Top Ten Picks Meme April 6, 2010: Must Reads

This is a weekly meme hosted by Jillian at Random Ramblings where she picks every week she picks a different and specific topic to list our top ten favorites.You really have to think a bit about these!

This week the list is:Top Ten Books You Have To Read At Least Once
Here are mine, not necessarily in the order listed except for #1.
 

1. The Holy Bible

It doesn't have to be the King James Version. In fact sometimes people not accustomed to reading the Bible like The Way or The Message.

2. Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Boxed Set of 4 Books

You really should read the Hobbit

before the LOTR trilogy!

3. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

I thought this was an excellent 

Civil War history novel. 

I loved the style that made reading history 

interesting by following the officers and participants.

 

4. The Shack by William P. Young

I don't necessary agree with all of the 
theories in this book - it is fiction. 

But it is a wonderful, imaginative presentation of God. 

If it makes you think - that's good.

 

5. Alice In Wonderland 

by Lewis Carroll

This is a classic not to miss.

6.  God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours by Regina Brett

This little book is so full of wisdom
for everyday living that 

I think everyone should read it at least once!

7.  Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

If you have never read this you really should.

My DH is not a reader although I can get him to 

listen to books on Audible now and again.

This may be the only book he has read 

more than once - other than the Bible.

He listened to this again about 

a month ago and kept saying - 

"This is happening in our country today!"

 

8.  The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Like Jillian I read this book very early in life 

and still have my copy. 

(Wait till you see the picture below!)

 

9.  This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti

This book changed my view of angels and demons.

It also changed my prayer life!

10.  White Lotus by John Hershey

This is another classic worth reading. 

This might give you pause to think.

An allegorical novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and reporter. In a world in which whites have been enslaved by Orientals, a young girl named White Lotus is captured in Arizona and transported to China. After being sold into slavery, she survives a vast Chinese civil war and is emancipated upon its conclusion. Later she abandons her life as a tenant farmer and moves to the white district of a large city in the North of China in search of a better life.

Now I do not have a copy of White Lotus but I have never forgotten reading it in college after reading Hiroshima.

We have several worn out Bibles - the red one in the picture below is my husband's and is all separated from its binding. My copy of This Present Darkness is with a friend at church but I do have the sequel Piercing the Darkness. I gave my copy of The Shack to my step mother.

But to show that I mean these books are keepers here are pictures of my very worn books!  My son insisted on buying a new set of Tolkien books as he refused to read my old "moldy" books! :D