One of my favorite things to do is to read, and so I read a lot—about 100 books a year, for a rough average of two a week. Lest I devolve into a full-fledged book snob, however, I’m reminded of the wise words of John Wesley: “Beware you be not swallowed up in books: an ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.”

If we had to choose between loving and reading, we’d certainly do well to choose the former. My hunch, though, is that the discipline of reading widely and well is a crucial part of loving God with our minds and loving our neighbors as ourselves. Here, then, is where my reading journey has led over the years.

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2018
83. Fleming Rutledge, Advent (currently reading)
82. Neil McCormick, Killing Bono (currently reading)
81. McKittrick & McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles
80. George Saunders, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
79. Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well
78. Katherine Paterson, My Brigadista Year
77. Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings
76. Sarah Manguso, Ongoingness
75. Lynsey Addario, Of Love & War
74. Carlin & Malet, Mandela and the General
73. George Saunders, Fox 8
72. Maggie Nelson, Bluets
71. David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon
70. Austin Channing Brown, I’m Still Here
69. Christian Wiman, He Held Radical Light
68. Eugene Peterson, Reversed Thunder
67. John McPhee, Draft No. 4
66. Scott Harrison, Thirst
65. N.T. Wright, For All the Saints?
64. Greil Marcus, Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010
63. John Lewis, March: Book Two
62. Óscar Romero, The Scandal of Redemption
61. Mary Karr, Now Go Out There (and Get Curious)
60. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, News of a Kidnapping
59. James Skillen, In Pursuit of Justice
58. David Callahan, The Givers
57. Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
56. Ada Limón, The Carrying: Poems
55. Chad Broughton, Boom, Bust, Exodus
54. Joan Didion, The White Album
53. Chad Bird, Night Driving
52. Héctor Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries
51. Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert
50. Philip Norman, Paul McCartney: The Life
49. Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers
48. Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is
47. Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
46. Alberto Ledesma, Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer
45. Hannah Arendt, On Violence
44. Larry Eskridge, God’s Forever Family
43. Alan Jacobs, How to Think
42. Austin Kleon, Newspaper Blackout
41. Mario Vargas Llosa, Sabers and Utopias
40. Jerald Podair, City of Dreams
39. Ron Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger
38. Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars: Poems
37. Bennett & Davies, Encyclopedia Blazertannica
36. Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
35. Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer
34. Don Winslow, The Power of the Dog
33. Apricot Irving, The Gospel of Trees
32. Patti Smith, Auguries of Innocence
31. Creative Action Network, See America
30. Rich Mouw, When The Kings Come Marching In
29. Ned Bustard, ed., A Book for Hearts and Minds
28. Robert Hudson, The Monk’s Record Player
27. Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit
26. N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope
25. Monica Hesse, American Fire
24. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
23. Raphael Honigstein, Bring the Noise
22. Francisco Cantú, The Line Becomes a River
21. Andy Crouch, Strong and Weak
20. Daniel Alarcón, The King is Always Above the People
19. Miranda & McCarter, Hamilton: The Revolution
18. Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason
17. Luis Castañeda, Spectacular Mexico
16. Madeleine L’Engle, Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?
15. Ted Oswald, Little Flower: A Novel
14. Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelicals
13. Aaron Damiani, The Good of Giving Up
12. Sylvie Simmons, I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
11. Marilynne Robinson, The Givenness of Things
10. William Lawlor, Let’s Go Down to the Beach
09. Simon Critchley, What We Think About When We Think About Soccer
08. John Steinbeck, East of Eden
07. Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, A Long Letting Go
06. Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
05. John Perkins, Dream With Me
04. Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak
03. Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word
02. Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
01. Ted Gioia, Delta Blues

2017
101. Teju Cole, Blind Spot
100. Tom Becker, Good Posture
99. Dennis Covington, Revelation
98. Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Reputations
97. Sasha Pimentel, For Want of Water and Other Poems
96. Pollock & Van Reken, Third Culture Kids
95. Matthew Kaemingk, Christian Hospitality & Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear
94. Lauren Markham, The Far Away Brothers
93. John Baillie, A Diary of Private Prayer
92. Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited
91. Alan Howard, In the Land of Eternal Spring
90. Billy Collins, The Art of Drowning
89. James K.A. Smith, Awaiting The King
88. Ethan Coen, Almost an Evening
87. Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus
86. Patti Smith, Just Kids
85. Shawn Wen, A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause
84. Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
83. Doris Kearns Goodwin, Wait Till Next Year
82. Kristen Radtke, Imagine Wanting Only This
81. Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do
80. Frederick Buechner, A Crazy, Holy Grace
79. Mai Der Vang, Afterland
78. Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends
77. Henri Nouwen, A Spirituality of Fundraising
76. Robert Macfarlane, The Gifts of Reading
75. Stephen King, On Writing
74. J. Todd Billings, Rejoicing in Lament
73. Wendell Berry, It All Turns on Affection
72. Rich Mouw, Consulting the Faithful
71. Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing
70. Matt Eisenbrandt, Assassination of a Saint
69. Walter Wangerin Jr., The Absolute, Relatively Inaccessible
68. Keith Law, Smart Baseball
67. Michka Assayas, Bono: In Conversation
66. Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues
65. Kyle David Bennett, Practices of Love
64. Emmy Pérez, With the River on Our Face
63. Wallace Shawn, Night Thoughts
62. Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
61. Art Thiel, Out of Left Field
60. Bauman, Soerens, & Smeir, Seeking Refuge
59. Eugene H. Peterson, As Kingfishers Catch Fire
58. David James Duncan, The Brothers K
57. Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts
56. Gary Kamiya, Cool Gray City of Love
55. Elijah Wald, The Blues
54. George W. Bush, Portraits of Courage
53. Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
52. Paolo Bacigalupi, The Water Knife
51. Scott Cairns, The End of Suffering
50. Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run
49. Tomáš Halík, I Want You to Be
48. Brendan Koerner, The Skies Belong to Us
47. William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
46. Dr. Suits, Oh, the Meetings You’ll Go To!: A Parody
45. Sarah Glidden, Rolling Blackouts
44. Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days
43. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele
42. C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
41. Sheridan Voysey, Resurrection Year
40. Amy Peterson, Dangerous Territory
39. Marilyn Gardner, Between Worlds
38. Paul Elie, The Life You Save May Be Your Own
37. Jess Archer, Finding Home with the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Billy Graham
36. Molly McCully Brown, The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded
35. James Keating, ed., The Deacon Reader
34. Rich Cohen, The Fish That Ate the Whale
33. Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir
32. Antoine Leiris, You Will Not Have My Hate
31. Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son
30. Joan Didion, South and West
29. Franz Wright, Walking to Martha’s Vineyard: Poems
28. Lindbergh & Miller, The Only Rule Is It Has to Work
27. Timothy Keller, Generous Justice
26. Michael Wear, Reclaiming Hope
25. Langston Hughes, The Dream Keeper
24. George Saunders, Congratulations, By the Way
23. Koons Crooks, Iterating Grace
22. Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary
21. Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen
20. Henri Nouwen, Love, Henri
19. Richard Beeman, ed., The Declaration of Independence and Constitution
18. C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm
17. Ben Lerner, The Hatred of Poetry
16. Skila Brown, Caminar
15. Monsma & Carlton-Thies, Free to Serve
14. Nick Cave, The Sick Bag Song
13. Dan Raley, Pitchers of Beer
12. Hennessey & McConnell, The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation
11. Alain de Botton, The News: A User’s Manual
10. Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth
09. Ishion Hutchinson, House of Lords and Commons: Poems
08. Joe Sacco, War’s End: Profiles from Bosnia, 1995-1996
07. Jeremy Beer, The Philanthropic Revolution
06. Michael Card, A Sacred Sorrow
05. Kevin Guilfoile, A Drive into the Gap
04. Jonathan Tepperman, The Fix
03. Katelyn Beaty, A Woman’s Place
02. Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Secure the Soul
01. Rich Mouw, Praying at Burger King

