Above all else: The Bible (Old and New Testaments)
2001 English Standard Version (ESV): recommended English translation
2008 ESV Study Bible: recommended study Bible
446-386 Aristophanes
400 BC
428-348 Plato
400s Patrick
451 Chalcedonian Formula (Council of Chalcedon)
500
480-525 Boethius
ca 1262-ca 1348 Ugolino Brunforte
1375? Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1343-1400 Geoffrey Chaucer
1415-71 Thomas Malory
1483-1546 Martin Luther
1534-83 Zacharius Ursinus
1600
1611 King James Version of the Bible
1567-1622 Francis de Sales
1588-1679 Thomas Hobbes
1608-74 John Milton
1707-54 Henry Fielding
1776 US Declaration of Independence
1791 US Constitution with Bill of Rights
1799-1837 Alexander Pushkin
1804-64 Nathaniel Hawthorne
1819-91 Herman Melville
1835-1910 Mark Twain
1850-94 Robert Louis Stevenson
1830-86 Emily Dickinson: Poems
1857-1924 Joseph Conrad
1866-1943 Beatrix Potter
1842-1910 William James
1868-1963 W. E. B. Dubois
1882-1944 Hendrik Willem van Loon
1882-1941 James Joyce
1879-1970 E. M. Forster
1896-1940 F. Scott Fitzgerald
1891-1940 Mikhail Bulgakov
1885-1981 Will Durant
1882-1941 Virginia Woolf
1899-1961 Ernest Hemingway
1886-1968 Karl Barth
1894-1963 Aldous Huxley
1906-45 Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1903-50 George Orwell
1902-68 John Steinbeck
1907-73 W. H. Auden
1898-1963 C. S. Lewis
1897-1943 Eric Knight
1905-97 Vicktor Frankl
1913-60 Albert Camus
1889-1968 Pitirim Sorokin
1889-1975 Arnold Toynbee
1912-94 Jacques Ellul
1899-1985 E. B. White
1926-2016 Harper Lee
1874-1963 Robert Frost: Poems
1925-65 Malcolm X
1927-2004 Shirley C. Guthrie, Jr.
1922-2007 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
b. 1936 David Levering Lewis
1919-84 Sydney Ahlstrom
1936-2002 (aged 85) Christopher Alexander
b. 1929 Milan Kundera
1800 BC
1800? The Epic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia)
1800? The Epic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia)
800 BC
700s Homer
700s Homer
ca 750 The Iliad
ca 750 The Odyssey
700 BC
ca 630-570 Sappho: Poems
700 BC
ca 630-570 Sappho: Poems
600 BC
ca 620-564 Aesop
ca 620-564 Aesop
ca 575 Fables
500 BC
ca 525-ca 455 Aeschylus
500 BC
ca 525-ca 455 Aeschylus
472 The Persians
467 Seven against Thebes
458 The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
??? Prometheus Bound
496-406 Sophocles
441 Antigone
429 Oedipus Rex
406 Oedipus at Colonus
446-386 Aristophanes
411 Lysistrata
400 BC
428-348 Plato
380 The Republic
ca 430-354 Xenophon
19 Aeneid
300
381 Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed (First Council of Constantinople)
400
354-430 Augustine
300
381 Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed (First Council of Constantinople)
400
354-430 Augustine
400 Confessions (trans. Garry Wills, 2008)
400s Patrick
ca 450 Confession
451 Chalcedonian Formula (Council of Chalcedon)
500
480-525 Boethius
525 The Consolation of Philosophy
800
ca 800 Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney, 2001)
1100
ca 1100 The Song of Roland
ca 1170 The Poem of the Cid
1200
1225-74 Thomas Aquinas
800
ca 800 Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney, 2001)
1100
ca 1100 The Song of Roland
ca 1170 The Poem of the Cid
1200
1225-74 Thomas Aquinas
1274 Summa Theologica
1300
ca 1265-1321 Dante Alighieri
1300
ca 1265-1321 Dante Alighieri
1320 Divine Comedy
ca 1262-ca 1348 Ugolino Brunforte
ca 1325 Little Flowers of St. Francis
1375? Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1343-1400 Geoffrey Chaucer
1400 The Canterbury Tales
1400
1380-1471 Thomas a Kempis
1400
1380-1471 Thomas a Kempis
ca 1425 The Imitation of Christ
1415-71 Thomas Malory
1485 Le Morte d'Arthur
1500
1466-1536 Erasmus
1500
1466-1536 Erasmus
1511 In Praise of Folly
1483-1546 Martin Luther
1529 Large Catechism
1559 The Book of Common Prayer
1534-83 Zacharius Ursinus
1563 The Heidelberg Catechism
1533-92 Michel de Montaigne
1570-92 Essays
1564-1616 William Shakespeare
1591 The Taming of the Shrew
1595 Romeo and Juliet
1595 A Midsummer Night's Dream
1599 Julius Caesar
1601 Hamlet
1606 King Lear
1606 Macbeth
1600
1547-1616 Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote: Part 1 (1605) and Part 2 (1615) (trans. Edith Grossman, 2003)
1611 King James Version of the Bible
1567-1622 Francis de Sales
1619 Introduction to the Devout Life
1581-1656 James Ussher
1658 Annals of the World
1588-1679 Thomas Hobbes
1651 Leviathan
1608-74 John Milton
1674 Paradise Lost
1628-88 John Bunyan
1662 "A Relation of the Imprisonment of Mr. John Bunyan"
1678 The Pilgrim’s Progress
1688 Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
1700
1667-1745 Jonathan Swift
1726 Gulliver's Travels
1707-54 Henry Fielding
1742 Joseph Andrews
1776 US Declaration of Independence
1729-97 Edmund Burke
1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France
1791 US Constitution with Bill of Rights
1800
1775-1817 Jane Austen
1813 Pride and Prejudice
1797-1851 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1818 Frankenstein
1771-1832 Walter Scott
1820 Ivanhoe
1799-1837 Alexander Pushkin
1833 Eugene Onegin
1812-70 Charles Dickens
1839 Oliver Twist
1850 David Copperfield
1859 A Tale of Two Cities
1861 Great Expectations
1843 A Christmas Carol:
Ebenezer Scrooge: Exemplary Minion of Pluto
Olympian Scrooge: Delight in Being Bossy
Olympian Scrooge Talks with His Tufluvian Nephew
Scrooge: Fifty Shades of Indifference
First Step Forward: A Tufluvian Ghost Frightens Olympian Scrooge
The Ghost of Christmas Past
The Ghost of Christmas Present
Christmas Future: You Reap What You Sow
Scrooge: A Man and His World Transformed
1843 A Christmas Carol:
Ebenezer Scrooge: Exemplary Minion of Pluto
Olympian Scrooge: Delight in Being Bossy
Olympian Scrooge Talks with His Tufluvian Nephew
Scrooge: Fifty Shades of Indifference
First Step Forward: A Tufluvian Ghost Frightens Olympian Scrooge
The Ghost of Christmas Past
The Ghost of Christmas Present
Christmas Future: You Reap What You Sow
Scrooge: A Man and His World Transformed
1802-70 Alexandre Dumas
1844 The Three Musketeers
1813-55 Soren Kierkegaard
1847 Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing
1855 Attack on Christendom
1816-55 Charlotte Brontë
1847 Jane Eyre
1811-63 William Thackeray
1848 Vanity Fair
1804-64 Nathaniel Hawthorne
1850 The Scarlet Letter
1819-91 Herman Melville
1851 Moby-Dick
1811-96 Harriet Beecher Stowe
1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin
1819-80 George Eliot
1861 Silas Marner
1818-83 Ivan Turgenev
1862 Fathers and Sons
1821-81 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1862 The House of the Dead
1869 The Idiot
1880 The Brothers Karamozov
1823-86 Mary Chesnut
1861-65 Mary Chesnut's Civil War (ed. C. Vann Woodward, 1981)
1832-88 Louisa May Alcott
1868 Little Women
1822-88 Matthew Arnold
1869 Culture and Anarchy ("Preface," 1875)
1828-1910 Leo Tolstoy
1869 War and Peace
1878 Anna Karenina
1835-1910 Mark Twain
1885 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1860-1904 Anton Chekhov
1882-1904 Stories
1901 Three Sisters
1904 Cherry Orchard
1850-94 Robert Louis Stevenson
1883 Treasure Island
1886 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1830-86 Emily Dickinson: Poems
