"We have each of us in the dustiest cells of our minds a counter at which we strive to repay the debts of the past with the debased currency of the present."
- Gene Wolf, "Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of The Book of the New Sun" (p 66)
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- Adler, Mortimer J - "How to Read a Book" (1972)
- Anderson, Walter Truett - "The Truth About the Truth (New Consciousness Reader)" (1995)
- Anselm of Canterbury - "Cur Deus Homo {Why God Became Man}" (ca 1100)
- Anyabwile, Thabiti - "The Faithful Preacher: Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Puritans" (2007)
- Aquinas, Thomas - "Summa Theologiae selections" (ca 1270)
- Arendt, Hannah - "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1973)
- Aristotle - "Poetics and Rhetoric" (mid 3rd Century BC)
- Athanasius of Alexandria - "On the Incarnation" (ca 325)
- Augustine of Hippo - "City of God" (circa 510 AD)
- Augustine of Hippo - "The Confessions of St. Augustine" (ca 397)
- Augustine of Hippo - "The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love" (ca 430)
- Balfour, Arthur James - "Theism and Humanism: The Book that Influenced C.S. Lewis" (1915)
- Bawer, Bruce - "While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within" (2004)
- Bessenecker, Scott A. - "The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World's Poor" (2006)
- Blamires, Harry - "Where Do We Stand? An Examination of a Christian's Position in the Modern World" (1980)
- Bloom, Allan - "The Closing of the American Mind" (1988)
- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich - "Letters & Papers from Prison" (1953)
- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich - "Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community" (1943)
- Boswell, James - "Boswell's Life of Johnson" (2007)
- Bowman, Robert - "Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ" (2007)
- Boyle, Kevin - "Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age" (2005)
- Bronte, Charlotte - "Jane Eyre" (1847)
- Bruce, F.F. - "The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?" (1943)
- Buckley Jr, William F - "Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches with New Commentary by the Author" (2000)
- Buckley Jr, William F - "Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith" (1997)
- Bunyan, John - "The Pilgrim's Progress, Accurate Revised Text Edition" (1999)
- Calvin, John - "The Institutes" (ca 1559)
- Carey, William - "An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens" (1791)
- Chesterton, G.K. - "The Everlasting Man" (1993)
- Claiborne, Shane - "The Irresistable Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical" (2006)
- Clarke, Peter - "The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana" (2008)
- Collins, Francis S. - "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief" (2007)
- Colson, Charles - "How Now Shall We Live?" (1999)
- Conrad, Joseph - "Heart of Darkness" (1899)
- Conway, David - "The Rediscovery of Wisdom: From Here to Antiquity in Quest of 'Sophia'" (2000)
- Cyril of Alexandria - "On the Unity of Christ" (ca 440)
- Danby, John - "William Wordsworth: The Prelude and Other Poems"
- Dawkins, Richard - "The God Delusion" (2006)
- De Bracton, Henry - "De Legibus et Consuetudinibus (On the Laws and Customs of England)" (1250)
- de Zengotita, Thomas - "Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live In It" (2006)
- Deibler Rose, Darlene - "Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II" (1990)
- DeYoung, Kevin - "Why We're Not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be" (2008)
- Donne, John - "The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne" (2001)
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor - "The Brothers Karamazov" (1879)
- Douglass, Frederick - "My Bondage and My Freedom" (1855)
- Douthat, Ross and Salam, Reihan - "Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream" (2008)
- Dungy, Tony - "Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life" (2007)
- Duriez, Colin - "Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship" (2003)
- Edwards, Jonathan - "Religious Affections" (1961)
- Ellul, Jacques - "The Technological Society" (1967)
- Friedman, Milton - "Capitalism and Freedom" (1962)
- Friedman, Thomas L - "The Lexus and The Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization" (2000)
- Geisler, Norman L. - "I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist" (2004)
- George, Robert P. - "Embryo: A Defense of Human Life" (2008)
- Gide, Andre - "The Immoralist" (1984)
- Gilles, D.B. - "The Screenwriter Within: How to Turn the Movie in Your Head into a Salable Screenplay" (2000)
- Gish, Duane T. - "Evolution: The Fossils Still Say No!" (1995)
- Goffman, Erving - "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" (1959)
- Goleman, Daniel - "Emotional Intelligence" (1996)
- Grant, George - "Shelf Life: How Books Have Changed the Destinies and Desires of People and Nations" (1999)
- Green, Richard H. - "The Consolation of Philosophy: Boethius" (1962)
- Gregory of Nazianzus - "The Five Theological Orations" (ca 381)
- Guinness, Os - "God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt" (1996)
