THE HIGH TIDE BOOKLIST

People often ask us for a good book list, and that’s why we’ve compiled this collection of recommended reading. Note that the list is by no means complete. We hope to continue to add to it, and as we review books we will link to the reviews. Also, we provide some free links for books that are in the public domain and available online. If you’d like to purchase the books, you can find them conveniently arranged and available for purchase through Amazon in our Bookshop. 

Books marked with an asterisk * are some that we consider must-reads.


Political Science, Economics and Government

*The Vision of the Anointed (Thomas Sowell)
Ever Wonder Why? (Thomas Sowell)
Whatever Happened to Justice? (Richard Maybury)
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? (Richard Maybury)
*Economics in One Lesson (Henry Hazlitt)
*The Law (Frederick Bastiat)
*The Road to Serfdom (Friedrich Hayek)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (Edmund Burke)
Common Sense (Thomas Paine)
On Liberty (John Stuart Mill)
Modern Fascism (Gene Edward Veith)
*The Men Behind Hitler: A German Warning to the World (Bernhard Schrieber)
*Amusing Ourselves to Death (Neil Postman)


History

The Birth of Britain and the New World (Winston Churchill)
*A History of the American People (Paul Johnson)
*A History of the 20th Century (Martin Gilbert)
*Arguing About Slavery (William Lee Miller)
The Voyage of the Armada (David Howarth)
Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars (Albert Marrin)
*Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington)
A Coffin for King Charles (C.V. Wedgwood)
Miracle at Philadelphia (Catherine Brinker Bowen)
John Adams (David McCullough)
Founding Brothers (Joseph Ellis)
The Daughter of Time (Josephine Tey)
The Arts (Hendrik Willem Van Loon)
A Man For All Seasons (Robert Bolt)
The Life of Christopher Columbus (Edward Everett Hale)
*Endurance (Alfred Lansing)
Undaunted Courage (Stephen Ambrose)
The Story of the Von Trapp Family Singers (Maria Von Trapp)


Literature

*The Lord of the Rings trilogy (J.R.R. Tolkien)
*The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
*The Father Brown Mysteries (G.K. Chesterton)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Baroness Orczy)
Works by P.G. Wodehouse
*Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)
A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L’Engle)
Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Prince and the Pauper (Mark Twain)
*The Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Till We Have Faces (C.S. Lewis)
*The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis)
The Space Trilogy (C.S. Lewis)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Howard Pyle)
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
Sir Gibbie (George MacDonald)
*The Princess and Curdie (George MacDonald)
The Light Princess and Other Short Stories (George MacDonald)
*All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
Killer Angels (Michael Shaara)
*Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Glimpses of the Moon (Edith Wharton)
*Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
Death Comes for the Archbishop, O Pioneers! (Willa Cather)
*Peace Like A River (Leif Enger)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Lilies of the Field (William Edmund Barrett)
The Giver (Lois Lowry)
A Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry)
84 Charing Cross Road (Helene Hanff)
Short Stories by O.Henry
How Green Was My Valley (Richard Llewellyn)

Other Nonfiction

Eats, Shoots and Leaves (Lynne Truss)
The Microbe Hunters (Paul de Kruif)
Icons of Evolution (Jonathan Wells)
Darwin's Black Box (Michael Behe)
*Darwin on Trial (Philip Johnson)
Under the Tuscan Sun (Frances Mayes)
Reading Between the Lines (Gene Edward Veith)
A Philosophy of Education (Charlotte Mason)
For the Children’s Sake (Susan Schaeffer Macaulay)
A Philosophy of Education (Charlotte Mason)
*The Graves of Academe (Richard Mitchell)
How to Read a Book (Mortimer Adler)
The Royal Road to Romance (Richard Halliburton)
What's Wrong With The World (G.K. Chesterton)
 
Poetry

How To Read A Poem (Burton Raffel)
*The Ballad of the White Horse (G.K. Chesterton)
All poetry by G.K. Chesterton
Emily Dickinson
Robert Browning
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sara Teasedale
Alfred Lord Tennyson
C.S. Lewis
Shakespeare’s Sonnets


Philosophy & Faith

*Postmodern Times (Gene Edward Veith)
The God Who Is There (Francis Schaeffer)
*How Should We Then Live? (Francis Scheffer)
Evidence That Demands A Verdict (Josh McDowell)
Pensees (Blaise Pascal)
*Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
*The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
God in The Dock (C.S. Lewis)
The Problem of Pain (C.S. Lewis)
The Weight of Glory (C.S. Lewis)
The Four Loves (C.S. Lewis)
The Great Divorce (C.S. Lewis)
*Desiring God (John Piper)
G.K. Chesterton’s Essays
Yours, Jack (C.S. Lewis)
The Everlasting Man (G.K. Chesterton)
My Utmost For His Highest (Oswald Chambers)
The Practice of the Presence of God (Brother Lawrence)
The Spirit of the Disciplines (Dallas Willard)
1,000 Gifts (Ann Voskamp)
*The Cross and the Switchblade (David Wilkerson)
*Gold Cord (Amy Carmichael)
God’s Smuggler (Brother Andrew)
Bruchko (Bruce Olson)
The Hiding Place (Corrie Ten Boom)
Run, Baby, Run (Nicky Cruz)


Movies

*The Lord of the Rings
*To End All Wars
Henry V (Kenneth Branagh’s version)
Horatio Hornblower miniseries
Kidnapped (BBC mini-series version)
Jeeves and Wooster series
Slumdog Millionaire
*Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
12 Angry Men
Gettysburg
God Grew Tired of Us
A Man For All Seasons
Pride and Prejudice (A&E with Colin Firth)
Sense and Sensibility