CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

I saw that there isn't a thread for listing your favorite books, I hope it's okay that I start one.

My favorites are (in no particular order)

A Midsummer Night's Dream-Shakespeare.
Ballet Shoes-Noel Streatfeild.
Theater Shoes-Noel Streatfeild.
Great Expectations-Charles Dickens.

And others, but those are my favorites.

I'd say that my favorites (in no order) are:

The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
Thr3e - Ted Dekker

I'm sure there are more, but I can't think of any... XD

mine are
-books by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
-twilight
-books by Ellen Hopkins
-dragon keep chronicles
-go ask alice
-and a lot more

The Circle Trilogy and Thr3e by Ted Dekker
The Oath and The Visitation by Frank Peretti
The Face by Dean Koontz
The Stand by Stephen King
The Pawn by Stephen James
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki

(smartyetstupid, Mere Christianity is non-fiction)

Some of my favorite yet not-so-well-known books:

The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
A deal with the devil, with a clever ending.

The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
Sci-fi thriller with a philosophical undercurrent.

The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
Funniest book I have ever read, it grows on you.

Lilith by George Macdonald
Greatly under appreciated in the fantasy community.

The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
Best portrayal of heaven and hell I have ever read.

The Ball and the Cross by G.K. Chesterton
Unique twist on the atheism vs. Christianity debate. Features Chesterton's bombastic wit.

Well here are some of mine!

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Shadow (ditto)

The Left Behind series (I don't view these are TRUTH or anything, but I like how they were written... ^^; )

Shogun- LONG book, took me about 8 weeks to finish but I really loved it. The ending threw my young mind for a loop!

This Present Darkness, Piercing the Darkness, Hangman's Curse, and Nightmare Academy by Frank Perreti (I gotta read more by him!)

I also like what I've read so far of the Dresden Files... (which, admittedly isn't as much as I would like because of time and school...=_= I'm working on reading them though!)
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"Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki"? Is there a novel based off of it?! I just thought there was a Movie and Manga?

No, there's no novel. Manga is still considered as fiction and it's a favourite of mine so I included. Also, it's complex enough to be considered a novel.

Anything by Terry Pratchett (especially concerning the Watch or Death) and anything about Robin Hood.
LOTR by Tolkien, the Atemis Fowl books by Eoin Colfer, Sunshine by Robin Mckinley.

J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books
Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Ted Dekker's Thr3e, Blink, and The Circle Trilogy

Somehow I mangaged to forget these in my first post.

The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen R. Lawhead
The original trilogy (Taliesin, Arthur, and Merlin) is my all time favorite fantasy series. Yes, I like them even more than Tolkein's works, although it is close.

When Heaven Weeps by Ted Dekker
The main character is a prostitute and drug addict who can't give up her lifestyle. A lot of people do not like this book because she can not bring herself to kick her addictions. Those people are not getting the point. It is not a perfect book by any means, but it is a powerful, modernized retelling of the story of Hosea.

This is only a partial list. I'm sure more stuff will come to mind later.

The Dead Zone by Stephen King
Better than the movie and TV series that it inspired.

Crime and Punishment by Fyodr Dostoevsky
Axe-murderers don't need hugs. They need well-defined philosophical positions and lots of unbiased, honest introspection.

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
It is the best of Dickens... but not the worst of Dickens...

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Amazing short-stories that will numb the mind and amaze the intellect... assuming you actually READ the good stories.

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
One of the best epics ever written.

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Strangest, most digressive detective novel ever written, yet still amazing if you stick with it.

Silence by Shusaku Endo
It's just amazing.

The High House by James Stoddard
A house where each room is practically a world upon its own. Yeah, it's great.

The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
Reverse theology at its finest.

Lord of the Rings by some guy.
Needs no introduction.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré
Arguably one of the most realistic spy-novels ever written, this novel has no gadgets, no action and no femme fatales. Yet it is arguably one of the best genre novels ever written.

The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe, also known as The Book of the New Sun. A complex, digressive and deliberately opaque 'dying earth' quartet of novels that is not everyone's cup of tea, but can be rewarding for many.

Past Master by R.A. Lafferty
St Thomas More is transported to the futuristic planet of Astrobe to become its leader, only because the planet is based on his work Utopia. Problem is More wrote Utopia as a joke.

