Dracula Comes to Our Local Bible?

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  • Dan Francis
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    Milford Charles Murray said:

    Blessings, Dan!       My faux pas!         Sorry!

                          When I responded to Rosie and MJ, instead of hitting the quote before I posted.... I copied and pasted from MJ's post to save time, not meaning to cause anyone great difficulty.       

    NO need, i tried to go to the link on the original in MJ's tagline and still get 403.... http://logos4catholics.org sounds interesting but it takes you too...

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  • Rosie Perera
    Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Milford Charles Murray said:

    I sort of wanted some kind of record of all the reading that I've done over the many years -   a voracious reader indeed     I've never met anyone yet who's read as many and as wide a variety as I have   .............                  the standard Classics         -- scads of science fiction - New York Times lists -   Tom Clancy -- Harry Potter -- continued reading of usually more than a book a week - Robert Ludlum - Mark Twain - all kinds of theological works               etc. - etc. - etc.   !!!                        I thought I'd check to see if I wanted to read some of the works on that 1,001 list also -- and then "convert" it to sort of a diary of the reading of my life!     

    That's great! And sorry I misunderstood the purpose of your request.

    I did a Google search for "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" xlsx and I found this link to a spreadsheet someone has created that has two lists, for two editions of the 1001 Books book, with columns for marking which ones you've read (put an 'x' in that column if you've read it) and formulas for computing the percentage that you've already read. You have to trust the author and enable the spreadsheet for editing in order for the formulas to work, but it seemed like a legit reading-club website, and I've tried it and so far haven't noticed any virus-like behavior. Note that I should probably have scanned it with anti-virus software before trying it, but I didn't. (The famous "Do as I say, not as I do" advice.)

  • MJ. Smith
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    Milford, here is my list of books that provoke interesting discussions for a Christian book club - in many cases, I'd recommend everything from the author, especially those in bold. It includes mysteries, true crime, holocaust literature, retellings of Biblical stories, inter-faith relations, social issues, human foibles... Many of them are things recommended by others that I worked with. I'd be curious how many of them you've run into. They should all be in Logos, of course.

    1. Moscow to the End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev
    2. Brother Jacob by Henrik Stangerup
    3. Dreamers by Knut Hamsun
    4. A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
    5. River Angel: A Novel by A. Manette Ansay
    6. The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident by Elie Wiesel
    7. The Man in the Box by Thomas Moran
    8. Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
    9. On Parole by Akira Yoshimura
    10. Quarantine: A Novel by Jim Crace
    11. Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
    12. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
    13. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
    14. Sparrow : A Novel by Frances Frenaye
    15. The Lark. by adapted by Lillian Hellman Jean Anouilh
    16. The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript by Umberto Eco
    17. The Three-Arched Bridge by Ismail Kadare
    18. Eleazar, Exodus to the West by Michel Tournier
    19. Yosl Rakover Talks to God by Carol Brown Janeway
    20. The Blue Lantern: Stories by Victor Pelevin
    21. Gospel: A Novel by Wilton Barnhardt
    22. Santal by Ronald Firbank
    23. Parrot's Perch by Michel Rio
    24. Jesus Tales by Romulus Linney
    25. The Angel of Galilea by Laura Restrepo
    26. The Miracle Hater by Shulamith Hareven
    27. A Mass for Arras by Andrzej Szczypiorski
    28. Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery: A Novel by Bahaa' Taher
    29. Class Trip: A Novel by Emmanuel Carrere
    30. Saving Grace by Lee Smith
    31. Saint Joan by Stanley Weintraub
    32. The Life of God (as Told by Himself) by Franco Ferrucci
    33. Doruntine by Ismail Kadare
    34. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    35. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
    36. Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert
    37. Saint Joan of the Stockyards by Bertolt Brecht
    38. Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
    39. The Bible According to Mark Twain: Irreverent Writings on Eden, Heaven, and the Flood by America's Master Satirist by Mark Twain
    40. The Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun by vicomte de Gabriel Joseph de Lavergne Guilleragues
    41. The Diary of a Country Priest: A Novel by Georges Bernanos
    42. God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse by James Weldon Johnson
    43. JB: A Play in Verse by Archibald MacLeish
    44. The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
    45. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Giovanni Pontiero
    46. The Diaries of Adam & Eve by Mark Twain
    47. The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Gustave Flaubert
    48. The Archivist: A Novel by Martha Cooley
    49. Shame by Annie Ernaux
    50. Happening by Annie Ernaux
    51. Pilate's Wife by H. D.
    52. The Man Who Died by D. H. Lawrence
    53. Mirabilis by Susann Cokal
    54. The Old Religion: A Novel by David Mamet
    55. The Wooden Sea: A Novel by Jonathan Carroll
    56. The Yellow Arrow by Victor Pelevin
    57. The Holy Sinner by Thomas Mann
    58. The Journal of Hildegard of Bingen by Barbara Lachman
    59. Old Rosa by Reinaldo Arenas
    60. Barlaam and Ioasaph by John Damascene
    61. The Work of Betrayal by Mario Brelich
    62. Navigator of the Flood by Mario Brelich
    63. Holy Embrace by Mario Brelich
    64. Tears and Saints by E. M. Cioran
    65. The Book of Shares by Mark C. Taylor
    66. Saint Francis by Nikos Kazantzakis
    67. Night's Lies by Gesualdo Bufalino
    68. In the Company of Angels: A Novel by N. M. Kelby
    69. Quarantine: A Novel by Jim Crace
    70. Cain by Jose Saramago
    71. Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson
    72. Desire for a Beginning/Dread of One Single End by Edmond Jabes
    73. How I Came to Know Fish by Robert McDowell
    74. The Christ of Fish by Yoel Hoffmann
    75. The Collected Stories of Moacyr Scliar by Moacyr Scliar
    76. The Dwarf by Pär Lagerkvist
    77. Blindness by Giovanni Pontiero
    78. Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz
    79. In the Palm of Darkness: A Novel by Mayra Montero
    80. Annie John: A Novel by Jamaica Kincaid
    81. Master I Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
    82. Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
    83. One Deadly Summer by Sebastien Japrisot
    84. Still Life With Insects by Brian Kiteley
    85. Geronimo's Ponies by Harold Burton Meyers
    86. Pass the Butterworms: Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered by Tim Cahill
    87. The Way of a Serpent by Torgny Lindgren
    88. The Retreat: A novel by Aharon Appelfeld
    89. Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth A Novel by Naguib Mahfouz
    90. Damascus Nights by Rafik Schami
    91. Imperial Messages: One Hundred Modern Parables by Howard Schwartz
    92. The Conference of the Birds by Farid-Ud-Din Attar
    93. Parables of Kierkegaard by Soren Kierkegaard
    94. The Name of a Bullfighter by Luis Sepulveda
    95. The Two Deaths of Señora Puccini by Stephen Dobyns
    96. The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro by Antonio Tabucchi
    97. On Parole: A Novel by the Author of Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura
    98. Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India by Roberto Calasso
    99. Sparrow : A Novel by Frances Frenaye
    100. Dust on Her Tongue by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
    101. The Angel of Galilea by Laura Restrepo
    102. The Postman (Il Postino) by Antonio Skarmeta
    103. A Life of Jesus by Shusaku Endo
    104. City of Wrong: A Friday in Jerusalem by Kamel M. Hussein
    105. Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal by Gore Vidal
    106. The Gospel According to the Son by Norman Mailer
    107. The Man Who Died by D. H. Lawrence
    108. Secrets of the Camera Obscura by David Knowles
    109. A Lovely Tale of Photography: A Film Novella by Peter Nadas
    110. The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata by Adolfo Bioy Casares
    111. The Rings of Saturn by Winfried Georg Sebald
    112. All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom
    113. Tzili: The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld
    114. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
    115. Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe
    116. The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
    117. The Kite Runner by Khalen Hosseini
    118. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    119. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • MJ. Smith
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    I've found a nice Jewish list ...

