146. Zadie Smith, Dead and Alive

145. Jane Williams, The Art of Advent

144. Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

143. Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play

142. Laura Kauffman, Ordinary Things ★

141. Rowan Williams, A Ray of Darkness ★

140. Mastrogiovanni, ed., The Passenger: Mexico

139. Sophfronia Scott, Love’s Long Line

138. Peter Handke, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

137. Holly Berkley Fletcher, The Missionary Kids

136. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

135. Scorsese & Spadaro, Conversations on Faith

134. Karl Ove Knausgaard, Inadvertent

133. Julian Barnes, Changing My Mind

132. Jim Harrison, Saving Daylight

131. Sho Baraka, He Saw That It Was Good

130. Colum McCann, Letters to a Young Writer

129. Patton Dodd, The Father You Get ★

128. Julia Kristeva, Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language

127. Simon Critchley, On Mysticism

126. Miriam Toews, A Truce That Is Not Peace

125. Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet

124. Seamus Heaney, North ♻

123. Rowan Williams, Grace and Necessity ★

122. Patti Smith, Woolgathering

121. Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, The Love that is God ★

120. R.S. Thomas, Counterpoint

119. Ciaran Carson, Belfast Confetti

118. Richard Ellmann, Four Dubliners

117. James Joyce, Dubliners

116. Alan Jacobs, The Book of Common Prayer ♻

115. R.F. Foster, On Seamus Heaney

114. R.S. Thomas, The Echoes Return Slow ★

113. Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing ♻

112. Joan Chittister, Wisdom Distilled from the Daily

111. Barry Lopez, About This Life

110. Maggie Smith, Goldenrod

109. Malcolm Foley, The Anti-Greed Gospel ★

108. Ron Hansen, Exiles

107. Gerard Manley Hopkins (Ordway, ed.), As Kingfishers Catch Fire ★

106. Rowan Williams, Writing in the Dust ♻

105. Fintan O’Toole, Heroic Failure

104. Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel ♻

103. Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

102. Carolyn Weber, Surprised by Oxford

101. Catharine Randall, A Heart Lost in Wonder ★

100. Jane Austen, Persuasion ★

99. Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

98. Lauren Winner, A Word to Live By

97. Niall Williams, Time of the Child

96. Werner Herzog, Every Man for Himself and God Against All

95. Jeremy Begbie, A Peculiar Orthodoxy ★

94. Greil Marcus, What Nails It

93. Jane Hirshfield, Ledger

92. Alice McDermott, Absolution

91. Boone Aldridge, For the Gospel’s Sake

90. Philip Zaleski & Carol Zaleski, The Fellowship

89. Rowan Williams & Greg Garrett, In Conversation

88. Wendell Berry, Another Day ★

87. Marilynne Robinson, Mother Country

86. Percival Everett, James ★

85. Thom Yorke & Stanley Donwood, Fear Stalks the Land!

84. Fernando Ortega, Fernando’s Birds

83. Courtney Ellis, Looking Up

82. Imani Perry, Black in Blues ★

81. Esther de Waal, Living on the Border

80. Denise Levertov, The Stream and the Sapphire ★

79. Rowan Williams, The Lion’s World

78. Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering

77. Paul Elie, The Last Supper

76. Christian Wiman, He Held Radical Light ♻

75. Seamus Heaney, 100 Poems ★

74. Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian’s Abyss ★

73. Howard Hovde, A Dream That Came to Life

72. Rowan Williams, Discovering Christianity

71. Louise Kennedy, Trespasses

70. Rodrigo Fuentes, Trout, Belly Up

69. Jim Harrison, Dead Man’s Float

68. Daniel Taylor, In Search of Sacred Places

67. Naomi Klein, Doppelganger

66. Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others ★

65. John Connell, The Farmer’s Son

64. Ronald Rolheiser, Domestic Monastery

63. Joy Harjo, Washing My Mother’s Body

62. Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization

61. Colm Tóibín, Nora Webster

60. R.S. Thomas, Too Brave to Dream

59. Chuck DeGroat, Healing What’s Within ★

58. Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names

57. W.B. Yeats, poems selected by Seamus Heaney

56. Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

55. Claire Keegan, Antarctica

54. Colum McCann, Twist

53. Annie Dillard, For the Time Being

52. Alissa Wilkinson, We Tell Ourselves Stories ★

51. Pádraig Ó Tuama, 44 Poems on Being with Each Other

50. Kreg Yingst, Everything Could be a Prayer

49. Joy Williams, Concerning the Future of Souls

48. Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb ★

47. Wesley Hill, Easter

46. Mary Karr, Lit

45. Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse ♻

44. Seamus Heaney, The Place of Writing

43. Leif Enger, Virgil Wander ★

42. Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifka

41. Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story

40. Allyson McCabe, Why Sinéad O'Connor Matters

39. Rowan Williams, Being Christian ♻

38. Matthew Desmond, Poverty, By America

37. Marilynne Robinson, Gilead ♻

36. Marilyn McEntyre, Christ, My Companion

35. Martin Laird, Into the Silent Land

34. T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets ♻

33. Herman, Fujimura, et al., Qu4rtets

32. Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

31. Joy Harjo, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light

30. Paul McCartney, 1964: Eyes of the Storm

29. Barry Morgan, Strangely Orthodox

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

27. Seamus Cashman, That Morning Will Come

26. Bruce Herman, Makers by Nature ★

25. Margaret Miles, Beautiful Bodies

24. Mosab Abu Toha, Forest of Noise ★

23. John Hendrix, The Mythmakers ★

22. Laura Kauffman, Carolina Clay

21. Toni Morrison, Beloved

20. Natalie Carnes, Motherhood: A Confession ★

19. Sequoia Maner, To Pimp a Butterfly

18. A.E. Stallings, Like: Poems

17. Winfred Rembert, Chasing Me to My Grave

16. Rowan Williams, Why Study the Past?

15. Seamus Heaney, Selected Poems: 1988-2013 ★

14. Wendy Erskine, Sweet Home

13. Lore Ferguson Wilbert, The Understory

12. Tommy Orange, There There

11. Fintan O’Toole, We Don’t Know Ourselves ★

10. Ross Gay, Inciting Joy

9. Eugene H. Peterson, Eat This Book ♻

8. Ann Patchett, Commonwealth

7. Jim Harrison & Ted Kooser, Braided Creek ★

6. Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

5. Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation

4. Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam

3. Langston Hughes, The Panther and the Lash

2. Elizabeth O’Connor, Whale Fall

1. Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

147. Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One ♻ ★

146. Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These ♻ ★

145. Ayşegül Savaş, The Anthropologists

144. Tana French, In the Woods

143. James Rodríguez, Tierra de Árboles ★

142. A.W. Regets, Abandon the Orderly House

141. Kate Baer, And Yet

140. Marilyn McEntyre, Midwinter Light ★

139. Javier Marías, Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico

138. Emily Freeman, How to Walk Into a Room

137. Colum McCann, Apeirogon ★

136. Rowan Williams, On Augustine ★

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

144. Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm ★ ♻

143. Ben Okri, Prayer for the Living

142. Óscar Romero, Voice of the Voiceless

141. Emily Hunter McGowan, Christmas

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

139. Pat Mora, Encantado

138. Joan Didion, Blue Nights

137. Tim Pitsiulak, Drawings and Prints from Cape Dorset ★

136. Jhumpa Lahiri, Roman Stories

135. Isabel Kershner, The Land of Hope and Fear

134. Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day

133. Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes

132. Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy

131. John West, Lessons and Carols

130. Rowan Williams, A Century of Poetry ★

129. Sandra Cisneros, Have You Seen Marie?

128. Mary Karr, Cherry

127. Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

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

125. Warren Zanes, Deliver Me From Nowhere ★

124. Shane McCrae, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun

123. Sebastião Salgado, Other Americas ★

122. G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas

121. Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was an Aztec

120. Alejandra Oliva, Rivermouth

119. Rick Rubin, The Creative Act

118. Vito Aiuto, Self-Portrait as Jerry Quarry

117. Diana Gruver, Companions in the Darkness

116. Jonathan Eig, King: A Life ★

115. Denise Levertov, Poems, 1972-1982

114. Elie Wiesel, Open Heart

113. Eugene H. Peterson, Subversive Spirituality

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

111. Elena Ferrante, The Beach at Night

110. Adam Neder, Theology as a Way of Life

109. Héctor Abad, Oblivion ★

108. Jeanine Hathaway, Long After Lauds

107. Sophfronia Scott, The Seeker and the Monk

106. Julia Esquivel, The Certainty of Spring

105. Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination ★

104. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

103. Alan Noble, On Getting Out of Bed

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

101. Héctor Tobar, The Last Great Road Bum

100. Ellen Davis, Getting Involved With God ★

99. Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

98. Zadie Smith, Intimations

97. Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss ★ ♻

96. Wendell Berry, The Peace of Wild Things

95. Jason Bailey, Fun City Cinema

94. James McBride, Deacon King Kong

93. Malcolm Guite, Lifting the Veil

92. Mary Oliver, Devotions

91. Elie Wiesel, Day

90. Elie Wiesel, Dawn

89. Ormonde Plater, Many Servants

88. Joan Didion, Political Fictions

87. John O’Malley, The Jesuits

86. Tomás Halík, Touch the Wounds ★

85. Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

84. Leah Myers, Thinning Blood

83. Jennifer De Leon, White Space

82. George Saunders, Liberation Day

81. Stanley Hauerwas, Prayers Plainly Spoken ★

80. Patrick Radden Keefe, Rogues

79. Karen González, The God Who Sees

78. Osip Mandelstam, Stolen Air

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

76. Alejandro Zambra, Bonsái

75. David Unger, The Mastermind

74. Michelle Huneven, Search ★

73. Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist

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

71. Henri Nouwen, Love in a Fearful Land ♻

70. George Lovell, A Beauty That Hurts

69. Nina MacLaughlin, Summer Solstice

68. Barry Lopez, Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World ★

67. Tamara Hill Murphy, The Spacious Path ★

66. Joan Didion, Miami

65. Clint Smith, Above Ground ★

64. Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

63. Claire Dederer, Monsters

62. Samanta Schweblin, Mouthful of Birds

61. Alma Guillermoprieto, Dancing With Cuba

60. Greil Marcus, Folk Music

59. Moira Linehan, Toward

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

57. Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life

56. Colm Tóibín, Bad Blood

55. de Botton & Armstrong, Art as Therapy

54. Héctor Tobar, Our Migrant Souls

53. N. Scott Momaday, Earth Keeper

52. Malcolm Guite, After Prayer ★

51. Lauren Winner, Wearing God

50. C. Kavin Rowe, Christianity’s Surprise ★

49. N.T. Wright, History and Eschatology

48. Dante Alighieri, Paradiso

47. Rowan Williams, Resurrection ★

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

45. Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety ★

44. Scott Bennett, Fleeting Roots

43. Gabriel García Márquez, The Scandal of the Century

42. Samuel Wells, Learning to Dream Again

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

40. Robert Schultz, Into the New World

39. José Olivarez, Promises of Gold

38. Rowan Williams, Silence and Honey Cakes ★

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

36. Sam Gutierrez, The Reason Love Reaches

35. Javier Zamora, Solito ★

34. Sara Billups, Orphaned Believers

33. Esau McCaulley, Lent

32. Pope Francis, The Name of God is Mercy

31. Fazal Sheikh & Teju Cole, Human Archipelago ★

30. Helena María Viramontes, Under the Feet of Jesus

29. Wendy Beckett, The Art of Lent

28. Jennifer Harbury, Searching for Everardo

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

26. Joy Harjo, Catching the Light

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

24. Horacio Castellanos Moya, Senselessness

23. Billy Collins, Musical Tables

22. Sharon Suzuki-Martinez, The Loneliest Whale Blues

21. Augustine, Confessions ★ ♻

20. Jan Richardson, The Cure for Sorrow

19. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

18. Wesley Hill, Spiritual Friendship

17. Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt

16. Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey

15. Peter Kuper, Diario de Oaxaca

14. Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others

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

12. Charles Simic, No Land in Sight

11. Samanta Schweblin, Seven Empty Houses

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

9. Patti Smith, A Book of Days

8. Joseph Han, Nuclear Family

7. Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd

6. Pádraig Ó. Tuama, Poetry Unbound

5. Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions ♻

4. Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad is Untrue

3. Wally Koval, Accidentally Wes Anderson

2. Constance Wu, Making a Scene

1. Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again ★

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

142. Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human

141. Federico García Lorca, Poet in New York

140. Claire Keegan, Foster

139. Winn Collier, Love Big, Be Well

138. Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These ★ ♻

137. Rio Cortez, Golden Ax

136. Don DeLillo, Underworld

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

134. Christian Wiman, Hard Night

133. Clegg & Robinson, Messi vs. Ronaldo

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

131. Bono, Surrender ★

130. Paul Mariani, All That Will Be New

129. Aundie Kolber, Try Softer

128. Roz Chast, Going Into Town

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

126. Christian Wiman, Every Riven Thing ♻

125. Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise

124. Manjit Thapp, Feelings

123. Billy Collins, The Trouble With Poetry

122. Phil Klay, Uncertain Ground

121. Birmingham & Sallinen Simard, Creating Cultures of Belonging ★

120. David Head, He Sent Leanness

119. Jo Nesbø, Nemesis

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

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

116. Allison Schnable, Amateurs Without Borders

115. Miguel Ángel Asturias, The President

114. Édouard Louis, Who Killed My Father

113. Richard Mouw, How to Be a Patriotic Christian

112. Shane McCrae, Sometimes I Never Suffered

111. Mary McCampbell, Imagining Our Neighbors as Ourselves ★

110. Rowan Williams, Writing in the Dust ♻

109. Miguel Ángel Asturias, Clearvigil in Spring

108. Alejandro Zambra, Multiple Choice

107. James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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

105. William Zinsser, ed., Inventing the Truth

104. Allyson Dinneen, Notes From Your Therapist

103. Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Human Matter

102. Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

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

100. Cruz & Collazo, The Book of Rosy ★

99. Matti Friedman, Who by Fire

98. Spears & Wildfang, Tempe: Then and Now

97. Frederick Buechner, Now and Then ★

96. Francisco Goldman, The Long Night of White Chickens

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

94. Alissa Wilkinson, Salty

93. Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

92. Brandi Carlile, Broken Horses

91. Terry Tempest Williams, The Hour of Land

90. Charles Marsh, Evangelical Anxiety

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

88. Henri Nouwen, Spiritual Direction

87. Leonard Cohen, The Flame

86. Dani Shapiro, Inheritance

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

84. Annie Leibovitz, American Music

83. Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

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

81. Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind

80. Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

79. Rodrigo García, A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes ★

78. Delia Owens, Where The Crawdads Sing

77. Holly Black, Artists on Art

76. Nikki Giovanni, A Good Cry

75. Eugene H. Peterson, Answering God ★ ♻

74. Rupert Shortt, Rowan’s Rule

73. Luci Shaw, The Generosity

72. Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry

71. Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries

70. David Mamet, On Directing Film

69. Alan Benchoam, Panorama Guatemala

68. Jonathan Moller, Our Culture Is Our Resistance

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

66. Peter Guralnick, Last Train to Memphis

65. Charif Majdalani, Beirut 2020

64. Mary Oliver, Dream Work

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

62. Alain de Botton, Essays in Love

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

60. Marilyn McEntyre, Occasions ★

59. Dan Allender, To Be Told

58. Kwon and Thompson, Reparations ★

57. Uli Beutter Cohen, Between the Lines

56. Christine Emba, Rethinking Sex

55. Goudzwaard and De Lange, Beyond Poverty and Affluence

54. Victoria Chang, Dear Memory ★

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

52. Mario Vargas Llosa, Harsh Times

51. Alejandro Ramírez Ugarte, A Conversation with Luis Barragán

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

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

48. Juan Villoro, Horizontal Vertigo ★

47. Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

46. Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth ★ ♻

45. James Frey, Bright Shiny Morning

44. Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

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

42. Rowan Williams, Luminaries

41. Joseph Brodsky, Watermark

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

39. Valeria Luiselli, Sidewalks ★

38. Stanley Hauerwas, Approaching the End

37. Walter Brueggemann, A Way Other Than Our Own

36. Isabel Zapata, Una Ballena es un País

35. Emilie Pine, Notes to Self

34. Lucille Clifton, Generations

33. Patti Smith, M Train

32. Philip Yancey, Where the Light Fell ★

31. David Lida, First Stop in the New World

30. Kaveh Akbar, Calling a Wolf a Wolf

29. Kwame Alexander, Light for the World to See

28. Elise Engler, A Diary of the Plague Year

27. Larry Thomas, Lily Packed a Facemask ★

26. Marilyn McEntyre, Where the Eye Alights

25. Annie Leibovitz, At Work ★

24. Susan Howatch, Glittering Images

23. Keegan Allen, Hollywood

22. Errol Morris, Believing is Seeing

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

20. Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday

19. Joseph Ross, Gospel of Dust

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

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

16. Hanna Zack Miley, A Garland for Ashes ★

15. Tomás González, The Storm

14. Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

13. Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio

12. Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart

11. Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom

10. Claudia Hernández, Knitting the Fog

9. Marlena Graves, Forty Days on Being a Nine

8. Robert Kaplan, The Good American

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

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

5. Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air ★

4. Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy

3. Robert Caro, The Passage of Power ★

2. Seamus Heaney, Human Chain

1. Kieran Dodds, The Church Forests of Ethiopia ★

110. Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions

109. Price & Weil, Liturgy for Living

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

107. Michiko Kakutani, Ex Libris

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

105. Ned Bustard, Saint Nicholas the Giftgiver

104. Billy Collins, Whale Day

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

102. Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God

101. Teju Cole, Black Paper ★

100. Graham Greene, The Quiet American ★

99. Laura Fabrycky, Give Me the Word ★

98. Daniel Wolff, Grown-Up Anger

97. Frederick Buechner, The Longing for Home

96. Dan Stringer, Struggling with Evangelicalism

95. William Shakespeare, Hamlet

94. Pola Oloixarac, Mona

93. Margaret Bendroth, The Spiritual Practice of Remembering ★

92. Eugene H. Peterson, This Hallelujah Banquet

91. Maurice Sendak, Pierre

90. Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb

89. José Emilio Pacheco, Battles in the Desert

88. Raymond Carver, Short Cuts

87. Dane Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly

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

85. Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things ★

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

83. Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers

82. Dante Alighieri, Inferno

81. Justo González, The Mestizo Augustine

80. Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora

79. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah ★

78. Rowan Williams, Being Disciples ★

77. Belden Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes

76. Ron Hansen, Mariette in Ecstasy ★

75. Phil Klay, Missionaries

74. Ahmir Thompson, Creative Quest

73. Dan Portnoy, The Non-Profit Narrative

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

71. Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts ★

70. Lauren Redniss, Oak Flat

69. Steven Gerrard, My Story

68. George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone ★

67. Patricia Engel, Infinite Country

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

65. John Lewis, March: Book Three

64. Christian Wiman, The Long Home ★

63. Anne Lamott, Stitches

62. Marjane Satrapi, The Sigh

61. Bruno Lloret, Nancy

60. Jesmyn Ward, Navigate Your Stars

59. Åsne Seierstad, The Bookseller of Kabul

58. Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

57. Willie James Jennings, The Christian Imagination ★

56. Stephen Neill, Anglicanism ★

55. Lois Lowry, The Giver ★

54. Jonathan Katz, The Big Truck that Went By

53. Daniel Wilkinson, Silence on the Mountain ★ ♻

52. Brett Foster, The Garbage Eater

51. Christine Pohl, Making Room ★

50. Leif Enger, Peace Like a River ★

