50 books that are shaping liberatus
A vision like healing through freedom doesn’t come about without a good deal of thought. Here are fifty books I’ve read, am reading now, or continue to re-read. They have each shaped my perspective in different ways: some because I agree with them, others because I don’t and want to offer something different. They’ve inspired, or continue to inspire the work of LIBERATUS. This list is not exhaustive, and if I were to add what’s on my current reading list, it would double in length. They are listed here in no particular order:
1. The Last Battle – C.S. Lewis
2. Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work –Tim Keller
3. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years – Donald Miller
4. Father Fiction – Donald Miller
5. Wild at Heart – John Eldredge
6. Fathered by God – John Eldredge
7. Desire: The Journey You Must Take to Find the Life God Offers – John Eldredge
8. The Sacred Romance – John Eldredge
9. Waking the Dead – John Eldredge
10. The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom – Henri Nouwen
11. They Cry of the Soul – Allender & Longman
12. Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems – Michael Strong
13. Next Generation Leader: Five Essentials for Those Who Will Shape the Future – Andy Stanley
14. Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government – Yaron Brook & Don Watkins
15. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
16. When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan – Peggy Noonan
17. How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life – Peter Robinson
18. The Federalist Papers – Hamilton, Madison, & Jay
19. The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith – Tim Keller
20. The Shack – William P. Young
21. The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
22. The Weight of Glory – C.S. Lewis
23. Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery – Eric Metaxas
24. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy – Eric Metaxas
25. The Explicit Gospel – Matt Chandler
26. Story – Robert McKee
27. Desiring God – John Piper
28. The Creative Leader – Ed Young
29. Killing Lions – John Eldredge & Sam Eldredge
30. Unbroken – Laura Hillenbrand
31. The Conscience of a Conservative – Barry Goldwater
32. Words that Work – Dr. Frank Luntz
33. Blinded by Might – Cal Thomas & Ed Dobson
34. Rules for Radicals – Saul Alinsky
35. The Age of Global Warming – Rupert Darwall
36. Visioneering – Andy Stanley
37. Making Vision Stick – Andy Stanley
38. Free to Live: The Utter Relief of Holiness – John Eldredge
39. The Lieutenant Don’t Know: One Marine’s Story of Warfare and Combat Logistics in Afghanistan – Jeff Clement
40. The Wright Brothers – David McCullough
41. Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
42. The Tank Man’s Son – Mark Bouman
43. The Cost of Discipleship – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
44. Acts – R.C. Sproul
45. Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance – Jonathan Fields
46. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics – Daniel James Brown
47. The Four Loves – C.S. Lewis
48. Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality – Richard Rohr
49. Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy – Donald Miller
50. Born to Run – Chris McDougall