A Few Beloved Books:
The Bible, of course.The Iliad, Homer
The Confessions, Augustine
Beowulf, Anon., trans. Seamus Heaney
La Divina Commedia, Dante Alighieri
Shakespeare ("Much Ado About Nothing", "Hamlet", "King Lear", and "The Tempest" for a start)
Paradise Lost, John Milton
Jane Austen (Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, The History of England)
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton
The Sherlock Holmes Stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Middlemarch, George Eliot
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Dracula, Bram Stoker
A House of Pomegranates, Oscar Wilde
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Mark Twain
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
The Valley of Vision, Arthur Bennett
C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves, That Hideous Strength, Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, A Grief Observed, and so on)
Agatha Christie (anything is fun)
T.S. Eliot (Murder in the Cathedral, The Four Quartets, "The Waste Land", and so on)
James Herriot
A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh and The House on Pooh Corner)
Dorothy L. Sayers (The Nine Tailors, Busman's Honeymoon, The Mind of the Maker, The Man Born To Be King)
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
The Once and Future King, T.H. White
Little, Big, John Crowley
W.B. Yeats (Early Poetry)
Anne of the Island, L.M. Montgomery
Czeslaw Milosz ("Orpheus and Eurydice" especially, but any of the poetry)
The Chronicles of Prydain, Lloyd Alexander
Brian Jacques (Redwall, Triss, Taggerung)
The Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
Collected Poems, 1909-1962, T.S. Eliot
Elisabeth Elliot (Passion and Purity, Let Me Be a Woman, Discipline: The Glad Surrender)
Walter Wangerin Jr. (Reliving the Passion, The Book of the Dun Cow, The Book of Sorrows)
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
Surprised by Oxford, Carolyn Weber
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
"The Dead", James Joyce
Oxford, Jan Morris
Albion, Peter Ackroyd
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