Books

Having spent my life as a teacher of literature on the college level, I have read a number of books. Many have had a profound impact upon my life and thinking. I list below, alphabetically by author, the titles of some I especially recommend.

FICTION

Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim
Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Brothers Karamazov
George Eliot: Adam Bede
__________: Middlemarch
William Faulkner: Go Down Moses
C. S. Lewis: Til We Have Faces
__________: The Great Divorce
George MacDonald: Lilith
__________: Phantastes
__________: Sir Gibbie
Flannery O’Connor: The Violent Bear It Away
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
__________: War and Peace
Robert Penn Warren: All the King’s Men
Charles Williams: The Place of the Lion
__________: The Greater Trumps

NON-FICTION
C. S. Lewis: Mere Christianity
_________: The Problem of Pain
George MacDonald: Unspoken Sermons

Edwin Muir: Autobiography
Evelyn Underhill: Mysticism
Simone Weil: Waiting for God
Charles Williams: The Descent of the Dove