Favorite Books

Here is a growing list of my favorite books.

The Bible

  1. Versions: NASB, NKJV, KJV, Amplified, NIV, WEB, ESV, CEV, RSV, The Tanakh (תַּנַ”ךְ), Greek New Testament, Today’s English Version.

Other, less significant, books (not necessarily in order of importance to me)…

NONFICTION - Religious

  1. Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis
  2. The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis
  3. Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  4. Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  5. The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
  6. Prayer, John Bunyan
  7. The God Who is There, Francis A. Schaeffer
  8. True Spirituality, Francis A. Schaeffer
  9. A Christian Manifesto, Francis A. Schaeffer
  10. Escape From Reason, Francis A. Schaeffer
  11. He is There and He is not Silent, Francis A. Schaeffer
  12. Joshua and the Flow of Biblical History, Francis A. Schaeffer
  13. The Church Before the Watching World : A Practical Ecclesiology, Francis A. Schaeffer
  14. How Should We Then Live?, Schaeffer and Koop
  15. The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict, Josh McDowell
  16. Loving God, Charles W. Colson
  17. Kingdoms in Conflict, Charles W. Colson
  18. The Body, Charles W. Colson
  19. The Pursuit of God, A. W. Tozer
  20. The Knowledge of the Holy, A. W. Tozer
  21. Spectacular Sins: And Their Global Purpose in the Glory of Christ, John Piper
  22. Don’t Waste Your Life, John Piper
  23. Your Spiritual Gifts Can Help Your Church Grow, C. Peter Wagner
  24. Warfare Prayer, C. Peter Wagner
  25. My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers
  26. Morning and Evening, Charles H. Spurgeon
  27. Bad News for Modern Man, Franky Schaeffer
  28. A Time for Anger: the Myth of Neutrality, Franky Schaeffer
  29. Victory Over the Darkness, Neil T. Anderson
  30. The Pleasures of Loving God, Mike Bickle
  31. Angels, Billy Graham
  32. Peace with God, Billy Graham
  33. Jesus Among Other Gods: the Absolute Claims of the Christian Message, Ravi Zacharias
  34. Cries of the Heart, Ravi Zacharias
  35. Deliver Us from Evil, Ravi Zacharias
  36. The Anointing, R. T. Kendall
  37. Total Forgiveness, R. T. Kendall
  38. Grace, R. T. Kendall
  39. The Waiting Father, Helmut Thielicke
  40. Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, John Foxe
  41. The Secret Kingdom, Pat Robertson
  42. The New World Order, Pat Robertson
  43. The New Millennium, Pat Robertson
  44. The Pressure’s Off, Larry Crabb
  45. Fresh Power, Jim Cymbala
  46. Jonathan Edwards on Revival, Jonathan Edwards
  47. The Confessions of St. Augustine
  48. Jewish Literacy, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
  49. Everyman’s Talmud, Abraham Cohen
  50. Evangelism by Fire: Igniting Your Passion for the Lost, Reinhard Bonnke
  51. Beginning to Pray, Anthony Bloom
  52. Knowing God, J. I. Packer
  53. The Book of Virtues, William J. Bennett
  54. Possessing the Gates of the Enemy, Cindy Jacobs
  55. The Power of Positive Praying, John Bisagno
  56. The Reason for God, Timothy Keller
  57. Simple Church, Thom S. Rainer and Eric Geiger
  58. unChristian: What a New Generation Thinks About Christianity and Why it Matters, David Kinnaman
  59. Fear and Trembling, Søren Kierkegaard
  60. Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind, Joyce Meyer
  61. Why Men Hate Going to Church, David Murrow
  62. Experiencing the Holy Spirit, Andrew Murray
  63. The Monday Morning Church, Jerry Cook
  64. How to Study Your Bible, Kay Arthur
  65. Power Healing, John Wimber
  66. Power Evangelism, John Wimber
  67. The Spiritual Man, Watchman Nee
  68. An Anthology of Devotional Literature, Thomas Kepler, compiler
  69. The Making of a Leader, Robert J. Clinton
  70. Leading and Managing Your Church, Carl F. George and Robert E. Logan
  71. Understanding Church Growth and Decline, Dean Hoge and David Roozen
  72. Developing the Leader Within You, John C. Maxwell
  73. Spiritual Leadership, Oswald J. Sanders
  74. Looking in the Mirror: Self-Appraisal in the Local Church, Lyle E. Schaller
  75. “How to Break the 200 Barrier” (notebook), C. Peter Wagner, Carl F. George, and John C. Maxwell
  76. Soul Tsunami, Leonard Sweet
  77. The Gift of Prophecy, Jack Deere
  78. The God Chasers, Tommy Tenney
NONFICTION - Secular
  1. The Elements of Style, William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White
  2. The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric, Sister Miriam Joseph
  3. Personality Plus, Florence Littauer
  4. Personalities in Power, Florence Littauer
  5. The Effective Executive, Peter F. Drucker
  6. Managing in Turbulent Times, Peter F. Drucker
  7. The One Minute Manager, Kenneth Blanchard
  8. How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
  9. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
  10. The Boy Scout Handbook
  11. In Search of Excellence, Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman, Jr.
  12. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey
  13. Positioning: the Battle for Your Mind, Al Ries and Jack Trout
  14. Reengineering the Corporation, Michael Hammer and James Champy
  15. Time Management, Speed B. Leas
  16. Marketing Warfare, Al Ries and Jack Trout
BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  1. Born Again, Charles W. Colson
  2. Shout It From The Housetops, Pat Robertson
HISTORY
  1. Night, Elie Wiesel
  2. The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  3. The Light and the Glory, Peter Marshall and David Manuel
  4. Tecumseh!, Allan W. Eckert
  5. The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert
  6. Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley
  7. The Coldest Winter, David Halberstam

FICTION

  1. Hinds’ Feet on High Places, Hannah Hurnard
  2. Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis
  3. The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis
  4. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (great illustration of sin’s disastrous effects)
  5. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
  6. Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle
  7. The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
  8. To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  9. 1984, George Orwell
  10. Animal Farm, George Orwell
  11. The Necklace, Guy de Maupassant (a short story)
  12. Leiningen versus the Ants, Carl Stephenson (a short story)
  13. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift