Recommended Reading
My Most Influential Books:
- Augustine: Confessions
- Frederick Buechner: Telling the Truth
- G.K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy
- Annie Dillard: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, The Possessed
- C.S. Lewis: The Weight of Glory
- Blaise Pascal: Penseés
- Dorothy Sayers: Mind of the Maker
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago, The First Circle
- Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- Tom Holland, Dominion
- Jürgen Moltmann, The Crucified God
Superior Books in Style and Christian Content:
- Georges Bernanos: Diary of a Country Priest
- Frederick Buechner: Telling the Truth, The Hungering Dark, The Magnificent Defeat, The Alphabet of Grace, Now and Then, The Sacred Journey, Peculiar Treasures, Wishful Thinking
- Annie Dillard: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Teaching a Stone to Talk
- John Donne: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
- Shūsaku Endō: Silence
- Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory, The End of the Affair, Monsignor Quixote
- Francois Mauriac: Viper’s Tangle, Woman of the Pharisees, The Weakling, A Kiss for the Leper
- Flannery O’Connor: any of her three novels and numerous short stories, also The Habit of Being and Mystery and Manners
- Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country
- Walker Percy: The Second Coming, Love Among the Ruins
- Jean Sulivan: Morning Light
Christian Essayists with Style:
- G.K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy, St. Francis, St. Thomas, The Man Who Was Thursday, The Everlasting Man
- C.S. Lewis: just about anything. My favorites: A Grief Observed, Weight of Glory, The Four Loves
- Dorothy Sayers: Mind of the Maker, Christian Letters to a Post-Christian World
Other Stimulating Books:
- Will Campbell: Brother To a Dragonfly
- Robert Farrar Capon: Hunting the Divine Fox, Between Noon and Three, The Third Peacock
- George MacDonald: Life Essential
- Jurgen Moltmann: Experiences of God
- Lesslie Newbigin: numerous works in theology
- Lewis Smedes: numerous works
- John V. Taylor: The Go-Between God
- Helmut Thielicke: any collection of his sermons
- Henri Nouwen: The Wounded Healer and many others