Significant books are published every year. Here’s a personally curated list that I hope sparks some good memories and honors the work of the past:
One Thousand Gifts, by Ann Voskamp (2011) – 15 years
Kisses from Katie, by Katie Davis Majors (2011) – 15 years
The Harbinger, by Jonathan Cahn (2011) – 15 years
Same Kind of Different as Me, by Ron Hall (2006) – 20 years
Wild at Heart, by John Eldredge (2001) – 25 years
Safely Home, by Randy Alcorn (2001) – 25 years
Tribulation Force (Left Behind #2), by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye (1996) – 30 years
Redeeming Love, by Francine Rivers (1991) – 35 years
This Present Darkness, by Frank Peretti (1986) – 40 years
Desiring God, by John Piper (1986) – 40 years
Chosen by God, by R. C. Sproul (1986) – 40 years
No Wonder They Call Him the Savior, by Max Lucado (1986) – 40 years
Once Upon a Summer, by Janette Oke (1981) – 45 years
A Christian Manifesto, by Francis Schaeffer (1981) – 45 years
Eternity in their Hearts, by Don Richardson (1981) – 45 years
Joni, by Joni Eareckson Tada (1976) – 50 years
How Should We Then Live, by Francis Schaeffer (1976) – 50 years
Born Again, by Charles Colson (1976) – 50 years
Let Me Be a Woman, by Elisabeth Elliot (1976) – 50 years
The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom (1971) – 55 years
True Spirituality, by Francis Schaeffer (1971) – 55 years
Silence, by Shusaku Endo (1966) – 60 years
A Grief Observed, by C. S. Lewis (1961) – 65 years
The Knowledge of the Holy, by A. W. Tozer (1961) – 65 years
The Last Battle: The Chronicles of Narnia, by C. S. Lewis (1956) – 70 years
A Man Called Peter, by Catherine Marshall (1951) – 75 years
America’s Hour of Decision, by Billy Graham (1951) – 75 years
The Keys of the Kingdom, by A. J. Cronin (1941) – 85 years
The Mind of the Maker, by Dorothy L. Sayers (1941) – 85 years
The Allegory of Love, by C. S. Lewis (1936) – 90 years
The Innocence of Father Brown, by G. K. Chesterton (1911) – 115 years
And books before the 20th century:
Quo Vadis, by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1896) – 130 years
All of Grace, by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1886) – 140 years
Morning and Evening, by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1866) – 160 years
The Religious Affections, by Jonathan Edwards (1746) – 280 years
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, by Jonathan Edwards (1741) – 285 years
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, by John Bunyan (1666) – 360 years
Westminster Confessions of Faith, by Westminster Assembly (1646) – 380 years
The Mortification of Sin, by John Owen (1656) – 370 years
City of God, by Augustine of Hippo (426) – 1600 years
