The Mustard Seed:

...by its cover

Umberto Eco: Baudolino
The Holy Grail, the Turin Shroud and the Letter of Prester John are all forged by the eponymous hero in this medieval adventure.
Ian Fleming: Casino Royale
Find out how tough James Bond really is!
Roger Aubrey: Discovering God
Go on, you know you want to...
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
Arguably the first ever novel and arguably the best.
Barack Obama: Dreams from My Father
Learn about the complicated family history of America's President.
Arthur Wallis: God's Chosen Fast
Concise but thorough study on the power of prayer & fasting.
Alistair Cooke: Letter from America: 1946-2004
Makes me wish that Cooke lived in the age of podcasts.
Oliver Sacks: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Shows music to be the universal language and the soundtrack to life.
Joseph O'Neill: Netherland
New York, 9/11 and cricket. A Gatsby for the 21st century
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
A novel I could read over and over again.
Bryn Jones: Radical Church
"To the restorer, anything that cannot root itself in God as its source has no place in the life of the Christian or the practices of the community of God."
C.J. Sansom: Revelation
The latest detective novel the mystery-obsessed Aubrey family have got into. The fourth in its series, it is set in Tudor England and follows the adventures of hunchback lawyer Matthew Shardlake.
Watchman Nee: Sit Walk Stand
An invaluable study on the Christian life as set out in Ephesians.
Richard D. Mahoney: Sons and Brothers
A fascinating biography that highlights the depth of relationship between Jack and Bobby Kennedy.
Mike Brearley: The Art of Captaincy
A must for all cricket fans or students of leadership.
Greg Scheer: The Art of Worship
A useful guide to the practical, musical side of worship and leading worship.
Roger Aubrey: The Circle of Life
Who'd have thought The Lion King could teach us so much about faith?
Taylor Branch: The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President
A fascinating insight into the White House.
Robert Harris: The Ghost
Ghostwriter is hired to write the memoirs of a disgraced former prime minister. Twists and turns aplenty.
Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
First in the Millennium trilogy. Fantastic story, wonderfully told, gripping from beginning to end.
Francis A. Schaeffer: The God Who Is There
Interesting study on the place of Christianity in contemporary culture.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."
A. W. Tozer: The Knowledge of the Holy
"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us."
Tony Ling: The Lion & The Lamb
Indispensible guide to the Book of Revelation
Simon Barnes: The Meaning of Sport
Warning: contains trace elements of Ulysses.
Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose
A medieval whodunnit that also manages to be a beginner's guide to semiotic theory, a catalogue of fourteenth century religious debate, an exploration of heresy, and a love letter to books.
Paul Auster: The New York Trilogy
Turns the detective novel on its head.
Jacques Ellul: The Presence of the Kingdom
Radical, practical theology that challenges how the Christian lives in and engages with the world.
Leonard Verduin: The Reformers and Their Stepchildren
Brings to light and to life the roots many Christians have today in the radical, not magisterial reformers.
Donna Tartt: The Secret History
A group of classics students try to get away with murder...
Roland Allen: The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church: And the Causes That Hinder It
Challenges the believer to pass on the good news of the gospel as a natural matter of course.
Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers
The story that created the Saturday serial.
E. Stanley Jones: The Unshakable Kingdom and the Unchanging Person
The best book on the kingdom of God I have ever read. Explains the ways in which the kingdom is natural, built in to the DNA of all mankind, and how the kingdom is 'the spirit of Jesus universalized'.
Michael Chabon: The Yiddish Policeman's Union
Jewish Alaska, crime and chess.
James B. Jordan: Through New Eyes
A theological treat and available free online!
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
I studied this in high school and still remember not knowing what do with myself after I finished it.
John C. Maxwell: Today Matters
Helping you seize the day.
Devern F. Fromke: Ultimate Intention
One of the most important books on the purposes of God ever written.

After the news this weekend that Noel Gallagher has left Oasis, I rooted back through my record collection to listen to some of their albums for the first time in ages. Eschewing their one great album - debut Definitely Maybe - and their biggest one - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? - I started with their bloated third album, Be Here Now, before moving onto a bit of Standing on the Shoulder of Giants. For a while, I was a huge Oasis fan (as a teenager in the 90s learning the guitar, the songs of Noel Gallagher were my bread and butter) and I decided I'd compile a list of my favourite of their songs. I even found a few hidden gems from their muddled, middle albums (the afore-mentioned Be Here Now, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants and also Heathen Chemistry)

1) 'Columbia' from Definitely Maybe

2) 'Slide Away' from Definitely Maybe

3) 'Half the World Away' B-side of 'Whatever' (and theme tune of The Royle Family)

3) 'Talk Tonight' B-side of 'Some Might Say'

4) 'Acquiesce' B-Side of 'Some Might Say'

5) 'The Masterplan' B-Side of 'Wonderwall'

6) 'Underneath the Sky' B-Side of 'Don't Look Back in Anger'

7) 'Stay Young' B-Side of 'D'You Know What I Mean?'

8) 'I Hope, I Think, I Know' from Be Here Now

9) 'Let's All Make Believe' B-side of 'Go Let It Out'

10) 'Roll It Over' from Standing on the Shoulder of Giants

11) '(Probably) All in the Mind' from Heathen Chemistry

Here, too, is the best version Oasis recorded of Wonderwall: sung by Noel at their MTV Unplugged gig in 1996. And below it is the superlative cover version by Ryan Adams. Enjoy.