What I’m reading. And what I’ve read.

Starting in the summer of 2003, for some odd reason I’ve kept track of every book I’ve read. Those books—some 1,900 of them—are listed by year below. Favorites are denoted by a ★. Books I’ve read more than once appear with a ♻. Books I’ve written about are linked.

  • 133. Justo González, The Story of Christianity, Vol. II (reading now)

    132. Eugene H. Peterson, Earth & Altar (reading now)

    131. Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

    130. Robert Farrar Capon, The Third Peacock

    129. Jemar Tisby, The Spirit of Justice

    128. Isabella Hammad, Recognizing the Stranger

    127. Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

    126. Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Graphic Edition ★

    125. Pádraig Ó Tuama, Being Here

    124. Wesley Vander Lugt, Beauty is Oxygen

    123. Rowan Williams, The Wound of Knowledge

    122. Thomas Lynch, Bone Rosary

    121. Carl Phillips, My Trade is Mystery

    120. Molly McCully Brown, Places I've Taken My Body

    119. Justinien Tribillon, The Zone

    118. Karen Stiller, Holiness Here

    117. Eugene H. Peterson, Holy Luck ♻

    116. Eliza Griswold, Circle of Hope

    115. Marilyn McEntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies ♻ ★

    114. Amy Lin, Here After

    113. Diego Gerard Morrison, Pages of Mourning

    112. Alice McDermott, What About the Baby?

    111. Luci Shaw, Reversing Entropy ★

    110. Brandon J. O'Brien, Reading the Bible in Three Dimensions

    109. John O'Donohue, Conamara Blues

    108. Winn Collier, Love Big, Be Well ♻ ★

    107. Javier Peñalosa M., What Comes Back

    106. Jeffrey Munroe, Telling Stories in the Dark

    105. Conor McPherson & Bob Dylan, Girl From the North Country

    104. Eugene H. Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction ♻ ★

    103. Werner Herzog, The Twilight World

    102. George Steiner, Real Presences

    101. Joan Didion, Democracy

    100. Rowan Williams, A Letter God Might Have Written

    99. Danielle Chapman, Holler ★

    98. Rowan Williams, Being Human

    97. Julie Lane-Gay, The Riches of Your Grace

    96. Alan Jacobs, Reverting to Type

    95. Niall Williams, This is Happiness

    94. Abby Clawson Low, This is Mexico City

    93. Myles Werntz, From Isolation to Community

    92. Francisco X. Alarcón, From the Other Side of Night

    91. Mark Salzman, Lying Awake

    90. Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus ♻ ★

    89. Samuel R. Delany, Of Solids and Surds

    88. Barbara Kingsolver, Another America

    87. Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh

    86. Ben Rhodes, After the Fall

    85. Hannah Arendt, On Lying and Politics

    84. Katharine Hayhoe, Saving Us ★

    83. Taylor & Taylor, Prayers for the Pilgrimage

    82. Paul Yamazaki, Reading the Room

    81. Toni Morrison, The Origin of Others

    80. Naomi Shihab Nye, The Tiny Journalist

    79. Roberto Bolaño, 2666

    78. Annie Dillard, Living by Fiction

    77. Victoria Chang, With My Back to the World

    76. Caleb Campbell, Disarming Leviathan

    75. Joy Harjo, ed., Living Nations, Living Words

    74. Elisa Amado, Manuelito

    73. Rowan Williams, Collected Poems

    72. Chuck DeGroat, Wholeheartedness

    71. Daniel Hummel, The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism ★

    70. Salman Rushdie, Knife

    69. Rhonda Rubinstein, ed., Seeing it All

    68. Brian Doyle, A Book of Uncommon Prayer

    67. Michael Ondaatje, A Year of Last Things

    66. Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back

    65. Anna Gazmarian, Devout

    64. Paula Huston, The Hermits of Big Sur

    63. Rowan Williams, The Way of St Benedict

    62. Marilyn McEntyre, Drawn to the Light

    61. Christian Wiman, Hammer is the Prayer

    60. Warren Ellis, Nina Simone’s Gum

    59. Stephanie Spellers, The Church Cracked Open

    58. Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America ★

    57. Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

    56. Mark Oakley, My Sour-Sweet Days

    55. Duncan Green, Guatemala: Burden of Paradise

    54. Evelio Rosero, Way Far Away

    53. Marilynne Robinson, Reading Genesis

    52. Frank Bidart, Against Silence

    51. Kathleen Norris, Acedia & Me

    50. Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son ♻ ★

    49. Mouw & Sweeney, The Suffering and Victorious Christ

    48. George Saunders, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

    47. Gabriel García Márquez, Until August

    46. Tracy Balzer, A Journey of Sea and Stone

    45. Sloane Crosley, Grief is for People

    44. Ann Patchett, Truth & Beauty

    43. Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World

    42. Rohrbach and Wilson, eds., Speaking with Light

    41. Jonathan Blitzer, Everyone Who is Gone is Here

    40. Parker & Sonderegger, Praying the Stations of the Cross ★

    39. Diane Glancy, Island of the Innocent

    38. Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations

    37. Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant ♻ ★

    36. Marilyn McEntyre, Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict

    35. Gregory Pardlo, Spectral Evidence

    34. In Prayer, Self-Forgotten: Meditations for Lent and Easter

    33. Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things

    32. Tim Alberta, The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory

    31. Kirstin Valdez Quade, The Five Wounds

    30. John Blase, The Jubilee ★

    29. Eduardo Halfon, Monastery

    28. Elena Ferrante, In the Margins

    27. Rachel Hatcher, The Power of Memory and Violence in Central America

    26. Teju Cole, Tremor

    25. Isobel Dixon, A Fold in the Map ★

    24. Alexander Sammartino, Last Acts

    23. Marilyn McEntyre, When Poets Pray

    22. Lucy S.R. Austen, Elisabeth Elliot: A Life

    21. Sarah Ghazal Ali, Theophanies

    20. Cornelius Plantinga, Morning and Evening Prayers

    19. Tongo Eisen-Martin, Blood on the Fog

    18. Justo González, The Story of Christianity, Vol. I

    17. Tita Evertsz, Such a Medicine is Love

    16. Anna Marie Dahlquist, Burgess of Guatemala

    15. Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Songs for the Flames

    14. Gertrude Stein, Picasso

    13. Humberto Ak’abal, Here Was Paradise ★

    12. Alexa Hagerty, Still Life with Bones ★

    11. Jennifer De Leon, Borderless

    10. Aaron Rosen, What Would Jesus See

    9. Steffie Nelson, ed., Slouching Towards Los Angeles

    8. Roy Choi, L.A. Son

    7. Nona Fernández, Voyager

    6. Alejandro Zambra, La vida privada de los árboles

    5. Fleming Rutledge, Epiphany

    4. Lynsey Addario, It’s What I Do

    3. Anton Chekhov, The Seagull

    2. Christian Wiman, Zero at the Bone

    1. Robin Pecknold, Wading in Waist-High Water

  • 144. Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm ★ ♻

