Category: Good Books

J.R.R. Tolkien's epic follows Frodo Baggins, a humble hobbit from the Shire, who must carry the One Ring to Mount Doom and destroy it. With Sam, Gandalf, Aragorn, and the Fellowship, he faces the dark power of Sauron. Tolkien, a devout Christian and close friend of C.S. Lewis, wove faith throughout...

C.S. Lewis's seven-book series begins when four children step through a wardrobe into Narnia, a land frozen in winter by the White Witch. There they meet Aslan, the lion, and discover they have a part to play in a much bigger story. Lewis, a former atheist who came to faith, filled Narnia with...

Written by John Bunyan in 1678, partly while he sat in prison for preaching, The Pilgrim's Progress follows Christian, a man carrying a heavy burden. He leaves the City of Destruction and sets out for the Celestial City. Along the way he sinks in the Slough of Despond, faces temptation at Vanity...

The Bible is the good book itself: sixty-six books written over about fifteen hundred years by kings, shepherds, fishermen, prophets, and apostles. It holds history, poetry, wisdom, prophecy, and letters, yet it tells one story from Genesis to Revelation. That story is creation, the fall,...