This is very possibly my absolute favorite fiction book (I have to add "fiction" in there because it's impossible to choose one favorite that transcends all categories....but still, this is a big step!).  If you have never read this book, get off of the computer and go get it.  I would lend it to you, but I don't want to risk not getting it back.

Another Steinbeck... I love it.

This is also Nate's favorite book..... the fact that Nate actually read the entire book cover-to-cover should be incentive enough for you to go read it too.  If HE couldn't put it down, you know it must be good.  I read it in 5th grade, I think, and it will always be a favorite.

This is one of those books that I will probably read about a thousand times before I die.  I get more from it each time I open it up, and I don't think I'll ever be finished gleaning everything out of it.  Grace is a topic that I always need to be reminded of.

Prepare to laugh your head off.

I have this one on audio-cassette and in paperback.  So so good, but what of C.S. Lewis' isn't?

Read this book. Read it. You'll never be the same.

This is a series of 3 books by Francine Rivers... they're about 500 pages each, and I had the first 2 finished in about 3 days.  I even skipped class just to keep reading.  Nate kept yelling at me because I wouldn't clean the house or cook dinner.  I'm not even kidding.

This is hands-down the funniest book I have ever read in my life.  I laughed harder through this book than any other that I have EVER picked up. I cried, I laughed so hard.  I read it several years ago, and I remember I was on the way to Nashville for one of Janie's ice skating competitions.  I was laughing so hard in the backseat that my dad kept turning around and saying "What is wrong with you?! Are you okay??"   J. Evanovich has an entire series (I think she's up to number 11) about this character, Stephanie Plum, but none are as fabulous as the first.  A MUST-read!

Hands-down the greatest book on the topic of marriage that I have ever read.  As Mason himself puts it, its not a "how-to" book, but rather a "how-come" book.  If you're married or engaged, you should read this book.  It's unbelievable.