* Please note that I do not endorse every viewpoint, or position, in these works. I also receive no compensation for these recommendations.
Apologetics & Worldview
Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
How (Not) To Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor (James K.A. Smith)
The Consequences of Ideas (R.C. Sproul)
The Reason for God: Belief in an age of skepticism (Tim Keller)
Cultural Apologetics (Paul Gould)
Understanding World Religions: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Irving Hexham)
Biblical Authority & Interpretation
The Cannon of Scripture (F.F. Bruce)
The Big Book of Bible Difficulties (Norman Geisler)
The Lost World of Scripture: Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority (John Walton)
Invitation to Biblical Interpretation: Exploring the Hermeneutical Triad of History, Literature, and Theology (Andreas J. Kostenberger)
How to Read the Bible for all its Worth (Gordon D. Fee)
Christian Life (General)
One.Life (Scot McKnight)
Knowing God (J.I. Packer)
The Explicit Gospel (Matt Chandler)
The Forgotten God (Francis Chan)
The Prodigal God (Tim Keller)
Church History
The Story of Christianity (Justo L. Gonzalez)
A History of Western Philosophy and Theology (John Frame)
Church History in Plain Language (Bruce Shelley)
Turning Points: Decisive moments in Christianity (Mark Noll)
A History of Christianity in the United States & Canada (Mark Noll)
Creation
Genesis (Bruce Waltke)
The Lost World of Adam and Eve (John Walton)
The Lost World of Genesis One (John Walton)
Culture
The City of God against the Pagans (Augustine)
To Change the World: The irony, tragedy,and possibility of Christianity in the late modern world (James Davidson Hunter)
Bad Religion: A nation of heretics (Ross Douthat)
Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation (James K.A. Smith)
A Secular Age (Charles Taylor)
Christ and Culture (H. Richard Niebuhr)
Christ and Culture Revisited (D.A. Carson)
Discipleship & Spiritual Disciplines
After You Believe: Why Christian character matters (N.T. Wright)
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society (Eugene Peterson)
The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship (Dallas Willard)
Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the character of Christ (Dallas Willard)
The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding how God changes lives (Dallas Willard)
The Cost of Discipleship (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
You are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K.A. Smith)
Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (Donald S. Whitney)
Spiritual Disciplines Handbook (Adele Ahlberg Calhoun)
Eschatology (The Study of the Last Things)
A New Heaven and a New Earth: Reclaiming Biblical Eschatology (J. Richard Middleton)
A Case for Amillennialism: Understanding the end times (Kim Riddlebarger)
Ethics (General & Theological)
A Short History of Ethics (Alisdair MacIntyre)
After Virtue (Alisdair MacIntyre)
The Nichomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
The City of God against the Pagans (Augustine)
Sources of the Self: Making of the modern identity (Charles Taylor)
Resurrection and Moral Order (Oliver O’Dononvan)
What We Can’t Not Know (J. Budziszewski)
Moral Choices (Scott Rae)
Old Testament Ethics for the People of God (Christopher J.H. Wright)
New Testament Ethics (Richard B. Hays)
Kingdom Ethics (David Gushee)
Why People Matter (John F. Kilner)
Evangelism
Honest Evangelism (Rico Tice & Carl Laferton)
Disruptive Witness: Speaking truth in a distracted age (Alan Noble)
Gender and Sexuality
Mere Sexuality (Todd Wilson)
Is God anti-gay? (Sam Allberry)
God & the Transgender Debate (Andrew T. Walker)
Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian (Michelle Lee-Barnewall)
Men and Women in the Church (Kevin DeYoung)
Image of God
Imago Dei as Human Identity (Ryan S. Peterson)
ReSourcing Theological Anthropology: A Constructive Account of Humanity in the Light of Christ (Marc Cortez)
Dignity and Destiny: Humanity as the image of God (John F. Kilner)
The Image of God (J. Richard Middleton)
Life of Jesus
The First Days of Jesus: The Story of the Incarnation (Andreas J. Köstenberger)
On the Incarnation (Athanasius)
The Last Days of Jesus: The Most Important Week of the Most Important Person Who Ever Lived (Andreas J. Köstenberger)
The Cross of Christ (John Stott)
How God Became King (N.T. Wright)
Leadership & Influence
In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership (Henri Nouwen)
The Way of the Dragon or the Lamb (Kyle Strobel & Jamin Goggin)
Spiritual Leadership (J. Oswald Chambers)
Leadership and Self-Deception (The Arbinger Institute)
Creativity, Inc (Ed Catmull)
Multipliers (Liz Wiseman)
Marriage / Family & Relationships
The Meaning of Marriage (Tim Keller)
How We Love (Milan & Kay Yerkovich)
5 Love Languages (Gary Chapman)
Boundaries (Henry Cloud & John Townsend)
Necessary Endings (Henry Cloud)
Ministry
Lectures to My Students (Charles Spurgeon)
Working the Angles: The shape of pastoral integrity (Eugene Peterson)
The Care of Souls: Cultivating a pastor’s heart (Harold L. Senkbeil)
City Church (Tim Keller)
The Pastor as Public Theologian: Reclaiming a lost vision (Kevin VanHoozer)
Purpose Driven Church (Rick Warren)
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (Mark Dever)
Missions
Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility (Duane Elmer)
Politics
The Desire of the Nations (Oliver Donovan)
From Iranaeus to Grotius: A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought (Oliver O’Dononvan)
Political Writings (Augustine)
Why We Can’t Wait (Martin Luther King)
Onward (Russell Moore)
Political Visions & Illusions (David Koyzis)
Politics after Christendom: Political theology in a fractured world (David VanDrunen)
Prayer
Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God (Tim Keller)
Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God (Dallas Willard)
Celebration of Discipline (Richard J. Foster)
Recovery
The Soul of Shame: Retelling the Stories We Believe About Ourselves (Curt Thompson)
Life’s Healing Choices (John Baker)
Celebrate Recovery (John Baker)
Suffering
The Problem of Suffering (C.S. Lewis)
A Grace Disguised: How the soul grows through loss (Jerry Sittser)
Suffering (Paul Tripp)
General/Systematic Theology
Christian Theology (Millard J. Erickson)
Systematic Theology (Wayne Grudem)
Systematic Theology (John Frame)
Theology for the Church (Daniel L. Akin)
Vocational Calling & Work
Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work (Tim Keller)
Worship
We Become What We Worship (G.K. Beale)
God Dwells Among Us (G.K. Beale)