Books are entirely a different story ... my tastes in books changes with the climate, political unrest, stock market, personal friendships, etc. One day I'll be holding the latest book from Rush Limbaugh and the next I'm reading the latest collection of Herman Comics! Anyway ... here's the ones that have made the biggest impact on my life in no particular order:
1)
Shakespere
THE COMPLETE WORKS
(I have an original leather bound printing from 1867 that I love reading from!)
2)
Various Writers
HOLY BIBLE
3)
Max Lucado
THE FINAL WEEK OF JESUS
4)
Gary Smalley
IF ONLY HE/SHE KNEW
5)
Anne Rynd
ATLAS SHRUGGED
6)
Randy Alcorn
DOMINION
(One of my all time favorites ... if you've never stood in someone elses shoes, seen the other side of the coin, or experienced a TRUE change of perspective, then you NEED to read this book!)
7)
Brett Harte
POEMS
(Amazing work ... you cry, you laugh, you're moved beyond words!)
8)
Henry Wikoff
MY COURTSHIP AND IT'S CONSEQUENCES
(Don't go looking for this one ... it was printed once in 1855 and is one of the best pieces of Victorian Writing I've ever read. I can't decide if it's MEANT to be funny or not!?)
9)
Dora Thorne
A FATAL WEDDING
(Another one of my pre 1900's books. This one is from 1834 and begins with the chapter entitled "A Spoiled, Indulged, Beloved Child" and ends with "We Are All Happy". I can only tell you that all the stuff in the middle is completely hysterical on a Victorian Era scale. I loved every minute of it!)
10)
Dave Ramsey
FINANCIAL PEACE
(GREAT book!)
11)
Robert Frost
COMPLETE WORKS
(This will be a book I read at LEAST a hundred times before I die ... next to the Bible, I read this one most!)
12)
T.S. Eliot
COMPLETE WORKS
(Oh geez ... it's full of the greats ... The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock is AMAZING!) |