Mt. Sophia Ideas

Each year I ask the upperclassmen about their favorite books of the year. I thought I’d share with you, in case you need some good reading:

Student Suggested Booklist

Any book by Ted Dekker  (These BOLDED books were chosen by several students.)

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court- Mark Twain

Cry the Beloved Country- Alan Paton

Datable- Justin Lookadoo

The Good Earth- Pearl Buck

The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Heroes Don’t Run- Henry Maze

Les Miserables- Victor Hugo

Merchant of Venice- Shakespeare

Night- Elie Wiesel

Old Man and the Sea- Ernest Hemingway

The Prince- Machiavelli

Same Kind of Different as Me- Ron Hall

The Shack- William P. Young

A Separate Peace- John Knowles

Sherlock Holmes- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Soldier’s Heart- Gary Paulson

Start Up Nation- Dan Senor

Tom Sawyer- Mark Twain

Here is the compilation of books from past years:

General Fiction

The Anybodies- NE Bode

The Somebodies- NE Bode

The Nobodies- NE Bode

The Princess Bride- William Goldman

Katie Weldon series- Robin Jones Gunn

Flight of Eagles- Jack Higgins

The Pendragon Series- DJ Machale

The Shadow Children- Margaret Maddix

Eregon- Christopher Paolini

Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand

The Shack- William P. Young

The Hunger Games

Inspirational

Stepping Heavenward- Elizabeth Peters

Personal Growth

How to Win Friends and Influence People- Dale Carnegie

The Me Nobody Knew- Shannon McLinch

97 Random Thoughts About Life, Love, and Relationships- Justin Lookadoo

The Datable Rules- Justin Lookadoo

Enjoying Who You Are on the Way to Where You Are Going- Joyce Meyer

Hello Cruel World- Kate Parnsten

Define Normal- Julie Anne Peters

Historical Fiction

Parallel Journeys- Eleanor Ayer

Iron Peacock- Mary Stetson Clarke

Nine Days a Queen- Ann Rinaldi

Non-Fiction History

The Greatest Generation- Tom Brokaw

Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths- Stephen B. Oates

My Grandfather’s Son: A Memoir- Clarence Thomas

General Non-Fiction

Brainwashed- Ben Shapiro

The Outliers- Malcolm Gladwell

Christian Fiction

Various books by Terri Blacktock

O’Malley Chronicles- Dee Henderson

Various books by Karen Kingsbury

Eli- Bill Myers

Suspence/Adventure- secular

Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy

Black- Ted Dekker

Classics

The Iliad

Mansfield Park- Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle- Avi

The Wisdom of Father Brown- GK Chesterton

Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens

Sherlock Holmes- Arthur Conan Doyle

A Wrinkle in Time- Madeleine L’Engle

The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Brave New World- Aldous Huxley

Screwtape Letters- CS Lewis

Space Trilogy- CS Lewis

The Crucible- Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman- Arthur Miller

Catcher in the Rye- JD Salinger

The Bronze Bow- Elizabeth George Speare

Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck

The Pearl- John Steinbeck

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson

The Hiding Place- Corrie Ten Boom

Lord of the Rings- JRR Tolkein

The Time Machine- HG Wells

The Glass Menagerie- Tennessee Williams

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