Good Books to Read

I finally found the list of great books that I have been working through.  You can find the full booklet here and print it off as I have, it has a short paragraph or two on each entry to inform the reader about what the book covers.  Or you can see the TOC below.  Many of these books can be found for free online at a variety of sites, but the Christian Classics Ethereal Library has proved fruitful for me.

Introduction

      1.   A Sure Guide to Heaven           Joseph Alleine

      2.   Private Devotions         Lancelot Andrewes

      3.   Book of Visions            Angela of Foligno

      4.   Prayers and Meditations           Anselm of Canterbury

      5.   True Christianity           Johann Arndt

      6.   Life of Antony              Athanasius

      7.   The Confessions           Augustine of Hippo

      8.   On the Trinity               Augustine of Hippo

      9.   Holy Wisdom               Augustine Baker

    10.   The Long Rules            Basil the Great

    11.   The Saints’ Everlasting Rest      Richard Baxter

    12.   Rule for Monasteries     Benedict of Nursia

    13.   On Loving God            Bernard of Clairvaux

    14.   Sermons on the Song of Songs  Bernard of Clairvaux

    15.   Memoirs of Robert Murray McCheyne A. A. Bonair

    16.   The Soul’s Journey into God                 Bonaventure

    17.   The Tree of Life            Bonaventure

    18.   The Life of St Francis               Bonaventure

    19.   The Cost of Discipleship           Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    20.   Heaven on Earth           Thomas Brooks

    21.   Pilgrim’s Progress         John Bunyan

    22.   Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners           John Bunyan

    23.   The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment          Jeremiah Burroughs

    24.   Lives of the Saints         Alban Butler

    25.   Institutes of the Christian Religion          John Calvin

    26.   Conferences     John Cassian

    27.   Purgatory         Catherine of Genoa

    28.   The Spiritual Dialogues Catherine of Siena

    29.   Self-abandonment to Divine Providence            J. P. deCaussade S.J.

    30.   The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul    Philip Doddridge

    31.   The Greatest Thing in the World            Henry Drummond

    32.   The Life and Diary of David Brainerd    Jonathan Edwards

    33.   The Religious Affections            Jonathan Edwards

    34.   Reminiscences              Elizabeth of the Trinity

    35.   Autobiography  Charles G. Finney

    36.   The Works       Francis of Assisi

    37.   An Introduction to the Devout Life        Francis of Sales

    38.   On the Love of God     Francis of Sales

    39.   The Heart of Christ in Heaven   Thomas Goodwin

    40.   The Life of Moses        Gregory of Nyssa

    41.   The Triads        Gregory Palamas

    42.   Manual for Interior Souls          John Nicholas Grou SJ

    43.   The Christian in Complete Armour        William Gurnall

    44.   A Short Method of Prayer        Madame Guyon

    45.   The Temple      George Herbert

    46.   The Ladder of Perfection          Walter Hilton

    47.   Letters to a Niece         Baron von Hügel

    48.   Noah’s Ark      Hugh of St Victor

    49.   Epistles Ignatius of Antioch

    50.   The Spiritual Exercises  Ignatius of Loyola

    51.   Lives of Early Methodist Preachers       Thomas Jackson

    52.   Prayers for Families      Benjamin Jenks & Charles Simeon

    53.   The Ascent of Mount Carmel and the Dark Night          John of the Cross

    54.   Revelations of Divine Love        Julian of Norwich

    55.   Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing       Søren A. Kierkegaard

    56.   A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life          William Law

    57.   The Practice of the Presence of God                 Brother Lawrence

    58.   The Names of Christ     Luis de Léon

    59.   The Freedom of a Christian       Martin Luther

    60.   A Simple Way to Pray  Martin Luther

    61.   Philokalia          St Macarius and St Nicodemus

    62.   The Martyrdom of Polycarp      Marcion

    63.   Autobiography  George Müller

    64.   Apologia Pro Vita Sua  John Henry Newman

    65.   Letters              John Newton

    66.   The Vision of God        Nicholas of Cusa

    67.   Pensées            Blaise Pascal

    68.   On Prayer and Meditation         Peter of Alcátara

    69.   The Twelve Patriarchs and the Mystical Ark      Richard of St Victor

    70.   The Fire of Love           Richard Rolle

    71.   The Life, Walk and Triumph of Faith                 William Romaine

    72.   Letters              Samuel Rutherford

    73.   The Sparkling Stone     Jan van Ruysbroeck

    74.   Holiness           John Charles Ryle

    75.   Pia Desideria    Philip Jacob Spener

    76.   Autobiography  Charles Haddon Spurgeon

    77.   At the Feet of the Master          Sadhu Sundar Singh

    78.   The Little Book of Eternal Wisdom       Heinrich Suso

    79.   Discourses        Symeon, the New Theologian

    80.   Sermons           Johannes Tauler

    81.   Hudson Taylor  Dr and Mrs Howard Taylor

    82.   Way of Perfection         Teresa of Avila

    83.   Life      Tersa of Avila

    84.   The Mansions of the Interior Castle       Teresa of Avila

    85.   Autobiography  Thérèsa of Lisieux

    86.   The Imitation of Christ  Thomas à Kempis

    87.   Prayers and Meditations           Thomas à Kempis

    88.   Centuries of Meditations           Thomas Traherne

    89.   How I Became a Christian        Kanzo Uchimura

    90.   The Spiritual Life          Evelyn Underhill

    91.   A Guide to Prayer        Isaac Watts

    92.   Hymns              Charles Wesley

    93.   A Plain Account of Christian Perfection John Wesley

    94.   The Life and Death of the Reverend John Fletcher         John Wesley

    95.   Forty-four Sermons      John Wesley

    96.   The Journals     George Whitefield

    97.   A Practical View          Wiliam Wilberforce

    98.   The Cloud of Unknowing          anonymous

    99.   Theologia Germanica                anonymous

  100.   The Way of a Pilgrim                anonymous

Epilogue