The books that have influenced me

If you’re looking for your next read, here are a few of my personal classic favorites

Come peruse my library favorites

The Odyssey, Homer

D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths

The Original Folk & Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, translated by Jack Zipes

King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, Roger Lancelyn Green

Panchatantra (collected stories), Amir Chita Katha illustrated versions

The Ramayana, Valmiki

The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser (or the Modern English Prose versions by Helene A. Guerber, Mary MacDonald, or Jeannie Lang)

The Snow Queen, Hans Christian Andersen

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll

Dracula, Bram Stoker

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

The Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis

The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien

The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

Emma, Jane Austen

Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

Harry Potter (all seven), JK Rowling

Cormoran Strike (all seven), Robert Galbraith aka JK Rowling

Redwall, Brian Jacques

Planet Narnia, Michael C. Ward

The Abolition of Man, CS Lewis

The Book of Beasts, translated by T.H. White

Tending the Heart of Virtue, Vigen Guroian

Paradise and Utopia (all four), Fr. John Strickland