This is a bit different. If you are a member of Audible and have access to the Plus catalog, these will be free (included in membership). They are all books that I have personally read and recommend. I did not go and look for all of them, but I believe that I have written a post about each of them
In no particular order except for what I found them (links are to my review posts)
(Note: These titles change, and they were all free as of July 22, 2023, but may change to not free at any time.)
- The Pastor: A Memoir by Eugene Peterson
- Still Christian: Following Jesus Out of American Evangelicalism by David Gushee
- Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Charles Marsh (best modern bio of Bonhoeffer)
- C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity: A Biography by George Marsden
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian by James Cone (this is where I would recommend you start reading if you have not read any Cone)
- I Will Not Fear: My Story of a Lifetime of Building Faith Under Fire by Melba Pattillo Beals
- America’s Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation By Grant Wacker
- Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America by Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
- Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah
- Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair by Duke L. Kwon and Gregory Thompson
- The Divided Mind of the Black Church: Theology, Piety, and Public Witness by Raphael G. Warnock
- Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? Revised Edition by John Fea
- White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White by Daniel Hill
- Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World by Katharine Gerbner
- Twelve Lies That Hold America Captive: And the Truth That Sets Us Free by Jonathan Walton
- Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ by Eugene Peterson
- The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America by Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey
- Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul by Hannah Anderson
- Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life by Makoto Fujimura
- Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age by Alan Noble
- Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation by James K.A. Smith
- Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas
- The Dangers of Christian Practice: On Wayward Gifts, Characteristic Damage, and Sin by Lauren F. Winner
- Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing by Andy Crouch
- Native: Identity, Belonging and Rediscovering God by Kaitlin B. Curtice
- All That’s Good: Recovering the Lost Art of Discernment by Hannah Anderson
- God’s Voice Within: The Ignatian Way to Discover God’s Will by Mark E. Thibodeaux
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America By Richard Rothstein
- Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movementy by Angela Y. Davis
- Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero by Kate Clifford Larson
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice by Eric Mason
- John Quincy Adams by Harlow Giles Unger
- How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity by Thomas C. Oden
- How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity by Rodney Stark
- White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism by Kevin M. Kruse
- Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible by Brandon J. O’Brien and E. Randolph Richards
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
- Heart of Darkness: A Signature Performance by Kenneth Branagh by Joseph Conrad
- Call of the Wild by Jack London
- Hannah Coulter: A Novel by Wendell Berry
- Whose Body? The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries #1 by Dorothy L. Sayers (and several others from the series)
- No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
- The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis and a bunch of other CS Lewis books
- Out of the Silent Planet: Ransom Trilogy, Book 1 by C. S. Lewis (and the rest of the space trilogy)
- Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin
- To Say Nothing of the Dog: Or How We Found the Bishop’s Bird Stump at Last by Connie Willis
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World (a novel) by Walker Percy
- The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt