Eleven Great Reads ...

Here's the first 11 books that pop up if you open my Kindle ...

I have a pretty extensive library on my phone these days. So I thought I’d share with you the first 11 books that pop up if you go exploring on my Kindle …

Imagine an Islamic political party gains the balance of power in a Western nation, like France.

What would happen to the country? Surely the French wouldn’t convert to Islam. Or would they?

This chilling novel convinced me that the threat of a confident, assertive Islam - with nothing but an effeminate, apologetic church standing in its way - could well take the West back to the Stone Age.

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If you are troubled by racism and want to know how to solve it, you could do a lot worse than read Shame by Shelby Steele.

Steele helps the reader to not only understand the history of America’s sins against black people, but he makes sense of the present explains clearly why the continued focus on racism in the world’s freest country only serves to perpetuate it. I loved this book and wish all the race-worriers would read it.

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I bought In the Garden of Beasts and read it.

And then I bought the book for Andrew Bolt and he immediately exclaimed: “I’ve been meaning to get this!”

It tells the true story of an American who returned to Berlin, a city he loved, after having been away for many years.

He is shocked to discover the transformation - of the city and of the people he had once so admired - under the influence of Adolf Hitler.

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Seeking Allah Finding Jesus is exactly as it sounds. A Muslim university student gets into a debate with a Christian friend and becomes obsessed with proving the superiority of Allah.

But the more he explores the lives and teachings of Mohammad as compared with Jesus, the more convinced he becomes that Christianity is the only hope of mankind.Seeking Allah Finding Jesus is a perfect book if you want an easy to understand but surprising comparison between the world’s two dominant faiths. And you don’t have to be religious at all to read and get a great deal from it.

I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

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Okay, this recommendation is a bit more out there. Mideast Beast is Joel Richardson’s take on what will happen in the End of Days.

All religions have their End of Days teaching. What I had not realised is that Islam is the exact inversion of Christianity when it comes to how it is believed that world events will come to a climax.

Fascinating on every level and highly instructive in light of current events.

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Mass migration has completely transformed the Western World. But none of it is a surprise, at least not to those who read The Camp of the Saints in the 70s.

The novel, written in 1973, imagines mass migration to Europe from India and, with almost prophetic insight, anticipates exactly how governments, NGOs, corporates and the woke church will respond.

Raspail got the country of origin wrong, but everything else right.

I liked this book a lot.

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I loved The Strange Death of Europe so much that I bought a copy for Tony Abbott when I had dinner with him some years ago.

He was overjoyed to receive it. He also enjoyed dinner with me just quietly. :)

The subtitle is Immigration, Identity, Islam - if you want to understand in the Western world you simply must read this book by Douglas Murray.

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Kermit Gosnell is America’s worst serial killer - and you’ve never heard of him. Why is that?

Well, Gosnell was an abortion doctor. So his crimes were shrugged at police, then ignored by authorities and finally, after his imprisonment, largely ignored by the media.

The monster was only charged and convicted thanks to a Christian police officer who refused to look away.

This book is one of only two books to have made me cry. The other was the history of the North Melbourne Football Club 2016-2023.

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So many people insist that Christianity and Islam are basically the same. Muslims say Allah, Christians say God. It’s all semantics. Right? Wrong.

Samuel Zwemer was widely known as “the apostle to Islam”, working as a missionary in the Middle East in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He had a deep knowledge of Islam and a great love for the Muslim people. That said, he pulls no punches, describing Islam as a classic “anti-Christ” religion.

It’s a short read and probably more for those with a particular rather than general interest.

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Noah Beck’s novel describes the angst among crew on an Israeli submarine when they learn that Israel has been completely destroyed.

I don’t read many novel, but thoroughly enjoyed The Last Israelis. And, of course, it’s pretty topical.

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I’ve saved the best until last.

I once read that Mother Teresa never went anywhere without two books - The Holy Bible and The Life of Christ by Fulton Sheen.

I already had the Bible but had never heard of Fulton Sheen. Well, these days, I’m a huge Fulton Sheen fan. I only wish I’d discovered him earlier.

Of all the books I have read on Jesus (and I’ve read more than a couple) this is by far my favourite. I completely understand why Mother Teresa never left home without it.