Here we discuss why books matter and how to make a great booklist. The right 50 books is capable of doing amazing things in the hearts and minds of your family. Go for it!

15 classics
10 book on history
10 works of theology
10 books on thinking
5 biographies

Rules: Audiobooks count, 15 or so books can be abridged, no doubling authors in each category, can offer double options occasionally

1. Hobbit
2. Jane Eyer  
3. Hamlet
4. Iliad
5. The Aeneid (abridged) /The Divine Comedy
6. 1984 (R rated) substitute with Animal farm
7. Pride and Prejudice
8. Oliver Twist
9. Brave New World (mature content)
10. Dracula (only Bram Stroker) /Frankenstein
11. Treasure Island (used to be the first classic for young men)
12. Lamplighter - Shipwrecked
13. War of the Worlds
14. Robinson Crusoe (first English novel)
15. The Count of Monte Cristo / Les Miserables
16. Heroes then and now by ywam
17. Stalin by Albert Marrin
18. Winston Churchill's history of the English speaking peoples
19. Church History by Everett Ferguson
20. How the Irish saved civilization
21. Three Years among the Comanches by Nelson Lee
22. Fox's Book of Martyrs
23. Civil War book (Wilson and Wilkins)
24. Amazing tales for making men out of boys by Neil Oliver
25. Trial and Triumph
26. Bondage of the Will by Luther/ Orthodoxy by Chesterton
27. Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos/ Les Rex
28. Mere Christianity
29. Mere Christendom by Wilson
30. Knowledge of the Holy
31. Paradise Restored by Chilton (Victorious Eschatology)
32. Willing to Believe by Sproul
33. Systematic Theology by Lewis Berkof
34. Westminster Confession of Faith
35. KJV only controversy James White (forgotten Trinity)
36. Free to Choose by Milton Friedman
37. The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
38. Rules for Reformers by Doug Wilson
39. Masculine Christianity
40. Man of the House by CR Wiley
41. The Family by JR Miller (1882 title: Home-making)
42. Lectures on Calvinism by Kuyper
43. The Fallacy Detective
44. How to be a man/lady by Harvey Newcombe
45. The Boniface Option
46. Augustine's Confessions
47. Plymouth Plantation
48. George Muller Autobiography
49. Luther/Bonhoeffer by Metaxas
50. Rebel Yell