- Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work, Eugene Peterson (1992).
- To Be Made Well, Amy Julia Becker (2022).
- Taking America Back for God, Andrew L. Whitehead and Samuel L. Perry (2020).
- The King Jesus Gospel, Scot McKnight (2016).
- Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America, Keisha N. Blain (2021).
- The Overstory, Richard Powers (2019).
- We Are Each Other’s Harvest, Natalie Baszile (2021).
- The Words of Gardner Taylor, Vol. 1, Edward Taylor (1999).
- The Land is Not Empty, Sarah Augustine (2021).
- God is Red, Vine De Loria Jr. (1972).
- Shoutin’ in the Fire, DantĂ© Steward (2021).
- Dominion: How The Christian Revolution Remade the World, Tom Holland (2021).
- Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World, Katharine Kayhoe (2021).
- Systematic Theology: Vol. 1, The Doctrine of God, Katherine Sonderegger (2015).
- Dorothy Day: Selected Writings, Ed. Robert Ellsberg (2005).
- Against Everything, Mark Grief (2017).
- Intimations, Zadie Smith (2020).
- Know Your Place, Justin Phillips (2021).
- The Heartbeat of Trees, Peter Wohlleben (2021).
- Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel (2009).
- Notes on Grief, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2021).
- On Writing, Stephen King (2020).
- Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall (2020).
- A Beautiful Disaster, Marlena Graves (2014).
- The Dark Night of the Soul, St. John of the Cross.
- Stages of Faith, James Fowler (1981).
- A World on the Wing, Scott Weidensaul (2021).
- A Theology for Family Ministry, Michael and Michelle Anthony (2011).
- Honoring the Generations: Learning with Asian North American Congregations, Sydney Park, Soong-Chan Rah, and Al Tizon (2012).
- The Post-Black and Post-White Church, Effrem Smith (2020).
- Holy the Firm, Annie Dillard (1998).
- A Burning in My Bones, Winn Collier (2021).
- Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair, Duke L. Kwon and Gregory Thompson (2021).
- Jack, Marilynne Robinson (2020).
- On Wealth and Poverty, St. John Chrysostom (2020).
- White Evangelical Racism, Anthea Butler (2021).
- Silent Covenants, Derrick Bell (2005).
- Reading While Black, Esau McCaulley (2020).
- Planting a Church Without Losing Your Soul, Tim Morey (2020).
- Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church, Barbara A. Holmes (2017).
- A Spiritual Formation Workbook, James Bryan Smith and Lynda Graybeal (2007).
- Infinite Impact, Stu Weber (2007).
- Gospel Haymanot, Vince Bantu (2020).
- Talking Back to Purity Culture, Rachel Joy Welcher (2020).
- The Divided Mind of the Black Church: Theology Piety, and Public Witness, Raphael G. Warnock (2020).
- Stewards of Eden, Sandra L. Richter (2020).
- One Long River of Song, Brian Doyle (2019).
- Detained and Deported, Margaret Regan (2016).
- Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God, Kelly Brown Douglas (2015).
- The Innovative Prayer Leader, C. Terrell Wheat (2020).
- Another Way: Living and Leading Change on Purpose, Stephen Lewis, Mathew Wesley Williams, and Dori Grinenko Baker (2020).
- Belonging: A Culture of Place, bell hooks (2008).
- The Pastor, Eugene Peterson (2012).
- Soul Care in African American Practice, Barbara L. Peacock (2020).
- Jesus and John Wayne, Kristin Kobes Du Mez (2020).
- After Whiteness, Willie James Jennings (2020).
- Midwest Futures, Phil Christman (2020).
Here’s last year’s list.