The Man who was Thursday by GK Chesterton.
"From the beginning of the world all men have hunted me like a wolf..."

Les Miserables!! I've read half of it. It's great!

Warrior 4 Jesus (post: 1273440) wrote:No, there's no novel. Manga is still considered as fiction and it's a favourite of mine so I included. Also, it's complex enough to be considered a novel.

Oooh, I must read that.

"'Till Death Do us Part" by my good friend, Joey Lawrence.
And "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding.

In no particular order:

Everlost by Neal Shusterman
Impossible and Locked Inside by Nancy Werlin
Pretty much all of the Heinlein juveniles
Deuces Wild by L. S. King
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld
Enemy Lines: Rebel Dream and Enemy Lines: Rebel Stand by Aaron Allston
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. Actually, pretty much anything written by Diana Wynne Jones.
The Oath by Frank Peretti

And so on and so forth.

GeneD wrote:Anything by Terry Pratchett (especially concerning the Watch or Death)

Word. Discworld rocks my face off.
And roughly following Warrior 4 Jesus's example, Neil Gaiman's The Sandman is my favorite graphic novel series.

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
The Old Kingdom trilogy by Garth Nix
The Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix
Practically anything by Jorge Luis Borges
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks (somehow, I managed to like this book even though I don't care for any of the rest of the series)
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Foundation books by Isaac Asimov
The Book of Jhereg by Steven Brust (haven't read any more of the series)
The Mysterious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

...etc.

"Mark of the Lion" trilogy by Francine Rivers.

"Frankenstein" - Mary Shelley
"The Time Machine" - H.G. Wells
"Animal Farm" - George Orwell

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Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Incantation by Alice Hoffman
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

And I could probably think of more but titles/authors escape me at this time. ^_^;

Guilty Pleasures (because they're really quick reads for me):

Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyers - It has it's low and redeeming moments.
Vampire Kisses Series by Ellen Schreiber
Tales of the Otori by Lian Hearn

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglass Adams
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Wheel of Time series (but, particularly, The Dragon Reborn) by Robert Jordan
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
Moby Dick by Herman Melville

My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth
Silence by Shosako Endo
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkein
Contact by Carl Sagan

"1984" and "Animal Farm" by George Orwell

Just about anything from Timothy Zahn, especially his Star Wars novels involving Thrawn.

"Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card

"The Oath" by Frank Perretti

"Dracula" by Bram Stoker

"A Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket. (I'm like, 19, right?)

Many a book by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Sherlock Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

"Thr3e" by Ted Dekker, even though it kinda made me go "what the heck."

I have to add Brightly Burning by Mercedes Lackey to my favorites list. I'm only halfway through, but I already love it to pieces.

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Dracula ~ Brahm Stroker

Lord of the Rings Trilogy ~ J.R.R Tolkien

The Hobbit ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Narnia Series ~ C.S Lewis

The Screwtape Letters ~ C.S Lewis

Dragons in our Midst series ~ Bryan Davis

The Door Within Trilogy ~ Wayne Thomas Batson

Jeeves and Wooster series ~ P.G Wodehouse [/SIZE]

(How could I have forgotten this one?)
H.P. Lovecraft's short stories. For my money, the best in literary horror. Some are better than others, but none of them are outright bad. The Hound still scares the crap out of me.

Paul Neilan's Apathy and Other Small Victories. Some adult subject matter in there, but the social commentary is hilarious and dead-on true. Imagine if Office Space had been a Coen Brothers movie. It's kinda like that.

Going from what others have posted thus far:

Thr3e, by Dekker
Discworld, and
Elantris, by Sanderson

The ones that leaped to mind when I saw this thread were The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher. Freaking, freaking awesome, with the second best awkward moment inducing quote I've ever found, and best opening line in book six. Good Lord.

Finally,I know I'm going to take some flack for this, but while there is no denying the value of LOTR, it's not up in my top books anymore. I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER IT FONDLY, but... yeah.

Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Spear
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robery Heinlein
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
all Narnia books
all Harry Potter books
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
Number the Stars (I forget the writer)
the Space Trilogy
LOTR
The Screwtape Letters
I might add more...