2016
101. Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
100. Johnny Cash, Forever Words
99. Guy Delisle, Pyongyang
98. Mary Oliver, Dog Songs: Poems
97. Dave Isay, Callings
96. N.T. Wright, Advent for Everyone
95. Paul Buckley, Classic Penguin: Cover to Cover
94. Jon Wells, Shipwrecked
93. Robert Hilburn, Johnny Cash: The Life
92. Herman Bavinck, Calvin and Common Grace
91. Eugene Peterson, The Wisdom of Each Other
90. Rich Mouw, Adventures in Evangelical Civility
89. Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
88. Andrés Neuman, How to Travel Without Seeing
87. Leonard Cohen, Fifteen Poems
86. Flannery O’Connor, The Cartoons
85. Billy Collins, The Rain in Portugal: New Poems
84. Elijah Wald, Dylan Goes Electric!
83. Joby Warrick, Black Flags
82. Christopher Wright, The Five Marks of Mission
81. Makoto Fujimura, Silence and Beauty
80. John Baillie, A Diary of Private Prayer
79. Maisie Ward, St. Francis of Assisi
78. Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain
77. Peggy Swager, Boston Terrier
76. Offutt, Bronkema, et al., Advocating for Justice
75. Barton Swaim, The Speechwriter
74. Grady Gammage, Jr., The Future of the Suburban City
73. Rowan Williams, Tokens of Trust
72. Neil Young, Waging Heavy Peace
71. Eugene Peterson, Leap Over a Wall
70. Sunil Yapa, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
69. Wendell Berry, The Mad Farmer Poems
68. Jo Nesbø, Blood on Snow
67. Carl Wilkens, I’m Not Leaving
66. Daniel Alarcón, At Night We Walk in Circles
65. Timothy Keller, Prayer
64. J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy
63. Robert Darden, Nothing but Love in God’s Water, Vol. 1
62. Kim Barker, The Taliban Shuffle
61. Michel Houellebecq, Submission
60. Aaron Belz, The Bird Hoverer: Poems
59. Martin Marty, October 31, 1517
58. Emma Cline, The Girls
57. Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
56. Joe Posnanski, The Soul of Baseball
55. Miroslav Volf & Ryan McAnnally-Linz, Public Faith in Action
54. Benet Tvedten, How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job
53. Matt Zoller Seitz, The Wes Anderson Collection
52. Matthew Avery Sutton, American Apocalypse
51. David Halberstam, The Teammates
50. Ann Handley, Everybody Writes
49. Daniel Hernández-Salazar & Oscar Iván Maldonado, So That All Shall Know
48. Marjane Satrapi, Chicken with Plums
47. Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer
46. Bethany Hoang & Kristen Johnson, The Justice Calling
45. Sara Pennypacker, Pax
44. Beach & Burch, eds., Baseball
43. Franz Wright, God’s Silence
42. Mac McClelland, Irritable Hearts
41. John McMillian, Beatles vs. Stones
40. Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind
39. Peter Leithart, Shining Glory
38. Pope Francis, Laudato Si’
37. John Eldredge, Fathered by God
36. Don Mee Choi, Hardly War
35. Craig Robinson, Flip Flop Fly Ball
34. Justin McGuirk, Radical Cities
33. Jon Talton, A Brief History of Phoenix
32. Cristina García, The Lesser Tragedy of Death: Poems
31. Santiago Roncagliolo, Red April: A Novel
30. Barry Svrluga, The Grind
29. J.I. Packer, The Thirty-Nine Articles
28. Alberto Ríos, Whispering to Fool the Wind: Poems
27. Bob Pritchett, Start Next Now
26. Mary Karr, Viper Rum: Poems
25. Óscar Martínez, A History of Violence
24. James K.A. Smith, You Are What You Love
23. Dan Quisenberry, On Days Like This: Poems
22. Roger Angell, Let Me Finish
21. Pär Lagerkvist, Barabbas
20. Molly Knight, The Best Team Money Can Buy
19. Slade, Marsh, Heltzel, eds., Mobilizing for the Common Good
18. Robert Benson, The Game
17. David Allen Sibley, Birding Basics
16. Philip Bess, City Baseball Magic
15. Christian Smith, Resisting Reagan
14. Lawrence Ritter, The Glory of Their Times
13. Shusaku Endo, Silence
12. Aaron Belz, Glitter Bomb: Poems
11. Bob Mankoff, ed., The New Yorker Book of Baseball Cartoons
10. N.T. Wright, Revelation for Everyone
09. Bratt & Wells, eds., The Best of the Reformed Journal
08. William Wyckoff, How to Read the American West
07. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
06. Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World
05. Rod Dreher, How Dante Can Save Your Life
04. Bob Mankoff, How About Never – Is Never Good for You?
03. Sarah Arthur, Light Upon Light
02. César Aira, The Literary Conference
01. Don Winslow, The Cartel: A Novel

