11 books every Christian should read before they turn 25

Kris Kandiah has posted on Christian Today 11 books every Christian should read before they turn 25. I thought I'd construct my own list, a little bit less 'evangelical' perhaps. Krish's list looks a bit serious, so I deliberately included some lighter books.

1. Being Christian - Rowan Williams, SPCK - This is wonderful small book with four chapters on baptism, eucharist, bible and prayer. Its readable, profound and gets at the heart of being Christian. 
2. Surprised by Hope - Tom Wright, SPCK - Christianity has been skewed towards a gospel of heaven when you die, and Tom helpfully corrects that reading with a much bigger gospel and a much better reading of the New Testament. 
3. Worshipping Trinity - Robin Parry, Paternoster / Cascade - Who is God? is the most important question we can ask and the church has confessed that God is Trinity - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This is one of the most accessible ways into the doctrine of the Trinity I know and it is framed around worship. It should leave every reader writing to Hughes, Redman and co. for worship that more faithfully confesses the Christian God.
4. The Provocative Church - Graham Tomlin, SPCK - This book tackles the question of evangelism, but as an activity of the whole church. Evangelism is a matter of the church being the church and as such provocative and interesting.
5. Messy Spirituality - Mike Yaconelli, Hodder & Stoughton - Mike Yaconelli was a mainstay of Greenbelt in the 1990s before his tragic death in a car accident. This book is honest, funny, challenging and lacks any pretension.
6. The Nazareth Manifesto - Sam Wells, Wiley-Blackwell - This is a book with a simple argument, but is an extremely challenging read. Wells argues that most mission and community engagement is stuck on 'doing for' and should be centred on 'being with'. This goes further than When Helping Hurts.
7. Redescribing Reality - Walter Brueggemann, SCM - Brueggemann opens up how to read the bible, and in particular, the Old Testament in ways that it begins to becoming a living word. I would recommend anything by Brueggemann, but chose this book because it is an attempt to help people see that reading the Bible is nothing less, as the title suggests, than re-describing reality.
8. Unapologetic - Francis Spufford, Faber & Faber - This is nothing less than attempt to explain Christianity to those who have no time for it. In our current 'secular age' we need more of this kind of writing.
9. Face to Face - Frances Young, SPCK - This book and the next pick up too particular issues. This a book that explores a theology of suffering and a theology of disability through the narrative of Young and her son Arthur. (A more recent update has been published as Arthur's Call, which includes the more recent story of Arthur.)
10. Making Peace with the Land - Fred Bahnson and Norman Wirzba, IVP - This book is about the environment, the land, food and how we might live in ways that honour and respect it as God's creation. 
11. A Short History of Christianity - Stephen Tomkins, Lion - I thought Diarmaid MacCulloch A History of Christianity just might seem to long at over 1216. I would argue that as Christians we must be aware of our history, high and lows. The church didn't start with us. This is a short history and  entertaining one (similar in style to John O'Farrell's history of Britain).