In keeping with the latest issue of CT, these are in no particular order. This goes beyond the good book moniker to those that shaped, and reshaped my mind and heart. (Links will take you to the Westminster Theological Seminary Bookstore.)
Dan Allender (often with Tremper Longman): Bold Love, The Healing Path & Intimate Allies.
Jerry Bridges: Transforming Grace & The Joy of Fearing God.
J.I. Packer: Knowing God, Keep in Step with the Spirit, Rediscovering Holiness.
John Piper: Desiring God, God is the Gospel, The Purifying Power of Faith in Future Grace, & Let the Nations Be Glad.
John Owen: The Death of Death in the Death of Christ, On Sin & Temptation.
Jonathan Edwards: The Works of Jonathan Edwards Vol. 1, Charity and Its Fruit.
Thomas Boston: Human Nature in its Four-Fold State.
Jeremiah Burroughs: A Treatise of Earthly-Mindedness, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment.
Mark Strom: The Symphony of Scripture
Randy Booth: Children of Promise (finally someone explained it so this credo baptist in reaction to his Roman upbringing could get infant baptism)
A.A. Hodge: The Atonement
Mark Driscoll: Radical Reformission (I’ve just started Confessions of a Reformission Rev.)
Martin Luther: Commentary on Galatians, The Bondage of the Will
R. C. Sproul: Chosen by God (put words to what I was beginning to see in Scripture).
Harry Schaumburg: False Intimacy
Francis Schaeffer: True Spirituality
Thomas Watson: The Doctrine of Repentance
John Frame: Worship in Spirit and Truth, Apologetics to the Glory of God.
Stanley Grenz: Millennial Maze (sealed the amillennial thing for me)
Roland Bainton: Here I Stand & The Reformation of the 16th Century.
A.W. Tozer: Knowledge of the Holy, The Pursuit of God.
O. Palmer Roberston: The Christ of the Covenants (just what this utterly-unsatisfied-with-dispensationalism guy needed)
Henri Nouwen: The Return of the Prodigal, The Inner Voice of Love
Not a book, but a Sonship Conference as a newly married man.
Cavman Considers 
Cavman – The Books that Shaped this Christian, Evangelical, Missional Reformed Guy
My good buddy Steve Cavallaro has a post called – The Books that Shaped this Christian, Evangelical, Missional Reformed Guy. Since I know bloggers love book recommendations I thought I would point this out. He’s much more well read than
POwerful list!
It’s really a sad commentary on your faith journey that Louis L’Amour or Zane Grey(whose father was a farmer and a preacher) were not included. One must suspect a Christian without these foundational authors.
So I should include biographies of Ted Williams since his mom was in the Salvation Army? 🙂
Never been a reader of westerns. Watching… another story.
Hey, at least you knew they were western writers. That brings you up a notch or two.
Great list of books. Many of these are my personal favorites as well. Sibbes, a Bruised reed was personally helpful. So was Jack Miller’s Outgrowing the ingrown church.
Jack Miller’s stuff is quite good. It is always hard when putting together a list like this. I’ve already thought of a few I shouldn’t have left off, like Carson’s The Cross & Christian Ministry. Really important book!
Do you have the book by Burroughs, “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment?” If so, can I borrow it?
Of course. Of course.
I am essentially an affiliate of WTS Bookstore. Better prices, $5 flat rate shipping. That’s why I’ve got the links there!
hello Cavman…I gotta go with ‘Kim’ on the criticism of not having any substantial writings of Louis L’Amour (never jumped into any Zane Grey though) listed… let’s try and be somewhat well-rounded.. grin 😉 Nice list, btw…
Wow! You’ve got so many books on there that I love that I guess I’d better check the rest of them out! Thanks: I love book lists from blogs I respect!
Great list. It was interesting to me, though, that the one John Piper book that made the most dramatic impact on my life isn’t on your list – “The Pleasures of God”
can’t put ’em all …. it is a great book.