John Knox Presbyterian Church :: Resources and Recommendations

The following books are part of a recommended reading list by our staff. They are the "around 20" books that every Christian should read.

On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius
St. Augustine’s Confessions and The City of God by St. Augustine
St. Anselm’s Prayers and Meditations (including Why did God become Human?)
Dante’s Divine Comedy
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis
Table Talk by Martin Luther
Poems and Other Writings by John Donne and George Herbert
Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Pensees by Blaise Pascal
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
The Diaries of John Wesley by John Wesley
The Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards
My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers
God Here and Now by Karl Barth
Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis