THE TOP 10
- C. S. Lewis: Mere Christianity » "The best case for the essentials of orthodox Christianity in print." ~ David S. Dockery
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Cost of Discipleship » "Leaves you wondering why you ever thought complacency or compromise in the Christian life was an option." ~ Mark Buchanan
- Karl Barth: Church Dogmatics » "Opened a new era in theology in which the Bible, Christ, and saving grace were taken seriously once more." ~ J. I. Packer
- J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (trilogy) » A classic for children from 9 to 90. Bears constant re-reading. ~ J. I. Packer
- John Howard Yoder: The Politics of Jesus » "Some 30 years after this book was published, the church has found itself culturally in a more marginal position, and this book is making wider and wider sense." ~ Rodney Clapp
- G.K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy » "A rhetorically inventive exposition of the coherence of Christian truth." ~ David Neff
- Thomas Merton: The Seven Storey Mountain » "A painfully candid story of one Christian soul's walk with grace and struggle, it has become the mark against which all other spiritual autobiographies must be measured." ~ Phyllis Tickle
- Richard Foster: Celebration of Discipline » "After Foster finishes each spiritual discipline, you not only know what it is, why it's important, and how to do it — you want to do it." ~ Mark Buchanan
- Oswald Chambers: My Utmost for His Highest » "A treasury of daily devotional readings that has fed the souls of millions of Christians in the twentieth century. Future generations of Christians must continue to draw from this treasury." ~ Richard J. Mouw
- Reinhold Niebuhr: Moral Man and Immoral Society » "Introduced a breathtakingly insightful, shrewd, and cunning realism about human sin, especially in its social expressions, rooted in biblical theology and a penetrating appraisal of the dark era into which the Western world had entered." ~ David P. Gushee
THE OTHER 90
in alphabetical order by author
- Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
- Alcoholics Anonymous: (The Big Book of A.A.)
- Roland Bainton: Here I Stand
- Karl Barth: The Epistle to the Romans
- Ernest Becker: The Denial of Death
- Robert N. Bellah, ET AL.: Habits of the Heart
- Georges Bernanos: The Diary of a Country Priest
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Letters and Papers from Prison
- David Bosch: Transforming Mission
- Walter Brueggemann: The Prophetic Imagination
- Emil Brunner: Truth as Encounter
- Albert Camus: The Plague
- Edward John Carnel: The Case for Orthodox Theology
- Willa Cather: Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness
- Annie Dillard: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Documents of Vatican II
- W. E. B. Dubois: The Souls of Black Folk
- T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets
- Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
- Jacques Ellul: The Technological Society
- Shusaku Endo: Silence
- Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank
- Victor Frankl: Man's Search for Meaning
- Sigmund Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents
- The Fundamentals
- Langdon Gilkey: Shantung Compound
- Carol Gilligan: In a Different Voice
- Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory
- John Howard Griffin: Black Like Me
- Gustavo Gutiérrez: A Theology of Liberation
- Philip Paul Hallie: Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed
- Stanley Hauerwas: A Community of Character
- Václav Havel: Living in Truth
- Richard Hays: The Moral Vision of the New Testament
- Carl F. H. Henry: God, Revelation, and Authority (six volumes)
- John R. Hersey: Hiroshima
- Abraham Heschel: The Prophets
- Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
- William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Franz Kafka: The Trial
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Testament of Hope
- Thomas S. Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
- Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac
- C. S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia » (especially The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) and The Screwtape Letters
- J. Gresham Machen: Christianity and Liberalism
- Alasdair C. MacIntyre: After Virtue
- Malcolm X and Alex Haley: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- George M. Marsden: Fundamentalism and American Culture
- François Mauriac: Viper's Tangle
- Jürgen Moltmann: The Crucified God
- Richard John Neuhaus: The Naked Public Square
- Lesslie Newbigin: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
- Reinhold Niebuhr: The Nature and Destiny of Man (two volumes)
- H. Richard Niebuhr: Christ and Culture
- Kathleen Norris: The Cloister Walk
- Henri J. M. Nouwen: The Wounded Healer
- Anders Nygren: Agape and Eros
- Elizabeth O'Connor: Journey Inward, Journey Outward
- Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
- Rudolf Otto: The Idea of the Holy
- J. I. Packer: Knowing God
- Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country
- Jaroslav Pelikan: Jesus Through the Centuries
- Josef Pieper: The Four Cardinal Virtues
- Michael Polanyi: Personal Knowledge
- Chaim Potok: The Chosen
- Walter Rauschenbusch: Christianity and the Social Crisis
- Dorothy L. Sayers: The Mind of the Maker
- Albert Schweitzer: The Quest of the Historical Jesus
- Nevil Shute: On the Beach
- Ronald J. Sider: Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- John R. W. Stott: Basic Christianity
- Paul Tournier: The Meaning of Persons
- A. W. Tozer: The Pursuit of God
- Barbara Tuchman: The Guns of August
- Evelyn Underhill: Mysticism
- Miroslav Volf: Exclusion and Embrace
- Gerhard von Rad: Old Testament Theology
- Andrew F. Walls: The Missionary Movement in Christian History
- Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Simone Weil: Waiting for God
- Elie Wiesel: Night
- Charles Williams: Descent into Hell
- Walter Wink: Engaging the Powers
- Philip Yancey: The Jesus I Never Knew
