The list below is sortable. To re-order the items click on one of the column headers. Please note that book costs change frequently. The price data below was correct when this list was compiled. To get the latest price click on the relevant “Order Page” link.
The books below are suitable for those who are considering Christianity but who are not yet believers. The reading level column is supposed to show how digestible the books are in terms of specialized language. For example, Mere Christianity, has a 1 because it uses the simplest possible language. Most readers can listen to the audio version with no dictionary. The higher numbers indicate the books contain more difficult jargon.
| Amazon Order Page | Description | Category | Difficulty Level | Audible Cost | Kindle Cost | Print Book | Other Links |
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 | Mere Christianity is the best book of all time defending Christianity. It has been very carefully crafted to make the arguments skillfully while keeping the language simple enough to appeal to a general audience. It was intended to be a comfort to members of the Royal Air Force risking their lives in battles with the Luftwaffe. | General Defense of Christianity | 1 – Simple | $17.47 Order Page | $14.49 Order Page | $22.49 Order Page | Free Audio Version on YouTube |
 | The Case for Christ is both an autobiography and a basic summary of the arguments for Christianity. The author Lee Strobel had an important career as a journalist as he broke the story on the Ford Pinto Case (in which the car company failed to recall the Pinto car model in spite of a dangerous defect that later caused hundreds of injuries). | General Defense of Christianity | 1 – Simple | $18.13 Order Page | $11.99 Order Page | $16.91 Order Page | This exists as a six session video course – you can get it on this Web page. It was also made into a movie. You can order the movie DVD here. |
 | A Severe Mercy is the moving story of a young couple converting to Christ after World War II. It includes their friendship with C.S. Lewis (see above). The author Sheldon VanAuken describes how he had to make a leap of faith forward (into the arms of God) because he noticed the huge chasm of unbelief behind him. | Autobiography | 2 – Fairly Simple | $8.75 Order Page | $13.99 Order Page | $10.99 Order Page | |
 | The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Beliefh is both an autobiography and a presentation of scientific evidence for the existence of God. The author Dr. Francis Collins could not have higher credentials as a scientist. In the 1990s he lead the Human Genome Project and in this century he lead the National Institutes of Health where his tenure covered the dreadful COVID lockdown year in 2020. | Autobiography | 1 – Simple | $12.24 Order Page | $13.99 Order Page | $11.89 Order Page | |
 | The Case for a Creator is by the “Case for Christ” author Lee Strobel. It falls into the Science and Faith category but it has the great virtue of keeping the complexity of the science within understable limits. Some of the other authors in this category use very challenging scientific language. | Science and Faith | 1 – Simple | $22.35 Order Page | $11.49 Order Page | $16.09 Order Page | |
 | The Problem of Pain deals by C.S.Lewis deals with the issue of suffering and the existance of a loving God. It was written in 1940 as the Royal Air Force battled with the Nazis and some pilots measured their lifespan in a matter of weeks. | God and Suffering | 1 – Simple | $6.95 Order Page | $11.99 Order Page | $31.70 Order Page | There is a famous quote from this book in the Anthony Hopkins movie Shadowlands. Here is a link to the movie’s page on IMDB.com. |
 | The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton is a general case for Christianity written in very poetic language. This was C.S. Lewis’s favorite apologetics book. | General Defense of Christianity | 2 – Fairly Simple | $21.29 Order Page | $0.39 Order Page | $6.46 Order Page | There is free (public domain) version of the audio book available through librivox.org. You can download it here. |
 | The Reason for God by Tim Keller is a general defense of Christianity. Tim Keller was the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church which is currently the largest evangelical congregation in Manhattan. He was constantly told in his early years that New York City would prove too hostile an environment for faith but the success of Redemer has proved his critics wrong. | General Defense of Christianity | 2 – Fairly Simple | $11.37 Order Page | $13.99 Order Page | $9.75 Order Page | Link to Web Site of Redeemer Presbyterian Church |
 | God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God by Oxford mathemetician, Professor John Lennox, makes a brilliant case that contemporary science points toward rather than away from God. Notably the evidence that the universe had a beginning is now not contested. Furthermore nobody has even suggested how a molecule as complex as DNA could arise from a random process. SETI the body the searches for extra-terrestrial intelligence accepts that intelligence is proved if it receives messages containing 101 prime numbers in order from outer space. DNA is vastly more complex and as Bill Gates as put it is like a computer program. So why don’t we accept the DNA really is the language of God? | Science and Faith | 2 – Fairly Simple | $7.49 Order Page | $9.99 Order Page | $12.95 Order Page | |
 | The Return of the God Hypothesis is a fairly advanced book in the Science and Faith category. You definitely need to view the accompanying PDF file to keep up with the arguments. If you read this you will end up thinking you have gone through a history of science as well as an apologetics course. | Science and Faith | 4 – Heavy on jargon | $38.93 Order Page | $10.99 Order Page | $21.99 Order Page | |
 | The Case for Heaven by Lee Strobel. This book uses many traditional Biblical arguments for Heaven but it also covers some topics not mentioned elsewhere in this list. Strobel gives a brief overview of evidence from Near Death Experiences (for example people unconscious in emergency rooms who saw things while out of their body that cannot be explained in naturalistic terms). Strobel also debunks evidence for reincarnation. | Arguments for Heaven | 1 – Simple | $17.01 Order Page | $13.99 Order Page | $13.01 Order Page | This YouTube link shows the video trailer for a documentary based on this book. |