2015
103. Chris Hoke, Wanted
102. Douglas R. Gilbert & Dave Marsh, Forever Young
101. Ric Edelman, Rescue Your Money
100. Jonathan Mahler, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning
99. Eugene Peterson, Where Your Treasure Is
98. Rich Mouw, Political Evangelism
97. Guy Delisle, Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City
96. Gerson, Summers, & Thompson, Unleashing Opportunity
95. E.B. White, Here is New York
94. Brin-Jonathan Butler, The Domino Diaries
93. Samuel Wells & Abigail Kocher, Shaping the Prayers of the People
92. Daniel Alarcón, City of Clowns
91. Åsne Seierstad, One of Us
90. Rowan Williams, The Other Mountain
89. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
88. Stephen Offutt, New Centers of Global Evangelicalism in Latin America and Africa
87. Mookie Wilson & Erik Sherman, Mookie
86. Calvin Seerveld, Rainbows for the Fallen World
85. Billy Collins, Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems
84. Jon Pessah, The Game
83. Dan DeLillo, Pafko at the Wall: A Novella
82. Walter Brueggemann, Sabbath as Resistance
81. Todd Hartch, The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity
80. Joshua Ryan Butler, The Skeletons in God’s Closet
79. Pablo Neruda, On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poems of the Sea
78. J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives
77. Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
76. Rowan Williams, Writing in the Dust
75. Alberto Álvaro Ríos, Sleeping on Fists
74. Wendell Berry, Entries: Poems
73. Eugene Peterson, Answering God
72. Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Lovers on All Saints’ Day: Stories
71. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
70. Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice, Reconciling All Things
69. Denise Levertov, Breathing the Water: Poems
68. Roger Angell, The Summer Game
67. Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire, Vol. 3: Century of the Wind
66. Billy Collins, Ballistics: Poems
65. Maya Angelou, His Day is Done
64. George Marsden, A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards
63. Timothy Keller, Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
62. C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
61. John Updike, Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu
60. Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City
59. Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow
58. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
57. Mark Noll, From Every Tribe and Nation
56. Bill Madden, 1954
55. Jorge Luis Borges, A Universal History of Iniquity
54. D.T. Max, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story
53. Mary Jo Bang,  The Last Two Seconds: Poems
52. Zadie Smith,  Changing My Mind
51. Henri Nouwen, Discernment
50. Chuck Collins, Reformation Anglicanism
49. Makoto Fujimura, Culture Care
48. George Will, Men at Work
47. Walker Percy, The Moviegoer: A Novel
46. Scott Sauls, Jesus Outside the Lines
45. Billy Collins, Nine Horses: Poems
44. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, The Last Interview
43. Rod Dreher, The Little Way of Ruthie Leming
42. Franz Wright, Wheeling Motel: Poems
41. Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk
40. Daniel Alarcón, Lost City Radio: A Novel
39. Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate
38. Shirley and Rudy Nelson, The Risk of Returning: A Novel
37. Vincent Bacote, The Political Disciple
36. J. Richard Middleton, A New Heaven and a New Earth
35. Alberto Ríos, The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body: Poems
34. Maurice Sendak, My Brother’s Book
33. Peter Thiel, Zero to One
32. Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
31. Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World
30. Rich Mouw, Called to the Life of the Mind
29. Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
28. Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
27. Seth Godin, What To Do When It’s Your Turn
26. Thomas Boswell, Why Time Begins on Opening Day
25. Stanley Hauerwas, Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir
24. Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Protestantism in Guatemala
23. Wesley Hill, Washed and Waiting
22. Héctor Tobar, Deep Down Dark
21. Oliver O’Donovan, Common Objects of Love
20. Richard Rodriguez, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography
19. Grandin, Levenson, & Oglesby, eds., The Guatemala Reader
18. Ruth Haley Barton, Life Together in Christ
17. Elmer Hernán Rodríguez Campos, Under the Sour Sun
16. Stephen L. Carter, Back Channel: A Novel
15. Steensland & Goff, eds., The New Evangelical Social Engagement
14. Scott Cairns, Idiot Psalms: New Poems
13. Walter Brueggemann, Spirituality of the Psalms
12. Martin Luther King, Jr., The Autobiography
11. Mark Fainaru-Wada & Lance Williams, Game of Shadows
10. Rich Mouw, The Smell of Sawdust
09. James Baldwin, Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems
08. Jonah Keri, Up, Up, & Away
07. Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems
06. Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling: A Novel
05. Hawk, Smith, & Lalitha, eds., Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations
04. Bruce Cockburn, Rumours of Glory: A Memoir
03. Miroslav Volf, Against the Tide
02. Tomás Guzaro & Terri Jacob McComb, Escaping The Fire
01. Christian Wiman, Once in the West: Poems

2014
120. Greg Pennoyer & Gregory Wolfe, eds., God With Us
119. Lewis, Aydin, & Powell, March: Book One
118. A. Bartlett Giamatti,  A Great and Glorious Game
117. Zachary Lazar, I Pity the Poor Immigrant: A Novel
116. Henri Nouwen, Gracias
115. Charles Wright, A Short History of the Shadow: Poems
114. N.T. Wright, For All God’s Worth
113. Steve Almond, Against Football
112. Donald Hall, The Painted Bed: Poems
111. St. Augustine, Confessions
110. Mark Pry, Oasis in the Valley
109. Christopher Webber, ed., Love Came Down
108. Melanie Ross, Evangelical Versus Liturgical?
107. Carl F.H. Henry, The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism
106. Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy
105. Alister Chapman, Godly Ambition
104. Mark Labberton, Called
103. Ernesto Guevara, Back on the Road
102. Lesslie Newbigin, Truth To Tell
101. Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins: A Novel
100. Donald Lewis & Richard V. Pierard, eds., Global Evangelicalism
99. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mortal Beauty, God’s Grace
98. Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?
97. Francis Spufford, Unapologetic
96. Molly Worthen, Apostles of Reason
95. Eric Jacobsen, The Space Between
94. Mariano Rivera, The Closer
93. Christian Wiman, Every Riven Thing: Poems
92. John Thorn, Baseball: Our Game
91. Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism
90. Robert Melikian, Vanishing Phoenix
89. Bruce Wydick, The Taste of Many Mountains
88. James K.A. Smith, How (Not) To Be Secular
87. John M. Perkins, With Justice For All
86. Victor Maymudes, Another Side of Bob Dylan
85. A. Bartlett Giamatti, Take Time For Paradise
84. Ken Myers, All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes
83. Chris Horst & Peter Greer, Entrepreneurship for Human Flourishing
82. Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
81. Rowan Williams, Being Christian
80. Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding: A Novel
79. M. Daniel Carroll R., Christians at the Border
78. Alan Jacobs, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
77. Kevin Powers, Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting: Poems
76. Alain de Botton, A Week at the Airport
75. George Will, A Nice Little Place on the North Side
74. Sara Miles, City of God
73. John Howe & Sam Pascoe, Our Anglican Heritage
72. Ted Kooser, Delights & Shadows: Poems
71. Jocelyn Glei, ed., Manage Your Day-to-Day
70. Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers
69. Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
68. George Kalantzis & Gregory Lee, eds., Christian Political Witness
67. Óscar Martínez, The Beast
66. Louise Glück, The Triumph of Achilles
65. William Easterly, The Tyranny of Experts
64. Mario Vargas Llosa, In Praise of Reading and Fiction
63. Spencer Reece, The Road to Emmaus: Poems
62. James K.A. Smith, The Devil Reads Derrida: And Other Essays
61. George Herbert, The Complete English Poems
60. Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow
59. Robert Webber, Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail
58. Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
57. Justin Holcomb, Know the Creeds and Councils
56. James Skillen, The Good of Politics
55. Wendell Berry, Leavings: Poems
54. Edwidge Danticat, Create Dangerously
53. T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
52. Nicholas Wolterstorff, Journey Toward Justice
51. Billy Corgan, Blinking with Fists: Poems
50. Teju Cole, Every Day Is for the Thief
49. C.S. Lewis, Surprised By Joy
48. Clay Thompson, Valley 101
47. G.K. Chesterton, The Wild Knight
46. N.T. Wright, The Lord and His Prayer
45. Sparks, Soerens, & Friesen, The New Parish
44. Lucille Clifton, Mercy
43. Thomas McKenzie, The Anglican Way
42. Eugene Peterson, Practice Resurrection
41. Nina Munk, The Idealist
40. Aaron Renn, The Urban State of Mind
39. Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
38. Kay Ryan, Say Uncle
37. Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave
36. Michael Gilmour, The Gospel According to Bob Dylan
35. Alma Guillermoprieto, The Heart That Bleeds
34. Henri Nouwen, The Wounded Healer
33. Julia Alvarez, The Other Side
32. Seth Godin, Tribes
31. Roger Angell, Game Time: A Baseball Companion
30. Luci Shaw, Adventure of Ascent
29. N.T. Wright, The Case for the Psalms
28. Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems
27. Greg Pennoyer & Gregory Wolfe, eds., God For Us
26. Martín Espada, The Trouble Ball: Poems
25. John Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World
24. Madeleine L’Engle, A Cry Like a Bell: Poems
23. Rich Mouw, He Shines In All That’s Fair
22. Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
21. Steven Garber, Visions of Vocation
20. Graham Tomlin, Looking Through the Cross
19. Billy Collins, Questions About Angels: Poems
18. Addie Zierman, When We Were On Fire
17. Peter Greer & Chris Horst, Mission Drift
16. Wendell Berry, Given: Poems
15. Lesslie Newbigin, Signs Amid the Rubble
14. Henri Nouwen, Behold the Beauty of the Lord
13. Alan Jacobs, The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography
12. Gary Haugen & Victor Butros, The Locust Effect
11. J.I. Packer, ed., To Be a Christian: An Anglican Catechism
10. Benjamin Myers, Christ the Stranger
09. Susan VanZanten, Reading a Different Story
08. Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow: A Novel
07. Os Guinness, The Global Public Square
06. William Cavanaugh, Being Consumed
05. Todd Hunter, The Accidental Anglican
04. J.I. Packer, Weakness is the Way
03. St. John Chrysostom, On Wealth & Poverty
02. Eugene Peterson, Holy Luck: Poems
01. Edward Gilbreath, Birmingham Revolution