    143. Ben Okri, Prayer for the Living

    142. Óscar Romero, Voice of the Voiceless

    141. Emily Hunter McGowan, Christmas

    140. Every Breath a Birth: Meditations for Advent & Christmastide

    139. Pat Mora, Encantado

    138. Joan Didion, Blue Nights

    137. Tim Pitsiulak, Drawings and Prints from Cape Dorset

    136. Jhumpa Lahiri, Roman Stories

    135. Isabel Kershner, The Land of Hope and Fear

    134. Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day

    133. Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes

    132. Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy

    131. John West, Lessons and Carols

    130. Rowan Williams, A Century of Poetry

    129. Sandra Cisneros, Have You Seen Marie?

    128. Mary Karr, Cherry

    127. Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

    126. Valeria Luiseilli, Tell Me How It Ends ★ ♻

    125. Warren Zanes, Deliver Me From Nowhere

    124. Shane McCrae, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun

    123. Sebastião Salgado, Other Americas ★

    122. G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas

    121. Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was an Aztec

    120. Alejandra Oliva, Rivermouth

    119. Rick Rubin, The Creative Act

    118. Vito Aiuto, Self-Portrait as Jerry Quarry

    117. Diana Gruver, Companions in the Darkness

    116. Jonathan Eig, King: A Life

    115. Denise Levertov, Poems, 1972-1982

    114. Elie Wiesel, Open Heart

    113. Eugene H. Peterson, Subversive Spirituality

    112. Édouard Louis, A Woman’s Battles and Transformations

    111. Elena Ferrante, The Beach at Night

    110. Adam Neder, Theology as a Way of Life

    109. Héctor Abad, Oblivion

    108. Jeanine Hathaway, Long After Lauds

    107. Sophfronia Scott, The Seeker and the Monk

    106. Julia Esquivel, The Certainty of Spring

    105. Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination

    104. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

    103. Alan Noble, On Getting Out of Bed

    102. Flannery O’Connor, A Prayer Journal ★ ♻

    101. Héctor Tobar, The Last Great Road Bum

    100. Ellen Davis, Getting Involved With God

    99. Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

    98. Zadie Smith, Intimations

    97. Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss ★ ♻

    96. Wendell Berry, The Peace of Wild Things

    95. Jason Bailey, Fun City Cinema

    94. James McBride, Deacon King Kong

    93. Malcolm Guite, Lifting the Veil

    92. Mary Oliver, Devotions

    91. Elie Wiesel, Day

    90. Elie Wiesel, Dawn

    89. Ormonde Plater, Many Servants

    88. Joan Didion, Political Fictions

    87. John O’Malley, The Jesuits

    86. Tomás Halík, Touch the Wounds

    85. Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

    84. Leah Myers, Thinning Blood

    83. Jennifer De Leon, White Space

    82. George Saunders, Liberation Day

    81. Stanley Hauerwas, Prayers Plainly Spoken

    80. Patrick Radden Keefe, Rogues

    79. Karen González, The God Who Sees

    78. Osip Mandelstam, Stolen Air

    77. Joan Baez, Am I Pretty When I Fly?

    76. Alejandro Zambra, Bonsái

    75. David Unger, The Mastermind

    74. Michelle Huneven, Search

    73. Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist

    72. Eduardo Halfon, Tomorrow We Never Did Talk About It

    71. Henri Nouwen, Love in a Fearful Land ♻

    70. George Lovell, A Beauty That Hurts

    69. Nina MacLaughlin, Summer Solstice

    68. Barry Lopez, Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

    67. Tamara Hill Murphy, The Spacious Path

    66. Joan Didion, Miami

    65. Clint Smith, Above Ground ★

    64. Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

    63. Claire Dederer, Monsters

    62. Samanta Schweblin, Mouthful of Birds

    61. Alma Guillermoprieto, Dancing With Cuba

    60. Greil Marcus, Folk Music

    59. Moira Linehan, Toward

    58. Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

    57. Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life

    56. Colm Tóibín, Bad Blood

    55. de Botton & Armstrong, Art as Therapy

    54. Héctor Tobar, Our Migrant Souls

    53. N. Scott Momaday, Earth Keeper

    52. Malcolm Guite, After Prayer

    51. Lauren Winner, Wearing God

    50. C. Kavin Rowe, Christianity’s Surprise

    49. N.T. Wright, History and Eschatology

    48. Dante Alighieri, Paradiso

    47. Rowan Williams, Resurrection ★

    46. Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

    45. Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

    44. Scott Bennett, Fleeting Roots

    43. Gabriel García Márquez, The Scandal of the Century

    42. Samuel Wells, Learning to Dream Again

    41. Wendy Beckett, The Art of Holy Week and Easter

    40. Robert Schultz, Into the New World

    39. José Olivarez, Promises of Gold

    38. Rowan Williams, Silence and Honey Cakes

    37. Jonathan Alter, His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life

    36. Sam Gutierrez, The Reason Love Reaches

    35. Javier Zamora, Solito

    34. Sara Billups, Orphaned Believers

    33. Esau McCaulley, Lent

    32. Pope Francis, The Name of God is Mercy

    31. Fazal Sheikh & Teju Cole, Human Archipelago ★

    30. Helena María Viramontes, Under the Feet of Jesus

    29. Wendy Beckett, The Art of Lent

    28. Jennifer Harbury, Searching for Everardo

    27. Martin Schleske, The Sound of Life’s Unspeakable Beauty

    26. Joy Harjo, Catching the Light

    25. Rowan Williams, Understanding and Misunderstanding ‘Negative Theology’

    24. Horacio Castellanos Moya, Senselessness

    23. Billy Collins, Musical Tables

    22. Sharon Suzuki-Martinez, The Loneliest Whale Blues

    21. Augustine, Confessions ★ ♻

    20. Jan Richardson, The Cure for Sorrow

    19. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

    18. Wesley Hill, Spiritual Friendship

    17. Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt

    16. Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey

    15. Peter Kuper, Diario de Oaxaca

    14. Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others

    13. Judith Cooper Haden, Oaxaca: The Spirit of Mexico

    12. Charles Simic, No Land in Sight

    11. Samanta Schweblin, Seven Empty Houses

    10. Cave & O'Hagan, Faith, Hope, and Carnage

    9. Patti Smith, A Book of Days

    8. Joseph Han, Nuclear Family

    7. Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd

    6. Pádraig Ó. Tuama, Poetry Unbound

    5. Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions ♻

    4. Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad is Untrue

    3. Wally Koval, Accidentally Wes Anderson

    2. Constance Wu, Making a Scene

    1. Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again

  • 143. Brian Kolodiejchuk, ed., Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light

