An old friend asked for reading suggestions to get back into reading. I think the best place to begin is with the authors or types of books you already enjoy. So if you enjoy C. S. Lewis, read other books by C. S. Lewis. Here are some suggestions for various genres (in no order whatsoever):
Contemporary Fiction: Richard Russo, Empire Falls
Science Fiction: Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Fantasy: J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (like I was going to suggest anything else)
Young Adult: J. K. Rowling, the Harry Potter series (though a fair case can be made that these are not actually, or at least exclusively, young adult books)
Classic American Fiction: Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
Mystery: Agatha Christie, The ABC Murders
Biography: William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill
Theology: J. I. Packer, Knowing God
Sports: Eliot Asinof, Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
Classic English Fiction: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Classic English Translation Fiction: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Popular History: Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City
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