We often get asked for book recommendations from families and individuals who are looking to learn more about our doctrinal and familial beliefs. To that end, we have put together a list of what we believe is the “basic” library for the Christian family. This is an “evergreen” list - we already see a need for a hospitality section!
A Bible
A Hymnal
A Psalter
Family
Federal Husband - Doug Wilson
Fidelity - Douglas Wilson
The Complete Husband - Lou Priolo
The Exemplary Husband - Stuart Scott
Becoming a Titus 2 Woman - Martha Peace
Becoming a Woman of Discretion - Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Biblical Womanhood and the Home - Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Damsels in Distress - Martha Peace
Let Me Be a Woman - Elisabeth Elliot
Lies Women Believe - Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Passionate Housewives, Desperate for God - Jennie Chancey and Stacy McDonald
The Excellent Wife - Martha Peace
Love and Respect - Emmerson Eggerichs
Reforming Marriage - Douglas Wilson
Strengthening Your Marriage - Wayne A. Mack
Christian Living in the Home - Jay Edward Adams
Family Practice - R.C. Sproul and Elisabeth Elliot
The Natural Family - Allan C. Carlson and Paul T. Mero
Your Family, God’s Way - Wayne A. Mack
Everyday Talk - Jay Younts
Raising Godly Children (DVD) - Michael and Susan Bradrick
Shepherding your Child’s Heart - Tedd Tripp
Standing on the Promises - Douglas Wilson
The Heart of Anger - Lou Priolo
Withhold Not Correction - Bruce Ray
Future Men - Douglas Wilson
The Mark of a Man – Elisabeth Elliot
Thoughts for Young Men - J. C. Ryle
Beautiful Girlhood - Mable Hale
Raising Maidens of Virtue - Stacy McDonald
So Much More - Anna Sophia and Elizabeth Botkin
Stepping Heavenward - Elizabeth E. Prentiss
Victorious Living
City of God – Augustine
Fox’s Book of Martyrs
Freedom of the Will - Jonathan Edwards
Institutes of the Christian Religion - John Calvin
Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyun
Table Talk – Martin Luther
The Mortification of Sin - John Owen
A Critique of Modern Youth Groups - Christopher Schlect
Teaching the Trivium - Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn
The Book Tree - Elizabeth McCallum and Jane Scott
When You Rise Up - R.C. Sproul, Jr
Leading Little Ones to God- Marian M. Schooland
Rediscovering Catechism - Donald Van Dyken
The Family Worship Book - Terry L. Johnson
Training Hearts, Teaching Minds - Starr Meade
All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes - Kenneth Myers and Marvin Olasky
Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
Salvation and Godly Rule - R. J. Rushdooney
The Marketing of Evil - David Kupelian
Celebrating the Sabbath - Bruce A. Ray
The Rest of God - Mark Buchanan
Creation in Six Days - James B. Jordan
The Genesis Flood - John C. Whitcomb and Henry Madison Morris
The Modern Creation Trilogy - Henry M. Morris and John D. Morris
The Soul of Science - Nancy Pearcey, Charles Thaxton, and Marvin Olasky
Biblical Economics - R. C. Sproul, Jr
How Shall We Then Live? - Francis Schaffer
Through New Eyes - James B. Jordan
Whatever Happened to the Human Race? - C. Everett Koop and Francis Schaffer
Chosen By God R. C. Sproul
Easy Chairs, Hard Words - Douglas Wilson
Putting Amazing Back Into Grace - Michael Horton
The Doctrines of Grace - James M. Boice
The Five Points of Calvinism - David N. Steele, Curtis C. Thomas, and S. Lance Quinn
He Shall Have Dominion - Ken Gentry
Last Days Madness – Gary DeMar
Postmillennialism: An Eschatology of Hope - Keith A. Mathison
The Greatness of the Great Commission – Ken Gentry
Dispensationalism: Rightly Dividing the People of God? - Keith A. Mathison
Far As the Curse Is Found - Michael D. Williams
God of Promise – Michael Horton
Children of the Promise - Robert Booth
Feed My Lambs – Tim Gallant
Given for You - Keith A. Mathison and R. C. Sproul
To a Thousand Generations - Douglas Wilson
The Shape of Sola Scriptura - Keith A. Mathison
What is in the Bible - R. C. Sproul and Robert Wolgemuth
Kingdom and the Power - C. Peter Wagner, Gary S. Greig, and Kevin N. Springer
Mother Kirk - Douglas Wilson
The Lord’s Service - Jeffrey Myers
By This Standard - Greg Bahnsen
Persuasions - Douglas Wilson
Van Til’s Apologetic - Greg Bahnsen
100 Most Important Events in Church History - Curtis, Lang, and Peterson
Angels in the Architecture - Douglas Jones and Douglas Wilson
Reformation Sketches - W. Robert Godfrey
Revival and Revivalism – Ian Murray
The Church in History - B.K. Kuiper
The Great Christian Revolution - Otto Scott
Westminster Confession of Faith: For Study Classes - G. I. Williamson
Westminster Shorter Catechism: For Study Classes - G. I. Williamson
Westminster Larger Catechism: A Commentary - Johannes Geerhardus Vos