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Titles written by the Inklings (C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield), their circle of friends (including Dorothy Sayers), and books that influenced them.
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
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The Pilgrim's Progress
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The Screwtape Letters
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Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength
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Till We Have Faces
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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The Consolation of Philosophy
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The Wind in the Willows
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The Pickwick Papers
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Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
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The Iliad & the Odyssey
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The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology
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The Princess and the Goblin
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The Mabinogion
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King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales
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Paradise Lost
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Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell
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The Red Fairy Book
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Andrew Lang (Editor)
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Phantastes
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Orthodoxy
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Peter Pan
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The Complete Tales
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The Imitation of Christ
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The Kalevala: Or Poems of the Kaleva District
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Macbeth
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The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
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The Faerie Queene
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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A Voyage to Arcturus
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The Weight of Glory
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The Worm Ouroboros
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She (She, #1)
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The Abolition of Man
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The House of the Wolfings
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The Book of Wonder
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The Marvellous Land of Snergs
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The Lilac Fairy Book
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The Roots of the Mountains
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Lilith
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Gulliver’s Travels
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The Everlasting Man
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Plato: Complete Works
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The Prelude
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The Idea of the Holy
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Descent into Hell
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A Preface to Paradise Lost
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Der Ring des Nibelungen
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The Four Loves
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Five Children and It (The Psammead Trilogy, #1)
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Quo Vadis
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The Story of the Amulet (The Psammead Trilogy, #3)
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The Phoenix and the Carpet (The Psammead Trilogy, #2)
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Centuries of Meditations
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Witch Wood
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J.R.R. Tolkien - His Life, Work & Faith
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War in Heaven
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The Inklings and King Arthur: J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain
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Sørina Higgins (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 48 ratings
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He Came Down from Heaven and the Forgiveness of Sins
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The Place of the Lion
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The Greater Trumps
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Many Dimensions
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All Hallows' Eve
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Theologia Germanica
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The Laxdale Saga
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Aenid
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The Man Born to be King
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Jane Austen's Works (Volume 1)
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Sohrab and Rustum
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Confessions
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Tamburlaine
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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Leo Tolstoy’s Works
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The Bacchae
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The Collected Works of William Butler Yeats
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Complete Works of Herodotus
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
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The Silver Trumpet
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The Black Douglas
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The Old Arcadia
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Ronsard: Poèmes
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
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Theism and Humanism
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Introduction to the Devout Life
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The Sermon on the Mount: A Practical Exposition
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Sir Nigel
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Scenes From The Saga Of King Olaf (1896)
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H. G. Wells's Collected Works
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Darkness and Dawn
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Ben-Hur
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Vice Versa: A Lesson to Fathers
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Paracelus
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Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods
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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas
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Northern Antiquities
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I'd love it if someone could add the latest book The Inklings and King Arthur. I've already hit 100 so it won't let me!
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