20 Books Every Christian Should Read

Reading spiritual books the most effective way to grow as a Christian. This list isn’t exhaustive by any means, there are many other books that should be on the list, but this should get you started. Discover Christian books, wise and inspiring works of literature.


On the Incarnation - St. Athanasius

The Confessions - St. Augustine

Rule for Monasteries - St. Benedict

The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri

The Cloud of Unknowing - Anonymous

Revelations of Divine Love - Julian of Norwich

The Imitation of Christ - Thomas à Kempis

Institutes of the Christian Religion - John Calvin

The Interior Castle - St. Teresa of Ávila

Dark Night of the Soul - St. John of the Cross

Pensées - Blaise Pascal

The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan

The Practice of the Presence of God - Brother Lawrence

A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life - William Law

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Orthodoxy - G. K. Chesterton

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Life of God in the Soul of Man - Henry Scougal

On the Christian Life - John Calvin

Heaven is A World of Love - Jonathan Edwards