Knowledge in Dusty Tomes

My Booklist

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Science-Fantasy

I, Jedi – Michael Stackpole
Vision of the Future – Timothy Zahn
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Endless Nights – Neil Gaiman
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – J.R.R. Tolkien
     – Fellowship of the Ring
     – Two Towers
     – Return of the King
The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Smith of Wotton Major – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia Series – C.S. Lewis
     – The Magician’s Nephew
     – The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
     – The Horse and his Boy
     – Prince Caspian
     – The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
     – The Silver Chair
     – The Last Battle
Enchanted Castle – E. Nesbit
Out of the Silent Planet – C.S. Lewis

Historical Fiction

The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy
The House of Niccolo – Dorothy Dunett
     – Niccolo Rising
     – Spring of the Ram
     – Scales of Gold
     – Race of Scorpians
     - The Unicorn Hunt
     – To Lie With Lions
     – Caprice and Rondo
     – Gemini
Lymond Chronicles – Dorothy Dunnett
     – The Game of the Kings
     – Queen’s Play
     – The Disorderly Knights
     – Pawn in Frankincense
     – The Ringed Castle
     – Checkmate
Eagle of the Ninth – Rosemary Sutcliffe

Bibliographies/Autobiographies

Blessings in Disguise – Sir Alec Guiness
The Inklings – Humphrey Carpenter
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien – Humphrey Carpenter

Spiritual/Philosophy

Orthodoxy – G.K. Chesterton
The Everlasting Man – G.K. Chesterton
The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
Knowing God – John Piper
My Utmost for His Highest – Oswald Chambers
The Knowledge of the Holy – A. W. Tozer

Classical Literature

The Iliad – Homer
The Odyssey – Homer
Caedmon’s Hymn – Caedmon (Anonymous)
Beowulf – Anonymous
The Writings of Julian Norwich
The Epic of Gilgamesh – (Anonymous)

Modern Literature

Krapp’s Last Tape – Samuel Beckett
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Tom Stoppard
Regeneration – Pat Barker
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roi
Upside Down – Eduardo Galeano
The Corporation
On the Road – Jack Kerouac

English Literature

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Shakespeare:
     – Hamlet
     – A Midsummers Night Dream
     – Taming of the Shrew
     – Comedy of Errors
Howard’s End – E.B. Forester
Jane Austen:
     – Pride and Prejudice
     – Sense and Sensibility
     – Persuasion
     – Emma

Children’s Literature

Frances Hodgson Burnett:
     – Little Lord Fauntleroy
     – Secret Garden
     – A Little Princess
Enid Blyton:
     – Secret Seven
     – Famous Five
Arthur Ransome:
     – Swallows and Amazons
     – Swallowdale
     – Peter Duck
     – Winter Holidays
     – Missee Lee
     – Great Northern
     – We Didn’t Mean To Go Out To Sea
     – Secret Water
     – Coot Club
     – The Big Six
Frog and Toad – Arnold Lobel

Poetry

Ogden Nash
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Gerard Manley Hopkins
William Carlos Williams
John Donne
Caedmon
Archibald Lampman
Pauline Johnson