1859-1930 Arthur Conan Doyle
1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1857-1924 Joseph Conrad
1899 Heart of Darkness
1900
1900
1865-1936 Rudyard Kipling
1901 Kim
1866-1943 Beatrix Potter
1902 The Tale of Peter Rabbit
1842-1910 William James
1902 The Varieties of Religious Experience
1868-1963 W. E. B. Dubois
1903 The Souls of Black Folks
1883-1924 Franz Kafka
1915 The Metamorphosis
1873-1947 Willa Cather
1913 O Pioneers!
1918 My Antonia
1927 Death Comes for the Archbishop
1882-1944 Hendrik Willem van Loon
1921 The Story of Mankind
1882-1941 James Joyce
1922 Ulysses
1879-1970 E. M. Forster
1908 A Room with a View
1924 A Passage to India
1896-1940 F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925 The Great Gatsby
1891-1940 Mikhail Bulgakov
1925 A Dog's Heart
1885-1981 Will Durant
1926 The Story of Philosophy
1935-75 The Story of Civilization (11 volumes)
1898-1970 Erich Maria Remarque
1928 All Quiet on the Western Front
1882-1941 Virginia Woolf
1925 The Common Reader
1929 A Room of One's Own
1938 Three Guineas
1899-1961 Ernest Hemingway
1926 The Sun Also Rises
1929 A Farewell to Arms
1940 For Whom the Bell Tolls
1848-1943 Stephen Vincent Benet
1928 John Brown's Body
1886-1968 Karl Barth
1931-67 Church Dogmatics (13 volumes)
1963 Evangelical Theology
1977 Eberhard Busch: Karl Barth
1977 Eberhard Busch: Karl Barth
1894-1963 Aldous Huxley
1932 Brave New World
1890-1976 Agatha Christie
1934 Murder on the Orient Express (with Hercule Poirot)
1971 Nemesis (with Miss Marple)
1906-45 Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1937 The Cost of Discipleship
1891-1960 Zora Neale Hurston
1937 Their Eyes Were Watching God
1903-50 George Orwell
1938 Homage to Catalonia
1945 Animal Farm
1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four
1902-68 John Steinbeck
1939 Grapes of Wrath
1907-73 W. H. Auden
1940 "Musee des Beaux Arts" (poem in Another Time)
1868-1963 Edith Hamilton
1942 Mythology
Sense of Adventure: Jason and his Argonauts
1898-1963 C. S. Lewis
1942 The Screwtape Letters
1956 The Last Battle
1959 "Screwtape Proposes a Toast"
1897-1943 Eric Knight
1943 Lassie Come-Home
1905-97 Vicktor Frankl
1946 Man's Search for Meaning
1913-60 Albert Camus
1947 The Plague
1889-1968 Pitirim Sorokin
1947 Society, Culture, and Personality
1957 Social and Cultural Dynamics
1889-1975 Arnold Toynbee
1950 War and Civilization
1972 A Study of History (abridged and illustrated)
1956 An Historian's Approach to Religion
Religious and Biblical Understandings of Human Nature
Remaining Mindful That Institutions Tip from Good to Evil
Freedom as Embracing Suffering
Courage or Compromise?
Taking Care of Our Own
Church Subordination
The Fatal Mistake of Understanding Technology as Neutral
Thoughts from the Springtime of Civilization
The Decline and Fall of Latin Christian Civilization
1648: Why Western Intellectuals Abandoned Theology
Olympian Civilization Makes All Others Olympian Too
1648: Western Civilization Tips from Christian to Olympian
Western Technological Development to 1648
Why Olympian Civilization Lacks Meaningful Feedback
1903-87 Marguerite Yourcenar
1956 An Historian's Approach to Religion
Religious and Biblical Understandings of Human Nature
Remaining Mindful That Institutions Tip from Good to Evil
Freedom as Embracing Suffering
Courage or Compromise?