2013
100. G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday
99. John Stott, Balanced Christianity
98. Flannery O’Connor, A Prayer Journal
97. Seamus Heaney, trans., Beowulf
96. Thomas McKenzie, The Harpooner: An Advent Devotional
95. Timothy Keller, God Loves Cities
94. Stephen Mansfield, The Search For God and Guinness
93. N.T. Wright, Simply Jesus
92. Paula Huston, A Land Without Sin: A Novel
91. Mark Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
90. Lamin Sanneh, Summoned from the Margin
89. Jo Nesbø, The Snowman: A Novel
88. Rich Mouw, When The Kings Come Marching In
87. Augustine of Hippo, The City of God
86. James K.A. Smith, Discipleship in the Present Tense
85. Graves, Blanchard, & Kwan, From Concept to Scale
84. Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
83. Jim Belcher, In Search of Deep Faith
82. Michel Cool, Francis: A New World Pope
81. J.I. Packer & N.T. Wright, Anglican Evangelical Identity
80. Wayne Gordon & John Perkins, Making Neighborhoods Whole
79. Jeremy Courtney, Preemptive Love
78. Mark Chapman, Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction
77. Craig Bartholomew & Michael Goheen, The Drama of Scripture
76. Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss
75. J.I. Packer, An Introduction to Covenant Theology
74. Tim Chester, Good News to the Poor
73. Arthur Bennett, ed., The Valley of Vision
72. John Piper, The Gadarene
71. Peter Greer & Anna Haggard, The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good
70. Cormac McCarthy, The Road
69. James K.A. Smith, Imagining the Kingdom
68. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Psalms
67. Chi-Dooh Li, Buy This Land
66. Andy Crouch, Playing God
65. Franklin Foer, How Soccer Explains The World
64. Robert Webber, Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail
63. Timothy Keller, King’s Cross
62. Ted Oswald, Because We Are
61. Makoto Fujimura, River Grace
60. McKnight & Modica, eds., Jesus Is Lord, Caesar Is Not
59. Michael Lewis, Moneyball
58. John Mackey & Raj Sisodia, Conscious Capitalism
57. Anthony Bradley, Black and Tired
56. Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks
55. Juan González, Harvest of Empire
54. Christian Reformed Church, Ecumenical Creeds & Reformed Confessions
53. Jim Belcher, Deep Church
52. Rich Mouw, Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport
51. N.T. Wright, How God Became King
50. James K.A. Smith, Letters to a Young Calvinist
49. Cain, Postlewait, & Thomson, Emergency Sex
48. David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea
47. Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
46. Justo González, Church History
45. Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm
44. Abraham Kuyper, Rooted & Grounded
43. Anthony Bradley, ed., Aliens in the Promised Land
42. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
41. David Dark, Everyday Apocalypse
40. Johnson & Larsen, eds., Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture
39. Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
38. Samuel Rodriguez, The Lamb’s Agenda
37. Hugh Heclo, On Thinking Institutionally
36. Mae Elise Cannon, Just Spirituality
35. Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
34. Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire, Vol. 2: Faces & Masks
33. Miroslav Volf, Exclusion & Embrace
32. Samuel Escobar, The New Global Mission
31. Henri Nouwen, Love in a Fearful Land
30. Kris Rocke & Joel Van Dyke, Geography of Grace
29. T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
28. Francisco Goldman, The Art of Political Murder
27. Various, Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter
26. Timothy Keller, The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness
25. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, The World Is Not Ours to Save
24. Lauren Winner, Still
23. Bob Goudzwaard, Aid for the Overdeveloped West
22. Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
21. Francis Chan, Multiply
20. Andy Crouch, Culture Making
19. Julia Cameron, ed., Christ Our Reconciler: Gospel, Church, World
18. Brad Feld, Startup Communities
17. Michael Hyatt, Platform
16. Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus
15. Cornelius Plantinga, Jr., Engaging God’s World
14. Henri Nouwen, Making All Things New
13. Boice & Ryken, The Doctrines of Grace
12. Chester Nez, Code Talker
11. Kevin Hendricks, 137 Books in One Year
10. Christopher Heuertz, Unexpected Gifts
09. Erin Kissane, The Elements of Content Strategy
08. Wayne Grudem, Business for the Glory of God
07. Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice
06. Patrick & Carter, For the City
05. James Davison Hunter, To Change The World
04. John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
03. Eugene Peterson, Take & Read
02. Edith Schaeffer, L’Abri
01. Various, Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas

