Here’s just a sampling of some of my favourites from my personal library. (Updated: 01/24/2019)

The Bible

• Timothy Beal, The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
• Rob Bell, What is the Bible? How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
• Thomas Cahill, The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
• Pete Enns, The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
• Pete Enns, The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say About Human Origins

Faith & Spirituality

• Kent Dobson, Bitten By A Camel: Leaving Church, Finding God
• Pete Enns, The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our “Correct” Beliefs
• Rachel Held Evans, Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions

Theodicy

• Greg Boyd, Is God to Blame?
• Thomas Jay Oord, The Uncontrolling Love of God: An Open and Relational Account of Providence
• John Sanders, The God Who Risks: A Theology of Divine Providence

Christianity

• Chris Blake, Searching for a God to Love
• Greg Boyd, The Myth of a Christian Religion: Losing Your Religion for the Beauty of a Revolution
• Clifford Goldstein, Life Without Limits
• Clifford Goldstein, God, Gödel and Grace: A Philosophy of Faith
• Timothy Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
• Timothy Keller, Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God
• C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
• Nabeel Qureshi, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity
• Ann Spangler & Lois Tverberg, Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus
• Leonard Sweet & Frank Viola, Jesus: A Theography
• Leonard Sweet & Frank Viola, Jesus Manifesto: Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ
• Frank Viola, From Eternity to Here: Rediscovering the Ageless Purpose of God
• Ellen White, Steps to Christ
• Ellen White, The Great Controversy
• Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew
• Philip Yancey, What’s So Amazing About Grace?

Non-Fiction

• Ellen Degeneres, Seriously … I’m  Kidding
• A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
• Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
• Michael Lewis, Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
• Jeffrey Toobin, The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson

Fiction

• Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
• Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
• C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
• Kathryn Stockett, The Help
• Amy Tan, The Kitchen God’s Wife