    142. Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human

    141. Federico García Lorca, Poet in New York

    140. Claire Keegan, Foster

    139. Winn Collier, Love Big, Be Well

    138. Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These ★ ♻

    137. Rio Cortez, Golden Ax

    136. Don DeLillo, Underworld

    135. Quintero & Peña, Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide

    134. Christian Wiman, Hard Night

    133. Clegg & Robinson, Messi vs. Ronaldo

    132. Fleming Rutledge, The Bible and the New York Times

    131. Bono, Surrender

    130. Paul Mariani, All That Will Be New

    129. Aundie Kolber, Try Softer

    128. Roz Chast, Going Into Town

    127. J. Todd Billings, The End of the Christian Life

    126. Christian Wiman, Every Riven Thing ♻

    125. Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise

    124. Manjit Thapp, Feelings

    123. Billy Collins, The Trouble With Poetry

    122. Phil Klay, Uncertain Ground

    121. Birmingham & Sallinen Simard, Creating Cultures of Belonging

    120. David Head, He Sent Leanness

    119. Jo Nesbø, Nemesis

    118. Samuel Escobar, In Search of Christ in Latin America ★

    117. James K.A. Smith, How to Inhabit Time

    116. Allison Schnable, Amateurs Without Borders

    115. Miguel Ángel Asturias, The President

    114. Édouard Louis, Who Killed My Father

    113. Richard Mouw, How to Be a Patriotic Christian

    112. Shane McCrae, Sometimes I Never Suffered

    111. Mary McCampbell, Imagining Our Neighbors as Ourselves

    110. Rowan Williams, Writing in the Dust ♻

    109. Miguel Ángel Asturias, Clearvigil in Spring

    108. Alejandro Zambra, Multiple Choice

    107. James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

    106. Jean-Marie Simon, Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny

    105. William Zinsser, ed., Inventing the Truth

    104. Allyson Dinneen, Notes From Your Therapist

    103. Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Human Matter

    102. Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

    101. Laura S. Meitzner Yoder, ed., Living Radical Discipleship

    100. Cruz & Collazo, The Book of Rosy

    99. Matti Friedman, Who by Fire

    98. Spears & Wildfang, Tempe: Then and Now

    97. Frederick Buechner, Now and Then ★

    96. Francisco Goldman, The Long Night of White Chickens

    95. Matthew Kaemingk, ed., Reformed Public Theology ★

    94. Alissa Wilkinson, Salty

    93. Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

    92. Brandi Carlile, Broken Horses

    91. Terry Tempest Williams, The Hour of Land

    90. Charles Marsh, Evangelical Anxiety

    89. Robert Schnakenberg, The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray

    88. Henri Nouwen, Spiritual Direction

    87. Leonard Cohen, The Flame

    86. Dani Shapiro, Inheritance

    85. Andy Crouch, The Life We’re Looking For

    84. Annie Leibovitz, American Music

    83. Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

    82. Gabriel García Márquez, I’m Not Here to Give a Speech

    81. Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind

    80. Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

    79. Rodrigo García, A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes

    78. Delia Owens, Where The Crawdads Sing

    77. Holly Black, Artists on Art

    76. Nikki Giovanni, A Good Cry

    75. Eugene H. Peterson, Answering God ★ ♻

    74. Rupert Shortt, Rowan’s Rule

    73. Luci Shaw, The Generosity

    72. Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry

    71. Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries

    70. David Mamet, On Directing Film

    69. Alan Benchoam, Panorama Guatemala

    68. Jonathan Moller, Our Culture Is Our Resistance

    67. N.T. Wright, The Crown and the Fire

    66. Peter Guralnick, Last Train to Memphis

    65. Charif Majdalani, Beirut 2020

    64. Mary Oliver, Dream Work

    63. Musa Okwonga, In The End, It Was All About Love

    62. Alain de Botton, Essays in Love

    61. Douglas Kaine McKelvey, Every Moment Holy, Vol. II

    60. Marilyn McEntyre, Occasions ★

    59. Dan Allender, To Be Told

    58. Kwon and Thompson, Reparations ★

    57. Uli Beutter Cohen, Between the Lines

    56. Christine Emba, Rethinking Sex

    55. Goudzwaard and De Lange, Beyond Poverty and Affluence

    54. Victoria Chang, Dear Memory

    53. Ursula K. Le Guin, So Far So Good

    52. Mario Vargas Llosa, Harsh Times

    51. Alejandro Ramírez Ugarte, A Conversation with Luis Barragán

    50. Brandon O’Brien, Not From Around Here ★

    49. Gerald McDermott, ed., The Future of Orthodox Anglicanism

    48. Juan Villoro, Horizontal Vertigo

    47. Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

    46. Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth ★ ♻

    45. James Frey, Bright Shiny Morning

    44. Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

    43. Fleming Rutledge, The Seven Last Words from the Cross

    42. Rowan Williams, Luminaries

    41. Joseph Brodsky, Watermark

    40. Christian Wiman, ed., Home: 100 Poems

    39. Valeria Luiselli, Sidewalks

    38. Stanley Hauerwas, Approaching the End