2012
120. Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
119. John Baillie, A Diary of Private Prayer
118. Christopher J.H. Wright, The God I Don’t Understand
117. David Swartz, Moral Minority
116. Eugene Peterson, The Christmas Troll
115. Trip Lee, The Good Life
114. Heath & Heath, Made to Stick
113. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
112. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God is in the Manger
111. Daniel Hernandez, Down and Delirious in Mexico City
110. Kristina Halvorson, Content Strategy for the Web
109. Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Time
108. Mark Bowden, Killing Pablo
107. Timothy Keller, Every Good Endeavor
106. Jo Nesbø, Headhunters
105. Abraham Kuyper, The Problem of Poverty
104. Foster & Smith, eds., Devotional Classics
103. David Taylor, ed., For the Beauty of the Church
102. Rich Mouw, When the Kings Come Marching In
101. Roland Hoksbergen, Serving God Globally
100. Robert Brenneman, Homies & Hermanos
99. Miroslav Volf, A Public Faith
98. Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
97. Frederick Buechner, The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days
96. Robert Lupton, Toxic Charity
95. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
94. Andi Ashworth, Real Love for Real Life
93. Eugene Peterson, Run With The Horses
92. Hugh Whelchel, How Then Should We Work?
91. Jo Nesbø, The Redbreast
90. R. Paul Stevens, Work Matters: Lessons From Scripture
89. Tom Wooten, We Shall Not Be Moved
88. Henri Nouwen, Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life
87. Adam & Christine Jeske, This Ordinary Adventure
86. C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
85. Chaim Potok, My Name is Asher Lev
84. Joseph Lowery, Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land
83. Amy Black, Beyond Left and Right
82. Marva Dawn, In the Beginning, God: Creation, Culture & the Spiritual Life
81. Nancy Pineda-Madrid, Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Juarez
80. C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
79. Eugene Peterson, Answering God: The Psalms as Tools for Prayer
78. Os Guinness, A Free People’s Suicide
77. Lesslie Newbigin, A Walk Through the Bible
76. René Padilla, Mission Between the Times: Essays on the Kingdom
75. Wendell Berry, The Hidden Wound
74. Ed Stetzer, Subversive Kingdom: Living as Agents of Gospel Transformation
73. Christopher J.H. Wright, The Mission of God’s People
72. John Steinbeck, The Pearl
71. Joe Scarborough, The Last Best Hope
70. Seymour Reit, Behind Rebel Lines
69. Mark Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
68. James McBride, The Color of Water
67. Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods
66. Robert Audi, Democratic Authority & The Separation of Church & State
65. Cornelius Plantinga, Jr., Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be
64. Marie Dennis, Óscar Romero: Reflections on His Life and Writings
63. John Piper, Let the Nations be Glad
62. Frederick Buechner, Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter’s Dictionary
61. Mario Vargas Llosa, Death in the Andes: A Novel
60. Nicholas Wolterstorff, Hearing the Call: Liturgy, Justice, Church & World
59. Kevin Roose, The Unlikely Disciple
58. Makoto Fujimura, Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art, & Culture
57. Eugene Peterson, Tell It Slant
56. Amy Sherman, Kingdom Calling
55. Escobar & Driver, Christian Mission and Social Justice
54. Hefley & Hefley, Uncle Cam
53. Clara Rojas, Captive
52. Larry Rohter, Brazil on the Rise
51. Chuck DeGroat, Leaving Egypt: Finding God in the Wilderness Places
50. Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana
49. Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert, When Helping Hurts
48. John Stott, The Radical Disciple
47. James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview & Cultural Formation
46. Mark Twain, The War Prayer
45. Ian Morgan Cron, Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
44. Sheldon Annis, God and Production in a Guatemalan Town
43. Rich Mouw, Uncommon Decency: Christian Civility in an Uncivil World
42. Lesslie Newbigin, Proper Confidence
41. William Wilberforce, Real Christianity
40. Bob Goff, Love Does
39. Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
38. Libby Hoffman & Sara Terry, Fambul Tok
37. Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees: A Novel
36. David Kinnaman, You Lost Me
35. Bryant Myers, Walking with the Poor
34. Eugene Peterson, Living the Resurrection: The Risen Christ in Everyday Life
33. Steven Garber, The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief & Behavior
32. Albert Wolters, Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview
31. Mark Kurlansky, The Eastern Stars
30. A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
29. Henri Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son
28. Gerry Hadden, Never the Hope Itself: Love and Ghosts in Latin America and Haiti
27. James Douglass, Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiment with Truth
26. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
25. Flannery O’Connor, The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel
24. Frederick Buechner, Speak What We Feel (Not What We Ought to Say)
23. Scot McKnight, Embracing Grace: A Gospel for All of Us
22. Deb Olin Unferth, Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love & Went to Join the Sandinistas
21. Timothy Keller, King’s Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus
20. Gabe Lyons, The Next Christians: Good News About the End of Christian America
19. Steve Monsma, Healing for a Broken World: Christian Perspectives on Public Policy
18. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Meditations on the Cross
17. Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
16. Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire, Vol. 1: Genesis
15. Abraham Kuyper, Wisdom & Wonder: Common Grace in Science & Art
14. J.I. Packer, Knowing God
13. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Clandestine in Chile
12. Teju Cole, Open City: A Novel
11. Brian Walsh, Kicking at the Darkness: Bruce Cockburn and the Christian Imagination
10. John Stott, Basic Christianity
09. Victor Montejo, Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village
08. Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith
07. Andrew Ross, Bird on Fire: Lessons From the World’s Least Sustainable City
06. Richard Twiss, One Church, Many Tribes
05. Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage
04. Miroslav Volf, A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good
03. John Stott, The Beatitudes: Developing Spiritual Character
02. Darrow Miller, Discipling Nations: The Power of Truth to Transform Cultures
01. Allister Sparks & Mpho Tutu, Tutu: Authorized

2011
95. Walter Brueggemann, Journey to the Common Good
94. Ernest Hemingway, The Torrents of Spring
93. Yann Martel, Beatrice and Virgil: A Novel
92. Nancy Guthrie, ed., Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus
91. Lauren Winner, Mudhouse Sabbath
90. Gary Haugen, Just Courage: God’s Great Expedition for the Restless Christian
89. Frederick Buechner, The Wizard’s Tide
88. Ron Sider, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience
87. Francis Schaeffer, Two Contents, Two Realities
86. Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
85. Ramor Ryan, Zapatista Spring
84. Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One
83. Dominique Moïsi, The Geopolitics of Emotion
82. Rich Mouw, Abraham Kuyper: A Short and Personal Introduction
81. Dave Eggers, Zeitoun
80. Antonio Skarmeta, The Postman: A Novel
79. Michael Card, Scribbling in the Sand: Christ and Creativity
78. Rich Mouw, He Shines In All That’s Fair
77. Robert Lupton, Toxic Charity
76. David Platt, Radical Together
75. N.T. Wright, After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters
74. Ian Morgan Cron, Jesus, My Father, The CIA and Me
73. Mario Vargas Llosa, The Storyteller
72. A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy
71. Richard Foster, ed., Devotional Classics
70. Chinua Achebe, Chike and the River
69. Claire Diaz-Ortiz, Twitter for Good
68. Medardo Gomez, Fire Against Fire
67. Malcolm Muggeridge, Something Beautiful for God
66. Eugene Peterson, The Pastor: A Memoir
65. James Bryan Smith, Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven
64. Scott Todd, Fast Living: How the Church Will End Extreme Poverty
63. Lauren Winner, Real Sex
62. Rich Mullins, The World As I Remember It
61. Nicholas Wolterstorff, Until Justice and Peace Embrace
60. Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
59. Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus
58. Jon Krakauer, Three Cups of Deceit
57. Skye Jethani, With: Reimagining the Way You Relate to God
56. George Orwell, Animal Farm
55. Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner, City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era
54. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories
53. Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
52. Frederick Buechner, The Hungering Dark
51. Tim Suttle, An Evangelical Social Gospel? Finding God’s Story in the Midst of Extremes
50. Henri Nouwen, Creative Ministry
49. Paul Farmer, Haiti After the Earthquake
48. John Perkins and Charles Marsh, Welcoming Justice
47. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
46. John Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World
45. Kent Annan, After Shock
44. Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
43. Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
42. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
41. Alice Walker, Overcoming Speechlessness
40. Kevin Lewis O’Neill, City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala
39. Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
38. Walter Wink, Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way
37. Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
36. Conor Grennan, Little Princes
35. G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
34. Francis Schaeffer, The Mark of the Christian
33. Eric Greitens, The Heart and the Fist
32. Rick Steves, Travel as a Political Act
31. Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital
30. Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
29. C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
28. Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What’s The Right Thing To Do?
27. Adam Taylor, Mobilizing Hope
26. C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
25. Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
24. Nancy Guthrie, ed., Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross
23. Rob Bell, Love Wins
22. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
21. Frederick Buechner, Whistling in the Dark
20. John M. Perkins, Beyond Charity
19. Stanley Meisler, Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War
18. Mother Teresa, In My Own Words
17. June Carolyn Erlick, Disappeared: A Journalist Silenced
16. Nora Gallagher, The Sacred Meal
15. Joan Didion, Salvador
14. Gene Edwards, A Tale of Three Kings
13. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
12. Alma Guillermoprieto, Looking for History
11. Phillip W. Keller, A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23
10. A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
09. Melody Green, No Compromise: The Life Story of Keith Green
08. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, The Wisdom of Stability
07. John Paul Lederach, Conflict Transformation
06. Kraybill, Nolt & Weaver-Zercher, Amish Grace
05. Christian Buckley, Humanitarian Jesus
04. Michael Casey, Che’s Afterlife
03. Timothy Keller, Generous Justice
02. Scott Bessenecker, ed., Living Mission
01. Elvia Alvarado, Don’t Be Afraid Gringo

