. Terrible movie.
Men for the Mountains- Sid Marty
Memoirs of a Banff National Park (That is in Canada people..) Warden. Take this book with you the next time you go into the woods. What a great storyteller.
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Oh, good topic!
Fiction:
Robert Jordon *sniff* - Wheel of Time
David Eddings - All of the Sparhawk/Church Knights books
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Classic!
Louis L'amour - I've read tons of his westerns
Stephen King - Such a twisted man
Neil Stephenson - Snow Crash, Cryptonomicron
Warhammer 40k - Dan Abnett, C.S. Goto - In the grim dark future, there is only war!
Mathew Woodrow Stover - Hero's Die (Go find this book now if you like fiction)
Mickey Zucher Reichert - Beyond Ragnarok
Terry Goodkind - Sword of Truth
Non-Fiction
Jim Cramer - Mad Money series
Jack Canefield - The Success Principles <- Great book, I ordered 40 copies of this one to give to all new employees
Timothy Ferris - 4 Hour Workweek
Anthony Robbins - Personal Power
Stephen R Covey - 7 Habits of Highly Successful People
*Deep Breath before blasting you with another list*
Just kidding. I have more if anyone wants some good reading suggestions. Reading is my guilty pleasure, and it's rare that I don't have a book with me. I do have a rule that for every five books I read of fiction, I read one of non fiction just to keep me grounded. hilarious
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My favorite genre is probably kid-lit, because I've never quite grown up. My frequent re-read list includes Laura Ingalls Wilder, CS Lewis, Roald Dahl, Lemony Snickett, and JK Rowling.
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What are some of your favorite Henty books? Our homeschool curriculum uses a lot of Henty and I want to pick up a few.
We love the Henty books -Library and Educational services sells the hardback 1/2 price. We tell them we are a school- a homeschool and all is well. Freedoms Cause is excellent, so is The Cat of Bubastes, and Wulf the Saxon. It really depends on the time period that you are studying. We haven't had a bad one yet. I think we own almost all of them.
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Kim Micheals; more to life publishing - books about spirituality
Autobiography of a Yoga
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Here's a few off the top of my head.
"Heavy" Fiction
Elliot Perlman (Seven Types of Ambiguity)
Zadie Smith (White Teeth)
Fiction
Laurie R. King (Mary Russel Holmes novels)
Agatha Christie
Arthur Conan Doyle
Edward Marston
And If I'm in the mood for some "Light" Fiction
Stephen King
Issac Asimov
Ben Bova
John Grisham
Clive Cussler
James Paterson
Daniel Silva
EDIT: Wow! I didn't realize the top of my head was that large.... I guess I'm a real book nerd
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