    JEWISH AUTHORS

    JINFO.ORG

         Listed below is a selection of prominent fiction and nonfiction authors who were, or are, Jewish (or of partial Jewish descent, as noted).  For lists of Jewish playwrights, screenwriters, poets, and other Jewish writers, see Jews in Literature.

    • Shmuel Agnon, The Bridal Canopy; A Guest for the Night, The Day Before Yesterday 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Vasily Aksyonov 1, The Burn, Generations of Winter, The Island of Crimea
    • Aharon Appelfeld, Badenheim 1939, The Immortal Bartfuss, The Age of Wonders, The Story of a Life: A Memoir (2004 Prix Médicis étranger)
    • Sholem Asch, The Nazarine, The Apostle, Three Cities, Salvation, East River
    • Isaac Asimov, I, Robot, Foundation Trilogy
    • Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy, Leviathan (1993 Prix Médicis étranger)
    • Isaac Babel, Red Cavalry, Odessa Tales
    • Giorgio Bassani, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
    • Vicki Baum, Grand Hotel
    • Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Humboldt's Gift (1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction); 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Henri Bergson, L'Evolution Créatrice (Creative Evolution); 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Biblical Authors, The Bible (Jewish and Christian Scriptures)
    • Robert Bloch, Psycho
    • Kazimierz Brandys, Samson, Antygona, Troy, Open City, Man Does Not Die
    • Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil, The Sleepwalkers
    • Max Brod, The Redemption of Tycho Brahe
    • Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac (1984 Man Booker Prize)
    • Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé, Masse und Macht (Crowds and Power), Das Gewissen der Worte (The Conscience of Words); 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Miguel de Cervantes 2, Don Quixote
    • Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
    • Hélène Cixous, Inside (Dedans, 1969 Prix Médicis)
    • Albert Cohen, Belle du Seigneur
    • Marcia Davenport, The Valley of Decision, Easy Side, West Side
    • Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, Vivian Grey, Coningsby, Tancred
    • Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz
    • E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime, World's Fair, Billy Bathgate, City of God
    • Sergei Dovlatov 3, The Compromise, The Zone
    • Maurice Druon 4, The Accursed Kings (Les Rois Maudits), Les Grandes Familles (1948 Prix Goncourt)
    • Ilya Ehrenburg,The Ninth Wave, The Storm, The Thaw
    • Harlan Ellison, Dangerous Visions
    • Leslie Epstein, King of the Jews: A Novel of the Holocaust, Goldkorn Tales
    • Edna Ferber, So Big (1925 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel), Show Boat, Cimarron, Saratoga Trunk
    • Lion Feuchtwanger, Jud Süss (Jew Süss: A Historical Romance), Der jüdische Krieg (Josephus), Der Tag wird kommen (The Day Will Come)
    • Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    • Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Civilization and Its Discontents, Totem and Taboo
    • Romain Gary 5, The Roots of Heaven (1956 Prix Goncourt), The Life Before Us (1975 Prix Goncourt), Forrest of Anger, The Dance of Gengis Cohn
    • Eugenia Ginzburg, Journey Into the Whirlwind
    • Natalia Ginzburg 6, All Our Yesterdays, Voices in the Evening
    • Nadine Gordimer, A World of Strangers, Burger's Daughter, The Conservationist (1974 Man Booker Prize); 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature
    • David Grossman, The Yellow Wind
    • Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate, Forever Flowing
    • Joseph Heller, Catch-22, God Knows (1985 Prix Médicis étranger)
    • Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War
    • Stefan Heym, The Crusaders
    • Paul Heyse 7, Children of the World, In Paradise; 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Laura Z. Hobson, Gentleman's Agreement
    • Roger Ikor, La greffe de printemps, Les eaux mêlées (1955 Prix Goncourt)
    • Ilya Ilf, The Twelve Chairs, The Little Golden Calf
    • Howard Jacobson, Who's Sorry Now?, Kalooki Nights, The Finkler Question (2010 Man Booker Prize)
    • Elfriede Jelinek 8, Women as Lovers, Wonderful, Wonderful Times, The Piano Teacher; 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, In Search of Love and Beauty, Heat and Dust (1975 Man Booker Prize)
    • Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters
    • Franz Kafka, The Trial, The Castle, Amerika, The Metamorphosis
    • Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer
    • MacKinlay Kantor 9, Long Remember, Andersonville (1956 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
    • Veniamin Kaverin, Two Captains
    • Imre Kertész, Kaddish for a Child Not Born; 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Joseph Kessel, Bell de jour, Les Captifs, Les Coeurs purs (The Pure of Heart), L'Armée des ombres (Army of Shadows)
    • Danilo Kiš  10, Garden, Ashes, Early Sorrows, Hourglass, The Encyclopedia of the Dead
    • Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon, Arrow in the Blue, The Age of Longing, Insight and Outlook, The Sleepwalkers, The Act of Creation
    • György Konrád, A Feast in the Garden, Homecoming
    • Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird, Being There
    • Judith Krantz, Scruples, Princess Daisy
    • Anna Langfus, Les bagages de sable (The Lost Shore) (1962 Prix Goncourt)
    • Stanislaw Lec, Unkempt Thoughts
    • Stanislaw Lem, Summa Technologiae, Cyberiad, Solaris
    • Carlo Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli
    • Primo Levi, If This Is a Man, The Periodic Table, If Not Now, When?, The Drowned and the Saved
    • Ira Levin, Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives, The Boys from Brazil
    • Jonathan Littell, Les bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones) (2006 Prix Goncourt)
    • Alison Lurie 11, Foreign Affairs (1985 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
    • Arnošt Lustig, Night and Hope, Diamonds in the Night, The Street of Lost Brothers, A Prayer for Catherine Horowitz
    • Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, The Armies of the Night (1969 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction), The Executioner's Song (1980 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
