The Bookshelf     (+ = author, c = ccel)

Devotionals and Spiritual Classics - 15

On Loving God – St. Bernard of Clairvaux - c
The Imitation of Christ – Thomas a` Kempis - c
Spiritual Exercises – Ignatius of Loyola - c
The Practice of the Presence of God – Brother Lawrence - c
A Short and Easy Method of Prayer – Madame Guyon - c
A Plain Account of Christian Perfection – John Wesley - c
Morning and Evening – Charles Spurgeon - c
Prayer series – E. M. Bounds - + c
The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life – Hannah Whitall Smith - c
With Christ in the School of Prayer – Andrew Murray - c
My Utmost for His Highest – Oswald Chambers - c
The Cost of Discipleship – Dietrich Bonhoeffer - +
The Pursuit of God – A. W. Tozer - +
The Normal Christian Life – Watchman Nee - + c
The Return of the Prodigal Son – Henri Nouwen - +

Theology, Essays and Sermons - 14

The City of God – St. Augustine - c
Summa Theologica – St. Thomas Aquinas - c
Ninety-five Theses – Martin Luther - c
Institutes of the Christian Religion – John Calvin - c
The Westminster Larger Catechism – Anonymous - c
The Christian in Complete Armour – William Gurnall - c
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God – Jonathan Edwards - c
Lectures on Revivals of Religion – Charles G. Finney - c
Systematic Theology – Charles G. Finney - c
The Fundamentals – ed. R. A. Torrey
Knowing God – J. I. Packer
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger – Ron Sider
Why Revival Tarries – Leonard Ravenhill - +
The Purpose Driven Life – Rick Warren

Biographies and Testimonies - 8

Confessions – St. Augustine - c
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs – John Foxe - c
A Grief Observed – C. S. Lewis - +
The Cross and the Switchblade – David Wilkerson
God’s Smuggler – Brother Andrew
The Hiding Place – Corrie ten Boom - +
Born Again – Charles Colson - +
Just as I Am – Billy Graham - +

Church History - 6

The Writings of Josephus – Flavius Josephus - c
Church History – Eusebius Pamphilus - c
Christianity through the Centuries – Earle Cairns
Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music? – Paul Baker
No Other Foundation – Jeremy Jackson
Church History in Plain Language – Bruce L. Shelley

Fiction, Prose and Allegory - 9

Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri - c
Ascent of Mt. Carmel – St. John of the Cross - c
Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained – John Milton - c
A Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan - c
In His Steps – Charles Sheldon - c
The Screwtape Letters – C. S. Lewis - +
The Perelandra Trilogy – C. S. Lewis - +
The Chronicles of Narnia – C. S. Lewis - +
This Present Darkness – Frank Peretti

Apologetics and Evangelism - 10

The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul – Philip Doddridge - c
Heretics & Orthodoxy – G. K. Chesterton - + c
Mere Christianity – C. S. Lewis - +
Peace with God – Billy Graham - +
Basic Christianity – John R. W. Stott
Evidence that Demands a Verdict – Josh McDowell
Hell’s Best Kept Secret – Ray Comfort - +
Exit Interviews – William Hendricks
The Case for Christ – Lee Stroebel - +
The Reliability of the Gospel Tradition – Birger Gerhardsson - +

Eschatology and Current Issues - 5

The Late Great Planet Earth – Hal Lindsey
The Politics of Jesus – John Howard Yoder
How Should We Then Live? – Francis Sheaffer - +
Three Views on the Rapture – Gleason Archer, et al.
The Naked Public Square – Richard John Neuhaus - +

Ecclesiology - 4

The Problem of Wineskins – Howard Snyder - +
The Body – Charles Colson - +
Rethinking the Wineskin – Frank Viola - +
The Emerging Church – Dan Kimball

Pentecostal/Charismatic - 9

Azusa Street – Frank Bartleman - + c?
God’s Plan for Man – Finis Dake
Nine O’Clock in the Morning – Dennis Bennett
The Holy Spirit and You – Dennis and Rita Bennett
The Happiest People on Earth – Demos Shakarian
Call to Discipleship – Juan Carlos Ortiz
The Radical Christian – Arthur Wallis
Power Evangelism – John Wimber
Century of the Holy Spirit – Vinson Synan - +

Secular Authors - 4

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbon - c
Future Shock – Alvin Toffler
Generations – William Strauss & Neil Howe
The Reformation: A History – Diarmaid MacCulloch