2010
101. G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
100. Brian Walsh, ed., The Advent of Justice
99. Matthew Soerens & Jenny Hwang, Welcoming the Stranger
98. Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath
97. Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven
96. Rob Bell, Drops Like Stars
95. C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
94. Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
93. Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy
92. Jayakumar Christian, God of the Empty-Handed
91. Maisie Ward, St. Francis of Assisi
90. Scot McKnight, Embracing Grace
89. Jacqueline Novogratz, The Blue Sweater
88. Eduardo Galeano, Voices of Time
87. Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
86. David Platt, Radical
85. Chaim Potok, The Chosen
84. Gustavo Gutierrez, We Drink From Our Own Wells
83. Hector Tobar, The Tattooed Soldier
82. Anne Jackson, Permission to Speak Freely
81. Richard Stearns, The Hole in our Gospel
80. Christopher Ricks, Dylan’s Visions of Sin
79. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
78. Nouwen, McNeill & Morrison, Compassion
77. Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does it Feel to be a Problem?
76. Terry Greene Sterling, Illegal: Life & Death in AZ’s Immigration War Zone
75. Daniel Wilkinson, Silence on the Mountain
74. Tom Sine, Taking Discipleship Seriously
73. Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky
72. Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood: a novel
71. Francis Schaeffer, True Spirituality
70. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
69. Alan Andrews, ed., The Kingdom Life
68. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics
67. Martin Luther King, Jr., A Call to Conscience
66. Daniel Harris, Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic
65. Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus
64. Corrie ten Boom, Prison Letters
63. Chris Seay, The Tao of Enron
62. Wendell Berry, Citizenship Papers: Essays
61. Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark
60. Don Richardson, Peace Child
59. John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman
58. A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically
57. Henri Nouwen, ¡Gracias! A Latin American Journal
56. Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
55. Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy
54. Rachel Held Evans, Evolving in Monkey Town
53. Francis Chan, Forgotten God
52. Terry McCoy, ed., Cuba on the Verge
51. Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community
50. Michael Reid, Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America’s Soul
49. Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness
48. Eduardo Galeano, Soccer In Sun and Shadow
47. V.S. Naipaul, Reading & Writing: A Personal Account
46. Jay Bakker, Son of a Preacher Man
45. Sider, Perkins, Gordon, Tizon, Linking Arms, Linking Lives
44. Jerry Bridges, The Fruitful Life
43. Michael Kinsley, Creative Capitalism
42. Tim Morey, Embodying Our Faith
41. Henri Nouwen, Love in a Fearful Land
40. Mahatma Gandhi, The Essential Gandhi
39. Henri Nouwen, The Wounded Healer
38. Eric Michael Bryant, Peppermint-Filled Piñatas
37. Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Christ in a Poncho
36. Rod White, A Circle of Hope
35. Paul Richardson, A Certain Risk
34. Amin Maalouf, In The Name of Identity
33. Leonard Sweet & Frank Viola, Jesus Manifesto
32. Tony Campolo, Choose Love Not Power
31. Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis
30. John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus
29. Jonathan Acuff, Stuff Christians Like
28. John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
27. Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics
26. Eugene Peterson, The Jesus Way
25. Stan Rowland, Multiplying Light and Truth
24. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
23. Howard Zehr, The Little Book of Restorative Justice
22. Greg Grandin, Empire’s Workshop
21. Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What
20. Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
19. David Livermore, Serving With Eyes Wide Open
18. Mike Berg & Paul Pretiz, The Gospel People of Latin America
17. Jonathan Bonk, Missions and Money
16. Newt Gingrich, A Contract with the Earth
15. Richard Foster, Streams of Living Water
14. Hooman Majd, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ
13. Raj Patel, Stuffed & Starved
12. J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
11. Jimmy Carter, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid
10. Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains
09. Chris Heuertz, Simple Spirituality
08. Chris Abani, Graceland
07. Brother Ungolino, The Little Flowers of St Francis of Assisi
06. Peter Greer & Phil Smith, The Poor Will Be Glad
05. Claiborne & Wilson-Hartgrove, Becoming the Answer to our Prayers
04. Kent Annan, Following Jesus Through the Eye of the Needle
03. Ben Lowe, Green Revolution
02. Orlando Costas, Christ Outside the Gate
01. Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

2009
102. Tom Zoellner, The Heartless Stone
101. Eduardo Galeano, The Open Veins of Latin America
100. Natan Sharansky, The Case for Democracy
99. Salman Rushdie, The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey
98. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom
97. Wangari Maathai, Unbowed
96. Ron Sider, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience
95. Henri Nouwen, The Way of the Heart
94. Óscar Romero, The Violence of Love
93. Philip Jenkins, The New Faces of Christianity
92. Gary Haugen, Just Courage
91. Rigoberta Menchu, I, Rigoberta Menchu
90. Henri Nouwen, With Open Hands
89. David Elliot Cohen, What Matters
88. Louise Carey, The Hedge People
87. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
86. Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power
85. Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point
84. Bernard Adeney, Strange Virtues
83. Shane Hipps, Flickering Pixels
82. Rob Bell, Drops Like Stars
81. McLaren, Padilla, & Seeber, The Justice Project
80. Emmanuel Katongole, Mirror to the Church
79. Richard N. Bolles, What Color is Your Parachute?
78. Rodney Clapp, A Peculiar People
77. Alan Paton, Instrument of Thy Peace
76. Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
75. Heewon Chang, Autoethnography as Method
74. Paul Hiebert, Anthropological Insights for Missionaries
73. Billy Collins, The Trouble With Poetry: and Other Poems
72. Robert Lupton, Theirs is the Kingdom
71. Scott Marshall, Restless Pilgrim: Bob Dylan
70. Gary Thomas, The Beautiful Fight
69. Jim Wooten, We Are All The Same
68. Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life
67. Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest
66. Corbett & Fikkert, When Helping Hurts
65. Rita Marley, No Woman No Cry
64. Joel C. Hunter, A New Kind of Conservative
63. Jim Cymbala, Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire
62. Azadeh Moaveni, Lipstick Jihad
61. Rodney Stark, The Rise of Christianity
60. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
59. Rob Bell & Don Golden, Jesus Wants to Save Christians
58. Todd Komarnicki, War: A Novel
57. N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope
56. Tony Hall, Changing the Face of Hunger
55. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
54. C.J. Mahaney, The Cross Centered Life
53. Brother Andrew, Secret Believers
52. Leonard Sweet, The Three Hardest Words
51. Frederick Buechner, Whistling in the Dark
50. Mark Noll, The New Shape of World Christianity
49. Robert Benson, In Constant Prayer
48. Soong-Chan Rah, The Next Evangelicalism
47. Scot McKnight, 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed
46. Richard Stearns, The Hole in Our Gospel
45. Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World
44. Yann Martel, Life of Pi
43. Phyllis Tickle, The Great Emergence
42. Rob Bell, Sex God
41. Shirin Taber, Muslims Next Door
40. Margaret Feinberg, The Sacred Echo
39. Paul Rusesabagina, An Ordinary Man
38. Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid
37. P.J. O’Rourke, Parliament of Whores
36. William Dyrness, The Earth is God’s
35. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, My Year Inside Radical Islam
34. Francis Chan, Crazy Love
33. John H. Yoder, The Christian Witness to the State (re-read)
32. Desmond Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness
31. Richard Foster, Spiritual Classics
30. Robin Kirk, More Terrible Than Death
29. Desmond Tutu, God Has a Dream
28. Hernando De Soto, The Other Path
27. Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis
26. Karen Spears Zacharias, After The Flag Has Been Folded
25. Tom Sine, Mustard Seed vs. McWorld
24. Mark Miller, Experiential Storytelling
23. John H. Yoder, The Christian Witness to the State
22. Hemfelt, Minirth, & Meier, Love is a Choice
21. Hauerwas & Vanier, Living Gently in a Violent World
20. David Bornstein, How to Change the World
19. Mary Anderson, Do No Harm
18. Richard Foster, Devotional Classics
17. Ron Sider, Churches That Make a Difference
16. Os Guinness, Unspeakable
15. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, New Monasticism
14. Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace
13. M. Daniel Carroll R., Christians at the Border
12. C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
11. Wendy Murray, A Mended and Broken Heart
10. Timothy Keller, The Prodigal God
09. Clark & Powell, Deep Justice in a Broken World
08. Jim Wallis, The Great Awakening
07. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel
06. Eboo Patel, Acts of Faith
05. Ernesto “Che” Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries
04. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
03. Frederick Buechner, Telling The Truth
02. Schlesinger & Kinzer, Bitter Fruit
01. Eugene Peterson, Eat This Book