    • Bernard Malamud, The Fixer (1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), The Natural, The Tenants, The Assistant
    • David Malouf  26, An Imaginary Life , Fly Away Peter, The Great World, Remembering Babylon
    • Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope
    • Norman Manea, On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist, Compulsory Happiness, The Black Envelope, The Hooligan’s Return (2006 Prix Médicis étranger)
    • Klaus Mann 12, Mephisto, Der Vulkan
    • André Maurois, Les Silences du Colonel Bramble, À La recherche de Marcel Proust, Climats, Le Cercle de famille, Ariel
    • Mendele Moykher Sforim, The Little Man, The Travels and Adventures of Benjamin the Third
    • Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost (Les Disparus) (2007 Prix Médicis étranger)
    • Steven Millhauser, Edwin Mullhouse (1975 Prix Médicis étranger), Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
    • Patrick Modiano 13, Missing Person (1978 Prix Goncourt)
    • Michel de Montaigne 14, Essays
    • Elsa Morante 15, La storia, Aracoeli (1984 Prix Médicis étranger)
    • Alberto Moravia 16, Two Women, The Conformist
    • Harry Mulisch 17, The Assault, The Discovery of Heaven, The Procedure
    • Péter Nádas, Parallel Stories: A Novel, The End of a Family Story, A Book of Memories
    • Irène Némirovsky, David Golder, Le Bal, Les mouches d'automne, Le vin de solitude, Les chiens et les loups, Les Biens de ce monde
    • Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness, My Michael
    • Cynthia Ozick, Art & Ardor, Heir to the Glimmering World, The Puttermesser Papers
    • Dorothy Parker 18, The Collected Dorothy Parker
    • Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago; 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Georges Perec, La Vie mode d'emploi (Life: A User's Manual) (1978 Prix Médicis)
    • I.L. Peretz, Bontshe the Silent, The Book of Fire: Stories by I.L. Peretz
    • Belva Plain, Evergreen
    • Chaim Potok, In the Beginning, The Chosen
    • Marcel Proust 19, À la Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Lost Time; alternatively translated as Remembrance of Things Past) (1919 Prix Goncourt)
    • Ellery Queen (pseudonym used by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee), Ellery Queen mystery novels, anthologies , and magazine
    • Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, We the Living
    • Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
    • Harold Robbins, The Carpetbaggers
    • Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina
    • Henry Roth, Call It Sleep
    • Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March, Job
    • Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Goodbye Columbus, American Pastoral (1998 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), The Human Stain (2002 Prix Médicis étranger)
    • Bernice Rubens, Madame Sousatzka, The Elected Member (1970 Man Booker Prize), A Solitary Grief
    • Anatoly Rybakov, Children of the Arbat, Heavy Sand
    • Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden (1978 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction)
    • J. D. Salinger 20, The Catcher in the Rye
    • Nathalie Sarraute, Tropismes, The Planetarium, The Age of Suspicion, The Golden Fruits, Between Life and Death
    • Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run?
    • Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles, Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass
    • André Schwarz-Bart, Le Dernier des Justes (The Last of the Just) (1959 Prix Goncourt)
    • Erich Segal, Love Story
    • Anna Seghers, The Seventh Cross
    • Meir Shalev, TheBlue Mountain, Esau, The Loves of Judith
    • Irwin Shaw, Rich Man, Poor Man, The Young Lions
    • Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight, Rage of Angels
    • Sholem Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman and Other Stories, Some Laughter, Some Tears: Tales From the Old World and the New
    • Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Magician of Lublin, Enemies: A Love Story, Satan in Goray, The Family Moskat, The Slave; 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Muriel Spark 21, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    • Manès Sperber, Burned Bramble, All Our Yesterdays
    • Art Spiegelman, Maus (1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
    • Danielle Steel 22, Best-selling romance novels (more than 500 million copies sold)
    • Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
    • Milton Steinberg, As a Driven Leaf
    • George Steiner, The Portage to San Cristóbal of A.H.
    • Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Lust for Life
    • Arkady and Boris Strugatsky 23, Roadside Picnic, Monday Begins on Saturday
    • Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls
    • Italo Svevo, The Confessions of Zeno
    • Alvin Toffler, Future Shock
    • Yuri Trifonov 24, House on the Enbankment
    • Elsa Triolet, A Fine of 200 Francs (1944 Prix Goncourt)
    • Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August (1963 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction)
    • Scott Turow, Presumed Innocent, Burden of Proof, The Laws of Our Fathers, Reversible Errors, Ordinary Heroes
    • Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Sonechka (1996 Prix Médicis étranger), Kukotsky's Case
    • Leon Uris, Exodus, Mila 18
    • Vladimir Voinovich 25, The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
    • Irving Wallace, The Prize
    • Edward Wallant, The Pawnbroker, The Human Season
    • Jerome Weidman, I Can Get It for You Wholesale
    • Franz Werfel, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, The Song of Bernadette
    • Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts, The Day of the Locust, A Cool Million
    • Elie Wiesel, Night, Dawn, The Accident, The Gates of the Forrest,  A Beggar in Jerusalem (Le Mendiant de Jérusalem, 1968 Prix Médicis), All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs, And the Sea is Never Full: Memoirs; 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
    • Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny (1952 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, This is My God
    • A. B. Yehoshua, A Late Divorce, Five Seasons, Mr. Mani
    • Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto
    • Arnold Zweig, The Case of Sergeant Grischa
    • Stefan Zweig, Amok, The Royal Game, The World of Yesterday