Taking Care of Our Own
Church Subordination
The Fatal Mistake of Understanding Technology as Neutral
Thoughts from the Springtime of Civilization
The Decline and Fall of Latin Christian Civilization
1648: Why Western Intellectuals Abandoned Theology
Olympian Civilization Makes All Others Olympian Too
1648: Western Civilization Tips from Christian to Olympian
Western Technological Development to 1648
Why Olympian Civilization Lacks Meaningful Feedback
1903-87 Marguerite Yourcenar
1951 Memoirs of Hadrian
1912-94 Jacques Ellul
1951 The Presence of the
Kingdom
1960 The Theological Foundation of
Law
1964 The Technological Society
1965 Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s
Attitudes
1967 The Political
Illusion
1969 Violence:
Reflections from a Christian Perspective
1970 The Meaning of the City
1970 Prayer
and Modern Man
1971 The Judgment
of Jonah
1972 The
Politics of God and the Politics of Man
1973 Hope in Time of Abandonment
1975 The New Demons
1976 The
Ethics of Freedom
1977 Apocalypse:
The Book of Revelation
1978 The
Betrayal of the West
1980 The
Technological System
1981 Perspectives
on Our Age
1983 Living Faith:
Belief and Doubt in a Perilous World
1984 Money and Power
1986 The
Subversion of Christianity
1989 What
I Believe
1990 The Technological
Bluff
1990 Reason for Being: A Meditation on Ecclesiastes
1991 Anarchy and
Christianity
1899-1985 E. B. White
1952 Charlotte's Web
1920-2012 Ray Bradbury
1953 Fahrenheit 451
1905-64 Vasily Grossman
1960 Life and Fate (trans. Robert Chandler, 1985)
1926-2016 Harper Lee
1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
1874-1963 Robert Frost: Poems
1925-65 Malcolm X
1965 The Autobiography of Malcolm X (with Alex Haley)
1918-2008 Aleksandr Solzhenitsen
1962 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
1966 The Cancer Ward
1978 "Harvard Commencement Address"
1927-2004 Shirley C. Guthrie, Jr.
1968 Christian Doctrine
1922-2007 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
1969 Slaughterhouse-Five
b. 1936 David Levering Lewis
1970 King: A Critical Biography
1909-2001 Ernst Gombrich
1972 The Story of Art
1919-84 Sydney Ahlstrom
1972 A Religious History of the American People
1936-2002 (aged 85) Christopher Alexander
1977 A Pattern Language
1979 The Timeless Way of Building
b. 1929 Milan Kundera
1984 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1922-94 Philip Hallie
1979 Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed (rev. ed. 1994)
1927-2007 Vernard Eller
1987 Christian Anarchy
2003 War and Peace: From Genesis to Revelation
1909-98 Lesslie Newbigin
1989 The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
1930-1999 Dale Aukerman
1989 Darkening Valley: A Biblical Perspective on Nuclear War
b. 1952 Jostein Gaarder
1991 Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
1996 The Solitaire Mystery
1929-2004 Norman Cantor
1993 The Civilization of the Middle Ages
1994 The Sacred Chain: A History of the Jews
b. 1945 George Hunsinger
1993 How to Read Karl Barth
2001 Disruptive Grace: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth
Raging Battle or Last?
Christians Say No to Nuclear Weapons--and War
Death by a Thousand Smaller Compromises
On Jesus Not Being a Means to an End
Churches: Activist, Conversionist, Prophetic
Le Chambon: Where Goodness Happened
Christians Say No to Nuclear Weapons--and War
Death by a Thousand Smaller Compromises
On Jesus Not Being a Means to an End
Churches: Activist, Conversionist, Prophetic
Le Chambon: Where Goodness Happened
b. 1937 Lois Lowry
1994 The Giver
1920-94 Charles Bukowski: Poems
2000
b. 1943 Peter Watson
2000
b. 1943 Peter Watson
2001 The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century
2005 Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
b. 1942 Garrison Keillor
2002 Good Poems (editor)
b. 1934 Wendell Berry
2005 In the Presence of Fear
b. 1948 Azar Nafisi
2006 Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
