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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

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Philosophy and Theology

Fiction

Poetry

Literary History and Criticism

Translation

Autobiography

Correspondence

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Robert V. Andelson

Anselm of Canterbury

Thomas Aquinas

Aurelius Augustine of Hippo

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Hunter Baker

Doug Bandow

Ian G. Barbour

Owen Barfield

M. Frederic Bastiat

Richard Bauckham

Jonathan Bean

Mario Beauregard

Michael Behe

E. Calvin Beisner

David Berlinski

Harold J. Berman

Bradley J. Birzer

Ken Blanchard

Craig L. Blomberg

Étienne de la Boétie

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

Devon Brown

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui

J. Budziszewski

Herbert Butterfield

Cecil John Cadoux

William T. Cavanaugh

Alejandro Chafuen

G. K. Chesterton

Francis S. Collins

Paul Copan

William Lane Craig

John Jefferson Davis

Raymond de Roover

William A. Dembski

Michael Denton

Dinesh D’Souza

Colin Duriez

John Earman

Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.

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

Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson

Douglas R. Groothuis

Os Guinness

Malcolm Guite

Gary R. Habermas

Scott Hahn

David W. Hall

Bernice Hamilton

Lewis Hanke

James Hannam

Adolf von Harnack

David Bentley Hart

Stanley Hauerwas

Paul T. Heyne

Francis Russell Hittinger

Richard Hooker

Ian H. Hutchinson

Robert J. Hutchinson

Oscar Jászi

Philip Jenkins

Byron R. Johnson

Paul Johnson

Charles Journet

Henry Kamen

Timothy Keller

Peter Kreeft

David T. Lamb

John C. Lennox

Matthew Levering

David C. Lindberg

Harold Lindsell

John Locke

George MacDonald

Alasdair C. MacIntyre

Henry Sumner Maine

Moses Maimonides

Vishal Mangalwadi

Jacques Maritain

Louis Markos

Suzan Mazur

Charles A. McDaniel

Alister E. McGrath

Edward B. McLean

Angus Menuge

Eric Metaxas

Stephen C. Meyer

John Micklethwait

John Milbank

John Milton

Roderick Moore

J. P. Moreland

 

 

 

Jennifer A. Roback Morse

Michael J. Murray

Thomas Nagel

Ronald H. Nash

Robert H. Nelson

John T. Noonan, Jr.

Ronald L. Numbers

Marvin R. O'Connell

Denyse O'Leary

Heiko A. Oberman

Edmund A. Opitz

Rudolf Otto

J. I. Packer

Blaise Pascal

Nancy Pearcey

Alvin Plantinga

John C. Polkinghorne

Mary S. Poplin

Samuel von Pufendorf

Richard Purtill

Ralph Raico

Victor Reppert

John Mark Reynolds

Anne Rice

Jay W. Richards

Shawn Ritenour

John W. Robbins

Hector M. Robertson

Heinrich A. Rommen

Jeffrey B. Russell

Dorothy L. Sayers

Francis A. Schaeffer

D. Eric Schansberg

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

Christian Thomasius

Brian Tierney

Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville

J. R. R. Tolkien

Robert D. Tollison

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

Richard Turk

David M. Van Drunen

Laurence M. Vance

Will Vaus

Paul C. Vitz

Eric Voegelin

Michael Ward

Richard Weikart

Dallas Willard

Charles W. S. Williams

Peter S. Williams

Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

N. T. Wright

Dean W. Zimmerman