    NOTES
    1. Jewish mother (Eugenia Ginzburg), non-Jewish father.
    2. See, e.g., The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes, edited by Anthony Cascardi (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002, p.4). Writing of Cervantes' parents Rodrigo de Cervantes and Leonor de Cortinas, Cascardi states in the Introduction: "While the family may have had some claim to nobility they often found themselves in financial straits.  Moreover, they were almost certainly of converso origin, that is, converts to Catholicism of Jewish ancestry."
    3. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
    4. Jewish father (Lazare Kessel, the brother of novelist Joseph Kessel).
    5. Although born Roman Kacew to a Jewish couple, Nina and Leyba Kacew (who separated shortly after his birth), Gary claimed that he "never knew with any certainty who his father was"; see Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow, by Ralph Schoolcraft (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2002, pp. 1, 48).
    6. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
    7. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.
    8. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
    9. Born Benjamin MacKinlay Kantor to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. See My Father's Voice: MacKinlay Kantor Long Remembered, by Tim Kantor (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1988, pp. 28-29, 40, 48-49, 92).
    10. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
    11. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
    12.     Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.
    13.     Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
    14. According to both Donald Frame in Montaigne, a biography  (Hamilton, London, 1965, pp. 16-28) and Cecil Roth in "The Jewish Ancestry of Michel de Montaigne" [Chapter 14 of Personalities and Events in Jewish History  (Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1953, pp. 212-225)], Montaigne's maternal grandfather was a Jewish converso; however, Montaigne's maternal grandmother came from an "Old Christian" (i.e., non-converso) family, as did his father.
    15. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.
    16. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
    17.     Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.
    18.     Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
    19. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.
    20. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother; raised Jewish.
    21. Jewish father, mother of partial Jewish descent.  Although Spark had always maintained that, of her mother's antecedents, only her mother's maternal grandfather was Jewish, documents in the possession of the office of the Chief Rabbi in London indicate that both of her mother's maternal grandparents were Jewish, which is consistent with her grandmother having been buried in the Jewish section of the Piershill Cemetery in Edinburgh.  In 1998, Spark conceded that "it's quite possible that Adelaide [her maternal grandmother] was born a Jew, that I got it wrong."  See 15 April 1998 article "Document sparks family feud over writer's Jewish origins," by Dean Nelson in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
    22. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
    23. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother; see final paragraph of http://www.abstrugatskie.ru/strug_famil/.
    24. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.
    25. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.
    26. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • Milford Charles Murray
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    Peace to all!                        A Gigantic Thank You to Rosie and MJ for your incredible understanding and Support!                        Actually, I thank my God for you and ask Eternal Blessings for you!                    *smile*

    It will indeed take me a long, long time to "digest" your present "sharings"!     *smile*

    Philippians 4:  4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........

  • Rosie Perera
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    Rosie Perera said:

    I did a Google search for "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" xlsx and I found this link to a spreadsheet

    Incidentally, since there are two columns in this spreadsheet for marking x's, and they both work for all the books whether or not they appear in that edition, it could be used this way: in column A mark an x if you've read the book, in column C mark an x if you actually have heard of the book and want to read it. Then you can add a cell that has a formula showing you the percentage of books you've read of the ones you actually care to read that are on the list. So far I have only heard of one of the first 75 books on the list, and I'm pretty literate, have read widely, and know lots of titles of great books I've not yet read (we had to memorize long lists of book titles and their authors' names for quiz team in high school, so I know all the classic books I should have read by now in my life).

    Does it count if I've only heard of the title because I've heard of the movie it was evidently made into?

    I finished going through the list and ended up recognizing 263 books and have read 52 of them. And I was surprised at the number of omissions that should be on anyone's "books to read in a lifetime" list. It appears that this list is skewed towards mid-20th century and later.

    Finally, here are some canonical lists of great books:

    http://reocities.com/unmark/books.html 

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    Rosie!              Wow!                 I am indeed QUITE overwhelmed by all of the "considerations" of the last couple of days!      am looking forward to studying the canonical lists you've sent and working in this area!                           Wonderfully "overwhelmed"!     That is!         *smile*

                              Thanks so very much!             !!!

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    Rosie Perera said:

    I finished going through the list and ended up recognizing 263 books and have read 52 of them.

    One book I read 59 years ago when I inherited my grandfather's copy - one I may have read a year before that. We won't try to count the times I thought "I've read nearly everything by this author - but I'm not sure if I've read this title. A few were "oh yes, that's the title I was looking for"... I wish the creator had kept up with the subsequent years of the survey.

    Rosie Perera said:

    Does it count if I've only heard of the title because I've heard of the movie it was evidently made into?

    Not as much as if you've read the Classics Illustrated version.[;)]

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    MJ. Smith said:

    Milford, here is my list of books that provoke interesting discussions for a Christian book club

    Interesting list - and of course a list like this can grow almost(?) exponentially...  But that said, I would like to add a few:

    1) Silence by Shusato Endo

    2) The Hammer of God by Bo Giertz

    3) The Rabbit Series by John Updike

    4) Roget's Version by John Updike

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    I've not read Updike but the 2 I have are excellent suggestions.

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    You lovely people truly inspire me!                    I most certainly find this world of our Gracious God incredibly exciting!                      

                                      Psalm 29:11                   

    יְבָרֵ֖ךְ אֶת־עַמּ֣וֹ בַשָּׁלֽוֹם׃

    Philippians 4:  4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........

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    Gulliver, the Ilyad, the Odyssey, LOTR, Narnia, 3 musketeers, Moby Dick, a tale of two cities, white fang, around the world in 80 days, 20,000 leagues under the sea, Robinson Crusoe, anything by Clive Cussler, Jules Verne, Tolkien, Tom Clancy, and Terri Blackstock, Hatchet, My side of the mountain, swiss family robinson, pretty much any story about Ernest Shackleton's journey across the pole, treasure island, anything by h.g. wells, and on and on and on... Great Expectations was good as was Scarlet Letter.

