The Lewis Legacy-Issue 86, Autumn 2000
Perry Bramlett's Lists
The C.S. Lewis Foundation for Truth in Publishing
September 1, 2000
The 25 Best Books Written about C.S. Lewis
Biographical
1) George Sayer: Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis
2) James Como (ed) - C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table
3) W Hooper & R L Green - C. S. Lewis: A Biography
4) Humphrey Carpenter - The Inklings
5) Lyle Dorsett - A Love Observed (formerly And God Came In)
Studies
1) Chad Walsh - C S Lewis: Apostle to the Skeptics
2) J Schultz & J West (eds) - The C. S. Lewis Readers' Encyclopedia
3) Kathryn Lindskoog - C. S. Lewis: Mere Christian
4) Peter Schakel - Reason & Imagination in C. S. Lewis: A Study of Till We Have Faces
5) Kathryn Lindskoog - Light in the Shadowlands: Protecting the Real C S
Lewis
6) Corbin Scott Carnell - Bright Shadow of Reality: Spiritual Longing in C S Lewis
7) Paul Ford - Companion to Narnia
8) Gilbert Meilaender - A Taste for the Other: The Social and Ethical
Thought of C. S. Lewis
9) Janine Goffar (ed) - The C S Lewis Index
10) Joe Christopher & Joan Ostling - C S Lewis: Annotated Checklist of
Writings about him and his Works
11) Walter Hooper - C. S. Lewis: Companion & Guide
12) Jocelyn Gibb (ed) - Light on C S Lewis
13) Doris Myers - C S Lewis in Context
14) James Patrick - The Magdalen Metaphysicals: Idealism and Orhtodoxy at Oxford, 1901-1945
15) Kathryn Lindskoog - Finding the Landlord: A Guidebook to C S Lewis's
Pilgrim's Regress
16) Peter Schakel & Charles Huttar (eds) - Word and Story in C S Lewis
17) James Como - Branches to Heaven: The Geniuses of C S Lewis
18) Joe Christopher - C S Lewis
19) Kathryn Lindskoog - Journey Into Narnia
20) Andrew Walker & James Patrick (eds) - A Christian for All Christians: Essays in Honour of C S Lewis
[Editor's note: I think the first one written, Chad Walsh's C. S. Lewis,
Apostle to the Skeptics, should be one of the top twenty.]
The Worst Books Written about C.S. Lewis
1) A N Wilson - C. S. Lewis: A Biography
2) David Holbrook - Skeleton in the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis' Fantasies: A
Phenomenological Study
3) John Beversluis - C. S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion
4) Lenore Fleischer - Shadowlands
5) Michael Coren - The Man Who Created Narnia
6) Derick Bingham - C. S. Lewis the Storyteller
7) Sam Wellman - C. S. Lewis
8) Gerhard Reed - C. S. Lewis and the Bright Shadow of Holiness
9) Douglas Gresham - Lenten Lands
10) A TIE: Paul Holmer - C. S. Lewis: The Shape of His Faith and Thought; David Barratt - C. S. Lewis and His World
Best Books about C.S. Lewis You've Never Heard Of
(long out of print, small market books, or not issued in the U.S.; in
alphabetical order)
1) Michael Christensen - C. S. Lewis on Scripture
2) Douglas Gilbert & Clyde KIlby - C. S. Lewis: Images of His World
3) Richard Harries - C. S. Lewis: The Man and His God
4) Peter Kreeft - C. S. Lewis: A Critical Essay
5) Leanne Payne - Real Prescence: The Christian Worldview of C. S. Lewis as Incarnational Reality
6) Martha Sammons - A Guide to C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy
7) Stephen Schofield - In Search of C. S. Lewis
8) Robert Smith - Patches of Godlight: The Pattern of Thought in C. S.
Lewis
9) Phillip Vander Elst - C. S. Lewis
10) (TIE) George Watson - C. S. Lewis: Critical Essays; William White - The Image of Man in C. S. Lewis
Most Attractive Books by and About C.S. Lewis
(Packaging, title, printing, cover; ranked in order)
1) Douglas Gilbert & Clyde Kilby - C. S. Lewis: Images of His World
2) C. S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia (British and U.S. one-volume editions)
3) C. S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia (British first edition paperbacks illustrated by Pauline Baynes)
4) C. S. Lewis - The Four Loves (British first edition paperback)
5) C. S. Lewis - Voyage to Venus (British Pan first edition paperback)
6) Walter Hooper - C. S. Lewis: Companion & Guide (British hardcover)
7) C. S. Lewis - Till We Have Faces (U.S. first edition hardcover)
8) C. S. Lewis - The Screwtape Letters (British edition illustrated by Papas)
9) C. S. Lewis - The Cosmic Trilogy - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength (British one-volume edition)
10) C. S. Lewis - The Allegory of Love (both Oxford paperbacks with cover illustrations from Roman de la Rose, Flemish illumination)
11) C. S. Lewis - The Pilgrim's Regress (U.S. edition illustrated by
Michael Hague)
12) Michael Coren - The Man Who Created Narnia
13) C. S. Lewis - God in the Dock (new Eerdmans paperback)
14) Brian Sibley & Alison Sage - A Treasury of Narnia
15) C. S. Lewis - Miracles (British first edition paperback)
16) Paul Ford - Companion to Nanria (U.S. first edition paperback)
17) C. S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (U.S. HarperCollins hardcover gift edition, 1997)
18) Humphrey Carpenter - The Inklings (new British paperback)
19) Kathryn Lindskoog - C. S. Lewis: Mere Christian (Cornerstone 4th
edition paperback)
20) Walter Hooper (ed) - All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis
1922-1927 (U.S. first edition hardcover)
21) Walter Hooper (ed) - C. S. Lewis: Collected Letters Volume I - Family Letters 1905-1931 (British first edition hardcover)
22) C. S. Lewis - Mere Christianity (U.S. Macmillan paperback 1960)
23) Peter Kreeft - The Shadowlands of C. S. Lewis
24) C. S. Lewis - Surprised By Joy (U. S. first edition hardcover)
25) Jeffrey Schultz & John West (eds) - The C. S. Lewis Readers'
Encyclopedia
