Reader Response

March 26th, 2007 · 8 Comments

book Ok readers…time for you to give your input. I have a question. Teresa has run out of books (and authors) to read and needs some new ones. So here is your question for the day!

What is your favorite book (or series) and/or author?

Leave your response in the comments.

Category: Wife

8 responses so far ↓

1 Brit // Mar 26, 2007 at 3:22 pm

Anything Jane Austen (also Pamela Aidan has written a trilogy about Mr. Darcy)

If you like Jane Austen books, you’ll also enjoy books by Georgette Heyer

Liz Curtis Higgs “Thorn in my Heart”, “Fair is the Rose”, “Whence Came a Prince” and “Grace in Thine Eyes” . . . fabulous series (not necessarily in order)!

For great contemporary Christian fiction try: Francine Rivers, Karen Kingsbury, Penelope Stokes, Angela Hunt
2 Carolyn // Mar 26, 2007 at 8:04 pm

Anything Jan Karon writes is great. I like old-fashioned romance novels by Grace Livingston Hill. Brock and Bodie Thoene write epic novels that are good. Of course, C.S.Lewis and Tolkien are perennial favorites.
3 Lydia // Mar 27, 2007 at 8:17 am

I haven’t read him, but I think Teresa would like Ted Dekker, a Christian mystery writer, if she hasn’t read him yet.

And I like to browse the library and find things with interesting book covers. Non-Christian literature is very different, so you kind of have to be careful, but I’ve found some interesting things that way.

Maybe she could consider biographies of people she respects. They’re not fiction, but they’re interesting and informative.
4 Lindsey // Mar 29, 2007 at 11:30 am

This is by no means an exhaustive list.
Brock and Bodie Thoene are perennial favorites for Christian (but non-cheesy) historical fiction. Their earliest series are the best: The Shiloh Legacy, the Zion Covenant, the Zion Chronicles.

I like some books by Chaim Potok: The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev. From a Jewish perspective, obviously.

Classics are always reliable, although tougher reads.

One of the most beautiful books I’ve read is called The Hawk and the Dove by Penelope Wilcock. I’m reading it out loud to Stephen in the car now and I’m remembering how incredible it is.
5 Cliff // Mar 29, 2007 at 2:52 pm

@ Linds - you were reading a book out loud in the car to Stephen while commenting on my blog???
6 thecachinnator // Mar 30, 2007 at 12:37 am

Colleen McCullough. Anything by her. Her historical fiction series about the end of the Roman Republic and the birth of the Roman Empire is the best.
7 Lindsey // Mar 31, 2007 at 9:49 am

I also love Colleen McCullough but her books are very dense. It is hard to read it during a school year when you may or may not have much time for reading

I thought of another one to recommend…Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns. I refused to read it for a long time because of the stupid title, but my sister finally persuaded me to try it, and it’s good.

No, I wasn’t reading and posting comments at the same time.
8 Teresa // Mar 31, 2007 at 10:23 pm

Thanks for all the great suggestions! I am going to make a list of them to take with me to the library next time. I have also read Cold Sassy Tree and liked it. I think there might be a sequel. I also have read Jane Austin, Francine Rivers, Jan Karon and a few Karen Kingsbury. A new favorite of mine is Adriana Trigiani.