49. Alice Walker, Overcoming Speechlessness ♻

48. Wendy Lesser, Scandinavian Noir

47. David Guterson, Turn Around Time

46. Carolyn Custis James, Finding God in the Margins

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

44. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

43. Henri Nouwen, With Open Hands ♻

42. Sandra Cisneros, My Wicked Wicked Ways

41. Luci Shaw, Harvesting Fog

40. Enrique Krauze, Redeemers

39. Kaemingk & Willson, Work and Worship ★

38. Eugene H. Peterson, Working the Angles

37. Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us

36. Carolyn Forché, What You Have Heard is True ★

35. Makoto Fujimura, Art + Faith ★

34. Ann Patchett, Bel Canto ★

33. Abigail Carroll, A Gathering of Larks

32. Ted Gioia, Music: A Subversive History

31. Adam Nayman, The Coen Brothers

30. David Swartz, Facing West ★

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

28. Wes Hill, The Lord's Prayer

27. Winn Collier, A Burning in My Bones ★

26. William Frey, Cancelada

25. Nick Ripatrazone, Longing for an Absent God

24. Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams

23. Kelli Donley, Counting Coup

22. Thomas McKenzie, Lent with the Desert Fathers

21. Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion ★

20. Charles Bowden, Blue Desert

19. Mary Karr, Tropic of Squalor

18. Patrice Gopo, All the Colors We Will See

17. Brian Doyle, One Long River of Song ★

16. Eliza Griswold, If Men, Then

15. Diego Zúñiga, Camanchaca

14. Andrew Le Peau, Write Better ★

13. Justo González, Mañana ★

12. Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

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

10. J. Michael Martinez, Museum of the Americas

9. Marilynne Robinson, Jack ★

8. Victor Perera, Unfinished Conquest

7. Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night ★

6. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

5. David French, Divided We Fall

4. Malcolm Guite, Sounding the Seasons

3. Wendell Berry, This Day

2. Lilian Calles Barger, The World Come of Age

1. Wright Thompson, The Cost of These Dreams

105. Laurent Mbanda, From Barefoot to Bishop

104. Marilynne Robinson, Home ★

103. Bruce Herman, Magnificat

102. Luis Alberto Urrea, The Devil's Highway

101. Marilyn McEntyre, Adverbs for Advent

100. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov ★

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

98. Barack Obama, A Promised Land ★

97. Evan Osnos, Joe Biden

96. Chuck DeGroat, When Narcissism Comes to Church

95. Desmond Egan, Selected Poems

94. Sam Acho, Let the World See You

93. David Koyzis, Political Visions & Illusions

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

91. Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic

90. Naomi Shihab Nye, What Have You Lost?

89. Kathryn T. Long, God in the Rainforest

88. Daniel Alarcón, War by Candlelight

87. Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black ★

86. Winfield Bevins, Simply Anglican

85. Roger Ebert, Scorsese

84. Malcolm Guite, Parable and Paradox

83. Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

82. Henri Nouwen, The Wounded Healer ♻

81. Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

80. John Inazu, Confident Pluralism

79. Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive ★

78. Robert Covolo, Fashion Theology

77. Jane Leavy, The Last Boy

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

75. Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved ★

74. Stanley Hauerwas, The Character of Virtue

73. Phil Klay, Redeployment

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

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

70. David Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom ★

69. John Hersey, Hiroshima

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

67. Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

66. Kristin Kobes DuMez, Jesus and John Wayne

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

64. Kirsten Valdez Quade, Night at the Fiestas

63. Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words

62. John Annerino, Saints, Santos, Shrines

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

60. Christian Wiman, Survival is a Style

59. Richard Mouw, All That God Cares About

58. George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo ★

57. Roger Ebert, Awake in the Dark

56. Steven Shepherd, ed., Our Fathers

55. Jennifer Berry Hawes, Grace Will Lead Us Home

54. Carole Boston Weatherford, The Beatitudes

53. Mark Galli, Karl Barth

52. Natasha Sistrunk Robinson, A Sojourner's Truth

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

50. Marilyn McEntyre, Word by Word

49. Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing ★

48. Ver Beek & Wolterstorff, Call for Justice

47. Gareth Higgins, Cinematic States

46. Miroslav Volf, The End of Memory

45. Mary Oliver, West Wind

44. Gregory Wolfe, Intruding Upon the Timeless

43. Amy Peterson, Where Goodness Still Grows

42. Kirsten Weld, Paper Cadavers

41. Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

40. Laura Fabrycky, Keys to Bonhoeffer's Haus ★

39. Robert Hilburn, Corn Flakes with John Lennon

38. Ann Patchett, What Now?

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

36. Eric Hoffer, The True Believer

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

34. Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room ♻

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

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

31. Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake ★

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

29. Seamus Heaney, North

28. Bob Goudzwaard, Globalization and the Kingdom of God

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

26. Emily Nemens, The Cactus League

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

24. Dan Zak, Almighty

23. Chris Arnade, Dignity

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

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

20. Brian Fies, A Fire Story

19. Thomas Howard, The Liturgy Explained

18. Mary Karr, Sinners Welcome

17. Shawn Smucker, Light from Distant Stars ★

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

15. Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers

14. Jeremy Beer, Oscar Charleston ★

13. Goheen & Mullins, The Symphony of Mission

12. Samantha Power, "A Problem From Hell"

11. Kim Krimstein, The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt

10. Eduardo Halfon, The Polish Boxer

9. George Orwell, Why I Write

8. Jhumpa Lahiri, The Clothing of Books

7. Frederick Buechner, Peculiar Treasures

6. William Dello Russo, Bruegel

5. Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise ★

4. Malaka Gharib, I Was Their American Dream

3. Joustra & Wilkinson, How to Survive the Apocalypse

2. Marilynne Robinson, Lila

1. Ryan Kuja, From the Inside Out

93. Jeffrey Munroe, Reading Buechner

92. Alison Bechdel, Fun Home

91. Chuck Culpepper, Bloody Confused!

90. Curt Thompson, Anatomy of the Soul ★

89. Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark

88. Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South

87. Mary Karr, The Liars' Club ★

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

85. Christian Wiman, Ambition and Survival

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

83. Chaim Potok, The Chosen ♻

82. Patti Smith, Devotion

81. Richard Schmidt, Glorious Companions

80. Yuri Herrera, The Transmigration of Bodies

79. Bud Selig, For the Good of the Game

78. Arturo Arias, After the Bombs

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

76. Carolyn Forché, The Angel of History

75. Christian Wiman, Every Riven Thing

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

73. Alan Jacobs, The Year of our Lord 1943

72. Emily P. Freeman, The Next Right Thing

71. David Kirkpatrick, A Gospel for the Poor ★

70. Wendell Berry, A Timbered Choir

69. Rodrigo Hasbún, Affections

68. Joshua Robinson & Jonathan Clegg, The Club

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

66. U2, U2 by U2

65. R.O. Kwon, The Incendiaries

64. Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

63. Frederick Buechner, Telling Secrets ♻

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

61. Tara Westover, Educated

60. David P. King, God's Internationalists

59. Douglas Kaine McKelvey, Every Moment Holy ★

58. William Zinsser, Writing About Your Life

57. Edgar Martínez & Larry Stone, Edgar

56. Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

55. Richard Mouw, Restless Faith

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

53. Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

52. David Spalding, Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly

51. Lindsey Hilsum, In Extremis ★

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

49. M. Dean, I Am Young

48. Kelly Kerney, Hard Red Spring

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

46. Nick Drnaso, Sabrina

45. Winfield Bevins, Ever Ancient, Ever New

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

43. Michael Brendan Dougherty, My Father Left Me Ireland

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

41. Ben Myers, The Apostles' Creed

40. John Hendrix, The Faithful Spy ★

39. Meghan O'Gieblyn, Interior States: Essays

38. Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography ★

37. Roxana Méndez, The Sky Through the Window

36. Marilyn Gardner, Passages Through Pakistan

35. Dennis & Vicki Covington, Cleaving

34. Jamie George, Poets and Saints

33. Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories ★

32. Roger Angell, Five Seasons

31. Jose Martí, Versos Sencillos

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

29. Fleming Rutledge, Three Hours

28. Steven Purcell, Even Among These Rocks

27. Stephen Connely Benz, Guatemalan Journey

26. Fikkert & Kapic, Becoming Whole

25. Michael Bazzett, trans., The Popol Vuh

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

23. Rowan Williams, Anglican Identities

22. Lauren Winner, The Dangers of Christian Practice

21. Robert Hilburn, Paul Simon: The Life ★

20. Seamus Heaney, Field Work

19. Michael Goheen, The Church and its Vocation

18. Brother Roger, The Rule of Taizé

17. Joseph Frazier, El Salvador Could Be Like That

16. Javier Zamora, Unaccompanied

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

14. Josh Larsen, Movies Are Prayers

13. Joan Didion, Salvador ♻

12. C.S. Lewis, Spirits in Bondage

11. James Cone, The Spirituals and the Blues

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

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

8. Patricia Roberts-Miller, Demagoguery and Democracy

7. Emma Janzen, Mezcal

6. Pádraig Ó Tuama, In The Shelter

5. St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation

4. Sarah Quezada, Love Undocumented

3. Jo Nesbø, The Thirst

2. David Hollinger, Protestants Abroad

1. George Saunders, Tenth of December ★

90. Eileen Truax, We Built the Wall

89. Luci Shaw, Accompanied by Angels

88. Khalida Brohi, I Should Have Honor

87. Tania Runyon, What Will Soon Take Place

86. Edwidge Danticat, The Art of Death

85. Fleming Rutledge, Advent ★

84. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gmorning, Gnight!

