The Horse and his Boy is my favorite too.

I recommend skipping The Last Battle because it's so sad and awful.  I wish I'd never read it.  

I remember reading The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe as a kid. It was one of my favourite stories and  probably the first book I couldn't put down. I never read any of the others but I would probably still enjoy them. Good choice.

Several films have been made over these books, and some of them were actually very good. The old BBC TV series was fine for its time but I liked the 2005 movie with Tilde Swinson as the White Witch even better.

18 minutes ago, Myr said:

There is quite a history in the 30's of two friendly writing rivals... Mr. C.S. Lewis and Mr. J.R.R. Tolkien.  They inspired and challenged each other.  Both of them had a desire to write the moral tenants of Christianity without propagandizing it.

I heard that about C.S. Lewis, but never about Tolkien. However, it does shed a new light on the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Granted, I still feel that a monkey with a keyboard is a better writer than Tolkien, it does make me want to take a deeper look.

Tolkien wanted to created languages. He mainly wrote his stories as a way of having someone speak those languages and explanations for the differences eg between high elvish and 'common' elvish.

2 hours ago, Myr said:

Tolkien strikes me as too much of a world builder.  The stories drove me nuts because he'd spend far too much time on songs and languages and not do anything to move the story forward. 

I can agree with this. You mentioned Lewis and Tolkien being friends. I read an article that discussed how Tolkien's friends would beg him to shut up about his stories because he would drone on and on about them. LOL.

To be honest, I read the Hobbit, and can barely make it 10 pages into Fellowship, before I pass out. It's great for nights when my insomnia is really bad.

Back on topic. I'll take a look at these books. I've seen the movies but never had a chance to read the books.

As Myr says, this series is a complete classic, and I remember vividly how I was captivated when I first read  the stories over forty years ago.

C S Lewis wrote a huge number of other books as well, mostly also with some aspect or theme of Christian theology. My dad gave me one called 'The Screwtape Letters' where a young demon is being coached by the devil in how to tempt humans into sin.

He wrote a science fiction trilogy, quite famous at the time, once again with big themes of religious theology running through them - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength. I loved them but they are probably not the style for today's readers.

C S Lewis and J R R Tolkein were members, along with other Oxford University Dons, of a group called 'The Inklings' who gathered, for the most part, to read and review excerpts of as yet unpublished literary works.