    Currently reading from the earth to the moon by Verne.

    I can enhance the list when I get back to my library of paper books in NC.
    EDIT:
    I've read about 139 of the title on the list, and am familiar with or have read other titles by the same author for about 50 or so more.

    Interestingly about half of the books came from the first page. 

    Emily, Anne and Charlotte Bronte ought to be added to the list. Brian Sanderson (especially the Mistborne books the trilogy, and the other two from the same universe) and emily dickenson also...

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    What an inspiring thread this has become for me!           *smile*            Peace!           AND!

                           Thank you, All!

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    Milford Charles Murray said:

    What an inspiring thread this has become for me!  

    It has been inspiring for me too. I've been wording on editing that 1001 Books spreadsheet into one that's more useful to me. It appears that list is almost exclusively contemporary "book group" type novels. While there are plenty of those that I deem great books that I'd like to read someday, I certainly don't want or plan to read 1001 of them. (I read too slowly for that; I can only get through about 10-20 books a year. It would take me more than the rest of my life to read just novels, and there are many other genres that I like to read that make it into the "great books" lists.) So I'm removing many of them as I go through the list, and I plan to add in most of the great books from the canonical lists.

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    What you're doing Rosie is exactly what I'm doing!            Except I'm beginning to add books I remember reading over my 77 plus years ...

                      Sort of a fun thing and think I will come up with thousands of books that I've read ...

    will be quite interesting to leave it behind to those I leave behind

                Also, found a spreadsheet with some calculations  ...    maybe I can learn excel and build on that???   Who knows!          *smile*      Peace!

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    Another Jewish list: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/145840/101-great-jewish-books.

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    Rosie Perera said:

    So far I have only heard of one of the first 75 books on the list

    At first I wondered what you were talking about, since I'd heard of almost all, and read most -- but then I realized that spreadsheet had virtually nothing in common with the list in the original link that I'd been looking at.[:)] I definitely prefer the latter.

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    MJ. Smith said:

    here is my list

    No Narnia? No Brideshead Revisited?

    I guess I should get around to reading Brother Jacob at some point. It's been on my shelf for years. And Lagerkvist. It's a bit embarrassing that you've read Scandinavian books I haven't...

    Ken McGuire said:

    I would like to add a few:

    (...)

    2) The Hammer of God by Bo Giertz

    Most definitely!

    MJ, try (hard!) to get hold of a copy of Göran Stenius: The Bells of Rome. I have no idea what the translation is like -- unfortunately, they seem to have translated it from German instead of Swedish -- but hopefully they haven't destroyed it completely. It's an absolutely fascinating book, which virtually no one has heard of. Though I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to most non-Catholics; it requires an appreciation for Catholicism.

    Also well worth reading:

    • Michael O'Brian: Father Elijah.
    • GK Chesterton: The Chief Mourner of Marne, in The Secret of Father Brown.
    • Georges Bernanos: The Carmelites.
    • Most of Morris West's Catholic novels. Especially The Clowns of God.
    • Ellis Peters' detective stories about Brother Cadfael. The first 1-2 are a bit immature. The one not to miss is The Pilgrim of Hate.
    • Selma Lagerlöf: Jerusalem (which has a clear American interest, since it's about the American Colony there. At least when you get to volume 2.)
    • Volumes 1 and 3 of Maria von Trapp's autobiographies (vol 2 is less interesting). But make sure to get the complete edition and not some Sound of Music abbreviated one.
    • Dorothy Sayers: Busman's Honeymoon, for its portrait of married life (though to get the most out of it, one needs a grasp of what's happened between them in earlier books).

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    fgh said:

    Ken McGuire said:

    I would like to add a few:

    (...)

    2) The Hammer of God by Bo Giertz

    Most definitely!

    Figured you would approve of that.  We both have been somewhat vocal fans here...

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    Yes, we have, haven't we? Sooner or later we might get people to read it just to shut us up.[:D]

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    fgh said:

    Yes, we have, haven't we? Sooner or later we might get people to read it just to shut us up.Big Smile

    I nearly started... [:P]

    At least I bought it from your recommendation.

    Have joy in the Lord! Smile

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    Milford Charles Murray said:

    I'm beginning to add books I remember reading over my 77 plus years ...

                      Sort of a fun thing and think I will come up with thousands of books that I've read ...

    Wow, good luck remembering all the books you've read over all those years. I started a similar project of trying to remember all the books I'd read up until that point when I was 27. At that point I could even remember in chunks of years the books I read (or were read to me) as a kid, in high school, in college, and since then. Since that year I've recorded every book I read as I finish it. If I hadn't, there'd be no way I could have remembered them all. My total comes to 1058, but that includes some children's picture books, and it also includes duplicates when I re-read a book. So I'm probably right around 1000, though I'm sure I've forgotten to record a few here and there. I wish I were a faster reader. But I have almost no recall of the content if I read a book too quickly. Nowadays, even if I read a book thoroughly, I often can't remember much about it two weeks later. I try to jot down a line or two of notes -- what it was about and what my impressions of it were -- to jog my memory. I keep all of this in a spreadsheet (what else?).

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    fgh said:

    MJ, try (hard!) to get hold of a copy of Göran Stenius: The Bells of Rome

    Thanks, I have just now. Amazon had only 3rd party Swedish and German but Alibris had 4 copies of the English.

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    fgh said:

    but then I realized that spreadsheet had virtually nothing in common with the list in the original link

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkhsHzWtNCPkdEVsX0k4eFZNSHhXM1pyaE5pWDN2QWc&usp=sharing#gid=0 has 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012 data ... you can see how the list changes over time. 1305 books overall.

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    Rosie Perera said:

    I wish I were a faster reader.

    I know the secret for this - be sick a lot as a child. When your choices are listen to radio soap operas, your parents' limited selection of records or read ...

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    MJ. Smith said:

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkhsHzWtNCPkdEVsX0k4eFZNSHhXM1pyaE5pWDN2QWc&usp=sharing#gid=0 has 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012 data ... you can see how the list changes over time. 1305 books overall.

    Oh this is very helpful. I wish I'd started with that one and used only the core list (only 707 titles). I'm overwhelmed with going through the full list from 2006 & 2008 editions and looking up each one on Amazon.com to see if it's something I ought to at least be familiar with the title/author of. 707 is much more manageable than 1305.

