100 CHRISTIAN BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE CENTURY

William J. Petersen and Randy Petersen wrote 100 Christian Books that Changed the Century back in 2000. The Petersens present their book as a conversation piece, knowing that their selections will occasion disagreement. In their preface they caution that their selections do not necessarily represent the best books, but those that have significantly shaped people, thinkers, and movements. They offer two pages of commentary on each title.

1899 - In His Steps - by Charles Sheldon

1900 - The Evangelization of the World in This Generation - by John R. Mott

1901 - Quiet Talks on Power - by S.D. Gordon

1901 - Up From Slavery - by Booker T. Washington

1903 - The Crises of the Christ - by G. Campbell Morgan

1904 - Hurlbut's Story of the Bible - by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

1907 - Power Through Prayer - by E. M. Bounds

1909 - The Scofield Reference Bible - by C. I. Scofield

1912 - Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours - by Roland Allen

1912 - War on the Saints - by Jessie Penn-Lewis

1915 - Int'l Standard Bible Encyclopedia - James Orr, ed.

1919 - The Fundamentals - A.C. Dixon, Louis Meyer, and R.A. Torrey (eds)

1923 - Christianity and Liberalism - by J. Gresham Machen

1924 - Halley's Pocket Bible Handbook - by Henry H. Halley

1925 - Orthodoxy - by G. K. Chesterton

1925 - Streams in the Desert - by Lettie Cowman

1925 - The Christ of the Indian Road - by E. Stanley Jones

1927 - My Utmost for His Highest - by Oswald Chambers

1927 - The Basis of Christian Faith - by Floyd E. Hamilton

1928 - Religion that Works - by Samuel M. Shoemaker

1930 - Who Moved the Stone? - by Frank Morrison

1931 - Prayer - by Ole Hallesby

1936 - A Diary of Private Prayer - by John Baillie

1936 - Church Dogmatics - by Karl Barth

1936 - Worship by Evelyn Underhill

1937 - The Cost of Discipleship - by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

1937 - The Witness - by Grace Livingston Hill

1938 - If - by Amy Carmichael 

1941 - The Mind of the Maker - by Dorothy L. Sayers

1942 - The Robe - Lloyd C. Douglas 

1942 - The Screwtape Letters - by C.S. Lewis

1947 - The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism - by Carl F.H. Henry

1948 - The Seven Storey Mountain - by Thomas Merton   

1948 - Cry, the Beloved Country - by Alan Paton 

1948 - The Pursuit of God - by A.W. Tozer 

1949 - The Archaeology of Palestine  -by Wm. Foxwell Albright 

1949 - Peace of Soul - by Fulton J. Sheen   

1950 - Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther - by Roland Bainton 

1950 - The Chronicles of Narnia - by C.S. Lewis 

1951 - A Man Called Peter - by Catherine Marshall 

1951 - Christ and Culture - by H. Richard Niebuhr 

1952 - Mere Christianity - by C.S. Lewis 

1952 - The Power of Positive Thinking - by Norman Vincent Peale 

1952 - Your God is Too Small - by J.B. Phillips 

1953 - The Daily Study Bible - by William Barclay 

1953 - New Bible Commentary - Davidson, Stibbs, Kevan (eds.) 
1953 - Peace with God - by Billy Graham 

1953 - The Household of God - by Lesslie Newbigin 

1954 - The Christian View of Science and Scripture - by Bernard Ramm 

1955 - The Bridges of God - by Donald Anderson McGavran 

1955 - The Burden is Light - by Eugenia Price 

1956 - Second  Thoughts on the Dead Sea Scrolls - by F.F. Bruce   

1957 - Through Gates of Splendor - by Elisabeth Elliot 

1957 - The Meaning of Persons - by Paul Tournier 

1958 - Stride toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story - by Martin Luther King, Jr. 

1958 - Basic Christianity - by John Stott 

1960 - The Gospel Blimp - by Joseph T. Bayly 

1960- The Psychology of Counseling - by Clyde M. Narramore 

1961 - The New Bible Dictionary - J.d. Douglas, ed. 

1961 - The Company of the Committed - by Elton Trueblood 

1961 - The Genesis Flood - by Whitcomb and Morris

1961 - Man: The Image of God - by G.C. Berkouwer 

1962 - A Wrinkle in Time - by Madeleine L'Engle 

1962 - Living Letters - by Kenneth N. Taylor 

1963 - The Cross and the Switchblade - by David Wilkerson with John and Elizabeth Sherrill 

1964 - They Speak with Other Tongues - by John Sherrill 

1965 - Spiritual Depression - by Martyn Lloyd-Jones 

1965 -The Kingdom of the Cults - by Walter R. Martin

1965 - The Taste of New Wine - by Keith Miller 

1967 - Know Why You Believe - by Paul Little 

1967 - Christy - by Catherine Marshall 

1967 - Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking - by Robert H. Schuller

1968 - The God Who is There - by Francis Schaeffer 

1970 - Dare to Discipline - by James Dobson 

1970 - The Meaning of the City - by Jacques Ellul 

1970 - The Late Great Planet Earth - by Hal Lindsey with Carole C. Carlson   

1971 - Eighth Day of Creation - by Elizabeth O'Connor 

1971 - The Hiding Place - by Corrie ten Boom with John and Elizabeth Sherrill 

1972 - Evidence that Demands a Verdict - by Josh McDowell 

1972 - The Wounded Healer - by Henri Nouwen 

1973 - The Total Woman - by Marabel Morgan 

1973 - Knowing God - by J. I. Packer 

1973 - The Gulag Archipelago - by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 

1974 - All We're Meant to Be - by Scanzoni and Hardesty

1976 - Born Again - by Charles Colson 

1976 - Joni - by Joni Eareckson with Joe Musser 

1976 - The Battle for the Bible - by Harold Lindsell 

1977 - Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger - by Ron Sider 

1978 - Celebration of Discipline - by Richard J. Foster

1979 - Telling the Truth - by Frederick Buechner 

1979 - Where Does a Mother Go to Resign? - by Barbara Johnson

1979 - Out of the Saltshaker and into the World - by Rebeca Manley Pippert 

1982 - With Justice for All - by John Perkins 

1985 - Worship is a Verb - by Robert Webber 

1987 - This Present Darkness - by Frank Peretti 

1989 - The Man in the Mirror - by Patrick M. Morley 

1990 - Experiencing God - by Blackaby and King 

1990 - Disappointment with God - by Philip Yancey 

1995 - Left Behind - by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

1995 - The Purpose-Driven  Church - by Rick Warren