A Great Big List of Recommended Books

A friend made the request. He’s looking for books to read and to recommend to others. “Give me a list of 50 or 60 authors you’ve read and a representative book by each of them.” His wish is my command. Here are 50 or 60 contemporary authors I’ve read and a book by each of them you may enjoy. (I’ll work on classic authors next.) As far as possible, I’ve made that book representative, by which I mean I chose a book that will give you a good feel for who he or she is as an author. *

Randy Alcorn

• Heaven

Hannah Anderson

• Humble Roots

Thabiti Anyabwile

• The Faithful Preacher

Christopher Ash

• Married for God

Joel Beeke

• A Puritan Theology

James Montgomery Boice

• Whatever Happened to the Gospel of Grace?

Jerry Bridges

• The Discipline of Grace

Denny Burk

• What Is the Meaning of Sex?

Rosaria Butterfield

• Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert

D.A. Carson

• The Cross and Christian Ministry

Anthony Carter

• Black and Reformed

Bryan Chapell

• Christ-Centered Worship

H.B. Charles Jr

• It Happens After Prayer

Vance Christie

• Hudson Taylor

Arnold Dallimore

• George Whitefield

Mark Dever

• 9 Marks of a Healthy Church

Kevin DeYoung

• The Hole in Our Holiness

Sinclair Ferguson

• The Whole Christ

Elyse Fitzpatrick

• Idols of the Heart

Wayne Grudem

• Systematic Theology

Os Guinness

• The Call

James Hamilton

• God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment

David Helm

• Expositional Preaching

Michael Horton

• Core Christianity

Susan Hunt

• Spiritual Mothering

Mark Jones

• Knowing Christ

Peter Jones

• The Other Worldview

Tim Keller

• The Reason for God

Heath Lambert

• Finally Free

Steve Lawson

• The Kind of Preaching God Blesses

John MacArthur

• Ashamed of the Gospel

David Mathis

• Habits of Grace

Paul Miller

• A Praying Life

Albert Mohler

• The Conviction to Lead

Russell Moore

• Tempted and Tried

David Murray

• Reset

Iain Murray

• Evangelicalism Divided

Andy Naselli (and J.D. Crowley)

• Conscience

Stephen Nichols

• The Reformation

Ray Ortlund

• The Gospel

J.I. Packer

• Knowing God

Tony Payne (and Colin Marshall)

• The Trellis & the Vine

Nancy Pearcey

• Total Truth

Richard Phillips

• What’s So Great About the Doctrines of Grace?

John Piper

• The Pleasures of God

David Platt

• Counter Culture

David Powlison

• How Does Sanctification Work?

Tony Reinke

• 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You

Michael Reeves

• Delighting in the Trinity

R.C. Sproul

• The Holiness of God

John Stott

• The Cross of Christ

Derek Thomas

• How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

Joe Thorn

• Note To Self

Paul David Tripp

• Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands

Tedd Tripp

• Shepherding a Child’s Heart

Kimberly Wagner

• Fierce Women

Trevin Wax

• This Is Our Time

Ed Welch

• When People Are Big and God Is Small

James White

• The Forgotten Trinity

Donald Whitney

• Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life

Jen Wilkin

• Women of the Word

Jared Wilson

• The Prodigal Church

Michael Wittmer

• Becoming Worldly Saints

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

• Lies Women Believe

Christopher Yuan

• Out of a Far Country

*Don’t be mad if I forgot you or your favorite author. I just kind of went from memory until I ran out of names. By then I had already well surpassed my limit.