- Hammond, Peter - "The Greatest Century of Missions" (2002)
- Harris, Brett and Alex - "Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations" (2008)
- Heidelberd, Katechismus - "The Heidelberg Catechism with Scripture Texts" (ca 1563)
- Henry, Carl FH - "The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism" (1947)
- Herbert, George - "The Poetry of George Herbert" (2001)
- Hirshfeld, Alan - "The Electric Life of Michael Faraday" (2006)
- Hobbes, Thomas - "Leviathan" (1651)
- Hosseini, Khaled - "A Thousand Splendid Suns" (2007)
- Howe, Daniel Walker - "What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848" (2007)
- Iggulden, Conn - "The Dangerous Book for Boys" (2007)
- Imhoff, Daniel - "Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to a Food and Farm Bill" (2007)
- Irenaeus of Lyon - "On the Apostolic Preaching" (ca 150)
- Isaacson, Walter - "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (2007)
- Jackson, Jeremy C. - "No Other Foundation" (1980)
- James, William - "The Varieties of Religious Experience" (1902)
- Jaworski, Leon - "Crossroads" (1982)
- Johnson, Paul M - "A History of the American People" (1999)
- Johnson, Paul M. - "The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830" (1992)
- Johnson, Phillip E. - "Darwin on Trial" (1993)
- Johnson, Phillip E. - "Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law, and Education" (1998)
- Kaufman, Robert Gordon - "In Defense of the Bush Doctrine" (2007)
- Keller, Timothy - "The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism" (2008)
- Kogan, Rick - "A Chicago Tavern: A Goat, a Curse, and the American Dream" (2006)
- Kreeft, Peter J. - "Heaven: The Heart's Deepest Longing" (1989)
- Kuhn, Thomas S. - "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (1996)
- Kuttner, Robert - "Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets" (1999)
- Larsen, Scott - "Indelible Ink: 22 Prominent Christian Leaders Discuss the Books That Shape Their Faith" (2003)
- Leftow, Brian - "Time and Eternity" (1991)
- Lennox, John - "God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?" (2007)
- Leslie, John - "The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction" (1996)
- Lewis, C.S. - "George MacDonald" (1978)
- Lewis, C.S. - "The Abolition of Man" (2001)
- Lewis, C.S. - "The Weight of Glory" (2001)
- Lewis, CS - "Poems" (2002)
- Lonnrot, Elias - "The Kalevala: An Epic Poem after Oral Tradition by Elias Lonnrot" (1999)
- Lucian (C.D.N. Costa - Translator) - "Lucian: Selected Dialogues" (2006)
- Lungu, Stephen - "Out of the Black Shadows: The Amazing Transformation of Stephen Lungu" (2001)
- Luther, Martin - "Basic Theological Writings", edited by Timothy F. Lull (2005)
- Luther, Martin - "Selections" (ca 1530)
- MacDonald, George - "Phantastes" (1981)
- Mahaney, CJ - "Humility: True Greatness" (2005)
- Malone, Michael - "Handling Sin" (2001)
- Manguel, Alberto - "A History of Reading" (1997)
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" (2003)
- Marshall, Rosalind - "John Knox" (2001)
- Marx, Karl - "Das Kapital" (1957)
- Mason, Mike - "The Gospel According to Job: An Honest Look at Pain and Doubt from the Life of One Who Lost Everything" (2002)
- Matar, Hisham - "In the Country of Men" (2007)
- Mcdougall, Walter A. - "Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877" (2008
- McDowell, Josh - "Evidence for Christianity" (2006)
- Mead, Walter Russell - "God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World" (2007)
- Melville, Herman - "Moby-Dick" (1851)
- Millard, Candice - "The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey" (2006)
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent - "Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay" (1981)
- Mohler, Dr. Robert R. - "Culture Shift: Engaging Current Issues with Timeless Truth (Today's Critical Concerns)" (2008)
- Moore, Kenny - "Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder" (2007)
- More, Thomas - "Utopia" (1516)
- Moreland, J.P. - "Christianity and the Nature of Science: A Philosophical Investigation" (1999)
- Muggeridge, Malcom - "The End of Christendom" (2003)
- Muhammed, Yunus - "Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty" (2003)
- Murray, Iain - "Jonathan Edwards-A New Biography" (1996)
- Nicholls, Bruce - "Contextualization: A Theology of Gospel and Culture" (1979)
- Nichols, Stephen J - "The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World" (2007)
- Origen - "Against Celsus" (circa 235 AD)
- Orr, James - "The Christian View of God and the World" (1963)
- Otto, R. - "The Idea of the Holy" (1923)
- Owen, John - "Communion with the Triune God" (1657)
- Packer, J.I. - "A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life" (1994)
- Pagden, Anthony - "Worlds At War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West" (2008)
- Pascal, Blaise - "Pensees" (1669)
- Paton, John Gibson - "John G. Paton, D.D., Missionary to the New Hebrides. An Autobiography" (1891)
- Peters, Charles - "How Washington Really Works" (1993)
- Piereson, James - "Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism" (2007)
- Piper, John - "The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright" (2007)