    37. Walter Brueggemann, A Way Other Than Our Own

    36. Isabel Zapata, Una Ballena es un País

    35. Emilie Pine, Notes to Self

    34. Lucille Clifton, Generations

    33. Patti Smith, M Train

    32. Philip Yancey, Where the Light Fell

    31. David Lida, First Stop in the New World

    30. Kaveh Akbar, Calling a Wolf a Wolf

    29. Kwame Alexander, Light for the World to See

    28. Elise Engler, A Diary of the Plague Year

    27. Larry Thomas, Lily Packed a Facemask ★

    26. Marilyn McEntyre, Where the Eye Alights

    25. Annie Leibovitz, At Work ★

    24. Susan Howatch, Glittering Images

    23. Keegan Allen, Hollywood

    22. Errol Morris, Believing is Seeing

    21. Sheldon Pearce, Changes: An Oral History of Tupac Shakur ★

    20. Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday

    19. Joseph Ross, Gospel of Dust

    18. Jonathan Maslow, Bird of Life, Bird of Death

    17. Christine Yi Suh, Forty Days on Being a Four

    16. Hanna Zack Miley, A Garland for Ashes ★

    15. Tomás González, The Storm

    14. Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

    13. Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio

    12. Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart

    11. Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom

    10. Claudia Hernández, Knitting the Fog

    9. Marlena Graves, Forty Days on Being a Nine

    8. Robert Kaplan, The Good American

    7. Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

    6. George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

    5. Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air ★

    4. Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy

    3. Robert Caro, The Passage of Power ★

    2. Seamus Heaney, Human Chain

    1. Kieran Dodds, The Church Forests of Ethiopia ★

  • 110. Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions

    109. Price & Weil, Liturgy for Living

    108. Pennoyer & Wolfe, eds., God With Us

    107. Michiko Kakutani, Ex Libris

    106. Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

    105. Ned Bustard, Saint Nicholas the Giftgiver

    104. Billy Collins, Whale Day

    103. Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours

    102. Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God

    101. Teju Cole, Black Paper

    100. Graham Greene, The Quiet American ★

    99. Laura Fabrycky, Give Me the Word ★

    98. Daniel Wolff, Grown-Up Anger

    97. Frederick Buechner, The Longing for Home

    96. Dan Stringer, Struggling with Evangelicalism

    95. William Shakespeare, Hamlet

    94. Pola Oloixarac, Mona

    93. Margaret Bendroth, The Spiritual Practice of Remembering ★

    92. Eugene H. Peterson, This Hallelujah Banquet

    91. Maurice Sendak, Pierre

    90. Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb

    89. José Emilio Pacheco, Battles in the Desert

    88. Raymond Carver, Short Cuts

    87. Dane Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly

    86. Zoë Ryan, ed., In a Cloud, In a Wall, In a Chair

    85. Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things

    84. Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus ★ ♻

    83. Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers

    82. Dante Alighieri, Inferno

    81. Justo González, The Mestizo Augustine

    80. Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora

    79. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

    78. Rowan Williams, Being Disciples ★

    77. Belden Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes

    76. Ron Hansen, Mariette in Ecstasy ★

    75. Phil Klay, Missionaries

    74. Ahmir Thompson, Creative Quest

    73. Dan Portnoy, The Non-Profit Narrative

    72. Richards & O’Brien, Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes

    71. Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts ★

    70. Lauren Redniss, Oak Flat

    69. Steven Gerrard, My Story

    68. George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

    67. Patricia Engel, Infinite Country

    66. Miranda, Hudes, & McCarter, In the Heights: Finding Home

    65. John Lewis, March: Book Three

    64. Christian Wiman, The Long Home ★

    63. Anne Lamott, Stitches

    62. Marjane Satrapi, The Sigh

    61. Bruno Lloret, Nancy

    60. Jesmyn Ward, Navigate Your Stars

    59. Åsne Seierstad, The Bookseller of Kabul

    58. Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

    57. Willie James Jennings, The Christian Imagination ★

    56. Stephen Neill, Anglicanism

    55. Lois Lowry, The Giver

    54. Jonathan Katz, The Big Truck that Went By

    53. Daniel Wilkinson, Silence on the Mountain ★ ♻

    52. Brett Foster, The Garbage Eater

    51. Christine Pohl, Making Room

    50. Leif Enger, Peace Like a River ★

    49. Alice Walker, Overcoming Speechlessness ♻

    48. Wendy Lesser, Scandinavian Noir

    47. David Guterson, Turn Around Time

    46. Carolyn Custis James, Finding God in the Margins

    45. Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score

    44. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

    43. Henri Nouwen, With Open Hands ♻

    42. Sandra Cisneros, My Wicked Wicked Ways

