Why We Should Read Good Books and a Couple of Top Ten Lists

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In this episode of the Average JOES Podcast, Nathan Brewer, Chris Chambers, Ben Ellis, and Eric Harrough have a conversation about the importance of reading good books in the Christian life.  Ben and Eric then give their own top ten lists (Best/most important Christian [and non-Christian] books every Christian should read).  

Ben's Top Ten List

1. Mere Christianity
   by CS Lewis
2. The Great Divorce
   by CS Lewis
3. The Cost of Discipleship
   by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
4. Life Together
   by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
5. Ethics
   by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
6. The Institutes
   by John Calvin
7. Trilogy
   by Francis Schaeffer
8. No Little People
   by Francis Schaeffer
9. Genesis and Space and Time
   by Francis Schaeffer
10. Christian Manifesto
    by Francis Schaeffer

Eric's Top Ten List

1. Orthodoxy
   by GK Chesterton
2. Beyond Good and Evil
   by Frederick Nietzche
3. Theology of the Body
   by Pope John Paul II
4. Thomas Cranmer
   by Diarmaid MacCulloch
5. Christianity's First Five Thousand Years
   by Diarmaid MacCulloch
6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
   by Douglas Adams
7. The Old Man and the Sea
   by Ernest Hemingway
8. The Lord of the Rings
   by JR Tolkien
9. The Brother's Karamazov
   by Dolstoevsky
10. The Man Who Was Thursday
    ​by GK Chesterton