Top Ten Books

Top Ten American Novels

1. The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner)
2. Moby-Dick (Melville)
3. Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner)
4. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
5. The Awakening (Chopin)
6. Paradise (Morrison)
7. Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe)
8. For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway)
9. The Portrait of a Lady (James)
10. (tie) A Prayer for Owen Meany (Irving) & Wise Blood (O'Connor)

-James Thomas

Top Ten Western Novels

1. Ulysses (Joyce)
2. The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner)
3. The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky)
4. Don Quixote (Cervantes)
5. Moby-Dick (Melville)
6. To the Lighthouse (Woolf)
7. Zorba the Greek (Kazantzakis)
8. Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner)
9. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
10. The Return of the Native (Hardy)

-James Thomas

Top Ten (three) Physical Science Books

1. Coming of Age in the Milky Way - Timothy Ferris.
2. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking. The first 4 chapters are absolutely brilliant and, if one finds the going a bit murky in Chapter Five it's all right to stop, though it becomes more easily understandable in the brilliant concluding chapters.
3. Beyond Science - John Polkinghorne. Polkinghorne had a sterling career as a nuclear physicist at Cambridge before entering seminary and being ordained as an Anglican priest. His ability to write on the subject of science and faith is, in my opinion, unparalleled.

-Bill Phillips

Top Ten Miscellaneous Books

1. Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
2. Perelandra (C.S. Lewis)
3. The Burning Shore (Wilbur Smith)
4. River God (Wilbur Smith)
5. The Seventh Seal (Wilbur Smith)
6. Power of the Sword (Wilbur Smith)
7. The Bull from the Sea (Mary Renault)
8. The Last of the Wine (Mary Renault)
9. The King Must Die (Mary Renault)
10. The Plague (Albert Camus)
11. The Stranger (Albert Camus)
12. Siddartha (Herman Hesse)
13. Steppenwolf (Herman Hesse)
14. Caravans (James Michener)
15. Chesapeake (James Michener)
16. Beloved (Toni Morrison)