    41. Luci Shaw, Harvesting Fog

    40. Enrique Krauze, Redeemers

    39. Kaemingk & Willson, Work and Worship

    38. Eugene H. Peterson, Working the Angles

    37. Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us

    36. Carolyn Forché, What You Have Heard is True

    35. Makoto Fujimura, Art + Faith

    34. Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

    33. Abigail Carroll, A Gathering of Larks

    32. Ted Gioia, Music: A Subversive History

    31. Adam Nayman, The Coen Brothers

    30. David Swartz, Facing West

    29. Alice Mathews, Gender Roles and the People of God

    28. Wes Hill, The Lord's Prayer

    27. Winn Collier, A Burning in My Bones

    26. William Frey, Cancelada

    25. Nick Ripatrazone, Longing for an Absent God

    24. Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams

    23. Kelli Donley, Counting Coup

    22. Thomas McKenzie, Lent with the Desert Fathers

    21. Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion

    20. Charles Bowden, Blue Desert

    19. Mary Karr, Tropic of Squalor

    18. Patrice Gopo, All the Colors We Will See

    17. Brian Doyle, One Long River of Song

    16. Eliza Griswold, If Men, Then

    15. Diego Zúñiga, Camanchaca

    14. Andrew Le Peau, Write Better

    13. Justo González, Mañana

    12. Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

    11. K.J. Ramsey, This Too Shall Last

    10. J. Michael Martinez, Museum of the Americas

    9. Marilynne Robinson, Jack

    8. Victor Perera, Unfinished Conquest

    7. Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night

    6. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

    5. David French, Divided We Fall

    4. Malcolm Guite, Sounding the Seasons

    3. Wendell Berry, This Day

    2. Lilian Calles Barger, The World Come of Age

    1. Wright Thompson, The Cost of These Dreams

  • 105. Laurent Mbanda, From Barefoot to Bishop

    104. Marilynne Robinson, Home ★

    103. Bruce Herman, Magnificat

    102. Luis Alberto Urrea, The Devil's Highway

    101. Marilyn McEntyre, Adverbs for Advent

    100. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

    99. Robin Feuer Miller, The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel

    98. Barack Obama, A Promised Land ★

    97. Evan Osnos, Joe Biden

    96. Chuck DeGroat, When Narcissism Comes to Church

    95. Desmond Egan, Selected Poems

    94. Sam Acho, Let the World See You

    93. David Koyzis, Political Visions & Illusions

    92. Marilyn McEntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies ★ ♻

    91. Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic

    90. Naomi Shihab Nye, What Have You Lost?

    89. Kathryn T. Long, God in the Rainforest

    88. Daniel Alarcón, War by Candlelight

    87. Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black

    86. Winfield Bevins, Simply Anglican

    85. Roger Ebert, Scorsese

    84. Malcolm Guite, Parable and Paradox

    83. Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

    82. Henri Nouwen, The Wounded Healer ♻

    81. Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

    80. John Inazu, Confident Pluralism

    79. Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive

    78. Robert Covolo, Fashion Theology

    77. Jane Leavy, The Last Boy

    76. Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, There Are No Dead Here

    75. Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved

    74. Stanley Hauerwas, The Character of Virtue

    73. Phil Klay, Redeployment

    72. Giboney, Wear, & Butler, Compassion (&) Conviction

    71. J.I. Packer, ed., To Be a Christian: An Anglican Catechism

    70. David Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

    69. John Hersey, Hiroshima

    68. Robert Webber, Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail ★ ♻

    67. Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

    66. Kristin Kobes DuMez, Jesus and John Wayne

    65. Bill Flanagan, U2 at the End of the World

    64. Kirsten Valdez Quade, Night at the Fiestas

    63. Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words

    62. John Annerino, Saints, Santos, Shrines

    61. Frederick Luis Aldama, ed., Tales From La Vida

    60. Christian Wiman, Survival is a Style

    59. Richard Mouw, All That God Cares About

    58. George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

    57. Roger Ebert, Awake in the Dark

    56. Steven Shepherd, ed., Our Fathers

    55. Jennifer Berry Hawes, Grace Will Lead Us Home

    54. Carole Boston Weatherford, The Beatitudes

    53. Mark Galli, Karl Barth

    52. Natasha Sistrunk Robinson, A Sojourner's Truth

    51. Christian Wiman, ed., Joy: 100 Poems

    50. Marilyn McEntyre, Word by Word

    49. Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing

    48. Ver Beek & Wolterstorff, Call for Justice

    47. Gareth Higgins, Cinematic States

    46. Miroslav Volf, The End of Memory

    45. Mary Oliver, West Wind

    44. Gregory Wolfe, Intruding Upon the Timeless

    43. Amy Peterson, Where Goodness Still Grows

    42. Kirsten Weld, Paper Cadavers

    41. Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    40. Laura Fabrycky, Keys to Bonhoeffer's Haus