83. Neil McCormick, Killing Bono

82. McKittrick & McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles ★

81. George Saunders, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip

80. Jamie Quatro, Fire Sermon

79. Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well

78. Katherine Paterson, My Brigadista Year

77. Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings

76. Sarah Manguso, Ongoingness

75. Lynsey Addario, Of Love & War

74. Carlin & Malet, Mandela and the General

73. George Saunders, Fox 8

72. Maggie Nelson, Bluets

71. David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon

70. Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here

69. Christian Wiman, He Held Radical Light

68. Eugene Peterson, Reversed Thunder

67. John McPhee, Draft No. 4

66. Scott Harrison, Thirst ★

65. N.T. Wright, For All the Saints?

64. Greil Marcus, Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010

63. John Lewis, March: Book Two

62. Óscar Romero, The Scandal of Redemption

61. Mary Karr, Now Go Out There (and Get Curious)

60. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, News of a Kidnapping

59. James Skillen, In Pursuit of Justice

58. David Callahan, The Givers

57. Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

56. Ada Limón, The Carrying: Poems

55. Chad Broughton, Boom, Bust, Exodus

54. Joan Didion, The White Album

53. Chad Bird, Night Driving

52. Héctor Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries

51. Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert

50. Philip Norman, Paul McCartney: The Life ★

49. Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers

48. Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is

47. Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See ★

46. Alberto Ledesma, Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer

45. Hannah Arendt, On Violence

44. Larry Eskridge, God's Forever Family

43. Alan Jacobs, How to Think

42. Austin Kleon, Newspaper Blackout

41. Mario Vargas Llosa, Sabers and Utopias ★

40. Jerald Podair, City of Dreams

39. Ron Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger ♻

38. Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars: Poems

37. Bennett & Davies, Encyclopedia Blazertannica

36. Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

35. Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer

34. Don Winslow, The Power of the Dog

33. Apricot Irving, The Gospel of Trees ★

32. Patti Smith, Auguries of Innocence

31. Creative Action Network, See America

30. Richard Mouw, When The Kings Come Marching In

29. Ned Bustard, ed., A Book for Hearts and Minds

28. Robert Hudson, The Monk's Record Player ★

27. Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit

26. N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope ★ ♻

25. Monica Hesse, American Fire

24. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

23. Raphael Honigstein, Bring the Noise

22. Francisco Cantú, The Line Becomes a River

21. Andy Crouch, Strong and Weak

20. Daniel Alarcón, The King is Always Above the People

19. Miranda & McCarter, Hamilton: The Revolution ★

18. Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason ★

17. Luis Castañeda, Spectacular Mexico

16. Madeleine L'Engle, Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?

15. Ted Oswald, Little Flower

14. Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelicals

13. Aaron Damiani, The Good of Giving Up

12. Sylvie Simmons, I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

11. Marilynne Robinson, The Givenness of Things

10. William Lawlor, Let's Go Down to the Beach

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

8. John Steinbeck, East of Eden ★

7. Marilyn McEntyre, A Long Letting Go ★

6. Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

5. John Perkins, Dream With Me

4. Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak

3. Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word

2. Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

1. Ted Gioia, Delta Blues ★

102. Teju Cole, Blind Spot ★

101. Tom Becker, Good Posture

100. Dennis Covington, Revelation

99. Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Reputations

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

97. Pollock & Van Reken, Third Culture Kids ♻

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

95. Lauren Markham, The Far Away Brothers ★

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

93. Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited

92. Alan Howard, In the Land of Eternal Spring

91. Billy Collins, The Art of Drowning

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

89. Ethan Coen, Almost an Evening

88. Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus ★

87. Patti Smith, Just Kids ★

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

85. Mohsin Hamid, Exit West ★

84. Doris Kearns Goodwin, Wait Till Next Year ★

83. Kristen Radtke, Imagine Wanting Only This

82. Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do

81. Frederick Buechner, A Crazy, Holy Grace

80. Mai Der Vang, Afterland

79. Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends ★

78. Henri Nouwen, A Spirituality of Fundraising

77. Robert Macfarlane, The Gifts of Reading

76. Stephen King, On Writing ★

75. J. Todd Billings, Rejoicing in Lament

74. Wendell Berry, It All Turns on Affection

73. Richard Mouw, Consulting the Faithful

72. Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing ★

71. Matt Eisenbrandt, Assassination of a Saint

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

69. Keith Law, Smart Baseball

68. Michka Assayas, Bono: In Conversation

67. Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues

66. Peter Greer & Chris Horst, Rooting for Rivals

65. Kyle David Bennett, Practices of Love ★

64. Emmy Pérez, With the River on Our Face

63. Wallace Shawn, Night Thoughts

62. Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

61. Art Thiel, Out of Left Field

60. Bauman, Soerens, & Smeir, Seeking Refuge

59. Eugene H. Peterson, As Kingfishers Catch Fire

58. David James Duncan, The Brothers K ★

57. Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts

56. Gary Kamiya, Cool Gray City of Love

55. Elijah Wald, The Blues

54. George W. Bush, Portraits of Courage

53. Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny ★

52. Paolo Bacigalupi, The Water Knife

51. Scott Cairns, The End of Suffering

50. Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run ★

49. Tomáš Halík, I Want You to Be

48. Brendan Koerner, The Skies Belong to Us

47. William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

46. Dr. Suits, Oh, the Meetings You’ll Go To!: A Parody

45. Sarah Glidden, Rolling Blackouts

44. Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days

43. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele

42. C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed ♻

41. Sheridan Voysey, Resurrection Year

40. Amy Peterson, Dangerous Territory

39. Marilyn Gardner, Between Worlds ★

38. Paul Elie, The Life You Save May Be Your Own ★

37. Jess Archer, Finding Home with the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Billy Graham

36. Molly McCully Brown, The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded

35. James Keating, ed., The Deacon Reader

34. Rich Cohen, The Fish That Ate the Whale ★

33. Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir ★

32. Antoine Leiris, You Will Not Have My Hate

31. Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son ★

30. Joan Didion, South and West

29. Franz Wright, Walking to Martha’s Vineyard: Poems

28. Lindbergh & Miller, The Only Rule Is It Has to Work ★

27. Timothy Keller, Generous Justice

26. Michael Wear, Reclaiming Hope

25. Langston Hughes, The Dream Keeper

24. George Saunders, Congratulations, By the Way

23. Koons Crooks, Iterating Grace

22. Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary ★

21. Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen

20. Henri Nouwen, Love, Henri

19. Richard Beeman, ed., The Declaration of Independence and Constitution

18. C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm

17. Ben Lerner, The Hatred of Poetry

16. Skila Brown, Caminar

15. Monsma & Carlton-Thies, Free to Serve

14. Nick Cave, The Sick Bag Song

13. Dan Raley, Pitchers of Beer

12. Hennessey & McConnell, The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation

11. Alain de Botton, The News: A User’s Manual

10. Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth

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

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

7. Jeremy Beer, The Philanthropic Revolution

6. Michael Card, A Sacred Sorrow

5. Kevin Guilfoile, A Drive into the Gap

4. Jonathan Tepperman, The Fix

3. Katelyn Beaty, A Woman’s Place

2. Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Secure the Soul

1. Richard Mouw, Praying at Burger King

101. Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory ★ ♻

100. Johnny Cash, Forever Words

99. Guy Delisle, Pyongyang

98. Mary Oliver, Dog Songs: Poems

97. Dave Isay, Callings

96. N.T. Wright, Advent for Everyone

95. Paul Buckley, Classic Penguin: Cover to Cover

94. Jon Wells, Shipwrecked

93. Robert Hilburn, Johnny Cash: The Life ★

92. Herman Bavinck, Calvin and Common Grace

91. Eugene Peterson, The Wisdom of Each Other

90. Richard Mouw, Adventures in Evangelical Civility

89. Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

88. Andrés Neuman, How to Travel Without Seeing ★

87. Leonard Cohen, Fifteen Poems

86. Flannery O’Connor, The Cartoons

85. Billy Collins, The Rain in Portugal: New Poems

84. Elijah Wald, Dylan Goes Electric! ★

83. Joby Warrick, Black Flags

82. Christopher Wright, The Five Marks of Mission

81. Makoto Fujimura, Silence and Beauty

80. John Baillie, A Diary of Private Prayer

79. Maisie Ward, St. Francis of Assisi

78. Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain ★

77. Peggy Swager, Boston Terrier

76. Offutt, Bronkema, et al., Advocating for Justice ★

75. Barton Swaim, The Speechwriter

74. Grady Gammage, Jr., The Future of the Suburban City ★

73. Rowan Williams, Tokens of Trust

72. Neil Young, Waging Heavy Peace

71. Eugene Peterson, Leap Over a Wall

70. Sunil Yapa, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist ★

69. Wendell Berry, The Mad Farmer Poems

68. Jo Nesbø, Blood on Snow

67. Carl Wilkens, I’m Not Leaving

66. Daniel Alarcón, At Night We Walk in Circles

65. Timothy Keller, Prayer

64. J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy

63. Robert Darden, Nothing but Love in God’s Water, Vol. 1 ★

62. Kim Barker, The Taliban Shuffle

61. Michel Houellebecq, Submission

60. Aaron Belz, The Bird Hoverer: Poems

59. Martin Marty, October 31, 1517

58. Emma Cline, The Girls

57. Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

56. Joe Posnanski, The Soul of Baseball

55. Miroslav Volf & Ryan McAnnally-Linz, Public Faith in Action

54. Benet Tvedten, How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job

53. Matt Zoller Seitz, The Wes Anderson Collection

52. Matthew Avery Sutton, American Apocalypse

51. David Halberstam, The Teammates

50. Ann Handley, Everybody Writes

49. Daniel Hernández-Salazar & Oscar Iván Maldonado, So That All Shall Know

48. Marjane Satrapi, Chicken with Plums

47. Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer

46. Bethany Hoang & Kristen Johnson, The Justice Calling ★

45. Sara Pennypacker, Pax ★

44. Beach & Burch, eds., Baseball

43. Franz Wright, God’s Silence

42. Mac McClelland, Irritable Hearts

41. John McMillian, Beatles vs. Stones ★

40. Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind ★

39. Peter Leithart, Shining Glory

38. Pope Francis, Laudato Si’

37. John Eldredge, Fathered by God

36. Don Mee Choi, Hardly War

35. Craig Robinson, Flip Flop Fly Ball

34. Justin McGuirk, Radical Cities

33. Jon Talton, A Brief History of Phoenix ★

32. Cristina García, The Lesser Tragedy of Death: Poems

31. Santiago Roncagliolo, Red April: A Novel

30. Barry Svrluga, The Grind

29. J.I. Packer, The Thirty-Nine Articles

28. Alberto Ríos, Whispering to Fool the Wind: Poems

27. Bob Pritchett, Start Next Now

26. Mary Karr, Viper Rum: Poems

25. Óscar Martínez, A History of Violence ★

24. James K.A. Smith, You Are What You Love ★

23. Dan Quisenberry, On Days Like This: Poems

22. Roger Angell, Let Me Finish

21. Pär Lagerkvist, Barabbas

20. Molly Knight, The Best Team Money Can Buy

19. Slade, Marsh, Heltzel, eds., Mobilizing for the Common Good

18. Robert Benson, The Game

17. David Allen Sibley, Birding Basics

16. Philip Bess, City Baseball Magic ★

15. Christian Smith, Resisting Reagan ★

14. Lawrence Ritter, The Glory of Their Times ★

13. Shusaku Endo, Silence ★ ♻

12. Aaron Belz, Glitter Bomb: Poems

11. Bob Mankoff, ed., The New Yorker Book of Baseball Cartoons

10. N.T. Wright, Revelation for Everyone

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

8. William Wyckoff, How to Read the American West ★

7. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

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

5. Rod Dreher, How Dante Can Save Your Life

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

3. Sarah Arthur, Light Upon Light

2. César Aira, The Literary Conference

1. Don Winslow, The Cartel: A Novel

103. Chris Hoke, Wanted

102. Douglas R. Gilbert & Dave Marsh, Forever Young

101. Ric Edelman, Rescue Your Money

100. Jonathan Mahler, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning

99. Eugene Peterson, Where Your Treasure Is

98. Richard Mouw, Political Evangelism

97. Guy Delisle, Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City

96. Gerson, Summers, & Thompson, Unleashing Opportunity

95. E.B. White, Here is New York

94. Brin-Jonathan Butler, The Domino Diaries

93. Samuel Wells & Abigail Kocher, Shaping the Prayers of the People

92. Daniel Alarcón, City of Clowns

91. Åsne Seierstad, One of Us

90. Rowan Williams, The Other Mountain

89. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude ★

88. Stephen Offutt, New Centers of Global Evangelicalism in Latin America and Africa

87. Mookie Wilson & Erik Sherman, Mookie

86. Calvin Seerveld, Rainbows for the Fallen World

85. Billy Collins, Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems

84. Jon Pessah, The Game

83. Dan DeLillo, Pafko at the Wall: A Novella

82. Walter Brueggemann, Sabbath as Resistance

81. Todd Hartch, The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity

80. Joshua Ryan Butler, The Skeletons in God’s Closet

79. Pablo Neruda, On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poems of the Sea

78. J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives

77. Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

76. Rowan Williams, Writing in the Dust

75. Alberto Álvaro Ríos, Sleeping on Fists

74. Wendell Berry, Entries: Poems

73. Eugene Peterson, Answering God ★

72. Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Lovers on All Saints’ Day: Stories

71. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

70. Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice, Reconciling All Things

69. Denise Levertov, Breathing the Water: Poems

68. Roger Angell, The Summer Game

67. Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire, Vol. 3: Century of the Wind