2008
85. DeYoung & Kluck, Why We’re Not Emergent
84. Tony Jones, Pray
83. Mortenson & Relin, Three Cups of Tea
82. Cathleen Falsani, Sin Boldly
81. Robert Webber, Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches
80. Shusaku Endo, Silence
79. Robert Lupton, Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life
78. Andy Crouch, Culture Making
77. Frederick Buechner, The Christmas Tide
76. Kolini & Holmes, Christ Walks Where Evil Reigned
75. Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets: An Introduction
74. Tom Breen, The Messiah Formerly Known as Jesus
73. Ken Eldred, God is at Work
72. Bryant Myers, Exploring World Mission
71. Erica Bornstein, The Spirit of Development
70. Brooks Jackson, unSpun
69. Kim Davis, My Life, His Mission
68. Donald Kraybill, The Upside-Down Kingdom
67. Saul Alinsky, Rules For Radicals
66. Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?
65. Rob Bell & Don Golden, Jesus Wants to Save Christians
64. William Easterly, The White Man’s Burden
63. Cornel West, Democracy Matters
62. Carolina Maria de Jesus, Child of the Dark
61. Robert Lupton, Theirs is the Kingdom
60. Robert Linthicum, Transforming Power
59. Banks & Ledbetter, Reviewing Leadership
58. Amy Sherman, Preferential Option
57. Bryant Myers, Walking With The Poor
56. Timothy Keller, The Reason For God
55. Jayakumar Christian, God of the Empty-Handed
54. Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
53. Martin Luther King, Jr., A Knock At Midnight
52. Henri Nouwen, In The Name of Jesus
51. Alan Paton, Cry, The Beloved Country
50. Christopher J.H. Wright, Salvation Belongs to Our God
49. Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
48. Scot McKnight, The Blue Parakeet
47. Elisabeth Elliot, The Mark of a Man
46. Cameron Conant, With Or Without You
45. Jim Wallis, The Call To Conversion
44. Albert Camus, The Stranger
43. Lesslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
42. Alan Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways
41. Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith
40. Claiborne & Haw, Jesus For President
39. Brian McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy
38. Will & Lisa Samson, Justice in the Burbs
37. Amber Van Schooneveld, Hope Lives
36. Os Guinness, The Case For Civility
35. Scot McKnight, A Community Called Atonement
34. Michael Chabon, The Final Solution
33. McDonnell & Akallo, Girl Soldier
32. Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone
31. McNeil & Richardson, The Heart of Racial Justice
30. Harris & Schaupp, Being White
29. Frederick Buechner, The Clown in the Belfry
28. Joseph R. Myers, Organic Community
27. Dortzbach & Long, The AIDS Crisis
26. Kester Brewin, Signs of Emergence
25. Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages
24. C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
23. C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
22. Dan Kimball, They Like Jesus But Not The Church
21. Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just
20. Ajith Fernando, The Call to Joy and Pain
19. Gary Thomas, Sacred Marriage
18. Tom Sine, The New Conspirators
17. John White, Eros Defiled
16. David Batstone, Not For Sale
15. Zach Hunter, Be The Change
14. Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places
13. Hauerwas & Willimon, Resident Aliens
12. Franklin Foer, How Soccer Explains the World
11. Kevin Harney, Leadership From the Inside Out
10. Ron Sider, The Scandal of Evangelical Politics
09. Scot McKnight, The Jesus Creed
08. Bob Roberts, Jr., Glocalization
07. Maya Angelou, All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes
06. Óscar Romero, The Violence of Love
05. Dr. Chi Huang, When Invisible Children Sing
04. George Barna, Revolution
03. Vincent Donovan, Christianity Rediscovered
02. N.T. Wright, Simply Christian
01. Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope

2007
70. The Holy Bible (English Standard Version)
69. Richard Foster, Freedom of Simplicity
68. Matthew Sleeth, Serve God, Save The Planet
67. Leonard Sweet, The Gospel According to Starbucks
66. John M. Perkins, Let Justice Roll Down
65. David W. Shenk, Justice, Reconciliation & Peace in Africa
64. Frederick Buechner, The Hungering Dark
63. David K. Shipler, The Working Poor: Invisible In America
62. Johnny Cash, Cash: The Autobiography
61. Don Cheadle & John Prendergast, Not On Our Watch
60. Margaret Feinberg, The Organic God
59. Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember
58. Kevin Blue, Practical Justice
57. Brother Andrew, Light Force
56. Brian McLaren, Everything Must Change
55. Mark Buchanan, The Rest of God
54. Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
53. Ravi Zacharias, The Grand Weaver
52. N.T. Wright, Evil and the Justice of God
51. Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room
50. Ron Sider, Good News & Good Works
49. John B. Hayes, Sub-Merge
48. Frederick Buechner, Godric
47. Sean Wilsey, Oh The Glory Of It All
46. John Piper, A Hunger For God
45. Lauren Winner, Real Sex
44. Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
43. Leonard Sweet, Out of the Question… Into the Mystery
42. Erik Mirandette, The Only Road North
41. Alan Roxburgh, The Sky Is Falling
40. Frederick Buechner, The Eyes of the Heart
39. Jonathan Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
38. Eric Jacobsen, Sidewalks in the Kingdom
37. Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival
36. Louie Giglio, i am not but i know I AM
35. Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
34. Henri Nouwen, The Wounded Healer
33. Adam Voith, Bridges With Spirit
32. Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides To Die
31. Frederick Buechner, The Storm
30. Gary Haugen, Good News About Injustice
29. Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark
28. Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves To Death
27. Rob Bell, Sex God
26. Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community
25. Patrick Neate, Where You’re At
24. Frederick Buechner, Telling Secrets
23. Garrison Keillor, Love Me
22. Stan Guthrie, Missions in the Third Millenium
21. Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father
20. Miroslav Volf, Free of Charge
19. Hugh Hewitt, Blog
18. Brian McLaren, The Church on the Other Side
17. C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
16. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
15. Gregory A. Boyd, The Myth of a Christian Nation
14. Jon Krakauer, Into The Wild
13. Terry Mattingly, Pop Goes Religion
12. Robert S. McGee, The Search For Significance
11. Erwin McManus, Soul Cravings
10. Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat
09. Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
08. Madeleine L’Engle, Walking On Water
07. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
06. Meic Pearse, Why The Rest Hates The West
05. Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace
04. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking
03. Heather Zydek, ed., The Relevant Nation
02. Scott Bessenecker, The New Friars
01. Sam Harris, Letter To A Christian Nation

