Biblical / Theological

Michael Heiser

• The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible
• The Unseen Realm (Expanded Edition)
• Supernatural (companion to The Unseen Realm)
• Reversing Hermon: Enoch, the Watchers & the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ
• Demons: What the Bible Really Says About the Powers of Darkness
• I Dare You Not to Bore Me with the Bible

John Walton (ANE / Old Testament)

• The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate
• The Lost World of Adam and Eve
• The Lost World of the Flood
• The Lost World of the Prophets: Old Testament Prophecy and Apocalyptic Literature in Ancient Context

N.T. Wright

• The Day the Revolution Began
• Paul and the Faithfulness of God
• Simply Christian
• Surprised by Hope
• Luke for Everyone (New Testament for Everyone series)

Larry Hurtado

• One God, One Lord: Early Christian Devotion and Ancient Jewish Monotheism
• Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity

Kenneth E. Bailey

• Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels
• Poet and Peasant / Through Peasant Eyes
• The Cross and the Prodigal
• Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes

Other Biblical Scholarship

• Judges, Ruth (New American Commentary) — Daniel I. Block
• The Message of Judges — Wilcock
• The Rational Bible: Exodus — Dennis Prager (and the wider Rational Bible series)
• 1 Enoch (Nickelsburg/VanderKam translation; R.H. Charles translation)
• The Books of Enoch: The Angels, The Watchers and The Nephilim — With Extensive Commentary — Joseph Lumpkin
• Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible — E. Randolph Richards & Brandon J. O’Brien
• Noah’s Flood Revisited: New Depths of Insight from Science and Scripture — Hugh Ross

Christian Living / Apologetics / New Believer Recommendations

• Mere Christianity — C.S. Lewis
• The Reason for God — Tim Keller
• How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth — Fee & Stuart
• The Cost of Discipleship — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Knowing God — J.I. Packer
• The Case for Christ — Lee Strobel
• Blue Like Jazz: Non-Religious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality — Donald Miller
• The Message: The New Testament in Contemporary Language — Eugene H. Peterson

Ancient Near Eastern Texts (Biblical Background)

• The Epic of Gilgamesh — Andrew George trans. (Penguin Classics)
• The Eridu Genesis
• The Atrahasis Epic

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Non-Fiction (Non-Biblical)

Philosophy & Stoicism

• Meditations: A New Translation — Marcus Aurelius (Gregory Hays trans.)
• The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living — Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
• Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius — Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
• Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds. — Ryan Holiday
• How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius — Donald J. Robertson
• Think Like a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Today’s World — Massimo Pigliucci (The Great Courses)
• The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained — DK
• The Art of War — Sun Tzu

Jordan Peterson

• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
• Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
• Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
• We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine

Self-Improvement / Mindset

• Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds — David Goggins
• Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within — David Goggins
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones — James Clear
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business — Charles Duhigg
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life* — Mark Manson
• Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life — Gary John Bishop
• You Are a Badass® (Ultimate Collector’s Edition) — Jen Sincero
• How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age — Dale Carnegie & Associates
• Effective Communication Skills — Dalton Kehoe (The Great Courses)
• The Eagle and the Dragon: A Story of Strength and Reinvention — Chris Duffin

Leadership & Business

• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership — John C. Maxwell
• Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams and Why People Follow — Tom Rath

Health & Nutrition

• Wired to Eat: Turn Off Cravings, Rewire Your Appetite for Weight Loss — Robb Wolf

History, Science & True Stories

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari
• The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined — Steven Pinker
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer — Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
• The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: How to Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake — Steven Novella et al.
• The Disappearing Spoon: True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements — Sam Kean
• A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs — Ben Garrod
• Rivals! Frenemies Who Changed the World — Scott McCormick
• In the Matter of Nikola Tesla — Anthony Flacco
• Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders — Vincent Bugliosi & Curt Gentry
• Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 — Marcus Luttrell & Patrick Robinson
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster — Jon Krakauer
• Into the Wild — Jon Krakauer
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail — Cheryl Strayed
• Badass — Ben Thompson

