Fifteen Books (Fiction List)

This was a fun thing I did last summer on Facebook and thought it a good way to introduce myself as I start.  I have a second list of Non-Fiction Books, I needed two lists for all the great ones!  All the books below have been read multiple times.


Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. 

1) Anne of Green Gables (series) by LM Montgomery

2) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 

3) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

4) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

5) Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder [had the whole set and read til they fell apart]

6) Paddington Bear series by Michael Bond [given 5 or 6 of his books and read them til they fell apart]

7) The Hobbit (and LOTR) By J.R.R. Tolkien 

8) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis

9) Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy

10) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

11) Silas Marner by George Eliot (pseudonym for Mary Ann Evans)

12) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde [not a beloved one but the lesson and visual imagery has stuck with me way past high school]

13) The Island of the Blue Dolphin by Scott O'Dell

14) Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

15) Cricket in Times Square By George Selden

Fifteen MORE Books (Non-Fiction version)

While doing the first set last summer, I realized that there were more than 15 influential books, and so the first set was my fiction list, which is what I read outside of the Bible for most of the first 20 or so yrs of my life.  Today, I read mostly nonfiction and these are the 15 most influential books of non fiction, but I still could come up with a lot more!

1) The BIBLE 

2) What Your Doctor May NOT Tell You About Premenopause (and his other books) ~~ Dr. John Lee, M.D.

3) Graduation to Glory~~ by Fern Hill (biography by mother of a young Christian boy who died at age 13, and the testimony to the life he lived and influence on others even after his death)

4) The Gift: The 12 Greatest Tools of Personal Growth and How to Put them Into Practice~~by Shad Helmstetter (motivational)

5) Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats~~By Sally Fallon and Mary Enig (compilation of so many great health books/cookbooks)

6) Love and Respect~~Dr. Emerson Eggerichs (great marriage book)

7) Square Foot Gardening~~by Mel Bartholomew

8) Joel Salatin's farming books

9) None Dare Call it Education~~ by John a. Stormer

10) Is There Life After Housework?~~ by Don Aslett (first one to help me learn to let go of stuff)

11) Total Money Makeover~~by Dave Ramsey 

12) Sink Reflections ~~by Marla Cilley-- FLYLady 

13) Better Late Than Early and other homeschool books by the pioneers Dr. Raymond Moore and wife Dorothy

14) The Way Home~~ by Mary Pride

15) Hidden for Glory--Destined for Adoption~~by SuDawn Peters (written by my friend now in NWArk)

16) Gianna: Aborted. . . and Lived to Tell About It~~by Jessica Shaver

okay so I had to add one more :)