 | Jesus and the Eyewitnesses makes a lengthy argument that some of the verses in the New Testament only make sense if they were intended to refer to eyewitnesses who were alive at the time when the Gospels were written. For example, John 19:25 mentions three women called Mary in the same verse (not something that a fiction writer would ever do). One of the three Mary Clopas is only mentioned in this one place place. This makes no sense unless John wanted people to go to her directly to get her testimony. | Arguments from Biblical Texts | 3 – Many proper nouns | NA | $35.81 Order Page | $45.21 Order Page | |
 | God in the Dock is a set of essays by C.S. Lewis. One of his most interesting arguments is the one he makes about the woman caught in the act of adultery which caused Jesus to start writing on the ground when he encounters her. Lewis argues this detail has the flavor of real history because fiction of this time did not have incidental details to serve the interest of verisimilitude. That sort of thing happened in novels 1800 years later. | Essay Collection | 1 – Simple | $9.95 Order Page | $14.49 Order Page | $16.98 Order Page | |
 | Confronting Christianity by Rebecca McLaughlin brings up many of the most difficult social issues that matter to people in younger age groups. It was particularly interesting to see her go through a range of intense emotions as a feminist and confronting the fact that the Bible asserts that the roles of men and women are complementary not equal. Apart from gender issues the book has chapters on race, morality, sexual orientation, science and suffering. | Christianity and Contemporary Issues | 1 – Simple | $15.30 Order Page | $17.99 Order Page | $20.49 Order Page | |
 | The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom narrates the story of her family’s story of hiding Jews from Nazi persecution during the occupation of the Netherlands. Eventually they were betrayed and sent to a Nazi concentration camp where the author’s father and sister died. Incredibly she manages to forgive and shake the hand of the man who betrayed her. | Autobiograpy | 1 – Simple | NA | $8.35 Order Page | $8.79 Order Page | The book was turned into a movie with Julie Christie. This is the link the the DVD order page on Amazon. |
 | Orthodoxy by G.K.Chesterton rebuts many arguments against Christianity from the perspective of Darwinists and other modern scientific and philosophical movements. There are many jargon terms that require the use of a dictionary. | General Defense of Christianity | 4 – Heavy on jargon | $3.99 Order Page | $0.60 Order Page | $3.85 Order Page | The audiobook version of this text is available as a free download from Librivox.org here. |
 | Evidence That Demands a Verdict: Life-Changing Truth for a Skeptical World by Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell. Compared to Mere Christianity this book has a much heavier cognitive load because if makes reference to many more proper nouns (people, places etc.) so it may be better to experience this as a print book. | General Defense of Christianity | 1 – Simple | $25.56 Order Page | $3.99 Order Page | $37.32 Order Page | |
 | Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church by N.T. Wright makes the argument that Heaven is not a place where the dead are conscious now but rather a future state. Specifically Wright makes a biblical argument that Heaven is this world made perfect in the future. We will be resurrected to this world with perfect bodies “when every tear will be wiped away.” | Arguments for Heaven | 2 – Fairly Simple | $11.83 Order Page | $12.49 Order Page | $14.49 Order Page | |
 | Is God a Moral Monster by Paul Copan. This deals specifically with difficult passages in the old testament such as the commandment for the Israelites to attack Jericho and to kill its entire population. | Objections to the God of the Old Testament | 2 – Fairly Simple | $21.99 Order Page | $10.82 Order Page | $11.39 Order Page | You can watch a debate on this topic as part of Premier Christian Radio’s Unbelievable Podcast. Go to this link on YouTube. |
 | Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I’m still a Christian by Justin Brierly. This is a general defense of Christianity by the presenter of the world’s most popular religious debate show. Each week Brierly invites people from different viewpoints to argue about a faith related topic. | General Defense of Christianity | 1 – Simple | NA | $8.49 Order Page | $14.99 Order Page | Link to Unbelievable show web page. |
 | Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case by Frank Turek. This book uses many arguments from contemporary science to show why the New Atheists are wrong and indeed could not even make their arguments at all without Christian ground to stand on. | General Defense of Christianity | 2 – Fairly Simple | $15.98 Order Page | $12.99 Order Page | $16.49 Order Page | |
 | On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision by William Lane Craig. Craig is arguably the greatest living apologist. He can frequently be seen in debate with some of the world most prominent atheists. | General Defense of Christianity | 2 – Fairly Simple | $18.65 Order Page | $7.99 Order Page | $17.09 Order Page | You can watch Craig give 5 reasons why God exists on this YouTube link. |
 | In The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? F.F. Bruce makes a strong case that the New Testament is one of the most widely published accounts from ancient history. Many famous histories that are not disputed such as those by Tacitus and Thucydides have only a small number of surviving copies available, whereas we have 5000 Gospel manuscripts. | Reliability of the New Testament | 2 – Fairly Simple | $10.65 Order Page | $16.99 Order Page | ||
 | Can We Trust the Gospels by Peter J. Williams presents evidence based on ancient cultural facts and many non-Christian sources that the four Gospels are believable. | Reliability of the New Testament | 2 – Fairly Simple | $6.99 Order Page | $10.44 Order Page | $10.99 Order Page | |
 | The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality by Glen Scrivener makes a convincing case that many of the values we hold in modern democracies would never have been adopted without the influence of Christianity. Most controversially for feminists the idea of sexual consent simply did not exist at all in the ancient world. All those of lower social status were expected to be available to the more powerful. | General Defense of Christianity | 2 – Fairly Simple | $12.99 Order Page | $8.99 Order Page | $16.29 Order Page |