C.S. Lewis Books discussion

For me would have to be Problem Of Pain.

So far I have two favorites. Out Of the Silent Planet and The Horse and His Boy...oh and I love the Screwtape Letters. They're amazing.

The Lion,the Witch, and the Wardrobe was my favorite.

Not read "Till we have faces". Just read "The great Divorce" today. It was phenomenal!

That Hideous Strength. The whole Randsom Trilogy really, but the last book of the three is my favorite.

The Siver Chair and Screwtape Letters

Fiction - Magician's Nephew
Nonfiction - Screwtape Letters

I highly recommend Letters to Children. This book is a compilation of letters C.S. Lewis wrote to both American and English fans. I felt like I got to know him a little through these sweet letters. In this book, he also shares his favorite books: Perelandra and Till We Have Faces.

I just bought On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature and am really looking forward to reading it.

I loved the Space Trilogy and Till We Have Faces. Really I would have a problem picking my favourite book! ;-)

@ Amanda, thanks I'll look them up.
@ Cleo what you say about choosing your favorite books is only too true. :)

I just started reading his books I have read a few and cant pick a favorite i want to read the space triogoly ones next

Fay wrote: "I just started reading his books I have read a few and cant pick a favorite i want to read the space triogoly ones next"

The Space Trilogy is high on my re-read list. I just bought Planets in Peril which gives a critical assessment of the trilogy so it would be interesting to read it alongside.

So I just started reading the great divorce!!! I am so looking forward to it.

Abby wrote: "So I just started reading the great divorce!!! I am so looking forward to it."

Let us know what you think of it after you finish, Abby. It's on my to-read list!

Cleo wrote: "I just bought On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature and am really looking forward to reading it.

I loved the Space Trilogy and Till We Have Faces. Really I would have a problem picking my ..."

I LOVE "On Stories." So much good stuff in there. Especially the piece on Dorothy L. Sayers, and the conversation with his fellow writers.

Gina wrote: "I LOVE "On Stories." So much good stuff in there. Especially the piece on Dorothy L. Sayers, and the conversation with his fellow writers.
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Ooo, I can't wait to read it now. I'm going to put it down in my summer to-read list.

Enjoy! :-)

Wait, he has more than one book?

i [lan on reading all of them cant wait to hear how much you all enjoy them

It's hard for me to imagine my childhood, and even my life now, without having read the Chronicles of Narnia. With that being said, I have always thought of Lewis' "Til We Have Faces" as one of my favorite all-time works of fiction.

Picking a favorite C.S. Lewis book is like picking a favorite child. But... "The Screwtape Letters" is slightly in the lead.

Definitely the screwtape letters and till we have faces

The Space Trilogy...Yes Yes Yes. That was cheating. My favorite of his books is That Hideous Strength. But the other two in the trilogy are my next favorites.

William wrote: "That Hideous Strength. The whole Randsom Trilogy really, but the last book of the three is my favorite."
Yes! Yes! Someone else who is devoted to love of the Space Trilogy. Yes!

In my opinion the best books authored by C. S. Lewis are The Great Divorce and The Magician's Nephew.

Till We Have Faces, and The Silver Chair.
Till We Have Faces was one I read as a fairly young kid and was blown away by how C.S. Lewis retold a myth in such an honest way . . . without being preachy at all, in my opinion.
The Silver Chair is my favorite of the Narnia books, although I can't say specifically why. Partly because Puddleglum is one of my all-time favorite characters in the world :)