Fiction Every Christian Should Read
According to Christianity Today, the following list consists of 10 works of fiction that every Christian should read.
- The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan (read excerpts of it in history classes, own it, but have no read it in its entirety)
- Paradise Lost - John Milton (read it twice, the last thing that I ever read in college for a class)
- The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky (probably the longest book I've ever read...before stupid Oprah picked it for her book club)
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky (haven't read it and don't really have plans to)
- The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis (Can you believe that I have not read this series? I've read The Great Divorce, Till We Have Faces, Mere Christianity, A Grief Observed, Surprised by Joy (the first Lewis book that I read), Letters to Malcolm (the last Lewis book that I've read)...but I haven't read the Chronicles)
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (I saw the movie and liked it. I know that 2 friends, Karen, and someone I knew in high school, read this very long book.)
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (haven't read it)
- The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (read it in 11th grade, the same year the movie version with Demi Moore hit the theaters)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (read it in AP History...can't remember it at all)
- The Princess and the Goblin - George MacDonald (secured a copy of this treasure at Greyfriar's Book Shoppe, a wonderful used book store in Colchester, England. Read the book on the 5th floor of the library at the University of Essex. Good book.)
3 Comments:
Did they say why those books where such must reads by Christians?
Not really. But, each selection had a little blurb written about it.
Crime and Punishment is what I like to call a CFI book: a good ole "Cure for Insomnia" read. It's an excellent novel, really; it just took me a month to read. Come to think of it, maybe it was those pills...
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