Recommended Book List
Here some books I think every thinking Christian should read and think through. Admittedly, most are not "Christian" books, but they are nonetheless an approach to life, reality, and God (the ultimate questions) that help to inform our own worldview.
- Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina, War and Peace, all of his short stories)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment)
- Shusaku Endo (Silence, The Samurai)
- Graham Greene (The Power and the Glory)
- Ivan Turgenev (Fathers and Sons)
- C. S. Lewis (Everything! - particularly Mere Christianity, The Problem of Pain, Miracles)
- G. K. Chesterton (Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man, the Father Brown mysteries)
- Francis Schaeffer (How Should We Then Live?, The God Who Is There, Escape From Reason)
- Dorothy Sayers (A Matter of Eternity)
- Elie Wiesel (Night)
- Viktor Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning)
More recent books that are thought-stimulating:
- Philip Yancey (What's So Amazing About Grace?)
- D. A. Carson (The Gagging of God)
- Brian McLaren (A New Kind of Christian - [I disagree with many of McLaren's assumptions but his book helps us to understand current postmodern Christians])
- James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy - [will help you understand the modern Transcendental mind])
- Norman Geisler - (Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics)
- Walter Mueller - (Understanding Today's Youth Culture)
- R. Scott Smith - (Truth and the New Kind of Christian: the emerging effects of postmodernism in the Church)
- Lee Strobel - (The Case for Faith)
- John MacArthur - (The Truth War: Fighting for Certainty in an Age of Deception)
I have (literally) hundreds of more suggestions - but these are a good start!
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