A Reading List
As a rule, I usually stick to the dead guys. My philosophy is if they have been dead for years and someone is still going through the trouble to publish their work, then they must’ve had something important to say. However, you will find some books on here by authors who are still with us. There are some books on the list of which I do not necessarily agree with the ideas or arguments they present, yet I believe they are of great benefit in that they present honest ideas and beliefs that have impacted my my life and thought. This is in no way an exhaustive list, just a few favorites to let you know where I’m coming from.
Philosophy
Meditations on First Philosophy, Renee Descartes
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Immanuel Kant
Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
Concluding Unscientific Postscripts to Philosophical Fragments, Soren Kierkegaard
The Abolition of Man, CS Lewis
Twilight of the Idols, Friedrich Nietzsche
The Antichrist, Friedrich Nietzsche
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Theology
Church Dogmatics, Karl Barth
The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin
On the Bondage of the Will, Martin Luther
Spirituality
Imitation of Christ, Thomas A’Kempis
Confessions, St. Augustine
Velvet Elvis, Rob Bell
Loving God, Chuck Colson
Celebration of Discipline, Robert Foster
A Generous Orthodoxy, Brian McLaren
Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller
Searching For God Knows What, Donald Miller
Abide in Christ, Andrew Murray
With Christ in the School of Prayer, Andrew Murray
Out of Solitude, Henri Nouwen
The Wounded Healer, Henri Nouwen
Return of the Prodigal, Henri Nouwen
True Spirituality, Francis Schaeffer
The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey
Soul Survivor, Philip Yancey
Fiction and Biography
The Everlasting Man, GK Chesterton
The Man Who was Thursday, GK Chesterton
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Into the Wild, John Kraukauer
The Chronicle of Narnia, CS Lewis
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupery
The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkein
The Hobbit, JRR Tokien
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Apologetics
Orthodoxy, GK Chesterton
The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God, Immanuel Kant
Mere Christianity, CS Lewis
Why I am Not a Christian, Bertrand Russell
Can Man Live Without God, Ravi Zacharias
Jesus Among Other Gods, Ravi Zacharias