- Piper, John - "When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God--and Joy" (2006)
- Plantinga, Alvin - "God, Freedom, and Evil" (1977)
- Plantinga, Alvin - "Warranted Christian Belief" (2000)
- Plato - "Republic" (ca. 360 BC)
- Polanyi, Michael - "Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy" (1974)
- Postman, Neil - "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business" (1986)
- Reichley, James - "Religion in American Public Life" (1985)
- Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik - "Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Times" (1952)
- Roberts, Andrew - "Waterloo: June 18, 1815: The Battle for Modern Europe" (2005)
- Robertson, David - "Awakening: The Life and Ministry of Robery Murray McCheyne" (2004)
- Russo, Gus - "The Outfit" (2003)
- Rutherford, Samuel - "Lex, Rex" (1644)
- Rutledge, Howard - "In the Presence of Mine Enemies" (1968)
- Sayers, Dorothy - "Creed or Chaos? Why Christians Must Choose Either Dogma or Disaster (Or, Why It Really Does Matter What You Believe)" (1943)
- Sayers, Dorothy L - "The Whimsical Christian: 18 Essays" (1987)
- Schaeffer, Francis - "He Is There and He Is Not Silent" (1972)
- Schaeffer, Francis A - "How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture" (1976)
- Schaeffer, Francis A - "The Church at the End of the Twentieth Century" (1985)
- Schleiermacher, Friedrich - "On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers" (1799)
- Schmemann, Alexander - "For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy" (1997)
- Service, Robert - "Comrades!: A History of World Communism" (2007)
- Shaver, Jessica - "Gianna" (1998)
- Sheehan, James J. - "Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe" (2008)
- Sheldon, Charles - "In His Steps" (1896)
- Shlaes, Amity - "The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression" (2007)
- Sinclair, Upton - "The Jungle" (1906)
- Sire, James W. - "Why Good Arguments Often Fail: Making a More Persuasive Case for Christ" (2006)
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - "The Cancer Ward" (1968)
- Sowell, Thomas - "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" (2006)
- Stackhouse, John G. - "Can God Be Trusted?: Faith and the Challenge of Evil" (2000)
- Steele, Shelby - "White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era (P.S.)" (2007)
- Stott, John - "Why I Am A Christian" (2004)
- Strauss, Leo - "The City and Man" (1978)
- Strobel, Lee - "The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity" (2000)
- Sun Tzu - "The Art of War" (6th Century BC)
- Swinburne, Richard - "Is There A God?" (1997)
- Swinburne, Richard - "The Coherence of Theism" (1993)
- Synder, Howard - "The Radical Wesley" (1980)
- Tait, L. Gordon - "The Piety of John Witherspoon: Pew, Pulpit, and Public Forum" (2000)
- Thompson, Francis - "The Hound of Heaven" (ca. 1905)
- Thoreau, Henry David - "Walden" & "Civil Disobedience" (1854 & 1849)
- Tolkien, JRR - "The Children of Húrin" (2007)
- Tolkien, JRR - "The Silmarillion" (1951)
- Tolkien, JRR - "The Tolkien Reader" (1986)
- Tolstoy, Leo - "Walk in the Light and Twenty-Three Tales" (2003)
- Ursinus and Olevianus - "The Heidelberg Catechism" (ca 1563)
- Ury, Allen B. - "Secrets of the Screen Trade: From Concept to Sale" (2004)
- Valladares, Armando - "Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life In Castro's Gulag" (1987)
- Varghese, Roy Abraham - "The Wonder of the World: A Journey from Modern Science to the Mind of God" (2003)
- Virgil - "The Aeneid" (ca 10 BC)
- Vitz, Paul C. - "Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism" (2000)
- Volf, Miroslav - "The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World" (2007)
- Walls, Andrew F - "The Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in Transmission of Faith" (1996)
- Wangerin Jr., Walter - "Mourning Into Dancing" (1996)
- Ward, Michael - "Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S.Lewis" (2008)
- Watson, Francis - "Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith" (2004)
- Weigel, George - "Faith, Reason, and The War Against Jihadism" (2007)
- Wells, David F. - "Above All Earthly Pow'rs: Christ in a Postmodern World" (2005)
- West, Bing - "No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallaujah" (2006)
- Whitehead, John W. - "The Second American Revolution" (1981)
- Wiesenthal, Simon - "The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness" (1998)
- Wilbur, Richard - "Collected Poems 1943-2004" (2006)
- Williams, Charles - "Descent Into Hell, a Novel" (1999)
- Winik, Jay - "The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800" (2007)
- Witham, Larry - "By Design: Science and the Search for God" (2004)
- Wolfe, Gregory - "Malcom Muggeridge: A Biography" (2003)
- Woodmorappe, John - "Mythology of Modern Dating Methods" (1999)
- Woods, David Walker - "John Witherspoon" (1906)
- Wright, N.T. - "Paul: In Fresh Perspective" (2006)
- Zacharias, Ravi - "Deliver Us From Evil" (1998)
- Zacharias, Ravi - "Sense and Sensuality: Jesus Talks to Oscar Wilde on the Pursuit of Pleasure" (2006)
- Zwemer, Samuel M - "Raymond Lull: First Missionary to the Moslems" (2007)
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