Recommended reading, and a few of my favorite books.

Just a simple list for those who like to read broadly, and may be out looking for a new recommendation in a certain field.

These are books which I’ve personally found in my years of reading to be useful and worthy of reading, and quite often the cream of the crop in their field/genre.

This is just one gal’s list, and a work in progress.

Literature

• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Jane of Lantern Hill by L. M. Montgomery
• The Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther
• The Richard Hannay series by John Buchan
• Right ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
• Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis

Mystery/Detective Fiction

• A Gentleman from Texas by Hearnden Balfour
• Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers
• The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie
• Sherlock Holmes short stories & novels by Sir A. Connan Doyle
• Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers
• Through the Wall by Cleveland Moffat
• Unnatural Death by Dorothy Sayers

Style & Deportment

• Lessons From Madame Chic by Jennifer Scott
• The Lost Art of Dress by Linda Przybyszewski
• Your Carriage, Madam! by Janet Lane; 1934 version

Theology

• The Institutes of Biblical Law Vol. 1 by R. J. Rushdoony
• Spiritual Depression; Its Causes and Cure by Dr. Martyn Llyod-Jones

Personal Finance & Economics

• Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
• The Millionaire Mind by Thomas J. Stanley
• Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? by Richard J. Maybury

History

• The American Indian by R. J. Rushdoony
• Brave Men by Ernie Pyle
• Ernie Pyle in England by Ernie Pyle (see my review here)
• Here is Your War by Ernie Pyle

Biography

• Assignment: Churchill by Inspector Walter H. Thompson
• Carry a Big Stick by George Grant
• John Adams by David McCullough
• Little Britches by Ralph Moody (and the 7 following books in the series)

The Arts

• Clint Eastwood; Master Filmmaker at Work by Michael R. Goldman
• Drawing the Head and Hands by Andrew Loomis
• Hidden Art by Edith Schaeffer
• On Writing Well by William Zinsser
• Painting as a Pastime by Winston S. Churchill

Agriculture/Stewardship

• Holy Cows and Hog Heaven by Joel Salatin
• Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens by Gail Damerow
• Traditional American Farming Techniques (1916) by Frank Duane Gardner
• You Can Farm by Joel Salatin

Self-reliance/Life-Skills/Survival/Warfare

• The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker (this one needs a caveat…)
• Left of Bang by Patrick Van Horne and Jason A. Riley
• 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson (this one needs a caveat too…)

Health & Nutrition

Family

• Eve in Exile by Rebekah Merkle
• The Intentional Legacy by David McAlvany

Children’s Books

• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
• Zeb by Lonzo Anderson