Christianity Today’s Top 100 Books of the Century

  1.  C. S. Lewis: Mere Christianity Mere 
  2. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Cost of Discipleship
  3. Karl Barth: Church Dogmatics  
  4. J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings
  5. John Howard Yoder: The Politics of Jesus  
  6. G.K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy 
  7. Thomas Merton: The Seven Storey Mountain  
  8. Richard Foster: Celebration of Discipline 
  9. Oswald Chambers: My Utmost for His Highest 
  10. Reinhold Niebuhr: Moral Man and Immoral Society 
  11. Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
  12. Alcoholics Anonymous: (The Big Book of A.A.)
  13. Roland Bainton: Here I Stand
  14. Karl Barth: The Epistle to the Romans
  15. Ernest Becker: The Denial of Death
  16. Robert N. Bellah, ET AL.: Habits of the Heart
  17. Georges Bernanos: The Diary of a Country Priest
  18. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Letters and Papers from Prison
  19. David Bosch: Transforming Mission
  20. Walter Brueggemann: The Prophetic Imagination
  21. Emil Brunner: Truth as Encounter
  22. Albert Camus: The Plague
  23. Edward John Carnell: The Case for Orthodox Theology
  24. Willa Cather: Death Comes for the Archbishop
  25. Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness
  26. Annie Dillard: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
  27. Documents of Vatican II
  28. W. E. B. Dubois: The Souls of Black Folk
  29. T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets
  30. Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
  31. Jacques Ellul: The Technological Society
  32. Shusaku Endo: Silence
  33. Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank
  34. Victor Frankl: Man’s Search for Meaning
  35. Sigmund Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents
  36. The Fundamentals
  37. Langdon Gilkey: Shantung Compound
  38. Carol Gilligan: In a Different Voice
  39. Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory
  40. John Howard Griffin: Black Like Me
  41. Gustavo Gutiérrez: A Theology of Liberation
  42. Philip Paul Hallie: Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed
  43. Stanley Hauerwas: A Community of Character
  44. Václav Havel: Living in Truth
  45. Richard Hays: The Moral Vision of the New Testament
  46. Carl F. H. Henry: God, Revelation, and Authority (six volumes)
  47. John R. Hersey: Hiroshima
  48. Abraham Heschel: The Prophets
  49. Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
  50. William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience
  51. Franz Kafka: The Trial
  52. Martin Luther King, Jr.:  A Testament of Hope
  53. Thomas S. Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  54. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
  55. Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac
  56. C. S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia » (especially The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) andThe Screwtape Letters
  57. J. Gresham Machen: Christianity and Liberalism
  58. Alasdair C. MacIntyre: After Virtue
  59. Malcolm X and Alex Haley: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  60. George M. Marsden: Fundamentalism and American Culture
  61. François Mauriac: Vipers’ Tangle
  62. Jürgen Moltmann: The Crucified God
  63. Richard John Neuhaus: The Naked Public Square
  64. Lesslie Newbigin: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
  65. Reinhold Niebuhr: The Nature and Destiny of Man (two volumes)
  66. H. Richard Niebuhr: Christ and Culture
  67. Kathleen Norris: The Cloister Walk
  68. Henri J. M. Nouwen: The Wounded Healer
  69. Anders Nygren: Agape and Eros
  70. Elizabeth O’Connor: Journey Inward, Journey Outward
  71. Flannery O’Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
  72. Rudolf Otto: The Idea of the Holy
  73. J. I. Packer: Knowing God
  74. Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country
  75. Jaroslav Pelikan: Jesus Through the Centuries
  76. Josef Pieper: The Four Cardinal Virtues
  77. Michael Polanyi: Personal Knowledge
  78. Chaim Potok: The Chosen
  79. Walter Rauschenbusch: Christianity and the Social Crisis
  80. Dorothy L. Sayers: The Mind of the Maker
  81. Albert Schweitzer: The Quest of the Historical Jesus
  82. Nevil Shute: On the Beach
  83. Ronald J. Sider: Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger
  84. Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  85. John R. W. Stott: Basic Christianity
  86. Paul Tournier: The Meaning of Persons
  87. W. Tozer: The Pursuit of God
  88. Barbara Tuchman: The Guns of August
  89. Evelyn Underhill: Mysticism
  90. Miroslav Volf: Exclusion and Embrace
  91. Gerhard von Rad: Old Testament Theology
  92. Andrew F. Walls: The Missionary Movement in Christian History
  93. Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
  94. Simone Weil: Waiting for God
  95. Elie Wiesel: Night
  96. Charles Williams: Descent into Hell
  97. Walter Wink: Engaging the Powers
  98. Philip Yancey: The Jesus I Never Knew