As a Christian, I really am obligated to put the Bible first on any list of this sort. Why do I include the Bible? Well, first, and most importantly, I happen to believe that it is true. Not just mostly true. Not just more or less true. True. From start to finish. Can you say the same thing about any other book? Sure you can say the same thing, but I’ll be forced to disagree with you, and this is my list. Second, I happen to believe it’s relevant. It “has the answers,” for life’s most important questions. The answers aren’t always in simple form (and if they were, they wouldn’t be helpful), and they usually aren’t what we want to hear, but they are there.
And now for the list of works that might/do contain errors, whether historical, theological, philosophical, moral, or otherwise:
Nonfiction Works:
The Universe Next Door (James W. Sire)
The Abolition of Man (C. S. Lewis)
Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
The God Who Is There (Francis A. Schaeffer)
Radical (David Platt)
The Prodigal God (Timothy Keller)
Poetics (Aristotle)
The Reason for God (Timothy Keller)
Fables, Allegories, Works of Primarily Instructive Fiction:
The Great Divorce (C.S. Lewis)
The Pilgrim’s Regress (C.S. Lewis)
The Space Trilogy (C.S. Lewis)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
Works of Creative Fiction:
The Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)
Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
Mammon and the Archer (William Sydney Porter)
Tobin’s Palm (William Sydney Porter)
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Plays, Dramas, and Movies:
Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand)
Hotel Rwanda (Terry George & Keir Pearson)
