Check the sidebar for other recommendations - most a little dated at this point. I may get around to updating them or adding some more at some point. Hope you find them marginally helpful.
Top 20 Recommended Books
In parenthesis after the author's name is a difficulty rating. I felt like this might help people looking for a book to read. I rated them on a scale from 1-5 with 1 being very easy to read and 5 being rather difficult.
1. Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry. John Piper. (2)
2. Mere Christianity. C.S. Lewis. (2)
3. The Weight of Glory. C.S. Lewis. (3)
4. Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance. Os Guiness. (2)
5. The Supremacy of God in Preaching. John Piper. (2)
6. The Legacy of Sovereign Joy: Triumphant Grace in the Lives of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin. John Piper. (2)
7. Desiring God. John Piper. (3)
8. The Religious Affections. Jonathan Edwards. (4)
9. The God Who is There. Francis A. Schaeffer. (2)
10. The Cost of Discipleship. Dietrich Bonhoeffer. (3)
11. The Abolition of Man. C.S. Lewis. (3)
12. The Knowledge of the Holy. A. W. Tozer. (2)
13. The Republic. Plato. (5)
14. Bringing Up Boys. James Dobson. (1)
15. Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle. (4)
16. Knowing Scripture. R.C. Sproul. (1)
17. Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview. Albert M. Wolters. (4)
18. Fit Bodies, Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don’t Think and What to Do About It. Os Guinness. (2)
19. Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education. Douglas Wilson. (2)
20. Decision Making and the Will of God: A Biblical Alternative to the Traditional View. Garry Friesen. (1)
(List Updated 2-9-2005)
A few others...
Biblical Eldership: An Urgent Call to Restore Biblical Church Leadership. Alexander Strauch. (2)
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. John Maxwell. (2)
The Blessed Hope. George Eldon Ladd. (2)
The Attributes of God. A. W. Pink. (2)
Through the Gates of Splendor. Elisabeth Elliot. (1)
