(the order is not indicative of favoritism)
1. Bible (obviously the first book I would recommend)
2. Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery
3. The Cost of Discipleship by Bonhoeffer
4. The Lord of the Rings By Tolkien
5. Narnia (all of them!) By Lewis
6. Harry Potter (the last one is my favorite! I have read all of these twice! LOVED them!) by JK Rowling
7. A Christmas Carol by Dickens
8. Confessions by Augustine
9. Meditations on the Cross by Bonhoeffer
10. A Voice in the Wind By Rivers
11. The Hiding Place By ten Boom
12. Emma by Jane Austen
13. The Loveliness of Christ by Rutherford
14. Persuasion by Austen
15. A Grief Sanctified by Packer and Baxter
16. The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery
17. Unshaken by Rivers
18. The Pianist By Władysław Szpilman
19. The Sister Circle by Vonnette Bright
20. Ballet Shoes By Noel Streatfield
21. The Story of Dr. Doolittle by Hugh Lofting
22. Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan
23. Saved From What by Sproul
24. The Home at Greylock by Elizabeth Prentiss
25. The Little Woman By Gladys Alward
26. The Swiss Family Robinson by Wyss
27. The Secret Garden by Burnett
28. Sense and Sensability by Austen
29. Pride and Prejudice by Austen
30. Ivanhoe by Scott
31. The Scarlett Letter by Hawthorne
32. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle
33. The Blue Sword by Robyn McKinley
34. Phantastes by MacDonald
35. Ella Enchanted by LeVine
36. Dr, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson
37. The Band of Brothers by Ambrose
38. The Killer Angles by Shaara
39. Mother by Norris
40. Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
41. Johnny Tremain by Forbes
42. The Bronze Bow by Speare
43. Old Yeller by Gipson
44. The Devil's Arithmatic by Jane Yolen
45. Savage Sam by Gipson
46. Black Beauty by Sewell
47. An Old Fashioned Girl by Alcott
48. Number the Stars by Lois Lowery
49. Roses For Mamma by Janette Oak
50. Cheaper By the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth Jr.
Link to next 51-100 books!
These may not be your favorites and when you read these books you may have hated them! But when I read them I thought they were either a great story line (with much detail and invitation into the story) or it was really rocking and thought provoking.
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