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    MJ. Smith said:

    Rosie Perera said:

    I wish I were a faster reader.

    I know the secret for this - be sick a lot as a child.

    Great secret to have had in retrospect. I can't go back and do that now, though.

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    from http://imallbooked.com/books-every-christian-should-read/ 

    Fictional Works that Every Christian Should Read

    Note: This list is a “work in progress.”
    Watch for new titles to be added in the future!

    (Titles are listed in chronological order.)

    1516   Utopia by Sir Thomas More
    1612   Plays by William Shakespeare; Consider: Julius Caesar, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, or The Merchant of Venice
    1668   Paradise Lost by John Milton
    1678   Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
    1719   Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe
    1847   Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
    1850   The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
    1852   Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
    1859   A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
    1880   “The Grand Inquisitor” from The Brothers Karamazov (Bk V, Ch. 5) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    1880   Ben Hur: A Tale Of The Christ by Lew Wallace
    1942   The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
    1942   The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
    1950   The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia) by CS Lewis
    1954   The Fellowship of the Ring (LOTR, #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien
    1955   Hinds’ Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard
    1955   A Good Man is Hard to Find and other stories by Flannery O’Connor
    1960   To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    2001   Safely Home by Randy Alcorn
    2005   Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

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    Biblical figures in adult fiction from http://www.lincolnlibraries.org/depts/bookguide/lists/biblicalfiguresinfiction.htm

    Abigail -- Fiction

    Lois T. Henderson Abigail
    James R. Shott Abigail

    Abraham -- Fiction

    Jenny Diski Only Human: A Divine Comedy
    Gene Edwards The Escape
    Gilbert Morris No Woman So Fair
    Ellen Gunderson Traylor Song of Abraham

    Adam and Eve -- Fiction

    Ann Chamberlin Leaving Eden
    Tosca Lee Havah: The Story of Eve
    Daniel Quinn Tales of Adam
    David Rosenberg The Lost Book of Paradise: Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
    Mark Twain The Diary of Adam and Eve

    Amos -- Fiction

    Francine Rivers The Prophet: A Novella
    Dorothy Clarke Wilson The Herdsman

    Barabbas -- Fiction

    Emery Bekessy Barabbas: A Novel of the Time of Jesus
    Par Lagerkvist Barabbas

    Bathsheba -- Fiction

    Francine Rivers Unspoken
    James R. Shott Bathsheba

    Biblical Fiction

    James R. Adams Voices Heard by the Master
    Wilton Barnhardt Gospel
    Linda Chaikin Recovery of the Lost Sword
    Joseph F. Girzone Joshua
    Joshua and the Children
    Joshua in the Holy Land
    Joshua, the Homecoming
    Angtela Elwell Hunt Journey
    Gerald N. Lund Fishers of Men
    Caryl Porter To Make All Things New
    Walter Wangerin The Book of God: The Bible as a Novel

    Cain -- Fiction

    Sam Thomas Herein Lies the Tale: The First Case of Murder

    Deborah -- Fiction

    Carole C. Carlson A Light in Babylon

    David, King of Israel -- Fiction

    R.V. Cassill After Goliath
    Peter Danielson The Death of Kings
    Triumph of the Lion
    India Edghill Queenmaker: A Novel of King David's Queen
    Kathy Hawkins The Heart of a Stranger
    Joseph Heller God Knows
    Gwyn Jenkins King David
    Torgny Lindgren Bathsheba
    Malachi Martin King of Kings
    Francine Rivers The Prince
    Gladys Schmitt David, the King
    Patricia Wright Shadow of the Rock

    Deborah -- Fiction

    James R. Shott Deborah

    Demas -- Fiction

    Leslie H. Whitten The Lost Disciple: The Book of Demas

    Dinah -- Fiction

    Anita Diament The Red Tent
    Deena Metzger What Dinah Thought

    Elijah -- Fiction

    Jean Bothwell Flame in the Sky: A Story of the Days of the Prophet Elijah
    Paulo Coelho The Fifth Mountain

    Esau -- Fiction

    James R. Shott Esau

    Hagar -- Fiction

    Lois T. Henderson Hagar
    James R. Shott Hagar

    Jacob -- Fiction

    Frederick Buechner The Son of Laughter

    Jezebel -- Fiction

    Gloria Howe Bremkamp Merari: The Woman Who Challenged Queen Jezebel and the Pagan Gods
    Frank G. Slaughter The Curse of Jezebel: A Novel of the Biblical Queen of Evil

    John, the Apostle -- Fiction

    Ellen Gunderson Traylor John, Son of Thunder

    Jonah -- Fiction

    Ellen Gunderson Traylor Jonah

    Joseph -- Fiction

    Peter Danielson Lord of the Nile
    Angela Elwell Hunt Brothers
    Joyce Landorf Heatherley Joseph
    Marjorie Holmes Two From Galilee: A Love Story
    Thomas Mann Joseph in Egypt
    Joseph and His Brothers
    Joseph the Provider
    Young Joseph
    James R. Shott Joseph

    Joseph of Arimathea -- Fiction

    Alexandra Ripley A Love Divine
    Frank G. Slaughter The Thorn of Arimathea

    Judas Iscariot -- Fiction

    Shalem Asch The Nazarene
    Taylor Caldwell I, Judas
    Simon Mawer The Gospel of Judas
    N. Richard Nash Behold the Man
    Frank Yerby Judas, My Brother: The Story of the Thirteenth Disciple, an Historical Novel

    Judith -- Fiction

    Stella Wilchek Judith

    Lazarus -- Fiction

    Alain Absire Lazarus

    Leah -- Fiction

    Orson Scott Card Rachel and Leah: Women of Genesis
    James R. Shott Leah

    Lot -- Fiction

    Maria Ley-Piscator Lot's Wife

    Luke, Saint -- Fiction

    Taylor Caldwell Dear and Glorious Physician
    Frank Slaughter The Road to Bithynia

    Lydia -- Fiction

    Lois T. Henderson Lydia
    Thom Lemmons Woman of Means

    Magi -- Fiction

    Calvin Miller The Legend of the Brotherstone: The Wise Men's Search
    Henry Van Dyke The Story of the Other Wise Man

