100 Christian Books That Changed the Century by William J. Peterson

100 Christian Books That Changed the Century by William J. Peterson February 24, 2011

100 Christian Books That Changed the CenturyHere is a list of the top 100 Christian Books That Changed the Century by William J. Peterson

They are listed by publication and decade, not in order of importance, so they are listed in order from 1899 through 1995.

How many have you read?

1. In His Steps by Charles Sheldon
2. The Evangelization of the World in This Generation by John R. Mott
3. Quiet Talks on Power by S.D. Gordon
4. Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
5. The Crises of the Christ by G. Campbell Morgan
6. Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
7. Power through Prayer by E.M. Bounds
8. The Scofield Reference Bible by C.I. Scofield
9. Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours by Roland Allen
10. War on the Saints by Jessie Penn-Lewis
11. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia by James Orr, General Editor
12. The Fundamentals by A.C. Dixon, Louis Meyer, and R.A. Torrey, General Editors
13. Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen
14. Halley’s Pocket Bible Handbook by Henry H. Halley
15. Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
16. Streams in the Desert by Lettie Cowman
17. The Christ of the Indian Road by E. Stanley Jones
18. My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers
19. The Basis of Christian Faith by Floyd E. Hamilton
20. Religion that Works by Samuel M. Shoemaker
21. Who Moved the Stone? by Frank Morison
22. Prayer by Ole Hallesby
23. A Diary of Private Prayer by John Baillie
24. Church Dogmatics by Karl Barth
25. Worship by Evelyn Underhill
26. The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
27. The Witness by Grace Livingston Hill
28. If by Amy Carmichael
29. The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers
30. The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
31. The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
32. The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism by Carl F.H. Henry
33. The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
34. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
35. The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer
36. The Archaeology of Palestine by William Foxwell Albright
37. Peace of Soul by Fulton J. Sheen
38. Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland H. Bainton
39. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
40. A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall
41. Christ and Culture by H. Richard Niebuhr
42. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
43. The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
44. Your God Is Too Small by J. B. Phillips
45. The Daily Study Bible by William Barclay
46. New Bible Commentary by F. Davidson, A.M. Stibbs, and E.F. Kevan
47. Peace with God by Billy Graham
48. The Household of God by Lesslie Newbigin
49. The Christian View of Science and Scripture by Bernard Ramm
50. The Bridges of God by Donald Anderson McGavran
51. The Burden Is Light by Eugenia Price
52. Second Thoughts on the Dead Sea Scrolls by F. F. Bruce
53. Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot
54. The Meaning of Persons by Paul Tournier
55. Stride toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story by Martin Luther King Jr.
56. Basic Christianity by John Stott
57. The Gospel Blimp by Joseph T. Bayly
58. The Psychology of Counseling by Clyde M. Narramore
59. The New Bible Dictionary by J. D. Douglas, Organizing Editor
60. The Company of the Committed by Elton Trueblood
61. The Genesis Flood by John C. Whitcomb and Henry M. Morris
62. Man: The Image of God by G. C. Berkouwer
63. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
64. Living Letters by Kenneth N. Taylor
65. The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson with John and Elizabeth Sherrill
66. They Speak with Other Tongues by John Sherrill
67. Spiritual Depression by Martyn Lloyd-Jones
68. The Kingdom of the Cults by Walter R. Martin
69. The Taste of New Wine by Keith Miller
70. Know Why You Believe by Paul E. Little
71. Christy by Catherine Marshall
72. Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking by Robert H. Schuller
73. The God Who Is There by Francis Schaeffer
74. Dare to Discipline by James Dobson
75. The Meaning of the City by Jacques Ellul
76. The Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey with Carole C. Carlson
77. Eighth Day of Creation by Elizabeth O’Connor
78. The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom with John and Elizabeth Sherrill
79. Evidence That Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell
80. The Wounded Healer by Henri Nouwen
81. The Total Woman by Marabel Morgan
82. Knowing God by J. I. Packer
83. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
84. All We’re Meant to Be by Letha Scanzoni and Nancy Hardesty
85. Born Again by Charles Colson
86. Joni by Joni Eareckson with Joe Musser
87. The Battle for the Bible by Harold Lindsell
88. Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger by Ron Sider
89. Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster
90. Telling the Truth by Frederick Buechner
91. Where Does a Mother Go to Resign? by Barbara Johnson
92. Out of the Saltshaker and into the World by Rebecca Manley Pippert
93. With Justice for All by John Perkins
94. Worship Is a Verb by Robert Webber
95. This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti
96. The Man in the Mirror by Patrick M. Morley
97. Experiencing God by Henry T. Blackaby and Claude V. King
98. Disappointment with God by Philip Yancey
99. Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
100. The Purpose-Driven Church by Rick Warren


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