66. Billy Collins, Ballistics: Poems

65. Maya Angelou, His Day is Done

64. George Marsden, A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards

63. Timothy Keller, Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

62. C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

61. John Updike, Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu ★

60. Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City ★

59. Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow

58. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

57. Mark Noll, From Every Tribe and Nation

56. Bill Madden, 1954

55. Jorge Luis Borges, A Universal History of Iniquity

54. D.T. Max, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story

53. Mary Jo Bang,  The Last Two Seconds: Poems

52. Zadie Smith,  Changing My Mind

51. Henri Nouwen, Discernment

50. Chuck Collins, Reformation Anglicanism

49. Makoto Fujimura, Culture Care

48. George Will, Men at Work

47. Walker Percy, The Moviegoer: A Novel

46. Scott Sauls, Jesus Outside the Lines

45. Billy Collins, Nine Horses: Poems

44. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, The Last Interview

43. Rod Dreher, The Little Way of Ruthie Leming

42. Franz Wright, Wheeling Motel: Poems

41. Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk

40. Daniel Alarcón, Lost City Radio: A Novel

39. Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate

38. Shirley and Rudy Nelson, The Risk of Returning: A Novel ★

37. Vincent Bacote, The Political Disciple

36. J. Richard Middleton, A New Heaven and a New Earth

35. Alberto Ríos, The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body: Poems

34. Maurice Sendak, My Brother’s Book

33. Peter Thiel, Zero to One

32. Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

31. Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World ★

30. Richard Mouw, Called to the Life of the Mind

29. Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

28. Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

27. Seth Godin, What To Do When It’s Your Turn

26. Thomas Boswell, Why Time Begins on Opening Day

25. Stanley Hauerwas, Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir

24. Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Protestantism in Guatemala

23. Wesley Hill, Washed and Waiting

22. Héctor Tobar, Deep Down Dark

21. Oliver O’Donovan, Common Objects of Love

20. Richard Rodriguez, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography

19. Grandin, Levenson, & Oglesby, eds., The Guatemala Reader ★

18. Ruth Haley Barton, Life Together in Christ

17. Elmer Hernán Rodríguez Campos, Under the Sour Sun

16. Stephen L. Carter, Back Channel: A Novel

15. Steensland & Goff, eds., The New Evangelical Social Engagement

14. Scott Cairns, Idiot Psalms: New Poems

13. Walter Brueggemann, Spirituality of the Psalms

12. Martin Luther King, Jr., The Autobiography ★

11. Mark Fainaru-Wada & Lance Williams, Game of Shadows

10. Richard Mouw, The Smell of Sawdust

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

8. Jonah Keri, Up, Up, & Away

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

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

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

4. Bruce Cockburn, Rumours of Glory: A Memoir

3. Miroslav Volf, Against the Tide ★

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

1. Christian Wiman, Once in the West: Poems

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

119. John Lewis, March: Book One

118. A. Bartlett Giamatti,  A Great and Glorious Game

117. Zachary Lazar, I Pity the Poor Immigrant: A Novel

116. Henri Nouwen, Gracias ★

115. Charles Wright, A Short History of the Shadow: Poems

114. N.T. Wright, For All God’s Worth

113. Steve Almond, Against Football

112. Donald Hall, The Painted Bed: Poems

111. St. Augustine, Confessions ★

110. Mark Pry, Oasis in the Valley

109. Christopher Webber, ed., Love Came Down

108. Melanie Ross, Evangelical Versus Liturgical?

107. Carl F.H. Henry, The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism

106. Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy ★

105. Alister Chapman, Godly Ambition ★

104. Mark Labberton, Called

103. Ernesto Guevara, Back on the Road

102. Lesslie Newbigin, Truth To Tell

101. Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins: A Novel

100. Donald Lewis & Richard V. Pierard, eds., Global Evangelicalism

99. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mortal Beauty, God’s Grace

98. Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?

97. Francis Spufford, Unapologetic

96. Molly Worthen, Apostles of Reason ★

95. Eric Jacobsen, The Space Between

94. Mariano Rivera, The Closer

93. Christian Wiman, Every Riven Thing: Poems ★

92. John Thorn, Baseball: Our Game

91. Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism ★

90. Robert Melikian, Vanishing Phoenix

89. Bruce Wydick, The Taste of Many Mountains

88. James K.A. Smith, How (Not) To Be Secular

87. John M. Perkins, With Justice For All

86. Victor Maymudes, Another Side of Bob Dylan

85. A. Bartlett Giamatti, Take Time For Paradise

84. Ken Myers, All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes

83. Chris Horst & Peter Greer, Entrepreneurship for Human Flourishing

82. Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

81. Rowan Williams, Being Christian

80. Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding: A Novel

79. M. Daniel Carroll R., Christians at the Border ★

78. Alan Jacobs, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

77. Kevin Powers, Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting: Poems

76. Alain de Botton, A Week at the Airport ★

75. George Will, A Nice Little Place on the North Side

74. Sara Miles, City of God

73. John Howe & Sam Pascoe, Our Anglican Heritage

72. Ted Kooser, Delights & Shadows: Poems

71. Jocelyn Glei, ed., Manage Your Day-to-Day

70. Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers

69. Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

68. George Kalantzis & Gregory Lee, eds., Christian Political Witness

67. Óscar Martínez, The Beast

66. Louise Glück, The Triumph of Achilles

65. William Easterly, The Tyranny of Experts ★

64. Mario Vargas Llosa, In Praise of Reading and Fiction

63. Spencer Reece, The Road to Emmaus: Poems

62. James K.A. Smith, The Devil Reads Derrida: And Other Essays

61. George Herbert, The Complete English Poems

60. Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow ★ ♻

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

58. Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies ★

57. Justin Holcomb, Know the Creeds and Councils

56. James Skillen, The Good of Politics

55. Wendell Berry, Leavings: Poems

54. Edwidge Danticat, Create Dangerously ★

53. T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

52. Nicholas Wolterstorff, Journey Toward Justice

51. Billy Corgan, Blinking with Fists: Poems

50. Teju Cole, Every Day Is for the Thief

49. C.S. Lewis, Surprised By Joy

48. Clay Thompson, Valley 101

47. G.K. Chesterton, The Wild Knight

46. N.T. Wright, The Lord and His Prayer

45. Sparks, Soerens, & Friesen, The New Parish

44. Lucille Clifton, Mercy

43. Thomas McKenzie, The Anglican Way ★

42. Eugene Peterson, Practice Resurrection

41. Nina Munk, The Idealist

40. Aaron Renn, The Urban State of Mind

39. Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

38. Kay Ryan, Say Uncle

37. Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave

36. Michael Gilmour, The Gospel According to Bob Dylan

35. Alma Guillermoprieto, The Heart That Bleeds ★

34. Henri Nouwen, The Wounded Healer

33. Julia Alvarez, The Other Side

32. Seth Godin, Tribes

31. Roger Angell, Game Time: A Baseball Companion ★

30. Luci Shaw, Adventure of Ascent

29. N.T. Wright, The Case for the Psalms ★

28. Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems

27. Greg Pennoyer & Gregory Wolfe, eds., God For Us

26. Martín Espada, The Trouble Ball: Poems

25. John Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World ♻

24. Madeleine L’Engle, A Cry Like a Bell: Poems

23. Richard Mouw, He Shines In All That’s Fair ★ ♻

22. Annie Dillard, The Writing Life ★

21. Steven Garber, Visions of Vocation

20. Graham Tomlin, Looking Through the Cross

19. Billy Collins, Questions About Angels: Poems

18. Addie Zierman, When We Were On Fire

17. Peter Greer & Chris Horst, Mission Drift

16. Wendell Berry, Given: Poems

15. Lesslie Newbigin, Signs Amid the Rubble

14. Henri Nouwen, Behold the Beauty of the Lord

13. Alan Jacobs, The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography ★

12. Gary Haugen & Victor Butros, The Locust Effect ★

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

10. Benjamin Myers, Christ the Stranger ★

9. Susan VanZanten, Reading a Different Story

8. Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow: A Novel

7. Os Guinness, The Global Public Square

6. William Cavanaugh, Being Consumed

5. Todd Hunter, The Accidental Anglican

4. J.I. Packer, Weakness is the Way ★

3. St. John Chrysostom, On Wealth & Poverty

2. Eugene Peterson, Holy Luck: Poems

1. Edward Gilbreath, Birmingham Revolution

100. G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

99. John Stott, Balanced Christianity

98. Flannery O’Connor, A Prayer Journal ★

97. Seamus Heaney, trans., Beowulf

96. Thomas McKenzie, The Harpooner: An Advent Devotional

95. Timothy Keller, God Loves Cities

94. Stephen Mansfield, The Search For God and Guinness

93. N.T. Wright, Simply Jesus

92. Paula Huston, A Land Without Sin: A Novel ★

91. Mark Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis ★

90. Lamin Sanneh, Summoned from the Margin

89. Jo Nesbø, The Snowman: A Novel

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

87. St. Augustine, The City of God ★

86. James K.A. Smith, Discipleship in the Present Tense

85. Graves, Blanchard, & Kwan, From Concept to Scale

84. Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies ★

83. Jim Belcher, In Search of Deep Faith ★

82. Michel Cool, Francis: A New World Pope

81. J.I. Packer & N.T. Wright, Anglican Evangelical Identity

80. Wayne Gordon & John Perkins, Making Neighborhoods Whole

79. Jeremy Courtney, Preemptive Love ★

78. Mark Chapman, Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction

77. Craig Bartholomew & Michael Goheen, The Drama of Scripture

76. Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss ★

75. J.I. Packer, An Introduction to Covenant Theology

74. Tim Chester, Good News to the Poor

73. Arthur Bennett, ed., The Valley of Vision

72. John Piper, The Gadarene

71. Peter Greer & Anna Haggard, The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good

70. Cormac McCarthy, The Road ★

69. James K.A. Smith, Imagining the Kingdom ★

68. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Psalms

67. Chi-Dooh Li, Buy This Land

66. Andy Crouch, Playing God ★

65. Franklin Foer, How Soccer Explains The World ★ ♻

64. Robert Webber, Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail ★

63. Timothy Keller, King’s Cross

62. Ted Oswald, Because We Are

61. Makoto Fujimura, River Grace

60. McKnight & Modica, eds., Jesus Is Lord, Caesar Is Not

59. Michael Lewis, Moneyball

58. John Mackey & Raj Sisodia, Conscious Capitalism

57. Anthony Bradley, Black and Tired

56. Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks

55. Juan González, Harvest of Empire

54. Christian Reformed Church, Ecumenical Creeds & Reformed Confessions

53. Jim Belcher, Deep Church

52. Richard Mouw, Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport

51. N.T. Wright, How God Became King

50. James K.A. Smith, Letters to a Young Calvinist ★

49. Cain, Postlewait, & Thomson, Emergency Sex

48. David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea

47. Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed ★

46. Justo González, Church History

45. Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm

44. Abraham Kuyper, Rooted & Grounded

43. Anthony Bradley, ed., Aliens in the Promised Land ★

42. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

41. David Dark, Everyday Apocalypse

40. Johnson & Larsen, eds., Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture

39. Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

38. Samuel Rodriguez, The Lamb’s Agenda

37. Hugh Heclo, On Thinking Institutionally

36. Mae Elise Cannon, Just Spirituality

35. Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books

34. Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire, Vol. 2: Faces & Masks