2006
71. Leonard Sweet, ed., The Church in Emerging Culture
70. Steve Chalke, The Lost Message of Jesus
69. N.T. Wright, The Challenge of Jesus
68. Russinger & Field, Practitioners
67. Ravi Zacharias, Recapture The Wonder
66. Hayley & Michael DiMarco, Marriable
65. Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
64. Henry Kamm, Cambodia
63. John Fischer, Confessions of a Caffeinated Christian
62. Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis
61. David Crowder, Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die
60. Elisabeth Elliot, A Slow & Certain Light
59. Elisabeth Elliot, Passion & Purity
58. David Brooks, On Paradise Drive
57. Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
56. St. Augustine, The Confessions
55. Don Miller, Blue Like Jazz
54. John Eldredge, Wild at Heart
53. Sun Tzu, The Art Of War
52. Louise Brown, Sex Slaves
51. Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution
50. Amit Gilboa, Off The Rails in Phnom Penh
49. Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy
48. Steven Johnson, Emergence
47. H. Richard Niebuhr, Christ & Culture
46. Ennew & Stephenson, Christianity, Children’s Rights and Development
45. Warren Wiersbe, Be Free: Galatians
44. C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
43. Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty
42. John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life
41. Don Miller, Through Painted Deserts
40. Ron Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger
39. Warren Wiersbe, Be Joyful: Philippians
38. Elie Wiesel, Night
37. Cornel West, Race Matters
36. C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
35. John Eldredge, The Journey of Desire
34. Mark Driscoll, The Radical Reformission
33. Gary Haugen, Terrify No More
32. Pollock & Van Reken, Third Culture Kids
31. Ben Devries, A Delicate Fade
30. Warren Wiersbe, Be Mature: James
29. Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves
28. Frost & Hirsch, The Shaping of Things To Come
27. Heather Zydek, The Revolution: A Field Manual For Changing Your World
26. David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
25. Brian McLaren, The Secret Message of Jesus
24. Lingenfelter & Mayers, Ministering Cross-Culturally
23. Carmen Renee Berry, The Unauthorized Guide to Sex & The Church
22. Karen McCluskey, Notes From a Traveling Childhood
21. Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
20. Barnett & Pocock, The Centrality of Christ in Missions
19. Tony Jones, The Sacred Way
18. Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution
17. Roger Peterson, Maximum Impact Short-Term Mission
16. Peter Greig, The Vision & The Vow
15. Chris Seay, Faith of my Fathers
14. Mark Salomon, Simplicity
13. Ron Sider, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience
12. Donald Miller & John MacMurray, To Own A Dragon
11. Russinger & Field, Practitioners
10. Jeff Taylor, Friendlationships
09. Miroslav Volf, Free of Charge
08. Nathan Schnackenberg, Pathways To Abandon
07. George Miley, Loving The Church, Blessing The Nations
06. Eidse & Sichel, Unrooted Childhoods
05. Courtney & Hertz, The Unguide To Dating
04. Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis
03. Don Cormack, Killing Fields, Living Fields
02. Eric Sandras, Buck Naked Faith
01. C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

2005
53. Bill Bryson, Neither Here Nor There
52. McLaren & Campolo, Adventures in Missing the Point
51. Renee Altson, Stumbling Toward Faith
50. Paul Hattaway, Back To Jerusalem
49. C.S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe
48. Dan Kimball, Emerging Worship
47. George Barna, Index of Leading Spiritual Indicators
46. C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
45. Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilamanjaro
44. Brian McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy
43. Leonard Sweet, Jesus Drives Me Crazy
42. Douglas Coupland, Polaroids From The Dead
41. Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah
40. Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What
39. C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms
38. Sweet, et al., A is for Abductive
37. John Stott, The Authentic Jesus
36. Philip Gourevitch, We Wish To Inform You…: Stories From Rwanda
35. C.H. Spurgeon, Gleanings Among The Sheaves
34. Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts
33. K.P. Yohannan, Revolution in World Missions
32. Desmond Tutu, God Has A Dream
31. Daniel Wilkinson, Silence on the Mountain
30. James Bryan Smith, An Arrow Pointing To Heaven
29. Deng, et al., They Poured Fire On Us From The Sky
28. Millard Fuller, Bokotola
27. Jack Rogers, Confessions of a Conservative Evangelical
26. Philip Jenkins, The Next Christendom
25. Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
24. Lauren Winner, Real Sex
23. David Crowder, Praise Habit
22. Lauren Winner, Girl Meets God
21. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
20. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
19. Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies
18. Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz
17. John Steinbeck, The Pearl
16. Jennifer Ashley, ed., The Relevant Church
15. Curtis & Eldredge, The Sacred Romance
14. Philip Yancey, What’s So Amazing About Grace?
13. Matthew Paul Turner, The Coffeehouse Gospel
12. Julien Green, God’s Fool: St. Francis of Assisi
11. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
10. Kronberg, et al., Four Souls
09. Frederick Buechner, Telling The Truth
08. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms
07. Rich Mullins, The World As I Remember It
06. Lokkesmoe & Medefind, The Revolutionary Communicator
05. C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
04. David Hansen, The Art of Pastoring
03. Martin Luther, Faith & Freedom
02. Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
01. Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

2004
51. Brian McLaren, More Ready Than You Realize
50. Samuel Escobar, The New Global Mission
49. R.C. Sproul, Knowing Scripture
48. Tony Campolo, The Success Fantasy
47. Alan Jacobs, A Visit To Vanity Fair
46. John Piper, Life As A Vapor
45. Ken Blanchard, The Servant Leader
44. C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
43. Os Guiness, Fit Bodies, Fat Minds
42. Randy Alcorn, The Grace & Truth Paradox
41. John Fischer, Fearless Faith
40. C.S. Lewis, The Joyful Christian
39. Lundin, et al., FISH! Tales
38. Evan Wright, Generation Kill
37. Don Raunikar, Choosing God’s Best
36. Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz
35. Henri Nouwen, The Way of the Heart
34. Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life
33. Robertson McQuilkin, The Great Omission
32. Bob Briner, Roaring Lambs
31. Henri Nouwen, With Open Hands
30. Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel
29. Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods
28. John Piper, Seeing & Savoring Jesus Christ
27. A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy
26. G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
25. D. Jeffrey Bingham, Pocket History of the Church
24. John Piper, Desiring God
23. R.C. Sproul, Faith Alone
22. A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
21. Colin Chapman, Cross & Crescent
20. Erwin McManus, Seizing Your Divine Moment
19. Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness
18. Os Guiness, Time For Truth
17. Andy Stanley, Next Generation Leader
16. Bill & Pam Farrel, Men are like Waffles, Women are like Spaghetti
15. Randy Alcorn, The Treasure Principle
14. Francis Schaeffer, Escape From Reason
13. Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah
12. Erwin McManus, Uprising
11. C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock
10. Dave Tomlinson, The Post-Evangelical
09. J.I. Packer, Evangelism & The Sovereignty of God
08. J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Leadership
07. Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew
06. Armand Nicholi, The Question of God
05. A.W. Tozer, The Best of Tozer
04. Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
03. Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
02. Michael Card, A Violent Grace
01. John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life

2003
14. The Holy Bible (New American Standard)
13. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
12. Os Guiness, Prophetic Untimeliness
11. Philip Yancey, What’s So Amazing About Grace?
10. C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
09. J.B. Phillips, Your God Is Too Small
08. John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life
07. John Eldredge, Wild At Heart
06. John Piper, Desiring God
05. John Piper, Let The Nations Be Glad
04. Steve Stockman, Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2
03. C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
02. Max Lucado, On The Anvil
01. C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

… and a few others before that.