    39. Robert Hilburn, Corn Flakes with John Lennon

    38. Ann Patchett, What Now?

    37. W. David O. Taylor, Open and Unafraid

    36. Eric Hoffer, The True Believer

    35. Karl Ove Knausgård & Fredrik Ekelund, Home and Away

    34. Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room ♻

    33. John Woolverton & James Bratt, A Christian and a Democrat

    32. Virgil Elizondo, ed., Way of the Cross

    31. Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

    30. Madeleine L'Engle, The Rock That is Higher

    29. Seamus Heaney, North

    28. Bob Goudzwaard, Globalization and the Kingdom of God

    27. Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings

    26. Emily Nemens, The Cactus League

    25. Justin McRoberts & Scott Erickson, May It Be So

    24. Dan Zak, Almighty

    23. Chris Arnade, Dignity

    22. Cornelius Plantinga, Jr., Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be

    21. Madeleine L'Engle & Luci Shaw, A Prayerbook for Spiritual Friends

    20. Brian Fies, A Fire Story

    19. Thomas Howard, The Liturgy Explained

    18. Mary Karr, Sinners Welcome

    17. Shawn Smucker, Light from Distant Stars

    16. de Jong & Joustra, eds., Generous Calvinist

    15. Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers

    14. Jeremy Beer, Oscar Charleston

    13. Goheen & Mullins, The Symphony of Mission

    12. Samantha Power, "A Problem From Hell"

    11. Kim Krimstein, The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt

    10. Eduardo Halfon, The Polish Boxer

    9. George Orwell, Why I Write

    8. Jhumpa Lahiri, The Clothing of Books

    7. Frederick Buechner, Peculiar Treasures

    6. William Dello Russo, Bruegel

    5. Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise

    4. Malaka Gharib, I Was Their American Dream

    3. Joustra & Wilkinson, How to Survive the Apocalypse

    2. Marilynne Robinson, Lila

    1. Ryan Kuja, From the Inside Out

  • 93. Jeffrey Munroe, Reading Buechner

    92. Alison Bechdel, Fun Home

    91. Chuck Culpepper, Bloody Confused!

    90. Curt Thompson, Anatomy of the Soul ★

    89. Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark

    88. Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South

    87. Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

    86. David Stoll, Rigoberta Menchu And The Story Of All Poor Guatemalans

    85. Christian Wiman, Ambition and Survival

    84. N.T. Wright, The Way of the Lord

    83. Chaim Potok, The Chosen

    82. Patti Smith, Devotion

    81. Richard Schmidt, Glorious Companions

    80. Yuri Herrera, The Transmigration of Bodies

    79. Bud Selig, For the Good of the Game

    78. Arturo Arias, After the Bombs

    77. James K.A. Smith, On the Road with Saint Augustine

    76. Carolyn Forché, The Angel of History

    75. Christian Wiman, Every Riven Thing

    74. Samuel, Sugden, Finch, eds., The Way, the Truth, and the Life

    73. Alan Jacobs, The Year of our Lord 1943

    72. Emily P. Freeman, The Next Right Thing

    71. David Kirkpatrick, A Gospel for the Poor

    70. Wendell Berry, A Timbered Choir

    69. Rodrigo Hasbún, Affections

    68. Joshua Robinson & Jonathan Clegg, The Club

    67. Roz Chast, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

    66. U2, U2 by U2

    65. R.O. Kwon, The Incendiaries

    64. Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

    63. Frederick Buechner, Telling Secrets ♻

    62. N.T. Wright, The Meal Jesus Gave Us

    61. Tara Westover, Educated

    60. David P. King, God's Internationalists

    59. Douglas Kaine McKelvey, Every Moment Holy

    58. William Zinsser, Writing About Your Life

    57. Edgar Martínez & Larry Stone, Edgar

    56. Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

    55. Richard Mouw, Restless Faith

    54. John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us

    53. Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

    52. David Spalding, Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly

    51. Lindsey Hilsum, In Extremis

    50. Marilyn McEntyre, What's in a Phrase?

    49. M. Dean, I Am Young

    48. Kelly Kerney, Hard Red Spring

    47. Jimmy Santiago Baca, When I Walk Through That Door, I Am

    46. Nick Drnaso, Sabrina

    45. Winfield Bevins, Ever Ancient, Ever New

    44. Paul Goldberger, Ballpark: Baseball in the American City

    43. Michael Brendan Dougherty, My Father Left Me Ireland

    42. Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)

    41. Ben Myers, The Apostles' Creed

    40. John Hendrix, The Faithful Spy

    39. Meghan O'Gieblyn, Interior States: Essays

    38. Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography

    37. Roxana Méndez, The Sky Through the Window

    36. Marilyn Gardner, Passages Through Pakistan

    35. Dennis & Vicki Covington, Cleaving

    34. Jamie George, Poets and Saints

    33. Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories

    32. Roger Angell, Five Seasons

    31. Jose Martí, Versos Sencillos

    30. Melani McAlister, The Kingdom of God Has No Borders

    29. Fleming Rutledge, Three Hours

    28. Steven Purcell, Even Among These Rocks

    27. Stephen Connely Benz, Guatemalan Journey

    26. Fikkert & Kapic, Becoming Whole

    25. Michael Bazzett, trans., The Popol Vuh

    24. Gregory Thornbury, Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?

    23. Rowan Williams, Anglican Identities

    22. Lauren Winner, The Dangers of Christian Practice

    21. Robert Hilburn, Paul Simon: The Life

    20. Seamus Heaney, Field Work

    19. Michael Goheen, The Church and its Vocation

    18. Brother Roger, The Rule of Taizé

    17. Joseph Frazier, El Salvador Could Be Like That

    16. Javier Zamora, Unaccompanied

    15. Duncan Green & Sue Branford, Faces of Latin America

    14. Josh Larsen, Movies Are Prayers

    13. Joan Didion, Salvador ♻

    12. C.S. Lewis, Spirits in Bondage

    11. James Cone, The Spirituals and the Blues

    10. Miroslav Volf & Matthew Crousmun, For the Life of the World

    9. Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

    8. Patricia Roberts-Miller, Demagoguery and Democracy

    7. Emma Janzen, Mezcal

    6. Pádraig Ó Tuama, In The Shelter

    5. St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation

    4. Sarah Quezada, Love Undocumented

    3. Jo Nesbø, The Thirst

    2. David Hollinger, Protestants Abroad

    1. George Saunders, Tenth of December

  • 90. Eileen Truax, We Built the Wall

    89. Luci Shaw, Accompanied by Angels

    88. Khalida Brohi, I Should Have Honor

    87. Tania Runyon, What Will Soon Take Place

    86. Edwidge Danticat, The Art of Death

    85. Fleming Rutledge, Advent

    84. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gmorning, Gnight!

