This is not an exhaustive list, but most of these have shaped my doctrine and lifestyle. Note that most of my books are really old. When you deal with your issues up front, it helps you not to have to deal with them in your future with new books. And these aren’t the only books I’ve read.

Christian Living, General

Dr. Jay E. Adam: From Forgiven to Forgiving

Henry Blackaby: Experiencing God

Jerry Bridge: The Pursuit of Holiness

Gary Chapman: The Five Love Languages

Dr. Henry Cloud: Changes That Heal; Boundaries; How People Grow

Graham Cooke: The Way of the Warrior Series

Jim Cymbala: Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire

John Dawson: Taking Our Cities for God

Richard J. Foster: The Celebration of Discipline

Francis Frangipane; The Three Battlegrounds

Paul E. Little: How to Give Away Your Faith

Josh McDowell: Evidence That Demands a Verdict, vol. 1 & 2; More Than a Carpenter

Henri Nouwen: The Return of the Prodigal

J.I. Packer: Knowing God

Rebecca Manley Pippert: Out of the Saltshaker

Ken Sande, Esq.: The Peacemaker; The Peacemaking Pastor

Frances Shaeffer: How Should We Then Live

Hannah Whitall Smith: The Christian’s Secret to a Happy Life

Chuck Swindoll: Dropping Your Guard; Hand Me Another Brick; Light the Original Match; Strengthening Your Grip; Improving Your Serve

Cynthia Tobias: The Way They Learn

Dr. Ed Welch: When People are Big and God is Small

Phillip Yancey: Prayer

Autobiographies & Biographies

Brother Andrew: God’s Smuggler

Corrie Ten Boom: The Hiding Place

George Müller: The Classic Autobiography of George Müller

Christian Dating

Elisabeth Elliot: Passion and Purity

Debra Fileta: Choosing Marriage

Joshua Harris: I Kissed Dating Goodbye; Boy Meets Girl

Dave Harvey: When Sinners Say I Do

Eric & Leslie Ludy: When God Writes Your Love Story

Josh McDowell: The Secret to Loving

Dr. Doug Raunikar: Choosing God’s Best

Classics

E.M. Bounds: Power Through Prayer; Purpose in Prayer; Spiritual Warfare

Elisabeth Elliot: Through Gates of Splendor

Brother Lawrence: The Practice of the Presence of God

Andrew Murray: The Prayer Life; Absolute Surrender

A.W. Tozer: In Pursuit of God; Knowledge of the Holy One; Prayer

Devotionals

Oswald Chambers: My Utmost for His Highest

Our Daily Bread electronic version available here: https://odb.org/

Charles H. Spurgeon: Morning and Evening

For Women Only

Calvary Chapel Pastors Wives: Redeemed and Restored

Michelle McKinney Hammond: What to Do Until Love Finds You

Barb Hughes: The Disciplines of a Godly Woman (her husband Kent wrote the original Disciplines of a Godly Man)

P.B. Wilson: Your Knight in Shining Armor

Christian Fiction (of which I’ve read precious few)

Paul Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress

Ted Dekker: Blink of an Eye, 3

Hannah Hurnard: Hinds Feet on High Places

C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia series

Frank Peretti: This Present Darkness, Piercing the Darkness, Oath

John Sheldon: In His Steps

Understanding Personality

David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates: Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types