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Books that have shaped my imagination,
faith, and/or writing:
Fantasy & Fiction
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Till We Have Faces, The Screwtape
Letters, The Great Divorce, and the Ransom Trilogy by C. S.
Lewis
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The Hobbit, The Lord of the
Rings, and The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
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The Man Who Was Thursday
by G. K. Chesterton
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The Lord Peter Wimsey novels by Dorothy Sayers
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The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett
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The complete novels of Jane Austen
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Bird in the Tree, Pilgrims Inn,
The Dean's Watch, and pretty-much every book by Elizabeth Goudge
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The Place of the Lion and All
Hallows' Eve by Charles Williams
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Too many others to name (note: I'm an
Anglophile)
Children's Literature
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The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
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At the Back of the North Wind, The
Golden Key, and The Princess and the Goblin by George
MacDonald
t The Borrowers Series,
Bedknob and Broomstick, and
Are All the Giants Dead? by Mary Norton
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The Time Quartet by Madeleine L'Engle
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The Little White Horse by Elizabeth
Goudge
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East of the Sun, West of the Moon by
Mercer Mayer
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The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
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From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E.
Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
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A Great Big Ugly Man Came up and Tied His
Horse to Me: A Book of Nonsense Verse by Wallace Tripp
On Literature & the Imagination
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The Christian Imagination: The Practice of
Faith in Literature and Writing edited by Leland Ryken
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Christian Mythmakers by Rolland Hein
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The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy Sayers
t "On
Fairy Stories," an essay by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Walking on Water by Madeleine L'Engle
On Faith
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Mere Christianity, God in the Dock,
and Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis
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How to Read the Bible as Literature...And
Get More Out of It by Leland Ryken
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The Spiritual Life by Evelyn Underhill
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Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy,
Comedy and Fairytale by Frederick Buechner
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Mudhouse Sabbath by Lauren Winner
Poetry/Creative Nonfiction
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The Alphabet of Grace by Frederick
Buechner
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie
Dillard
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A Requiem for Love by Calvin Miller
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Polishing the Petoskey Stone by Luci
Shaw
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Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner
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I wake up thinking:
What am I reading? What will I read next?
I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to,
and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.
- Annie Dillard |