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Fiction

Philip K. Dick

• The Man in the High Castle
• A Scanner Darkly
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (basis for Blade Runner)
• “The Minority Report” (short story)
• “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” (basis for Total Recall)

Stephen King

• It
• The Stand
• Fairy Tale
• Billy Summers
• Doctor Sleep (sequel to The Shining)
• UR

The Dark Tower Series

• The Gunslinger (Book 1)
• The Drawing of the Three (Book 2)
• The Waste Lands (Book 3)
• Wizard and Glass (Book 4)
• Wolves of the Calla (Book 5)
• Song of Susannah (Book 6)
• The Dark Tower (Book 7)
• The Wind Through the Keyhole (Book 8)

Bill Hodges Trilogy

• Mr. Mercedes (Book 1)
• Finders Keepers (Book 2)
• End of Watch (Book 3)

C.S. Lewis — The Chronicles of Narnia

• The Magician’s Nephew
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• The Horse and His Boy
• Prince Caspian
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• The Silver Chair
• The Last Battle

J.R.R. Tolkien — The Lord of the Rings

• The Hobbit
• The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Two Towers
• The Return of the King
• Unfinished Tales

Frank Herbert / Brian Herbert — Dune Universe

Original Frank Herbert series:

• Dune
• Dune Messiah
• Children of Dune
• God Emperor of Dune
• Heretics of Dune
• Chapterhouse Dune

Prelude to Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson):

• House Atreides
• House Harkonnen
• House Corrino

Legends of Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson):

• Dune: The Butlerian Jihad

Schools of Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson):

• Sisterhood of Dune
• Mentats of Dune
• Navigators of Dune

George R.R. Martin — A Song of Ice and Fire

• A Game of Thrones
• A Clash of Kings
• A Storm of Swords
• A Feast for Crows
• A Dance with Dragons
• A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (HBO Tie-In Edition)
• The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones
• Rogues — Martin, Dozois, Flynn, Gaiman (anthology)

Brandon Sanderson — The Stormlight Archive

• The Way of Kings (Book 1)
• Words of Radiance (Book 2)
• Edgedancer (Book 2.5)
• Oathbringer (Book 3)
• Rhythm of War (Book 4)
• Wind and Truth (Book 5)

Pierce Brown — Red Rising Saga

• Red Rising (Book 1)
• Golden Son (Book 2)
• Morning Star (Book 3)
• Iron Gold (Book 4)
• Dark Age (Book 5)
• Light Bringer (Book 6)
• Red God (Book 7)

Larry Correia

Saga of the Forgotten Warrior:

• Son of the Black Sword
• House of Assassins
• Destroyer of Worlds
• Tower of Silence
• City of Demons
• Heart of the Mountain

Monster Hunter International:

• Monster Hunter International
• Monster Hunter Vendetta
• Monster Hunter Alpha
• Monster Hunter Legion
• Monster Hunter Nemesis
• Monster Hunter Siege
• Monster Hunter Guardian
• Monster Hunter Bloodlines
• Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge
• Monster Hunter Memoirs: Sinners
• Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever
• Monster Hunter Fantom (anthology)
• The Monster Hunter Files (anthology)

Other Correia:

• Academy of Outcasts
• The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent
• A Murder of Manatees
• #1 in Customer Service
• Murder on the Orient Elite (Grimnoir Chronicles)

David Wong / Jason Pargin — John Dies at the End series

• John Dies at the End
• This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It
• What the Hell Did I Just Read
• If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe

Zoey Ashe series (Pargin/Wong)

• Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
• Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick
• Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia

Other Pargin

• I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

Dean Koontz — Odd Thomas series

• Odd Thomas (Book 1)
• Forever Odd (Book 2)
• Brother Odd (Book 3)
• Odd Hours (Book 4)
• Odd Apocalypse (Book 5)
• Deeply Odd (Book 6)
• Saint Odd (Book 7)
• Odd Interlude (special)

Drew Hayes

Villains’ Code:

• Forging Hephaestus
• Bones of the Past
• Villains’ Vignettes Volume I
• Chilling Reflections

5-Minute Sherlock:

• The Case of the Damaged Detective
• The Case of the Haunted Haunted House
• The Case of the Felonious Faire

Other Hayes:

• Split the Party (Spells, Swords, & Stealth, Book 2)
• Second Hand Curses

Sherlock Holmes & Cosmic Horror

• Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection — Arthur Conan Doyle (Stephen Fry intros)
• James Moriarty, Consulting Criminal — Andy Weir

Mycroft Holmes (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anna Waterhouse):

• Mycroft Holmes
• Mycroft and Sherlock
• Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage

The Cthulhu Casebooks (James Lovegrove):

• Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows
• Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities
• Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils
• Sherlock Holmes and the Highgate Horrors

5-Minute Sherlock (Drew Hayes) — listed above

Classic Horror / Weird Fiction / Cosmic Horror

• The King in Yellow — Robert W. Chambers
  • “The Repairer of Reputations”
  • “The Mask”
  • “In the Court of the Dragon”
  • “The Yellow Sign”
• Necronomicon — H.P. Lovecraft
• The Nameless City — H.P. Lovecraft
• H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Omnibus Collection, Volume I (1917–1926)
• H.P. Lovecraft — The Complete Fiction Omnibus Collection, Second Edition: The Prime Years (1926–1936)
• Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
• The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
• Carter & Lovecraft — Jonathan L. Howard

H.G. Wells

• H.G. Wells: The Science Fiction Collection
• The War of the Worlds
• The Island of Doctor Moreau
• The Invisible Man

Dystopian / Classics

• 1984 — George Orwell
• George Orwell’s 1984: An Audible Original adaptation (Joe White)
• American Psycho — Bret Easton Ellis
• No Country for Old Men — Cormac McCarthy
• The Godfather: 50th Anniversary Edition — Mario Puzo
• Earth Abides — George R. Stewart
• Starship Troopers — Robert A. Heinlein
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain

Chuck Palahniuk

• Fight Club
• Rant
• Damned
• Invisible Monsters Remix

Sci-Fi

• The Martian — Andy Weir
• Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
• Artemis — Andy Weir
• The Egg and Other Stories — Andy Weir
• Ender’s Game: Special 20th Anniversary Edition — Orson Scott Card
• Ready Player One — Ernest Cline
• Seveneves — Neal Stephenson
• Dark Matter — Blake Crouch
• Recursion — Blake Crouch
• Pines (Wayward Pines, Book 1) — Blake Crouch
• Altered Carbon — Richard K. Morgan (Takeshi Kovacs Trilogy)
• Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas — John Scalzi
• Not Alone — Craig A. Falconer
• Kindred — Octavia E. Butler
• Ordinary Monsters: The Talents, Book 1 — J.M. Miro

Bobiverse — Dennis E. Taylor

• We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Book 1)
• For We Are Many (Book 2)
• All These Worlds (Book 3)
• Heaven’s River (Book 4)
• Not Till We Are Lost (Book 5)

Thrillers / Crime / Mystery

• Gone Girl — Gillian Flynn
• The Exorcist — William Peter Blatty
• Psycho — Robert Bloch
• Beat the Reaper — Josh Bazell
• Wild Thing — Josh Bazell
• I Am Not a Serial Killer — Dan Wells
• The Snowman: A Harry Hole Novel — Jo Nesbo
• Bad Monkey — Carl Hiaasen
• Darktown — Thomas Mullen
• Lullaby — Jonathan Maberry
• The Neon Lawyer — Victor Methos
• The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge — Michael Punke
• Red Rabbit — Alex Grecian
• The Rook — Daniel O’Malley

Stieg Larsson — Millennium Series

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• The Girl Who Played with Fire
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
• The Girl in the Spider’s Web (David Lagercrantz)
• The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (David Lagercrantz)
• The Girl Who Lived Twice (David Lagercrantz)

Christopher Moore

• Fool
• A Dirty Job

Ted Dekker — The Circle Series

• Black (Book 1)
• Red (Book 2)
• White (Book 3)
• Green (Book 0 / The Beginning and the End)

Patrick Rothfuss — Kingkiller Chronicle

• The Name of the Wind (Book 1)
• The Wise Man’s Fear (Book 2)