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.
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138. Colum McCann, Apeirogon (reading now)
137. Emily Freeman, How to Walk Into a Room (reading now)
136. Rowan Williams, On Augustine (reading now)
135. Tobias Wolff, This Boy’s Life
134. Adam Zagajewski, Without End ★
133. Eugene H. Peterson, Earth & Altar
132. Justo González, The Story of Christianity, Vol. II ★
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
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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 ★
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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 ★
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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
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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
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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 ★
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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 ★
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ★
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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 ★
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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
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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
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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 ★
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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
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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 ♻
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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.