What's Worth Reading
Book List
Essential Reading to Deepen Our Faith and Understanding
The Holy Bible (about Bible translations)
Bloom, Anthony, Beginning to Pray
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, The Cost of Discipleship
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, Life Together
Galli, Mark; Bell, James S.; Bell, Jim, Complete Idiot's
Guide to Prayer
George, Bob, Classic Christianity
Hybels, Bill, Too Busy Not to Pray
Kempis, Thomas, The Imitation of Christ (Especially the
William Creasy translation!)
Kreeft, Peter, Prayer for Beginners
Lewis, C.S., Mere Christianity
Lewis, C.S., The Great Divorce
Lewis, C.S., The Screwtape Letters
Manning, Brennan, Ragamuffin Gospel
McLaren, Bryan, A Generous Orthodoxy
McLaren, Bryan, A New Kind of Christian
McQuiston II, John, Always We Begin Again
Peterson, Eugene H., Answering God
Peterson, Eugene H., Under the Unpredictable Plant
Tozer, Aiden, The Pursuit of God
von Balthasar, Hans Urs, Prayer
Wangerin, Walter, Ragman and Other Stories
Warren, Rick, The Purpose Driven Life
Willard, Dallas, The Divine Conspiracy
Willard, Dallas, The Spirit of the Disciplines
Wright, N. T., Following Jesus
Wright, N. T., For All God's Worth
Wright, N. T., For All the Saints?
Wright, N. T., Simply Christian
Yancy, Philip, Reaching for the Invisible God
Yancy, Philip, The Bible Jesus Read
Yancy, Philip, The Jesus I Never Knew
Classic Christian Spiritual Writings
(Listed in chronological order from earliest to most recent.)
For more information about most of these and many
others, see Christian Spirituality: The Essential Guide to the most Influential Spiritual Writings in the
Christian tradition, edited by Frank N Magill and Ian P
McGreal.
In addition to providing a comprehensive
bibliography, it provides summaries and additional
recommended reading for each author or work.
Athanasius, Life of St Anthony
Augustine, Confessions of St Augustine
Benedict, Rules for Monasteries
Bernard of Clairvaux, On Loving God
Bonaventura, The Mind's Road to God
Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
Unknown author, Cloud of Unknowing
Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ
Margery Kempe, Book of Margery Kempe
Martin Luther, Freedom of a Christian
Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual Exercises
John of the Cross, Ascent of Mount Carmel
John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul
Teresa of Avila, Interior Castle
Francis of Sales, Introduction to the Divine Life
Francis of Sales, On the Love of God
Jacob Boehme, The Way to Christ
George Herbert, The Temple
Lancelot Andrewes, Private Devotions
Jeremy Taylor, Rules & Exercises of Holy Living & Holy
Dying
Blaise Pascal, Pensees
John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
Brother Lawrence, Practicing the Presence of God
William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Self Abandonment to Divine
Providence
Unknown author, Way of a Pilgrim
Eveylyn Underhill, Mysticism
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship
Charles Williams, Descent of the Dove
Aiden Tozer, Pursuit of God
Teilhard de Chardin, Divine Milieu
Elisabeth Elliott, These Strange Ashes
Dag Hammarskjold, Markings
G.K. Chesterton, Everlasting Man
C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer
Anthony Bloom, Beginning to Pray
Tuoti, Frank X., Why Not be a Mystic?
Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines
Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy
Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline
Anthony de Mello, Awareness
Anthony de Mello, Wellsprings
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