Top Tens

Reading through Indelible Ink can overwhelm one with hundreds of titles and authors. For the sake of uncovering trends (and just for fun), an analysis was done to determine some statistics and top ten lists. (Statistics include data from the both the book and the bonus appendix).

Miscellaneous Numbers
Category:#%
Total # Contributors181 
Total # of Titles353 
Total # of Authors258 
Total # Books Altogether493 
Titles by Women238.91%
Total Women Mentioned265.27%
Total Women Contributors2111.54%


Top Ten Books
Title:#Rank
Mere Christianity201
My Utmost for His Highest122
Knowing God103
Institutes of the Christian Religion94
The Brothers Karamazov85
Confessions76
The Cost of Discipleship57
The Knowledge of the Holy5 
Church Dogmatics49
The Jesus I Never Knew4 
The Pursuit of God4 
The Spirit of the Disciplines4 
Top Ten Authors
Name:#Rank
C. S. Lewis391
Fyodor Dostoyevsky122
J. I. Packer12 
Oswald Chambers12 
Augustine115
Francis Schaeffer11 
A. W. Tozer107
John Calvin98
Dietrich Bonhoeffer89
Dallas Willard710
Martin Luther7 
Philip Yancey7 


Top Ten Authors with Most Titles
Name:#Rank
C. S. Lewis121
Francis Schaeffer72
Jonathan Edwards53
Martin Luther5 
Soren Kierkegaard45
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn36
Augustine3 
Dietrich Bonhoeffer3 
Fyodor Dostoyevsky3 
Henri Nouwen3 
Jacques Ellul3 
John Stott3 
Philip Yancey3 
Reinhold Niebuhr3 
T. S. Eliot3 
Contemporaries
Name:#Rank
J. I. Packer121
Dallas Willard72
Philip Yancey7 
John Stott54
Elisabeth Elliott35
John Piper3 
Alvin Plantinga27
Carl F. H. Henry2 
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