I’m not I can pick just 5 there are so many wonderful books. I read the hobbit to my kids this year and I personally had never read it and it was just amazing!
Happy belated birthday! What a lovely and thoughtful way to celebrate. We do something similar with gifts at our house. My current five favorite books include: 1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 2. Piranesi, 3. The Return of the King, 4. Silas Marner, and 5. Till We Have Faces (though I'm almost finished with I Cheerfully Refuse and it's giving me strong Piranesi vibes, AND I didn't even list the favorite children's books haha, limiting to five was incredibly difficult).
I'm almost finished with Jayber Crow. So wonderful. I love how Berry weaves both humor and reality, in all its frailty, sorrow, and beauty into his stories.
That is so kind of you! Happy belated birthday! My current favorites are: Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen!), The Franchise Affair (Josephine Tey), A Winter Away (Elizabeth Fair), Madman (Tracy Higley), and The Transylvania Trilogy (Miklos Banffy). Although Narnia, the Prydain Chronicles, and The Little White Horse are up there!
This is such a sweet idea!
Lists of books! All over that.
1. The Last Battle
2. Return of the King
3. The Book That Would Not Burn
4. Anne of Green Gables
5. Cloud Cuckoo Land
I couldn’t pick just one from Narnia or LOTR 😅
Cloud Cuckoo Land has been on my to-read list for a while now!
Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Jane Eyre, Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings 📚
Pilgrim’s Inn -Goudge
The Heart of the Family - Goudge
The Curate’s Awakening- George MacDonald
Once Upon A Wardrobe- Patti Callahan
My Hands Came Away Red-Lisa McKay
My five favorites: Animal Farm, The Hobbit, You Are Special, My Name Is Asher Lev, Sophie’s World.
Or, replace Silas Marner with You Are Special.
You Are Special was such an incredibly formative book for me as a child.
Yes, it’s been a tear jerker for me various times while reading it to our kids.
I’m not I can pick just 5 there are so many wonderful books. I read the hobbit to my kids this year and I personally had never read it and it was just amazing!
Happy belated birthday! What a lovely and thoughtful way to celebrate. We do something similar with gifts at our house. My current five favorite books include: 1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 2. Piranesi, 3. The Return of the King, 4. Silas Marner, and 5. Till We Have Faces (though I'm almost finished with I Cheerfully Refuse and it's giving me strong Piranesi vibes, AND I didn't even list the favorite children's books haha, limiting to five was incredibly difficult).
Love "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"!
Happy birthday!
My favorites:
1. Bleak House
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Middlemarch
4. The Remains of the Day
5. The House of Mirth
Oh, five favorite books… so hard!
1. Island of the World
2. Jayber Crow
3. Till We Have Faces
4. Tales of the Kingdom (David and Karen Mains)
5. Taran Wanderer
Love the Chronicles of Prydain!
I'm almost finished with Jayber Crow. So wonderful. I love how Berry weaves both humor and reality, in all its frailty, sorrow, and beauty into his stories.
Home, Crossing to Safety, East of Eden, Hannah Coulter, Jane Eyre 🤓😍
Little Women
Narnia
LOTR
Green Ember
Anne of Green Gables
1. Jane Eyre
2.Pride and Prejudice
3. Persuasion
4. Wuthering Heights
5.Anne of Green Gables
That is so kind of you! Happy belated birthday! My current favorites are: Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen!), The Franchise Affair (Josephine Tey), A Winter Away (Elizabeth Fair), Madman (Tracy Higley), and The Transylvania Trilogy (Miklos Banffy). Although Narnia, the Prydain Chronicles, and The Little White Horse are up there!
Northanger Abbey is likely my favorite Austen work too! 😍
Hannah Coulter, Plainsong, Lessons in Chemistry, Refugia, Scripture Culture and Agriculture
Such an inspiring tradition! So hard to pick favorites from so many good books! I would say-
1. Sir Gibbie
2. Pilgrims Inn
3. Anne of Green Gables
4. Little Women
5. The Secret Garden
My Top 5 Favorite Novels
1. The Lord of the Rings (I could not pick just one)
2. The Last Battle
3. The Blue Castle
4. Mark of the Lion
5. Redwall (because woodland creatures fighting evil and feasting? yes please!)
Oh The Blue Castle! What a tremendous book. ❤️
It is a recent read for me, but oh, what a read! It was refreshing and lovely and such a delight
I could have written this list! Mark of the Lion is so good
I loved it. I have the rest of the series to read but just have not made time for it. I devoured MotL in a single afternoon though, so good
I really like the second and third books better than the first one!
Love love Redwall!
Have you red some of his other works? Phenomenal!
I tried one years ago and couldn't get into it. Now that I have young boys starting to get in to the Red wall series, I may try again, for science 😅