Books

In 1962, The Christian Century magazine published C.S. Lewis’s answer to the question, “What books did most to shape your vocational attitude and your philosophy of life?” Here is C.S. Lewis’s list of his top ten books, not including the Bible.

1. Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women, by George MacDonald
2. The Everlasting Man, by G. K. Chesterton
3. The Aeneid, by Virgil
4. The Temple, by George Herbert
5. The Prelude, by William Wordsworth
6. The Idea of the Holy, by Rudolf Otto
7. The Consolation of Philosophy, by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
8. The Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell
9. Descent into Hell, by Charles Williams
10. Theism and Humanism, by Arthur James Balfour

Books Authored or Edited by C.S. Lewis:
      Chronological
      Subjects:
          Philosophy and Theology
          Fiction
          Poetry
          Literary History and Criticism
          Autobiography
          Correspondence
Books about C.S. Lewis (Chronological)
Books by Others (Listed by Author) 

Books Authored or Edited by C.S. Lewis

Chronological:

Subjects:

     Philosophy and Theology:

     Fiction:

     Poetry:

     Literary History and Criticism:

     Autobiography:

     Correspondence:

Books about C.S. Lewis

Books by Others (Listed by Author)

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton (Lord Acton):

William P. Alston:

Anselm of Canterbury:

Thomas Aquinas:

Aurelius Augustine of Hippo:

Hunter Baker:

Ian G. Barbour:

Owen Barfield:

M. Frederic Bastiat:

Richard Bauckham:

Jonathan Bean:

Mario Beauregard:

David Berlinski:

Harold J. Berman:

Craig L. Blomberg:

Étienne de la Boétie:

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius:

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui:

J. Budziszewski:

Cecil John Cadoux:

William T. Cavanaugh:

Alejandro Chafuen:

G. K. Chesterton:

Francis S. Collins:

William Lane Craig:

William A. Dembski:

Dinesh D’Souza:

John Earman:

T. S. Eliot:

Vernard Eller:

Edward Feser:

John M. Finnis:

Michael Flannery:

Antony Flew:

Richard M. Gamble:

R. Douglas Geivett:

Robert P. George:

Owen Gingerich:

Stewart Goetz:

Guillermo Gonzalez:

Douglas R. Groothuis:

Os Guinness:

Gary R. Habermas:

Scott Hahn:

James Hannam:

Adolf von Harnack:

David Bentley Hart:

Stanley Hauerwas:

Paul T. Heyne:

Russell Hittinger:

Richard Hooker:

Robert J. Hutchinson:

Philip Jenkins:

Paul M. Johnson:

Charles Journet:

Henry Kamen:

Timothy Keller:

Peter Kreeft:

John C. Lennox:

Matthew Levering:

David C. Lindberg:

John Locke:

George MacDonald:

Alasdair C. MacIntyre:

Henry Sumner Maine:

Moses Maimonides:

Jacques Maritain:

Suzan Mazur:

Charles A. McDaniel:

Alister E. McGrath:

Edward B. McLean:

Angus Menuge:

Stephen C. Meyer:

John Micklethwait:

John Milbank:

John Milton:

J. P. Moreland:

Michael J. Murray:

Robert H. Nelson:

Ronald L. Numbers:

Denyse O'Leary:

Edmund A. Opitz:

Rudolf Otto:

J. I. Packer:

Blaise Pascal:

Alvin Plantinga:

John C. Polkinghorne:

Samuel von Pufendorf:

Richard Purtill:

Victor Reppert:

John Mark Reynolds:

Anne Rice:

Jay W. Richards:

Shawn Ritenour:

Heinrich A. Rommen:

Jeffrey B. Russell:

Dorothy L. Sayers:

Francis A. Schaeffer:

David L. Schindler:

John R. Schneider:

Roger Scruton:

Richard Sherlock:

Yves R. Simon:

Peter J. Stanlis:

Rodney Stark:

Lee Strobel:

Eleonore A. Stump:

Francisco Suárez:

Richard Swinburne:

Charles C. Taliaferro:

Brian Tierney:

Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville:

J. R. R. Tolkien:

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper:

David M. Van Drunen:

Laurence M. Vance:

Paul C. Vitz:

Richard Weikart:

Dallas Willard:

Charles W. S. Williams:

Thomas E. Woods, Jr.:

Nicholas Wolterstorff:

N. T. Wright:

Dean W. Zimmerman:
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