    Mary Magdalene, Saint -- Fiction

    Mary Ellen Ashcroft The Magdalene Gospel
    Marianne Fredriksson According to Mary Magdalene
    Margaret George Mary, Called Magdalene
    Amy Hassinger The Priest's Madonna
    Graham Joyce Requiem
    Thom Lemmons Daughter of Jerusalem
    Ki Longfellow The Secret Magdalene
    Kathleen McGowan The Expected One
    Edward Francis Murphy The Scarlet Lily
    Donna Jo Napoli The Song of the Magdalene
    N. Richard Nash Behold the Man
    Frank G. Slaughter The Galileans: A Novel of Mary Magdalene
    Ellen Gunderson Traylor Mary Magdalene
    Anne C. Williman Mary of Magdala

    Mary, Virgin -- Fiction

    Sholem Asch Mary
    Elizabeth Berg The Handmaid and the Carpenter
    Steve Berry The Third Secret
    Mary Breasted Why Should You Doubt Me Now?
    Howard Curtis Mary of Nazareth
    Marjorie Holmes Two From Galilee: A Love Story
    Haven Kimmel The Solace of Leaving Early
    Nicholas Mosley Children of Darkness and Light
    Sue Reidy The Visitation
    Francine Rivers Unafraid
    Diane Schoemperlen Our Lady of the Lost and Found
    Mary Lee Wile Ancient Rage

    Melchizedek -- Fiction

    Ellen Gunderson Traylor Melchizedek (King of Jerusalem)

    Moses -- Fiction

    Sholem Asch Moses
    Orson Scott Card Stone Tables
    Peter Danielson The Deliverer
    Marek Halter Zipporah: Wife of Moses
    William George Hardy All the Trumpets Sounded: A Novel Based on the Life of Moses
    Angela Elwell Hunt The Shadow Women
    Zora Neale Hurston Moses: Man of the Mountain
    Joan Lawrence The Scapegoat: A Life of Moses
    Brenda Ray The Midwife's Song: A Story of Moses' Birth
    Samuel Sandmel Alone Atop the Mountain
    Judith Tarr Pillar of Fire
    Dorothy Clarke Wilson Prince of Egypt

    Noah -- Fiction

    Mario Brelich Navigator of the Flood
    David Maine The Preservationist
    Gilbert Morris Heart of a Lion
    Ellen Gunderson Traylor Noah

    Othniel -- Fiction

    James R. Shott Othniel

    Paul, the Apostle, Saint -- Fiction

    Sholem Asch The Apostle
    Lisa Tawn Bergren The Begotten
    Taylor Caldwell Great Lion of God
    James Cannon The Apostle Paul: A Novel of the Man Who Brought Christianity to the Western World
    Johnny Cash Man in White
    Louis DeWohl The Glorious Folly: A Novel of the Time of Saint Paul
    Frank G. Slaughter God's Warrior
    Walter Wangerin Paul

    Peter, Saint -- Fiction

    Lloyd C. Douglas The Big Fisherman
    Kurt Frieberger Fisher of Men: A Novel of Simon Peter
    Larry Huntsperger The Fisherman
    D.S. Lliteras Jerusalem's Rain
    Walter F. Murphy Upon This Rock: The Life of Saint Peter
    Frank G. Slaughter Upon This Rock: A Novel of Simon Peter, Prince of the Apostles

    Pilate, Pontius -- Fiction

    James Forcucci Relics of Repentance: The Letters of Pontius Pilate and Claudia Procula
    Paul L. Maier Pontius Pilate
    James R. Mills The Gospel According to Pontius Pilate

    Rachel -- Fiction

    Orson Scott Card Rachel and Leah: Women of Genesis

    Rahab -- Fiction

    Gloria Howe Bremkamp Rahab
    Ann Burton Rahab's Story
    Francine Rivers Unashamed

    Rebekah -- Fiction

    Orson Scott Card Rebekah: Women of Genesis

    Ruth -- Fiction

    Lois T. Henderson Ruth
    Francine Rivers Unshaken
    Ellen Gunderson Traylor Ruth: A Love Story

    Sarah -- Fiction

    Orson Scott Card Sarah: Women of Genesis
    Jenny Diski Only Human: A Divine Comedy
    Marek Halter Sarah
    Gilbert Morris No Woman So Fair

    Sheba, Queen of -- Fiction

    Aliette Armel Love, the Painter's Wife and the Queen of Sheba
    Roberta Kells Dorr The Queen of Sheba: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Search for Love and Faith

    Simon of Cyrene -- Fiction

    Johan Christian The Miracle of the Sacred Scroll

    Solomon, King of Israel -- Fiction

    Roberta Kells Dorr Solomon's Song

    Tamar -- Fiction

    Ann Chamberlin Tamar
    Francine Rivers

    Unveiled

    or from http://www.listology.com/list/fictional-novels-based-bible-stories

    • Abraham and Sarah - Roberta Dorr
    • Barabbas: Felon/Friend - Marvin Harris
    • Bathsheba: The Love Story that Changed History - Roberta Dorr (David & Bathsheba)
    • Beloved Rabbi - Michele Torrey (Jesus)
    • Beyond the Road to Damascus - Ferrel Glade Roundy (Paul)
    • Joseph - James R. Shott
    • Leah - James R. Shott (Jacob)
    • Mary, Handmaiden of the Lord - Virginia N. Wilson (Mary, mother of Jesus)
    • Solomon's Song - Roberta Dorr (Solomon)
    • Son of Laughter - Frederick Buechner (Isaac, Jacob, & Esau)
    • Stone Tables - Orson Scott Card (Moses)
    • The Fifth Mountain - Paulo Coelho (Elijah)
    • The Holy Embrace - Mario Brelich (Abraham & Sarah)
    • The Red Tent - Anita Diamant (Dinah)** Highly recommend
    • The Silas Diary - Gene Edwards (Paul & Barnabus)
    • The Timothy Diary - Gene Edwards (Paul & Timothy)
    • The Titus Diary - Gene Edwards (Titus & Paul)
    • The Weeping Chamber - Sigmund Brouwer (Christ & Simon)
    • Unashamed - Francine Rivers (Rahab)
    • Unshaken - Francine Rivers (Ruth, Naomi,& Boaz)
    • Unveiled - Francine Rivers (Tamar)

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • Milford Charles Murray
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    Incredible list, MJ!             Thank you!           *smile*                Peace!

