Hello there. For today's blog post, I will be providing some book recommendations so that you can have a whole long list of books to read during the summer. Of all the books that I am recommending, I have read all of them and are purely in my opinion that they are worth reading at least once.
[last updated: 13 March 2023]
Series (highly recommended):
The Hunger Games Trilogy (Suzanne Collins)
Shipshewana Amish Mystery Series (Vannetta Chapman)
Keeper of the Lost Cities Series (Shannon Messenger)
Sky Fall Trilogy (Shannon Messenger)
Matched Trilogy (Ally Condie)
The Little House Collection (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (J.R.R. Tolkien)
To All the Boys I've Loved Before Series (Jenny Han)
The Chronicles of Narnia Series (C.S. Lewis)
Christy Miller Collection (Robin Jones Gunn)
The Hate U Give Series (Angie Thomas)
The Giver Series (Lois Lowry)
The Portable Dante (Dante Alighieri) - Dante's works in one
The Three Theban Plays (Sophocles)
The Devil's Advocate Series (Walter Woon)
Brave New Girl Series (Rachel Vincent)
Others (highly recommended):
Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (John Piper)
A Simple Amish Christmas (Vannetta Chapman)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
Lion Boy and Drummer Girl (Pauline Loh)
Alone Yet Not Alone (Tracy Michele Leininger)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
An Old-Fashioned Girl (Louisa May Alcott)
Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan)
Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Institutes of Christian Religion (John Calvin)
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Tamim Ansary)
In the Year of the Virus (Felix Cheong) 🦠
Florence Nightingale (Lucy Lethbridge)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Kate Douglas Wiggin)
Eleanor & Park (Rainbow Roswell)
The Case for Christ (Lee Strobel)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
The Importance of Being Ernest (Oscar Wilde)
Cross My Heart (Carmen Reid) 💞
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
1984 (George Orwell)
When There Were Tigers in Singapore (Edmund M. Schirmer)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Aeneid (Virgil)
The Book of Lost Names (Kristin Harmel)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
I am Malala (Malala Yousafzai)
From Eden to the New Jerusalem: An Introduction to Biblical Theology (T. Desmond Alexander)
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
P.S. You may check out my Goodreads to be updated of what books I have read/have been reading!