What, in your opinion, are CS Lewis' top 3 non-fiction books?
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I can't say I've read them all, but "Mere Christianity" is his absolute number one book. It has changed people all over the world. It has turned atheist to believer.
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One I enjoyed reading was "Foxes Book of Martyrs." It's a history of people who were martyred for the faith.  It provides some historical context, but most of all it tells personal stories of people who had deep convictions about what it means to be a Christian.
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I also have a list given to me by a college bound program I attended. I'll name several (it has more than 20):\n\nAnimal Farm, George Orwell\nBrave New World, Aldous Huxley\nFahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury\nLord of the Flies, William Golding\nGreat Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald\nScarlet Letter, Nathaniel Harthorne\nSiddhartha, Herman Hesse\nTo Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee\nPride and Prejudice, Jane Austen\n\nI also provided a link in sources where there are many others. Enjoy :]
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I just reread "Christy" by Catherine Marshall, a very old book.\n\nAnd, I'm also reading the Chronicles of Narnia again...for the 16th time.\n\n(old favorites)
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The Puirpose Driven Life by Rick Warren, its a very good book page by page, very motivational and enlightening words. He will be guided and directed during and after reading the book, all topics are applicable to all challenges and trial in life.\n\nAnd ofcourse, the best book of all books is The Bible.\n\nGod Bless.
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Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, they are simply the best classics that have such relevance and resonance even today. Her characters are realistic identifiable and no one is perfect or without a glimmer of humanity. I also love Going Postal by Terry Pratchett I think it's his most cynical and insightful book since Small gods and wonderfully parallels all aspects of our world today.
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THE DA VINCI CODE\nDAN BROWN\n\nCenturies ago, Christianity's darkest secrets were hidden--for their safety and ours--in a maze of riddles and paintings and secret societies and murders. Or at least that's what happened in Brown's best-selling novel. Either way the secrets are out now, and if they weren't worth $24.95 to you in hardcover, you can get them and the absorbing tale of Harvard "symbologist" (sorry, but there's no such thing) Robert Langdon and minxy sleuthette Sophie Neveu for cheap.\n\nSATURDAY\nIAN MCEWAN\n\nThe possibility that our personal well-being might rest upon very thin ice is a favorite topic of McEwan's. Rarely has he explored it with such serene wit or nasty intensity as in this magnificently unsettling novel, the follow up to his 2002 masterpiece Atonement. His central character, Henry Perowne, is a happy man, a successful London neurosurgeon with a loving family and a very comfortable town house. He also shares the generalized anxieties of people everywhere after 9/11. Then one Saturday he crosses paths with an excitable stranger, a man who will turn up soon again in Perowne's life and give a specific face to all his fears.\n\nNEVER LET ME GO\nKAZU ISHIGURO\n\nSomething is wrong at Hailsham, the very exclusive English boarding school that Kathy H. attends. The students there seem to have no parents, their teachers are wary of them, and they cannot leave the grounds. (You can catch echoes of a dark, inverted Harry Potter.) Part science fiction--horror, part existential waltz, Never Let Me Go is a gripping story about ordinary people trying to wring some joy out of life before it's too late--and for Kathy and her friends, it has always been too late.\n\nAMERICAN PROMETHEUS\nKAI BIRD AND MARTIN J. SHERWIN\n\nBrilliant, brooding, fatally naive--J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the tragic figures of mid-20th century America. It was he who led the team at Los Alamos, N.M., that developed the first atom bomb. But after World War II he became an outspoken opponent of developing the even more powerful hydrogen bomb. That stance brought him the powerful enemies who would conspire to have him stripped of his security clearance and publicly humiliated. This biography is masterful, lucid and balanced, always mindful of Oppenheimer's role in his downfall--even at Los Alamos he was frequently surrounded by former communists--without ever losing sight of the injustices done to him.\n\nTHE ORIENTALIST\nTOM REISS\n\nMadonna didn't invent self-reinvention. Born in 1905, Lev Nussimbaum fled the political violence of his native Azerbaijan for the swanky salons of proto-fascist Europe. There he became a swinging socialite and best-selling author using a totally made-up identity, that of a romantic Muslim prince named Essad Bey, a creature of curvy daggers and Moorish sighs. Commingling East and West, art and politics, and featuring countless cameos by the great and powerful, Nussimbaum's unlikely life (lives?) reads like a secret history of the 20th century.\n\nGARLIC AND SAPPHIRES\nRUTH REICHL\n\nWhen Reichl became the New York Times' food critic in 1993, she swiftly set about dismantling the work of her predecessors. To pages previously devoted to fussy French cuisine she introduced Japanese soba and Korean bulgoki, and she handed out stars to places earlier critics wouldn't have gone to wearing surgical gloves. She wore disguises so she could experience the service that ordinary people (i.e. non-food critics) get. Reichl writes dazzlingly about food, of course, but she also explores how liberating it can be to dress up as somebody else. She liberates her readers as well.
