Just a sampling of ones I thought worth mentioning. Of those books I have read, the links provided are to my review of each book. Some links for purchasing books are provided in association with Amazon.
Carson, D.A. The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God. Highly recommended.
Edwards, Jonathan. Religious Affections. Outstanding book that well serves the purpose of working out our salvation with fear and trembling. It challenged me at many points. At the same time, it can also serve our sinful tendency to fix our gaze on ourselves rather than Jesus, so it must be approached with the gospel uppermost in our minds.
Letham, Robert. The Holy Trinity. Highly recommended.
Murray, John. Redemption Accomplished and Applied. A small and helpful overview of Jesus’s work of redemption and God’s bringing us to salvation. Recommended.
Packer, J. I. Knowing God.
St. John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul. A bit mystical, but thought-provoking.
Van Til, Cornelius. Christian Apologetics, Defense of the Faith. I highly recommend these books. They both describe Van Til’s transcendental argument for God’s existence. More than that, they present a healthy view of apologetics and philosophy in the service of faith, rather than the opposite.
Vos, Geerhardus, Biblical Theology.
Warren, Rick. Purpose-Driven Life. Not recommended.
Wilson, Douglas. Joy at the End of the Tether. Highly recommended.
Lloyd-Jones, The Puritans: Their Origins and Successors. Very helpful.
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings.
Wilder, Thornton. Our Town. Very moving and thought-provoking play.
Hofstadter, Doug. Goedel, Escher, and Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid. Required reading for any computer scientist.
Ezzo, Gary. On Becoming Baby Wise. Generally helpful advice on caring for a newborn.
Fisher, Edward. The Marrow of Modern Divinity, including Boston’s annotations.
Bauer, Susan; and Wise, Jessie. The Well-Trained Mind.
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions.
Charnock, Stephen. The Existence and Attributes of God.
Joyce, James, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. My goal someday is to have the intelligence to understand at least a fraction of Finnegan’s Wake. :-)
Kuyper, Abraham. Lectures on Calvinism.
Sellars, Wilfrid. Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind.
Tolkien, The Silmarillion.
Carson, How Long, O Lord?.
Mahaney, C. J. Humility: True Greatness.
Newbegin, Leslie. See [1].
Miller, Walter. A Canticle For Leibowitz.
Veith, Gene. God at Work.
I’m growing a little intrigued about John Williamson Nevin and would like to read him.
More books for kids: [2]
Ladd, G. E. The Gospel of the Kingdom. Daniel recommends this highly.
Frame, John. The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God.
Welch, Ed. When People are Big and God is Small.
More possibilities for kids: [3], [4], [5], [6], The Gospel for Children, My First Book of Questions and Answers.
Worthy is the Lamb: Puritan Poetry in Honor of Christ.
Priolo, Louis. Teach Them Diligently. (From [7].)
Kimmel, Tim. Grace-Based Parenting. (From [8].)
Books Children Love.
Chesterton, G. K. Orthodoxy. Also other books by Chesterton.
Wilson, Douglas. Angels in the Architecture; and others.
Koyzis, David. Political Visions and Illusions. Koyzis seems to be a Calvinist writing from the perspective of sphere sovereignty.
Dooyeweerd, In the Twilight of Western Thought.
Laws of Form. Wow.
More stuff by Van Til [9]
Calvin, Institutes.
Clouser, Roy. The Myth of Religious Neutrality.
Parrish, Stephen. God and Necessity.
Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice.
Stephenson, Neal. Snow Crash.
A good biography of Ghandi.
Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra.
Faster.
Telepistemology
More stuff by Baxter
Various books by Wiki:RogerPenrose (Wiki:TheEmperorsNewMind and Wiki:ShadowsOfTheMind).
Wiki:TheLogicOfFailure, Wiki:InevitableIllusions
The Upanisads.
DeMause, Lloyd. Foundations of Psychohistory. So I can evaluate deMause’s claims firsthand. Some of them, at least, are credible.
Russell, Why I am not a Christian.
JustinTaylorBookRecommendations - recommended on Piper’s freshwords list while Piper was on vacation.
Baxter, Richard. The Reformed Pastor.
Grudem, Wayne and Piper, John. Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood.
Kaiser, Walter, Jr., Toward an Old Testament Theology.
Sosa, Kim, eds., Metaphysics: An Anthology.
Sosa, Kim, McGrath, eds., Epistemology: An Anthology.
et. al. :-)
From Phil on the New Perspective: Perspectives, Old and New; Counted Righteous in Christ (Piper); Christ Our Righteousness.
St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation.
St. Basil, On the Holy Spirit.
Sanders, John, The God Who Risks (recommended as the most straightforward exposition of the “open” position).
N. T. Wright, why:TheChallengeOfJesus (recommended as the best place to start with Wright).
A.W. Pink, The Sovereignty of God.
Ephraim (Fr Seraphim) Rose, Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age. St Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 1994 - American convert to Eastern Orthodoxy charts Nihilism from the French Revolution to his own day (60s), with perceptive analysis of current trends. Leans heavily on the prophet of nihilism Nietzsche. Very Good.
Richard Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible? and Burton L. Mack, Who Wrote the New Testament? The two best readable introductions to what historical criticism of the Bible is, why it matters, and what startling things we can learn from it. Friedman reads like a detective story. Mack is more radical and more textbook-like, but still thrilling. -db
“Full Quiver: Family Planning and the Lordship of Jesus Christ” by Rick and Jan Hess; Chalcedon (note: theonomist); Vision Forum; “Homeschooling: the Right Choice” by Chris Klicka. — JBH
Dorman, Ted M. A Faith For All Seasons. A fantastic overview of Christian thought over the past 2000 years. A quote from the book:
[begin quote: p. xv]
We are like dwarves sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancient Christian writers]. We see more than they and things that are farther away--not because our sight is better than theirs, nor because we are taller than they were, but because they raise us up and add to our stature by their enormous hight. — Bernard of Chartes (d. 1130)
...
This is a new book about old books. It is a book written by a dwarf seated atop the shoulders of theological giants of ages past. It is about the insights and ideas of the giants, not the dwarf.
[end quote]
Westerholm, Stephen. Perspectives, Old and New.
Eldredge, Wild at Heart. Note that I’m skeptical about this book, having heard that Eldredge has a poor grip on orthodoxy. But some good friends have recommended it. In addition, it is a relevant read simply due to its broad popularity, as with PurposeDrivenLife.
See also the BookShelved wiki.