The following is a list we put together for use at Christ Church. But I felt it deserved a wider audience! It is deliberately fairly "narrow" - a list of books I think will give helpful and accurate perspectives on a range of issues in Christian theology. Comments welcome - but it's limited to 100 so it you suggest a book to add you have to suggest one to take away too! The categories are, inevitably, a little bit overlaping.
Introductions to Christianity
The Prodigal God, Tim Keller (Hodder & Stoughton)
Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis (Fount)
Basic Christianity, John Stott (IVP)
The Reason for God, Tim Keller (Hodder & Stoughton)
A fresh start, John Chapman (The Good Book Company)
The Bible and its Plotline
How to read the Bible for all it’s worth, Fee and Stuart (Zondervan)
God's Big Picture: Tracing the Story-line of the Bible, Vaughan Roberts (IVP)
The symphony of scripture, Mark Strom (P & R Publishing)
The Doctrine of the knowledge of God, John Frame (P & R Publishing)
Scripture and Truth, Carson and Woodbridge (Eds) (Fleming H. Revell)
He gave us stories, Richard Pratt (P & R Publishing)
Christian Truth
Know the Truth, Bruce Milne (IVP)
Doctrine of God, John Frame (P & R Publishing)
The Person of Christ, Donald Macleod (IVP)
Cross Examined, Mark Meynell (IVP)
The Cross of Christ, John Stott (IVP)
In My Place Condemned He Stood: Celebrating the Glory of the Atonement, J. I. Packer & Mark Dever (IVP)
The evidence for the resurrection, Norman Anderson (IVP)
The message of the resurrection, Paul Beasley-Murray (IVP)
The Sovereignty of God, A W Pink (Fleming H. Revell)
18 Words: The Most Important Words You Will Ever Know, J. I. Packer (Christian Focus)
Knowing God, J.I. Packer (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God, D. A. Carson (IVP)
The Holy Spirit, Sinclair Ferguson (IVP)
Spirit of Truth, David Jackman (Christian Focus)
Evangelism
The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, Mark Dever (IVP)
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, J. I. Packer (IVP)
Know and Tell the Gospel, John Chapman (Matthias Media)
Evangelism – Mission
Let the Nations Be Glad, John Piper (Baker Academic)
Salvation to the ends of the earth, Andreas Kostenburger and Peter O’Brien (Apollos)
Operation World, OM (Authentic Lifestyle)
Church history
The Story of the Church, Renwick and Harman (IVP)
Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity, Mark Noll (Baker Academic)
The Devoted Life: An Invitation to the Puritan Classics, Kelly M. Kapic and Randall C. Gleason (Editors) (IVP)
Gender, Family and Sexuality
Shepherding a Child's Heart, Tedd Tripp (Shepherd Press)
Married for God, Christopher Ash (IVP)
God, Sex and Marriage, John Richardson (St Matthias Press)
Fatherhood, Tony Payne (Good Book Company)
Sex is not the problem (lust is), Joshua Harris (Multnomer Publishers)
Recovering biblical manhood and womanhood, John Piper and Wayne Grudem (Crossway Books)
Straight and Narrow, Thomas E. Schmidt (IVP)
Walking with gay friends, Alex Tylee (IVP)
Disciplines of a godly man/woman/family, Kent Hughes (Crossway Books)
The single issue, Al Hsu (IVP)
God's Design for Women: Biblical Womanhood for Today, Sharon James (Evangelical Press)
Classics
Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan (Penguin)
The Bondage of the Will, Martin Luther (Hendrickson Publishers)
The Screwtape Letters, C S Lewis (Fount)
Church
Stop Dating the Church: Fall in Love with the Family of God, Joshua Harris (Multnomah Press)
Nine marks of a healthy church, Mark Dever (Crossway Books)
Prayer
A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers, D.A. Carson (IVP)
Praying: Finding our Way Through Duty to Delight, J.I. Packer (IVP)
Prayer and the Voice of God , P Jensen & T Payne. (Matthias Media)
The message of prayer, Tim Chester (IVP)
Work
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, Andy Crouch (IVP)
Business for the Glory of God, Wayne Grudem (Crossway Books)
Thank God it’s Monday, Mark Greene (Scripture Union)
Suffering
Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Its Cure, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Zondervan)
How Long, O Lord? Reflections on Suffering and Evil, D.A. Carson (IVP)
Lament for a son, Nicholas Walterstorff (William B Eerdmans Publishing)
The problem of pain, C S Lewis (Fount)
Culture
Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity, Nancy Pearcey (IVP)
The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism, D.A. Carson (IVP)
Is there a meaning in this text? Kevin J Vanhoozer (Apollos)
Jesus in Disneyland, David Lyon (Polity Press)
Trilogy, Francis Schaeffer (Crossway Books)
Meltdown, Marcus Honeysett. (IVP)
Ministry
Cross and Christian Ministry: Leadership Lessons from 1 Corinthians, D. A. Carson (Baker Books)
One to One, Sophie De Witt (Authentic Lifestyle)
Speaking God’s Words, Peter Adam (Regent College Publishing)
Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands, Paul David Tripp (P & R Publishing)
Science
God’s undertaker, John Lennox (Lion Hudson)
Science and its limits, Del Ratzch (IVP)
The dawkins delusion, McGrath (SPCK Publishing)
Ethics
Issues facing Christians today (Zondervan)
Evangelical Ethics: Issues Facing the Church Today, John Jefferson Davis (P & R Publishing)
Good news to the poor, Tim Chester (IVP)
Ministries of Mercy: The Call of the Jericho Road, Tim Keller (P & R Publishing)
How to get really rich, Brian Rosner (IVP)
Neither Poverty Nor Riches: A Biblical Theology of Possessions (New Studies in Biblical Theology), Craig Blomberg (IVP)
Personal Spiritual growth
For the Love of God: Volumes One and two, D. A. Carson (IVP)
A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, J. I. Packer (Crossway Books)
Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist, John Piper (IVP)
True Spirituality, Francis Schaeffer (Tyndale House Publishers)
Enemy Within: Straight Talk About the Power and Defeat of Sin, Kris Lundgaard (P&R Publishing)
Mirror Mirror, Graham Beynon (IVP)
You Can Change , Tim Chester (IVP)
Holiness, J C Ryle (Hendrickson Publishers)
A Passion for Holiness, J Packer (Crossway Books)
Guidance and the Voice of God, P Jensen & T Payne (St Matthias Press)
Decision making and the will of God, Garry Friesen (Multnomah Publishers)
Living the Cross Centered Life, C J Mahaney (Multnomah Publishers)
Reference
Calvin’s institutes (Westminster John Knox Press)
Grudem systematic theology (IVP)
New Bible Commentary (IVP)
New Bible Dictionary (IVP)
Old Testament Commentary Survey, 4th ed, Tremper Longman III (Baker)
New Testament Commentary Survey, 6th ed. D.A. Carson (Baker)(IVP)
ESV Study Bible (Crossway Bibles)