33. Miroslav Volf, Exclusion & Embrace ★

32. Samuel Escobar, The New Global Mission ♻

31. Henri Nouwen, Love in a Fearful Land ★

30. Kris Rocke & Joel Van Dyke, Geography of Grace

29. T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

28. Francisco Goldman, The Art of Political Murder

27. Various, Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter

26. Timothy Keller, The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness

25. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, The World Is Not Ours to Save ★

24. Lauren Winner, Still

23. Bob Goudzwaard, Aid for the Overdeveloped West

22. Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin ★

21. Francis Chan, Multiply

20. Andy Crouch, Culture Making ★ ♻

19. Julia Cameron, ed., Christ Our Reconciler: Gospel, Church, World

18. Brad Feld, Startup Communities

17. Michael Hyatt, Platform

16. Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus ★

15. Cornelius Plantinga, Jr., Engaging God’s World

14. Henri Nouwen, Making All Things New

13. Boice & Ryken, The Doctrines of Grace

12. Chester Nez, Code Talker

11. Kevin Hendricks, 137 Books in One Year

10. Christopher Heuertz, Unexpected Gifts

9. Erin Kissane, The Elements of Content Strategy

8. Wayne Grudem, Business for the Glory of God

7. Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice

6. Patrick & Carter, For the City

5. James Davison Hunter, To Change The World ★

4. John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down

3. Eugene Peterson, Take & Read

2. Edith Schaeffer, L’Abri

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

120. Marilynne Robinson, Gilead ★

119. John Baillie, A Diary of Private Prayer

118. Christopher J.H. Wright, The God I Don’t Understand

117. David Swartz, Moral Minority ★

116. Eugene Peterson, The Christmas Troll

115. Trip Lee, The Good Life

114. Heath & Heath, Made to Stick

113. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

112. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God is in the Manger

111. Daniel Hernandez, Down and Delirious in Mexico City

110. Kristina Halvorson, Content Strategy for the Web

109. Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Time

108. Mark Bowden, Killing Pablo

107. Timothy Keller, Every Good Endeavor★

106. Jo Nesbø, Headhunters

105. Abraham Kuyper, The Problem of Poverty

104. Foster & Smith, eds., Devotional Classics

103. David Taylor, ed., For the Beauty of the Church

102. Richard Mouw, When the Kings Come Marching In ★

101. Roland Hoksbergen, Serving God Globally

100. Robert Brenneman, Homies & Hermanos ★

99. Miroslav Volf, A Public Faith ★

98. Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible ★

97. Frederick Buechner, The Sacred Journey

96. Robert Lupton, Toxic Charity ★

95. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

94. Andi Ashworth, Real Love for Real Life

93. Eugene Peterson, Run With The Horses

92. Hugh Whelchel, How Then Should We Work?

91. Jo Nesbø, The Redbreast

90. R. Paul Stevens, Work Matters

89. Tom Wooten, We Shall Not Be Moved

88. Nouwen, McNeill, and Morrison, Compassion ♻

87. Adam & Christine Jeske, This Ordinary Adventure

86. C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity ★ ♻

85. Chaim Potok, My Name is Asher Lev ★

84. Joseph Lowery, Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land

83. Amy Black, Beyond Left and Right

82. Marva Dawn, In the Beginning, God

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

80. C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory ♻

79. Eugene Peterson, Answering God ★

78. Os Guinness, A Free People’s Suicide

77. Lesslie Newbigin, A Walk Through the Bible

76. René Padilla, Mission Between the Times ★

75. Wendell Berry, The Hidden Wound

74. Ed Stetzer, Subversive Kingdom

73. Christopher J.H. Wright, The Mission of God’s People

72. John Steinbeck, The Pearl ★

71. Joe Scarborough, The Last Best Hope

70. Seymour Reit, Behind Rebel Lines

69. Mark Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

68. James McBride, The Color of Water

67. Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods

66. Robert Audi, Democratic Authority & The Separation of Church & State

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

64. Marie Dennis, Óscar Romero: Reflections on His Life and Writings

63. John Piper, Let the Nations be Glad ♻

62. Frederick Buechner, Whistling in the Dark ♻

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

60. Nicholas Wolterstorff, Hearing the Call

59. Kevin Roose, The Unlikely Disciple

58. Makoto Fujimura, Refractions

57. Eugene Peterson, Tell It Slant ★

56. Amy Sherman, Kingdom Calling ★

55. Escobar & Driver, Christian Mission and Social Justice

54. Hefley & Hefley, Uncle Cam

53. Clara Rojas, Captive

52. Larry Rohter, Brazil on the Rise

51. Chuck DeGroat, Leaving Egypt

50. Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana

49. Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert, When Helping Hurts ★ ♻