                       It's becoming quite obvious to me that I need to work harder at "picking" and "choosing" what I might read yet in the days that the Good Lord will be giving me!

                          I'm grateful to you and others who've been sharing great insights and ideas!

    Thank you, All!

    Philippians 4:  4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........

  • Rosie Perera
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    Milford Charles Murray said:

    It's becoming quite obvious to me that I need to work harder at "picking" and "choosing" what I might read yet in the days that the Good Lord will be giving me!

    I like to think/hope that there will be books in heaven, and that we will have all eternity to read whatever we never had time for in this life.

  • Bruce Dunning
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    Rosie Perera said:

    Milford Charles Murray said:

    It's becoming quite obvious to me that I need to work harder at "picking" and "choosing" what I might read yet in the days that the Good Lord will be giving me!

    I like to think/hope that there will be books in heaven, and that we will have all eternity to read whatever we never had time for in this life.

    I like your thinking Rosie.

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  • Simon’s Brother
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    Everyone will have access to the Logos Eternity collection, and we will all be fluent in Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Coptic, Syrian, Akkadian etc, along with Latin, German, French and English of course.  It will only contain the 'original manuscripts' of the bible and contain access to all correct theology ever written about God".

    Edit  Note: There will be no Vyrso, all resources will be fully tagged and linked.

    Bruce Dunning said:

    Rosie Perera said:

    Milford Charles Murray said:

    It's becoming quite obvious to me that I need to work harder at "picking" and "choosing" what I might read yet in the days that the Good Lord will be giving me!

    I like to think/hope that there will be books in heaven, and that we will have all eternity to read whatever we never had time for in this life.

    I like your thinking Rosie.

  • Milford Charles Murray
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    Peace, Rosie!                I think there will be "work" in heaven also!             Useful endeavour that produces something good!                      We ARE God's Poetry, eh?! 

    Ephesians 2:10  We = God's Poem!       *smile*

    ποίημα, τος n: (derivative of ποιέωe ‘to make,’ 42.29) that which is made—‘product, what is made.’ αὐτοῦ γάρ ἐσμεν ποίημα ‘we are what he has made’ Eph 2:10.

    10αὐτοῦ γάρ ἐσμεν ποίημα, κτισθέντες ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ἐπὶ ἔργοις ἀγαθοῖς οἷς προητοίμασεν ὁ θεός, ἵνα ἐν αὐτοῖς περιπατήσωμεν.

    Also, I think it's time to put a Vyrso "ad" into this thread!  I strongly recommend these three books (depending upon whether you might care for this genre???!!!)

    I'm just finishing this trilogy (one of which is free!) (Books of the Infinite by R.J. Larson) that I appreciated so much that I've actually read each of them twice!  She really knows how to use adjectives and has a tremendous imagination!            And many other good things!

    Edit:              The First is Great!                     The Second and Third are even better!         *smile*

    Philippians 4:  4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........

  • Rosie Perera
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    Milford Charles Murray said:

    I'm just finishing this trilogy (one of which is free!) (Books of the Infinite by R.J. Larson) that I appreciated so much that I've actually read each of them twice!  She really knows how to use adjectives and has a tremendous imagination!            And many other good things!

    Thanks for pointing this freebie out. I usually don't pick up the fiction giveaways, because I simply don't have time to read any of them and they'd just end up cluttering my library. But on such a good recommendation from you, I did snag that one, and hopefully someday...

  • MJ. Smith
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    Rosie Perera said:

    I like to think/hope that there will be books in heaven, and that we will have all eternity to read whatever we never had time for in this life.

    Me? I hope to be able to read them in their original language [:D]

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • fgh
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    MJ. Smith said:

    Thanks, I have just now. Amazon had only 3rd party Swedish and German but Alibris had 4 copies of the English.

    I didn't think it would be that easy. Given what you probably had to pay, I really hope you like it (mine was about $3; a copy I gave away was about $1).[:)] I think you will (if the translation is OK), but one never knows for sure with taste.

    Actually, now that I think about it, the most basic storyline has some connections to your life: a background in Finland, a conversion, and a very prominent place for the Blessed Sacrament, in the form of Itself, a painting, and, not least, a dissolved congregation and an almost deserted monastery dedicated to the Holy Presence. No Dominicans, though, as far as I can remember.[:)]

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  • Milford Charles Murray
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    Pistachio or Neapolitan, Rosie???                 Which would you prefer?                          I'm guessing pistachio!                    Would I be correct?

                    Sometimes I feel uncomfortable about recommending anything to anybody because our "tastes" in various modes differ in so many respects and aspects:      However, I keep going on and sharing what I like and what is best for me, so, Rosie(!), I hope you enjoy!

                                      Just now I was thinking ...    there are so many books that I've started that I've chosen to not finish!          That's one very powerful option we have, although we seem to be hesitant to use it ...          *smile*               Blessings!                  and!                    Peace

    Rosie Perera said:

    Milford Charles Murray said:

    I'm just finishing this trilogy (one of which is free!) (Books of the Infinite by R.J. Larson) that I appreciated so much that I've actually read each of them twice!  She really knows how to use adjectives and has a tremendous imagination!            And many other good things!

    Thanks for pointing this freebie out. I usually don't pick up the fiction giveaways, because I simply don't have time to read any of them and they'd just end up cluttering my library. But on such a good recommendation from you, I did snag that one, and hopefully someday...

    Philippians 4:  4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........

  • Rosie Perera
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    Milford Charles Murray said:

    Pistachio or Neapolitan, Rosie???                 Which would you prefer?                          I'm guessing pistachio!                    Would I be correct?

    Yup! Good guess. Chocolate and strawberry are my least favorite flavors of ice cream, so boring, and the versions found in Neapolitan are generally low quality. Vanilla is OK as a base for something else (e.g., with chunks of cherries and chocolate in it), or if it's got maple syrup on it. But again, high quality only. My favorite is Häagen-Dazs coffee ice cream, with maple syrup. [:)]

  • Michael Grigoni
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    Rosie Perera said:

    Milford Charles Murray said:

    It's becoming quite obvious to me that I need to work harder at "picking" and "choosing" what I might read yet in the days that the Good Lord will be giving me!

    I like to think/hope that there will be books in heaven, and that we will have all eternity to read whatever we never had time for in this life.

    YES! Me too.

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