100 Books Every Christian Should Read
Throughout my Christian walk, I have been asked for recommendations about good books that Christians should read. I reached out to mentors in my own life and asked what books had impacted them. From their suggestions, I compiled the following list.
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| Author | Title |
| Randy Alcorn | Heaven |
| Albert Barnes | Notes on the Whole Bible |
| Dietrich Bonhoeffer | Ethics |
| Dietrich Bonhoeffer | Life Together |
| Dietrich Bonhoeffer | The Cost of Discipleship |
| Jerry Bridges | The Gospel for Real Life |
| Mark Buchanan | The Rest of God |
| John Bunyan | The Pilgrim’s Progress |
| James Cantelon | Simply God |
| Oswald Chambers | Biblical Ethics |
| Oswald Chambers | Christian Disciplines |
| Oswald Chambers | My Utmost for His Highest |
| Oswald Chambers | Our Ultimate Refuge |
| Adam Clarke | Commentary on the Whole Bible |
| Chuck Colson | Born Again |
| Elisabeth Elliot | Discipline: The Glad Surrender |
| Elisabeth Elliot | Passion & Purity |
| Elisabeth Elliot | Through the Gates of Splendor |
| Leslie B. Flynn | 19 Gifts of the Spirit |
| Richard J. Foster | Celebration of Discipline |
| Richard J. Foster | Freedom of Simplicity |
| Richard J. Foster | Streams of Living Water |
| Gene Getz | The Measure of a Man |
| S. D. Gordon | Quiet Talks on Prayer |
| Jack Hayford | Hayford Bible Handbook |
| Matthew Henry | Concise Commentary on the Scripture |
| Roy Hession | The Calvary Road |
| Brother Lawrence | The Practice of the Presence of God |
| Larry Lea | Could You Not Tarry One Hour? |
| Charles Leiter | Justification and Regeneration |
| C. S. Lewis | A Grief Observed |
| C. S. Lewis | God in the Dock |
| C. S. Lewis | Mere Christianity |
| C. S. Lewis | Surprised by Joy |
| C. S. Lewis | The Abolition of Man |
| C. S. Lewis | The Abolition of Man |
| C. S. Lewis | The Four Loves |
| C. S. Lewis | The Weight of Glory |
| Gordon MacDonald | Ordering Your Private World |
| Thomas Merton | A Book of Hours |
| Thomas Merton | Contemplative Prayer |
| Thomas Merton | Life and Holiness |
| Ruth Meyer | 31 Days of Praise and 31 Days of Prayer |
| Gary Moon | Apprenticeship with Jesus |
| Andrew Murray | Abiding in Christ |
| Andrew Murray | Humility The Pearl of Wisdom |
| Orville Nave | Nave’s Topical Bible |
| Watchman Nee | Breaking the Outer Man and the Release of the Spirit |
| Watchman Nee | Christ the sum of all spiritual things |
| Watchman Nee | Sit, Walk, Stand |
| Watchman Nee | The Normal Christian Church Life |
| Watchman Nee | The Normal Christian Life |
| Watchman Nee | The Spiritual Man |
| Henri J. M. Nouwen | Out of Solitude |
| Henri J. M. Nouwen | Reaching Out |
| J. I. Packer | Knowing God |
| Arthur Pink | Gleanings in the Godhead |
| Arthur Pink | Man’s Total Depravity |
| Arthur Pink | Practical Christianity |
| Francis Schaeffer | How Shall We Then Live? |
| A. B. Simpson | Standing on Faith |
| A. B. Simpson | The Cross of Christ |
| A. B. Simpson | The Fourfold Gospel |
| A. B. Simpson | The Life of Prayer |
| A. B. Simpson | The Names of Jesus |
| A. B. Simpson | Walking in the Spirit |
| Hannah Whitall Smith | The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life |
| Charles Spurgeon | All of Grace |
| Charles Spurgeon | Morning and Evening |
| Charles Spurgeon | The Passion and Death of Our Lord |
| Lee Strobel | The Case for a Creator |
| Lee Strobel | The Case for Christ |
| Lee Strobel | The Case for Faith |
| Lee Strobel | The Case for the Real Jesus |
| James Strong | Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible |
| Douglas Stuart & Gordon Fee | How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth |
| R. A. Torrey | How to Bring Men to Christ |
| R. A. Torrey | The Importance and Value of Proper Bible Study |
| R. A. Torrey | The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit |
| R. A. Torrey | The Power of Prayer and the Prayer of Power |
| R. A. Torrey | Treasury of Scripture Knowledge |
| A. W. Tozer | Christian Book of Mystical Verse |
| A. W. Tozer | Delighting in God |
| A. W. Tozer | How to be filled with the Holy Spirit |
| A. W. Tozer | Mornings with Tozer |
| A. W. Tozer | The Divine Conquest |
| A. W. Tozer | The Knowledge of the Holy |
| A. W. Tozer | The Purpose of Man |
| A. W. Tozer | The Pursuit of God |
| Authors Various | The Valley of Vision (A Collection of Puritan Prayers) |
| Dallas Willard | Renovation of the Heart |
| Dallas Willard | The Divine Conspiracy |
| Dallas Willard | The Spirit of the Disciplines |
| N. T. Wright | Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision |
| N. T. Wright | Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today |
| N. T. Wright | Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church |