    83. Neil McCormick, Killing Bono

    82. McKittrick & McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles

    81. George Saunders, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip

    80. Jamie Quatro, Fire Sermon

    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. Richard 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

    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

    9. Simon Critchley, What We Think About When We Think About Soccer

    8. John Steinbeck, East of Eden

    7. Marilyn McEntyre, A Long Letting Go

    6. Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

    5. John Perkins, Dream With Me

    4. Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak

    3. Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word

    2. Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

    1. Ted Gioia, Delta Blues

  • 102. Teju Cole, Blind Spot ★

    101. Tom Becker, Good Posture

    100. Dennis Covington, Revelation

    99. Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Reputations

    98. Sasha Pimentel, For Want of Water and Other Poems

    97. Pollock & Van Reken, Third Culture Kids ♻

    96. Matthew Kaemingk, Christian Hospitality & Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear

    95. Lauren Markham, The Far Away Brothers

    94. John Baillie, A Diary of Private Prayer ★ ♻

    93. Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited

    92. Alan Howard, In the Land of Eternal Spring

    91. Billy Collins, The Art of Drowning

    90. James K.A. Smith, Awaiting The King

    89. Ethan Coen, Almost an Evening

    88. Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus ★

    87. Patti Smith, Just Kids

    86. Shawn Wen, A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause

    85. Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

    84. Doris Kearns Goodwin, Wait Till Next Year

    83. Kristen Radtke, Imagine Wanting Only This

    82. Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do

    81. Frederick Buechner, A Crazy, Holy Grace

    80. Mai Der Vang, Afterland

    79. Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends ★

    78. Henri Nouwen, A Spirituality of Fundraising

    77. Robert Macfarlane, The Gifts of Reading

    76. Stephen King, On Writing

    75. J. Todd Billings, Rejoicing in Lament

    74. Wendell Berry, It All Turns on Affection

    73. Richard Mouw, Consulting the Faithful

    72. Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

    71. Matt Eisenbrandt, Assassination of a Saint

    70. Walter Wangerin Jr., The Absolute, Relatively Inaccessible

    69. Keith Law, Smart Baseball

    68. Michka Assayas, Bono: In Conversation

    67. Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues

    66. Peter Greer & Chris Horst, Rooting for Rivals

    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

    9. Ishion Hutchinson, House of Lords and Commons: Poems

    8. Joe Sacco, War’s End: Profiles from Bosnia, 1995-1996

    7. Jeremy Beer, The Philanthropic Revolution

    6. Michael Card, A Sacred Sorrow

    5. Kevin Guilfoile, A Drive into the Gap

    4. Jonathan Tepperman, The Fix

    3. Katelyn Beaty, A Woman’s Place

    2. Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Secure the Soul

    1. Richard Mouw, Praying at Burger King

  • 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. Richard 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

    9. Bratt & Wells, eds., The Best of the Reformed Journal

    8. William Wyckoff, How to Read the American West

    7. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

    6. Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World

    5. Rod Dreher, How Dante Can Save Your Life

    4. Bob Mankoff, How About Never – Is Never Good for You?

    3. Sarah Arthur, Light Upon Light

    2. César Aira, The Literary Conference

    1. Don Winslow, The Cartel: A Novel

  • 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. Richard 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. Richard 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. Richard Mouw, The Smell of Sawdust

    9. James Baldwin, Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems

    8. Jonah Keri, Up, Up, & Away

    7. Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems

    6. Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling: A Novel

    5. Hawk, Smith, & Lalitha, eds., Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations

    4. Bruce Cockburn, Rumours of Glory: A Memoir

    3. Miroslav Volf, Against the Tide

    2. Tomás Guzaro & Terri Jacob McComb, Escaping The Fire

    1. Christian Wiman, Once in the West: Poems

  • 120. Greg Pennoyer & Gregory Wolfe, eds., God With Us

    119. John Lewis, 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. Richard 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

    9. Susan VanZanten, Reading a Different Story

    8. Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow: A Novel

    7. Os Guinness, The Global Public Square

    6. William Cavanaugh, Being Consumed

    5. Todd Hunter, The Accidental Anglican

    4. J.I. Packer, Weakness is the Way

    3. St. John Chrysostom, On Wealth & Poverty

    2. Eugene Peterson, Holy Luck: Poems

    1. Edward Gilbreath, Birmingham Revolution

  • 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. Richard Mouw, When The Kings Come Marching In ★

    87. St. Augustine, 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. Richard 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

    9. Erin Kissane, The Elements of Content Strategy

    8. Wayne Grudem, Business for the Glory of God

    7. Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice

    6. Patrick & Carter, For the City

    5. James Davison Hunter, To Change The World ★

    4. John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down

    3. Eugene Peterson, Take & Read

    2. Edith Schaeffer, L’Abri

    1. Various, Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas

  • 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. Richard 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

    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

    89. Tom Wooten, We Shall Not Be Moved

    88. Nouwen, McNeill, and Morrison, Compassion

    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

    81. Nancy Pineda-Madrid, Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Juarez

    80. C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory ♻

    79. Eugene Peterson, Answering God ★

    78. Os Guinness, A Free People’s Suicide

    77. Lesslie Newbigin, A Walk Through the Bible

    76. René Padilla, Mission Between the Times

    75. Wendell Berry, The Hidden Wound

    74. Ed Stetzer, Subversive Kingdom

    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 ♻

    61. Mario Vargas Llosa, Death in the Andes: A Novel

    60. Nicholas Wolterstorff, Hearing the Call

    59. Kevin Roose, The Unlikely Disciple

    58. Makoto Fujimura, Refractions

    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

    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 ★

    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. Richard Mouw, Uncommon Decency