48. John Stott, The Radical Disciple

47. James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom ★

46. Mark Twain, The War Prayer

45. Ian Morgan Cron, Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale

44. Sheldon Annis, God and Production in a Guatemalan Town

43. Richard Mouw, Uncommon Decency ★

42. Lesslie Newbigin, Proper Confidence ★

41. William Wilberforce, Real Christianity

40. Bob Goff, Love Does

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

38. Libby Hoffman & Sara Terry, Fambul Tok ★

37. Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

36. David Kinnaman, You Lost Me

35. Bryant Myers, Walking with the Poor ★ ♻

34. Eugene Peterson, Living the Resurrection

33. Steven Garber, The Fabric of Faithfulness

32. Albert Wolters, Creation Regained ★

31. Mark Kurlansky, The Eastern Stars

30. A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God ♻

29. Henri Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son

28. Gerry Hadden, Never the Hope Itself

27. James Douglass, Gandhi and the Unspeakable

26. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together ★ ♻

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

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

23. Scot McKnight, Embracing Grace

22. Deb Olin Unferth, Revolution

21. Timothy Keller, King’s Cross

20. Gabe Lyons, The Next Christians

19. Steve Monsma, Healing for a Broken World

18. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Meditations on the Cross

17. Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food

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

15. Abraham Kuyper, Wisdom & Wonder

14. J.I. Packer, Knowing God

13. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Clandestine in Chile

12. Teju Cole, Open City ★

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

10. John Stott, Basic Christianity

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

8. Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith ★

7. Andrew Ross, Bird on Fire

6. Richard Twiss, One Church, Many Tribes

5. Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage

4. Miroslav Volf, A Public Faith ★

3. John Stott, The Beatitudes

2. Darrow Miller, Discipling Nations

1. Allister Sparks & Mpho Tutu, Tutu: Authorized

95. Walter Brueggemann, Journey to the Common Good ★

94. Ernest Hemingway, The Torrents of Spring

93. Yann Martel, Beatrice and Virgil: A Novel

92. Nancy Guthrie, ed., Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus

91. Lauren Winner, Mudhouse Sabbath

90. Gary Haugen, Just Courage ★

89. Frederick Buechner, The Wizard’s Tide

88. Ron Sider, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience

87. Francis Schaeffer, Two Contents, Two Realities

86. Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

85. Ramor Ryan, Zapatista Spring

84. Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One ★

83. Dominique Moïsi, The Geopolitics of Emotion

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

81. Dave Eggers, Zeitoun

80. Antonio Skarmeta, The Postman

79. Michael Card, Scribbling in the Sand

78. Richard Mouw, He Shines In All That’s Fair ★

77. Robert Lupton, Toxic Charity ★

76. David Platt, Radical Together

75. N.T. Wright, After You Believe ★

74. Ian Morgan Cron, Jesus, My Father, The CIA and Me

73. Mario Vargas Llosa, The Storyteller

72. A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy ♻

71. Richard Foster, ed., Devotional Classics ♻

70. Chinua Achebe, Chike and the River

69. Claire Diaz-Ortiz, Twitter for Good

68. Medardo Gomez, Fire Against Fire

67. Malcolm Muggeridge, Something Beautiful for God

66. Eugene Peterson, The Pastor: A Memoir ★

65. James Bryan Smith, Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven ★ ♻

64. Scott Todd, Fast Living

63. Lauren Winner, Real Sex ♻

62. Rich Mullins, The World As I Remember It ♻

61. Nicholas Wolterstorff, Until Justice and Peace Embrace ★

60. Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore

59. Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus ★

58. Jon Krakauer, Three Cups of Deceit

57. Skye Jethani, With

56. George Orwell, Animal Farm

55. Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner, City of Man

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

53. Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart ★

52. Frederick Buechner, The Hungering Dark ♻

51. Tim Suttle, An Evangelical Social Gospel?

50. Henri Nouwen, Creative Ministry

49. Paul Farmer, Haiti After the Earthquake

48. John Perkins and Charles Marsh, Welcoming Justice

47. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together ★ ♻

46. John Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World ★

45. Kent Annan, After Shock

44. Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

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

42. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

41. Alice Walker, Overcoming Speechlessness

40. Kevin Lewis O’Neill, City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala

39. Charles C. Mann, 1491

38. Walter Wink, Jesus and Nonviolence

37. Os Guinness, The Call

36. Conor Grennan, Little Princes

35. G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy ♻

34. Francis Schaeffer, The Mark of the Christian

33. Eric Greitens, The Heart and the Fist

32. Rick Steves, Travel as a Political Act

31. Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital

30. Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

29. C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves ★ ♻

28. Michael J. Sandel, Justice

27. Adam Taylor, Mobilizing Hope

26. C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce ♻

25. Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer

24. Nancy Guthrie, ed., Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross

23. Rob Bell, Love Wins

22. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

21. Frederick Buechner, Whistling in the Dark ♻

20. John M. Perkins, Beyond Charity

19. Stanley Meisler, Kofi Annan

18. Mother Teresa, In My Own Words

17. June Carolyn Erlick, Disappeared: A Journalist Silenced

16. Nora Gallagher, The Sacred Meal

15. Joan Didion, Salvador

14. Gene Edwards, A Tale of Three Kings

13. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

12. Alma Guillermoprieto, Looking for History ★

11. Phillip W. Keller, A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23

10. A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

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

8. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, The Wisdom of Stability

7. John Paul Lederach, Conflict Transformation

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

5. Christian Buckley, Humanitarian Jesus

4. Michael Casey, Che’s Afterlife ★

3. Timothy Keller, Generous Justice ★

2. Scott Bessenecker, ed., Living Mission

1. Elvia Alvarado, Don’t Be Afraid Gringo

101. G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi ★

100. Brian Walsh, ed., The Advent of Justice

99. Matthew Soerens & Jenny Hwang, Welcoming the Stranger ★

98. Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath ★

97. Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven

96. Rob Bell, Drops Like Stars

95. C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

94. Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ★

93. Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy

92. Jayakumar Christian, God of the Empty-Handed ★ ♻

91. Maisie Ward, St. Francis of Assisi

90. Scot McKnight, Embracing Grace

89. Jacqueline Novogratz, The Blue Sweater

88. Eduardo Galeano, Voices of Time

87. Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street

86. David Platt, Radical

85. Chaim Potok, The Chosen ★

84. Gustavo Gutierrez, We Drink From Our Own Wells

83. Hector Tobar, The Tattooed Soldier ★

82. Anne Jackson, Permission to Speak Freely

81. Richard Stearns, The Hole in our Gospel ♻

80. Christopher Ricks, Dylan’s Visions of Sin

79. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

78. Nouwen, McNeill, and Morrison, Compassion

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

76. Terry Greene Sterling, Illegal

75. Daniel Wilkinson, Silence on the Mountain ★

74. Tom Sine, Taking Discipleship Seriously

73. Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky

72. Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood

71. Francis Schaeffer, True Spirituality

70. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

69. Alan Andrews, ed., The Kingdom Life

68. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics ★

67. Martin Luther King, Jr., A Call to Conscience ★

66. Daniel Harris, Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic

65. Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus ★

64. Corrie ten Boom, Prison Letters

63. Chris Seay, The Tao of Enron

62. Wendell Berry, Citizenship Papers: Essays

61. Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark ♻

60. Don Richardson, Peace Child

59. John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman

58. A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically

57. Henri Nouwen, ¡Gracias! A Latin American Journal ★

56. Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

55. Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy

54. Rachel Held Evans, Evolving in Monkey Town

53. Francis Chan, Forgotten God

52. Terry McCoy, ed., Cuba on the Verge

51. Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community ★

50. Michael Reid, Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America’s Soul

49. Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness ★

48. Eduardo Galeano, Soccer In Sun and Shadow ★

47. V.S. Naipaul, Reading & Writing: A Personal Account

46. Jay Bakker, Son of a Preacher Man

45. Sider, Perkins, Gordon, Tizon, Linking Arms, Linking Lives

44. Jerry Bridges, The Fruitful Life

43. Michael Kinsley, Creative Capitalism

42. Tim Morey, Embodying Our Faith

41. Henri Nouwen, Love in a Fearful Land ★

40. Mahatma Gandhi, The Essential Gandhi

39. Henri Nouwen, The Wounded Healer

38. Eric Michael Bryant, Peppermint-Filled Piñatas

37. Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Christ in a Poncho

36. Rod White, A Circle of Hope

35. Paul Richardson, A Certain Risk

34. Amin Maalouf, In The Name of Identity

33. Leonard Sweet & Frank Viola, Jesus Manifesto

32. Tony Campolo, Choose Love Not Power

31. Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

30. John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus

29. Jonathan Acuff, Stuff Christians Like

28. John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

27. Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics

26. Eugene Peterson, The Jesus Way ★

25. Stan Rowland, Multiplying Light and Truth

24. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

23. Howard Zehr, The Little Book of Restorative Justice

22. Greg Grandin, Empire’s Workshop

21. Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What ♻

20. Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory ★

19. David Livermore, Serving With Eyes Wide Open

18. Mike Berg & Paul Pretiz, The Gospel People of Latin America

17. Jonathan Bonk, Missions and Money

16. Newt Gingrich, A Contract with the Earth

15. Richard Foster, Streams of Living Water ★

14. Hooman Majd, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ

13. Raj Patel, Stuffed & Starved

12. J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

11. Jimmy Carter, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid

10. Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains ★

9. Chris Heuertz, Simple Spirituality

8. Chris Abani, Graceland

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

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

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

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

3. Ben Lowe, Green Revolution

2. Orlando Costas, Christ Outside the Gate ★

1. Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings ★

102. Tom Zoellner, The Heartless Stone

101. Eduardo Galeano, The Open Veins of Latin America

100. Natan Sharansky, The Case for Democracy

99. Salman Rushdie, The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

98. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom

97. Wangari Maathai, Unbowed

96. Ron Sider, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience

95. Henri Nouwen, The Way of the Heart

94. Óscar Romero, The Violence of Love ★ ♻

93. Philip Jenkins, The New Faces of Christianity

92. Gary Haugen, Just Courage ★

91. Rigoberta Menchu, I, Rigoberta Menchu

90. Henri Nouwen, With Open Hands

89. David Elliot Cohen, What Matters

88. Louise Carey, The Hedge People

87. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship ★ ♻

86. Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power ★

85. Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point

84. Bernard Adeney, Strange Virtues

83. Shane Hipps, Flickering Pixels

82. Rob Bell, Drops Like Stars

81. McLaren, Padilla, & Seeber, The Justice Project

80. Emmanuel Katongole, Mirror to the Church

79. Richard N. Bolles, What Color is Your Parachute?

78. Rodney Clapp, A Peculiar People

77. Alan Paton, Instrument of Thy Peace

76. Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

75. Heewon Chang, Autoethnography as Method

74. Paul Hiebert, Anthropological Insights for Missionaries

73. Billy Collins, The Trouble With Poetry: and Other Poems

72. Robert Lupton, Theirs is the Kingdom ★ ♻

71. Scott Marshall, Restless Pilgrim: Bob Dylan

70. Gary Thomas, The Beautiful Fight

69. Jim Wooten, We Are All The Same

68. Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life ★

67. Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest

66. Corbett & Fikkert, When Helping Hurts ★

65. Rita Marley, No Woman No Cry

64. Joel C. Hunter, A New Kind of Conservative

63. Jim Cymbala, Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire

62. Azadeh Moaveni, Lipstick Jihad

61. Rodney Stark, The Rise of Christianity

60. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together ★ ♻

59. Rob Bell & Don Golden, Jesus Wants to Save Christians ♻

58. Todd Komarnicki, War: A Novel

57. N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope ★

56. Tony Hall, Changing the Face of Hunger

55. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns ★

54. C.J. Mahaney, The Cross Centered Life

53. Brother Andrew, Secret Believers

52. Leonard Sweet, The Three Hardest Words

51. Frederick Buechner, Whistling in the Dark

50. Mark Noll, The New Shape of World Christianity

49. Robert Benson, In Constant Prayer

48. Soong-Chan Rah, The Next Evangelicalism

47. Scot McKnight, 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed

46. Richard Stearns, The Hole in Our Gospel

45. Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World

44. Yann Martel, Life of Pi ★

43. Phyllis Tickle, The Great Emergence

42. Rob Bell, Sex God

41. Shirin Taber, Muslims Next Door

40. Margaret Feinberg, The Sacred Echo

39. Paul Rusesabagina, An Ordinary Man

38. Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid

37. P.J. O’Rourke, Parliament of Whores

36. William Dyrness, The Earth is God’s

35. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, My Year Inside Radical Islam

34. Francis Chan, Crazy Love

33. John H. Yoder, The Christian Witness to the State ♻

32. Desmond Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness

31. Richard Foster, Spiritual Classics

30. Robin Kirk, More Terrible Than Death

29. Desmond Tutu, God Has a Dream

28. Hernando De Soto, The Other Path

27. Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis

26. Karen Spears Zacharias, After The Flag Has Been Folded

25. Tom Sine, Mustard Seed vs. McWorld

24. Mark Miller, Experiential Storytelling

23. John H. Yoder, The Christian Witness to the State

22. Hemfelt, Minirth, & Meier, Love is a Choice

21. Hauerwas & Vanier, Living Gently in a Violent World

20. David Bornstein, How to Change the World

19. Mary Anderson, Do No Harm

18. Richard Foster, Devotional Classics

17. Ron Sider, Churches That Make a Difference

16. Os Guinness, Unspeakable

15. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, New Monasticism

14. Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace ♻

13. M. Daniel Carroll R., Christians at the Border ★

12. C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves ★ ♻

11. Wendy Murray, A Mended and Broken Heart ★

10. Timothy Keller, The Prodigal God

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

8. Jim Wallis, The Great Awakening

7. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel

6. Eboo Patel, Acts of Faith

5. Ernesto “Che” Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries

4. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart ★

3. Frederick Buechner, Telling The Truth ★

2. Schlesinger & Kinzer, Bitter Fruit

1. Eugene Peterson, Eat This Book ★

85. DeYoung & Kluck, Why We’re Not Emergent

84. Tony Jones, Pray

83. Mortenson & Relin, Three Cups of Tea

82. Cathleen Falsani, Sin Boldly

81. Robert Webber, Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches

80. Shusaku Endo, Silence ★

79. Robert Lupton, Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life

78. Andy Crouch, Culture Making ★

77. Frederick Buechner, The Christmas Tide

76. Kolini & Holmes, Christ Walks Where Evil Reigned

75. Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets: An Introduction ★

74. Tom Breen, The Messiah Formerly Known as Jesus

73. Ken Eldred, God is at Work

72. Bryant Myers, Exploring World Mission

71. Erica Bornstein, The Spirit of Development

70. Brooks Jackson, unSpun

69. Kim Davis, My Life, His Mission

68. Donald Kraybill, The Upside-Down Kingdom

67. Saul Alinsky, Rules For Radicals

66. Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?

