Last year I read 25 Books Every Christian Should Read and it made me wonder what 25 books I would recommend if I were on the editorial board that put such a book together. I started jotting down a few that came to mind and the list just kept growing.
But then it dawned on me that a lot of the books that influenced me most deeply were not specifically about faith, theology or Christianity. So my list grew even larger as I thought of great books of literature, history, mystery and non-fiction.
Out of all that came an idea. …