For what it’s worth, the following is my recommended reading list. Let it start you on the path to making your own book list:
Bob Benson Sr. and Michael W. Benson, Disciplines for the Inner Life (Word)
Robert Benson, Between the Dreaming and the Coming True: The Road Home to God (HarperSanFrancisco)
Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination (Fortress)
Thomas Cahill, The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Nan A. Talese/Anchor Books)
Christopher de Vinck, The Power of the Powerless: A Brother’s Legacy of Love (Zondervan)
Jacques Ellul, The Presence of the Kingdom (Seabury)
Suzanne G. Farnham and others, Listening Hearts: Discerning Call in Community (Morehouse)
Arthur Gordon, A Touch of Wonder: Staying in Love with Life (Jove Books)
Thelma Hall, Too Deep for Words: Rediscovering Lectio Divina (Paulist)
Abraham J. Heschel, Man’s Quest for God: Studies in Prayer and Symbolism (Scribner’s)
Abraham J. Heschel, The Prophets (HarperCollins)
Alan Jones, Passion for Pilgrimage: Notes for the Journey Home (HarperCollins)
Alan Jones, Soul-Making: The Desert Way of Spirituality (HarperSanFrancisco)
Thomas R. Kelly, A Testament of Devotion (HarperSanFrancisco)
Sue Monk Kidd, When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life’s Sacred Questions (HarperCollins)
Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (Pantheon)
Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude (Noonday Press)
Johannes B. Metz, Poverty of Spirit (Paulist)
Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith (Riverhead)
Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk (Riverhead)
Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography (Mariner Books)
Henri J.M. Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership (Crossroad)
Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom (Doubleday)
Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Road to Daybreak: a Spiritual Journey (Image)
Parker J. Palmer, Let Your life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (Jossey-bass)
Parker J. Palmer, To Know as We are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey (HarperSanFrancisco)
Eugene H. Peterson, The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction (Word)
Eugene H. Peterson, Living the Message (HarperCollins)
Eugene H. Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society (Intervarsity Press)
Eugene H. Peterson, Subversive Spirituality (Eerdmans)
Barbara Brown Taylor, The Preaching Life (Cowley)
Barbara Brown Taylor, When God Is Silent (Cowley)
Evelyn Underhill, The Spiritual Life (Morehouse)
Evelyn Underhill, The Ways of the Spirit (Crossroad)
Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives (HarperSanFrancisco)
Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew (Zondervan)
Philip Yancey, What’s So Amazing About Grace? (Zondervan)
