Dr. George Grant joins me this week to talk about a Christian's relationship to books and literature. Why is reading important? How do you discern what books are worth reading? How do you get started as a reader?
Dr. Grant has been a major influence in my thought life, and many of my favorite authors today, I have discovered through his book recommendations. So, with his permission, I'm including a few of my favorite selections below from some reading lists of his that I got my hands on about 20 years ago. I hope you find on this list an author or book you've never read which will be the first step on a new path of literary discoveries!
Non-Fiction
Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
Knowing God by J. I Packer
84 Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff
Lectures on Calvinism by Abraham Kuyper
City of God and Confessions by St. Augustine
Bondage of the Will by Martin LUther
On the Incarnation by Athanasius
All of Grace by Charles Spurgeon
From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe
The Golden Booklet of the Christian Life by John Calvin
Plutarch's Lives
Fiction
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Father Brown Stories by G. K. Chesterton
The Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
The Ransom Trilogy by C. S. Lewis
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Four Men by Hilaire Belloc
Scaramouche by Raphael Sabatini
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
The Richard Hannay series by John Buchan
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan