Young Adult Recommended Reading List
Great leaders are readers. These books will get you started in the right direction.
Top Picks
- A Case for Faith, Stroebl
- A Case for Jesus, Stroebl
- Crazy Love, Francis Chan
- Ordering Your Private World, MacDonald
- The Reason for God, Timothy Keller
- Recreate, Ron Luce
- True Christianity, Johann Arndd
- UnChristian, Lyons & Kinneman
- Youth Culture 101, Mueller
Young Adult Leaders
- Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road From the Late Teens Through the Twenties, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
- Young Adult Ministry in the 21st Century: The Encyclopedia of Practical Ideas, Various Authors
- The Last Christian Generation, Josh McDowell
Young Adults
- The 11th Commandment, Andy Smith
- A Call to Die, David Nasser
- A Tale of Three Kings, Gene Edwards
- The Bait of Satan, John Bevere
- Battlefield of the Mind, Joyce Meyer
- The Best Question Ever, Andy Stanley
- Beyond Belief to Convictions, Josh McDowell
- Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller
- The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life, Os Guinness
- The Case for Faith, Lee Strobel
- Cheated, Jerry Jones
- Choosing to Cheat, Andy Stanley
- Dear Church: Letters from a Disillusioned Generation, Sarah Cunningham
- The Divine Romance, Gene Edwards
- Do Hard Things, Alex and Brett Harris
- Essential Church, Thom Rainer
- Every Man’s Battle, Stephen Arterburn
- Every Woman’s Battle, Shannon Ethridge
- Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire, Jim Cymbala
- From Good to Great, Jim Collins
- God Ideas, Simeon Young Jr.
- The Greatest Salesman in the World, Og Mandino
- i am not but i know I AM, Louie Giglio
- In a Pit With a Lion on a Snowy Day, Mark Batterson
- Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should
- Do and Who We Should Be, Dorothy Bass and Mark Schwehn
- Simple Prayer, Joyce Meyer
- Victory in the Wilderness, John Bevere
- Your God is Too Safe, Mark Buchanan