Here we discuss why books matter and how to make a great booklist. The right 50 books is capable of doing amazing things in the hearts and minds of your family. Go for it! 15 classics 10 book on history 10 works of theology 10 books on thinking 5 biographies Rules: Audiobooks count, 15 or so books can be abridged, no doubling authors in each category, can offer double options occasionally Hobbit Jane Eyer Hamlet Iliad The Aeneid (abridged) /The Divine Comedy 1984 (R rated) substitute with Animal farm Pride and Prejudice Oliver Twist Brave New World (mature content) Dracula (only Bram Stroker) /Frankenstein Treasure Island (used to be the first classic for young men) Lamplighter - Shipwrecked War of the Worlds Robinson Crusoe (first English novel) The Count of Monte Cristo / Les Miserables Heroes then and now by ywam Stalin by Albert Marrin Winston Churchill's history of the English speaking peoples Church History by Everett Ferguson How the Irish saved civilization Three Years among the Comanches by Nelson Lee Fox's Book of Martyrs Civil War book (Wilson and Wilkins) Amazing tales for making men out of boys by Neil Oliver Trial and Triumph Bondage of the Will by Luther/ Orthodoxy by Chesterton Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos/ Les Rex Mere Christianity Mere Christendom by Wilson Knowledge of the Holy Paradise Restored by Chilton (Victorious Eschatology) Willing to Believe by Sproul Systematic Theology by Lewis Berkof Westminster Confession of Faith KJV only controversy James White (forgotten Trinity) Free to Choose by Milton Friedman The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity Rules for Reformers by Doug Wilson Masculine Christianity Man of the House by CR Wiley The Family by JR Miller (1882 title: Home-making) Lectures on Calvinism by Kuyper The Fallacy Detective How to be a man/lady by Harvey Newcombe The Boniface Option Augustine's Confessions Plymouth Plantation George Muller Autobiography Luther/Bonhoeffer by Metaxas Rebel Yell