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anything by Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, James Hogan, C.J. Cherryh, or Mercedes Lackey
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She's Come Undone, by Wally Lamb. Greatest read ever! Then there's always the Harry Potter books, there's 6 of them now, so they should keep you pretty busy.
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My list -\n\nA Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)\nMidnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)\nTo Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)\nOne Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marques)\nCider House Rules (John Irving)\nLove in the Times of Cholera (Garcia Marquez)\nBlindness (Jose Saramago)\nThe Catcher in the Rye (J D Salinger)\nThe Golden Gate (Vikram Seth)\nOryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)
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My favorite~Half Magic by Edgar Eager~\nThree kids find a magic coin during their summer vacation. The coin grants their wishes BUT only by half~It is a wonderful summer read.\n\nGolden Compass or Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman ~ If you like Harry Potter, try these~~~\n\nDr. Franklin's Island by Ann Halam~\nA plane crashes on the way to a wildlife conservation station deep in the rain forests of Ecuador. Semi, Miranda, and Arnie are the only survivors. They are stranded on what seems to be a deserted island, with only the little food and water they could find. They are unaware of being watched by a mad scientist eager to use them as his first human specimens in genetic engineering. His experiments cause them to experience the world in a whole new way... as animals!\n\nAlice in Wonderland by Louis Carroll~classic fantasy~
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A tie Between:\n\nPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen\nLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott\nHis Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman\nTalon of the Silver Hawk by Raymond E. Feist\nThe Five People You'll meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom\nHarry Potter series by J.K. Rowling\nLord of the Rings Trilogy/ the Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien\nThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis\nIf I think of any more, I'll put them up
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Joseph Heller's "Catch 22" is great. You should also read Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mocking Bird." That is a truly awesome book.
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The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe     \nLove in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez     \nThe Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher     \nThe Icarus Agenda - Robert Ludlum     \nAlaska - Jame Michener     \nZoya - Danielle Steel     \nThe Cardinal of the Kremlin - Tom Clancy     \nTill Wee Meet Again - Judith Krantz \n\nThe 8-Week Cholesterol Cure - Robert W. Kowalski     \nTrump: The Art of the Deal - Donald J. Trump with Tony Schwartz     \nSwim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive - Harvey Mackay     \nThriving on Chaos - Tom Peters     \nA Brief History of Time - Stephen W. Hawking     \nThe Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Paul Kennedy     \nTalking Straight - Lee Iococca with Sonny Kleinfield     \nLove, Medicine and Miracles - Bernie S. Siegel     \n\nPulitzer Fiction\nBeloved, Toni Morrison   \n\nPulitzer Non-fiction\nThe Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
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Every years, 100 books that does not make it to the New York Times "The 10 Best Books" list but still a good read.\nits something like the top 11-111 best book of the year.
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May I ask what history books you're reading?
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Nina, My cousin\nUm Chicken soup rocks........and Historical fiction! Also Read These is My words , By Nancy E. Turner\nToodles le tood!2 u!\nKams