65. Rob Bell & Don Golden, Jesus Wants to Save Christians

64. William Easterly, The White Man’s Burden ★

63. Cornel West, Democracy Matters ★

62. Carolina Maria de Jesus, Child of the Dark

61. Robert Lupton, Theirs is the Kingdom ★

60. Robert Linthicum, Transforming Power

59. Banks & Ledbetter, Reviewing Leadership

58. Amy Sherman, Preferential Option

57. Bryant Myers, Walking With The Poor ★

56. Timothy Keller, The Reason For God

55. Jayakumar Christian, God of the Empty-Handed ★

54. Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

53. Martin Luther King, Jr., A Knock At Midnight ★

52. Henri Nouwen, In The Name of Jesus ★

51. Alan Paton, Cry, The Beloved Country

50. Christopher J.H. Wright, Salvation Belongs to Our God

49. Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

48. Scot McKnight, The Blue Parakeet

47. Elisabeth Elliot, The Mark of a Man

46. Cameron Conant, With Or Without You

45. Jim Wallis, The Call To Conversion

44. Albert Camus, The Stranger

43. Lesslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society ★

42. Alan Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways

41. Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith

40. Claiborne & Haw, Jesus For President

39. Brian McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy ♻

38. Will & Lisa Samson, Justice in the Burbs

37. Amber Van Schooneveld, Hope Lives

36. Os Guinness, The Case For Civility

35. Scot McKnight, A Community Called Atonement

34. Michael Chabon, The Final Solution

33. McDonnell & Akallo, Girl Soldier

32. Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone

31. McNeil & Richardson, The Heart of Racial Justice

30. Harris & Schaupp, Being White

29. Frederick Buechner, The Clown in the Belfry

28. Joseph R. Myers, Organic Community

27. Dortzbach & Long, The AIDS Crisis

26. Kester Brewin, Signs of Emergence

25. Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages

24. C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

23. C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

22. Dan Kimball, They Like Jesus But Not The Church

21. Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just ★

20. Ajith Fernando, The Call to Joy and Pain

19. Gary Thomas, Sacred Marriage

18. Tom Sine, The New Conspirators

17. John White, Eros Defiled

16. David Batstone, Not For Sale

15. Zach Hunter, Be The Change

14. Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places ★

13. Hauerwas & Willimon, Resident Aliens ★

12. Franklin Foer, How Soccer Explains the World ★

11. Kevin Harney, Leadership From the Inside Out

10. Ron Sider, The Scandal of Evangelical Politics

9. Scot McKnight, The Jesus Creed

8. Bob Roberts, Jr., Glocalization

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

6. Óscar Romero, The Violence of Love ★

5. Dr. Chi Huang, When Invisible Children Sing

4. George Barna, Revolution

3. Vincent Donovan, Christianity Rediscovered

2. N.T. Wright, Simply Christian ★

1. Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope

70. The Holy Bible (English Standard Version)

69. Richard Foster, Freedom of Simplicity

68. Matthew Sleeth, Serve God, Save The Planet

67. Leonard Sweet, The Gospel According to Starbucks

66. John M. Perkins, Let Justice Roll Down

65. David W. Shenk, Justice, Reconciliation & Peace in Africa

64. Frederick Buechner, The Hungering Dark

63. David K. Shipler, The Working Poor: Invisible In America

62. Johnny Cash, Cash: The Autobiography ★

61. Don Cheadle & John Prendergast, Not On Our Watch

60. Margaret Feinberg, The Organic God

59. Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember

58. Kevin Blue, Practical Justice

57. Brother Andrew, Light Force

56. Brian McLaren, Everything Must Change

55. Mark Buchanan, The Rest of God ★

54. Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

53. Ravi Zacharias, The Grand Weaver

52. N.T. Wright, Evil and the Justice of God ★

51. Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room ★

50. Ron Sider, Good News & Good Works ★

49. John B. Hayes, Sub-Merge

48. Frederick Buechner, Godric ★

47. Sean Wilsey, Oh The Glory Of It All

46. John Piper, A Hunger For God

45. Lauren Winner, Real Sex ♻

44. Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner ★

43. Leonard Sweet, Out of the Question… Into the Mystery

42. Erik Mirandette, The Only Road North

41. Alan Roxburgh, The Sky Is Falling

40. Frederick Buechner, The Eyes of the Heart

39. Jonathan Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close ★

38. Eric Jacobsen, Sidewalks in the Kingdom ★

37. Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival

36. Louie Giglio, i am not but i know I AM

35. Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

34. Henri Nouwen, The Wounded Healer

33. Adam Voith, Bridges With Spirit

32. Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides To Die

31. Frederick Buechner, The Storm

30. Gary Haugen, Good News About Injustice ★

29. Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark ★

28. Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves To Death

27. Rob Bell, Sex God

26. Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community ★

25. Patrick Neate, Where You’re At

24. Frederick Buechner, Telling Secrets ★

23. Garrison Keillor, Love Me

22. Stan Guthrie, Missions in the Third Millenium

21. Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father ★

20. Miroslav Volf, Free of Charge ★ ♻

19. Hugh Hewitt, Blog

18. Brian McLaren, The Church on the Other Side

17. C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed ★

16. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

15. Gregory A. Boyd, The Myth of a Christian Nation

14. Jon Krakauer, Into The Wild

13. Terry Mattingly, Pop Goes Religion

12. Robert S. McGee, The Search For Significance

11. Erwin McManus, Soul Cravings

10. Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat

9. Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird ★

8. Madeleine L’Engle, Walking On Water ★

7. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together ★

6. Meic Pearse, Why The Rest Hates The West

5. Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace ★

4. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking ★

3. Heather Zydek, ed., The Relevant Nation

2. Scott Bessenecker, The New Friars

1. Sam Harris, Letter To A Christian Nation

71. Leonard Sweet, ed., The Church in Emerging Culture

70. Steve Chalke, The Lost Message of Jesus

69. N.T. Wright, The Challenge of Jesus ★

68. Russinger & Field, Practitioners

67. Ravi Zacharias, Recapture The Wonder

66. Hayley & Michael DiMarco, Marriable

65. Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel ★ ♻

64. Henry Kamm, Cambodia

63. John Fischer, Confessions of a Caffeinated Christian

62. Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis

61. David Crowder, Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die

60. Elisabeth Elliot, A Slow & Certain Light

59. Elisabeth Elliot, Passion & Purity

58. David Brooks, On Paradise Drive

57. Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction ★

56. St. Augustine, The Confessions ★

55. Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz ★ ♻

54. John Eldredge, Wild at Heart

53. Sun Tzu, The Art Of War

52. Louise Brown, Sex Slaves

51. Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution

50. Amit Gilboa, Off The Rails in Phnom Penh

49. Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy

48. Steven Johnson, Emergence

47. H. Richard Niebuhr, Christ & Culture

46. Ennew & Stephenson, Christianity, Children’s Rights and Development

45. Warren Wiersbe, Be Free: Galatians

44. C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves ★

43. Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty

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

41. Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts ★ ♻

40. Ron Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger ★

39. Warren Wiersbe, Be Joyful: Philippians

38. Elie Wiesel, Night

37. Cornel West, Race Matters ★

36. C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

35. John Eldredge, The Journey of Desire

34. Mark Driscoll, The Radical Reformission

33. Gary Haugen, Terrify No More

32. Pollock & Van Reken, Third Culture Kids ★

31. Ben Devries, A Delicate Fade

30. Warren Wiersbe, Be Mature: James

29. Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves

28. Frost & Hirsch, The Shaping of Things To Come

27. Heather Zydek, The Revolution: A Field Manual For Changing Your World

26. David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

25. Brian McLaren, The Secret Message of Jesus

24. Lingenfelter & Mayers, Ministering Cross-Culturally

23. Carmen Renee Berry, The Unauthorized Guide to Sex & The Church

22. Karen McCluskey, Notes From a Traveling Childhood

21. Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

20. Barnett & Pocock, The Centrality of Christ in Missions

19. Tony Jones, The Sacred Way

18. Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution

17. Roger Peterson, Maximum Impact Short-Term Mission

16. Peter Greig, The Vision & The Vow

15. Chris Seay, Faith of my Fathers

14. Mark Salomon, Simplicity

13. Ron Sider, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience

12. Donald Miller & John MacMurray, To Own A Dragon

11. Russinger & Field, Practitioners

10. Jeff Taylor, Friendlationships

9. Miroslav Volf, Free of Charge ★

8. Nathan Schnackenberg, Pathways To Abandon

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

6. Eidse & Sichel, Unrooted Childhoods

5. Courtney & Hertz, The Unguide To Dating

4. Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis

3. Don Cormack, Killing Fields, Living Fields

2. Eric Sandras, Buck Naked Faith

1. C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain ★

53. Bill Bryson, Neither Here Nor There

52. McLaren & Campolo, Adventures in Missing the Point

51. Renee Altson, Stumbling Toward Faith

50. Paul Hattaway, Back To Jerusalem

49. C.S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe ★

48. Dan Kimball, Emerging Worship

47. George Barna, Index of Leading Spiritual Indicators

46. C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

45. Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilamanjaro

44. Brian McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy

43. Leonard Sweet, Jesus Drives Me Crazy

42. Douglas Coupland, Polaroids From The Dead

41. Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah

40. Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

39. C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms ★

38. Sweet, et al., A is for Abductive

37. John Stott, The Authentic Jesus

36. Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

35. C.H. Spurgeon, Gleanings Among The Sheaves

34. Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts ★

33. K.P. Yohannan, Revolution in World Missions

32. Desmond Tutu, God Has A Dream

31. Daniel Wilkinson, Silence on the Mountain ★

30. James Bryan Smith, An Arrow Pointing To Heaven ★

29. Deng, et al., They Poured Fire On Us From The Sky ★

28. Millard Fuller, Bokotola

27. Jack Rogers, Confessions of a Conservative Evangelical

26. Philip Jenkins, The Next Christendom ★

25. Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety

24. Lauren Winner, Real Sex

23. David Crowder, Praise Habit

22. Lauren Winner, Girl Meets God

21. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

20. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

19. Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies

18. Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz ★ ♻

17. John Steinbeck, The Pearl ★

16. Jennifer Ashley, ed., The Relevant Church

15. Curtis & Eldredge, The Sacred Romance

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

13. Matthew Paul Turner, The Coffeehouse Gospel

12. Julien Green, God’s Fool: St. Francis of Assisi ★

11. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together ★

10. Kronberg, et al., Four Souls

9. Frederick Buechner, Telling The Truth ★

8. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms ★

7. Rich Mullins, The World As I Remember It

6. Lokkesmoe & Medefind, The Revolutionary Communicator

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

4. David Hansen, The Art of Pastoring

3. Martin Luther, Faith & Freedom

2. Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel ★

1. Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

51. Brian McLaren, More Ready Than You Realize

50. Samuel Escobar, The New Global Mission ★

49. R.C. Sproul, Knowing Scripture

48. Tony Campolo, The Success Fantasy

47. Alan Jacobs, A Visit To Vanity Fair

46. John Piper, Life As A Vapor

45. Ken Blanchard, The Servant Leader

44. C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory ★

43. Os Guinness, Fit Bodies, Fat Minds

42. Randy Alcorn, The Grace & Truth Paradox

41. John Fischer, Fearless Faith

40. C.S. Lewis, The Joyful Christian

39. Lundin, et al., FISH! Tales

38. Evan Wright, Generation Kill

37. Don Raunikar, Choosing God’s Best

36. Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz ★

35. Henri Nouwen, The Way of the Heart

34. Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life

33. Robertson McQuilkin, The Great Omission

32. Bob Briner, Roaring Lambs

31. Henri Nouwen, With Open Hands

30. Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

29. Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods

28. John Piper, Seeing & Savoring Jesus Christ

27. A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy

26. G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

25. D. Jeffrey Bingham, Pocket History of the Church

24. John Piper, Desiring God ♻

23. R.C. Sproul, Faith Alone

22. A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

21. Colin Chapman, Cross & Crescent

20. Erwin McManus, Seizing Your Divine Moment

19. Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness

18. Os Guinness, Time For Truth

17. Andy Stanley, Next Generation Leader

16. Bill & Pam Farrel, Men are like Waffles, Women are like Spaghetti

15. Randy Alcorn, The Treasure Principle

14. Francis Schaeffer, Escape From Reason

13. Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah

12. Erwin McManus, Uprising

11. C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock

10. Dave Tomlinson, The Post-Evangelical

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

8. J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Leadership

7. Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew

6. Armand Nicholi, The Question of God

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

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

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

2. Michael Card, A Violent Grace ★

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

14. The Holy Bible (New American Standard)

13. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship ★

12. Os Guinness, Prophetic Untimeliness

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

10. C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity ★

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

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

7. John Eldredge, Wild At Heart

6. John Piper, Desiring God

5. John Piper, Let The Nations Be Glad

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

3. C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory ★

2. Max Lucado, On The Anvil

1. C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce