Each year I look forward to Tony Reinke’s end-of-year list.
Here are the books he chose for 2014:
1. Tim Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God (Dutton).
2. ESV Reader’s Bible (Crossway).
3. Dane Ortlund, Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Crossway).
4. Stephen Westerholm, Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking A Pauline Theme (Eerdmans).
5. John Piper, Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully: The Power of Poetic Effort in the Work of George Herbert, George Whitefield, and C. S. Lewis(Crossway).
6. Kevin Vanhoozer, Faith Speaking Understanding: Performing the Drama of Doctrine (WJK).
7. Drew Dyck, Yawning at Tigers: You Can’t Tame God, So Stop Trying (Thomas Nelson).
8. C. S. Lewis and David C. Downing, editor, The Pilgrim’s Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition(Eerdmans).
9. Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More — Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist (Thomas Nelson).
10. Christopher Ash, Job: The Wisdom of the Cross(Crossway).
11. Michael Reeves, Christ Our Life (Paternoster, UK), or, Rejoicing in Christ (IVP, US).
12. Hannah Anderson, Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God’s Image (Moody).
13. Thomas Kidd, George Whitefield: America’s Spiritual Founding Father (Yale).
14. Daniel Montgomery and Timothy Paul Jones,PROOF: Finding Freedom through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace (Zondervan)
Go here to read his explanation of why he chose each book, along with his runner-ups.