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A Few Good Books

Here are a few books I have found worth the read.

Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
A Little Princess (Francis Burnett)
All Creatures Great and Small (James Herriot)
Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Baroness Orczy)
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare)
Much Ado about Nothing (Shakespeare)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
The Importance of Being Ernest (Oscar Wilde)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (J. R. R. Tolkien)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
The Anne of Green Gables Series (L. M. Montgomery)
The Blue Castle (Montgomery)
Emily of New Moon Series (Montgomery)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Undine, sad but beautiful!
Lorna Doone (R.D. Blackmore)
The Legends of the Guardian-King series by Karen Hancock.
The Tales of Goldstone Wood series by Anne Elisabeth Stengl.

The Various Writings of G. K. Chesterton, especially his essays, The Man Who Was Thursday, Orthodoxy, and the Everlasting Man

Anything by C. S. Lewis:
  • The Chronicles of Narnia
  • Out of the Silent Planet and the rest of his Space Trilogy
  • Mere Christianity
  • The Screwtape Letters
  • The Great Divorce
George MacDonald:
Need author recommendations?  This seems to be a good list.

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