Eastern Orthodox Christian Forum

What books are your favorite? Which authors will you recommend?In your opinion, which book each person must read and why?

I am going to start first. I like C.S.Lewis "The Chronicles of Narnia", "The Screwtape Letters". I would definitely recommend "Father Arseny" especially for people who just turned to Church, this book has a lot of answers to different questions. I like also Flannery O'Connor's "Revelation". Harper Lee "To Kill a Mockingbird" is amazing.

There are so many books I love it is hard to know where to start. I like everything you mention, except I haven't read that particular book by Flannery O'Connor. I think Fr Arseny is really wonderful--I read it when I had recently converted to Orthodoxy and loved it so much. I have it in Russian now too, but it is hard for me to read--there is a lot of vocabulary I don't know.

I also like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. So many other things, but it's hard to think of what I would list as a favorite. I really enjoy books by L.M. Montgomery (she wrote Anne of Green Gables). I should think which other books to list...

Many years ago I have read the book of American writer Dzheroma Salinger " The Catcher in the Rye". And till now this one of my most favourite books. And when I re-read it once, I have got acquainted with my future husband . I have been surprised. He was very similar to the protagonist. The same kind, fair and pure person.

We decided to read the evening the whole family Shmelev. I thought that the younger daughter is not interested, it is still small. But she listened with such interest, even expressed in the subject

Matusya, how old is your youngest one?I like Shmelev a lot. His books are very vivid and informative. And also, they are very touching. It feels that he truly loves Russia.

Younger seven and a half years. We read "Bogomolye", listens with pleasure.

Matusya, which book will you recommend to read? Which one you liked the most? Not from Shmelev..

It is difficult to say what the most. And then, in taste and color - no companion. Some people like science fiction, other stories about nature, there are people who read only the Orthodox literature, and nothing more, and some just for reading novels. I like to read everything.

I tried listening to audio books. It was interesting experience. I had a feeling that somebody is telling me a story as if i was a child.. I was able to knit and to listen to the book at the same time.