    42. Lesslie Newbigin, Proper Confidence

    41. William Wilberforce, Real Christianity

    40. Bob Goff, Love Does

    39. Marilyn McEntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

    38. Libby Hoffman & Sara Terry, Fambul Tok

    37. Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

    36. David Kinnaman, You Lost Me

    35. Bryant Myers, Walking with the Poor ★ ♻

    34. Eugene Peterson, Living the Resurrection

    33. Steven Garber, The Fabric of Faithfulness

    32. Albert Wolters, Creation Regained

    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

    27. James Douglass, Gandhi and the Unspeakable

    26. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together ★ ♻

    25. Flannery O’Connor, The Violent Bear It Away

    24. Frederick Buechner, Speak What We Feel (Not What We Ought to Say)

    23. Scot McKnight, Embracing Grace

    22. Deb Olin Unferth, Revolution

    21. Timothy Keller, King’s Cross

    20. Gabe Lyons, The Next Christians

    19. Steve Monsma, Healing for a Broken World

    18. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Meditations on the Cross

    17. Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food

    16. Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire, Vol. 1: Genesis

    15. Abraham Kuyper, Wisdom & Wonder

    14. J.I. Packer, Knowing God

    13. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Clandestine in Chile

    12. Teju Cole, Open City

    11. Brian Walsh, Kicking at the Darkness: Bruce Cockburn and the Christian Imagination

    10. John Stott, Basic Christianity

    9. Victor Montejo, Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village

    8. Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith ★

    7. Andrew Ross, Bird on Fire

    6. Richard Twiss, One Church, Many Tribes

    5. Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage

    4. Miroslav Volf, A Public Faith ★

    3. John Stott, The Beatitudes

    2. Darrow Miller, Discipling Nations

    1. Allister Sparks & Mpho Tutu, Tutu: Authorized

  • 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 ★

    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. Richard Mouw, Abraham Kuyper: A Short and Personal Introduction

    81. Dave Eggers, Zeitoun

    80. Antonio Skarmeta, The Postman

    79. Michael Card, Scribbling in the Sand

    78. Richard 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

    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

    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

    59. Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus ★

    58. Jon Krakauer, Three Cups of Deceit

    57. Skye Jethani, With

    56. George Orwell, Animal Farm

    55. Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner, City of Man

    54. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories

    53. Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart ★

    52. Frederick Buechner, The Hungering Dark

    51. Tim Suttle, An Evangelical Social Gospel?

    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

    38. Walter Wink, Jesus and Nonviolence

    37. Os Guinness, The Call

    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

    27. Adam Taylor, Mobilizing Hope

    26. C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce ♻

    25. Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer

    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

    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

    9. Melody Green, No Compromise: The Life Story of Keith Green

    8. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, The Wisdom of Stability

    7. John Paul Lederach, Conflict Transformation

    6. Kraybill, Nolt & Weaver-Zercher, Amish Grace

    5. Christian Buckley, Humanitarian Jesus

    4. Michael Casey, Che’s Afterlife ★

    3. Timothy Keller, Generous Justice ★

    2. Scott Bessenecker, ed., Living Mission

    1. Elvia Alvarado, Don’t Be Afraid Gringo

  • 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, and Morrison, Compassion

    77. Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does it Feel to be a Problem?

    76. Terry Greene Sterling, Illegal

    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

    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 ★

    9. Chris Heuertz, Simple Spirituality

    8. Chris Abani, Graceland

    7. Brother Ungolino, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

    6. Peter Greer & Phil Smith, The Poor Will Be Glad

    5. Claiborne & Wilson-Hartgrove, Becoming the Answer to our Prayers

    4. Kent Annan, Following Jesus Through the Eye of the Needle

    3. Ben Lowe, Green Revolution

    2. Orlando Costas, Christ Outside the Gate ★

    1. Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings ★

  • 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 ♻

    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

    9. Clark & Powell, Deep Justice in a Broken World

    8. Jim Wallis, The Great Awakening

    7. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel

    6. Eboo Patel, Acts of Faith

    5. Ernesto “Che” Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries

    4. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart ★

    3. Frederick Buechner, Telling The Truth ★

    2. Schlesinger & Kinzer, Bitter Fruit

    1. Eugene Peterson, Eat This Book ★

  • 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

    9. Scot McKnight, The Jesus Creed

    8. Bob Roberts, Jr., Glocalization

    7. Maya Angelou, All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes

    6. Óscar Romero, The Violence of Love ★

    5. Dr. Chi Huang, When Invisible Children Sing

    4. George Barna, Revolution

    3. Vincent Donovan, Christianity Rediscovered

    2. N.T. Wright, Simply Christian

    1. Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope

  • 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

    9. Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird ★

    8. Madeleine L’Engle, Walking On Water ★

    7. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

    6. Meic Pearse, Why The Rest Hates The West

    5. Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace

    4. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking

    3. Heather Zydek, ed., The Relevant Nation

    2. Scott Bessenecker, The New Friars

    1. Sam Harris, Letter To A Christian Nation

  • 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. Donald 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. Donald 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

    9. Miroslav Volf, Free of Charge

    8. Nathan Schnackenberg, Pathways To Abandon

    7. George Miley, Loving The Church, Blessing The Nations

    6. Eidse & Sichel, Unrooted Childhoods

    5. Courtney & Hertz, The Unguide To Dating

    4. Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis

    3. Don Cormack, Killing Fields, Living Fields

    2. Eric Sandras, Buck Naked Faith

    1. C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain ★

  • 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 That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

    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

    9. Frederick Buechner, Telling The Truth ★

    8. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms ★

    7. Rich Mullins, The World As I Remember It

    6. Lokkesmoe & Medefind, The Revolutionary Communicator

    5. C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

    4. David Hansen, The Art of Pastoring

    3. Martin Luther, Faith & Freedom

    2. Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel ★

    1. Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

  • 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 Guinness, 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 Guinness, 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

    9. J.I. Packer, Evangelism & The Sovereignty of God

    8. J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Leadership

    7. Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew

    6. Armand Nicholi, The Question of God

    5. A.W. Tozer, The Best of Tozer

    4. Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God

    3. Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

    2. Michael Card, A Violent Grace ★

    1. John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life ♻

  • 14. The Holy Bible (New American Standard)

    13. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship ★

    12. Os Guinness, Prophetic Untimeliness

    11. Philip Yancey, What’s So Amazing About Grace? ★

    10. C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity ★

    9. J.B. Phillips, Your God Is Too Small

    8. John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life ★

    7. John Eldredge, Wild At Heart

    6. John Piper, Desiring God

    5. John Piper, Let The Nations Be Glad

    4. Steve Stockman, Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2

    3. C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory ★

    2. Max Lucado, On The Anvil

    1. C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

… and a few others before that.