Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Didymus the Blind & the Text of the Gospels | 1986 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 2 | The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament | 1993 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 3 | The Text of the New Testament In Contemporary Research | 1995 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 4 | The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings | 1996 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 5 | The New Testament And Other Early Christian Writings | 1997 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 6 | After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity | 1998 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 7 | Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium | 1999 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 8 | The Historical Jesus | 2000 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 9 | Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew | 2002 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 10 | Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It Into the New Testament | 2003 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 11 | Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 CE: A Reader | 2003 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 12 | From Jesus to Constantine | 2004 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 13 | Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene & Constantine | 2004 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 14 | A Brief Introduction to the New Testament | 2004 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 15 | The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration | 2005 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 16 | Whose Word Is It? The Story Behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why | 2005 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 17 | Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why | 2005 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 18 | The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed | 2006 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 19 | Studies in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament | 2006 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 20 | Peter, Paul & Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History & Legend | 2006 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 21 | God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer | 2008 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 22 | Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don’t Know About Them | 2009 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 23 | The Reliability of the New Testament | 2011 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 24 | Forged: Writing in the Name of God | 2011 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 25 | The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations | 2011 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 26 | Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth | 2012 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 27 | Forgery and Counter-forgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics | 2012 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 28 | The Other Gospels: Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament | 2013 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 29 | The History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon | 2013 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 30 | The Greatest Controversies of Early Christian History | 2013 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 31 | The Bible: A Historical and Literary Introduction | 2013 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 32 | How Jesus Became God : the Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee | 2014 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 33 | Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior | 2016 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 34 | The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World | 2017 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 35 | Summary and Analysis of the Books of the Bible: A Quick Guide | 2019 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 36 | Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife | 2020 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 37 | 36 Big Ideas | 2020 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 38 | After the New Testament: The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers | 2020 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 39 | Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? | 2020 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 40 | Journeys to Heaven and Hell | 2022 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 41 | When Did Jesus Become God?: A Christological Debate | 2022 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 42 | Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End | 2023 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
| 43 | Love Thy Stranger | 2026 | Bart D. Ehrman | Buy |
Bart D. Ehrman’s non-fiction books span nearly four decades and cover the major questions of New Testament scholarship. His early works, like Didymus the Blind and the Text of the Gospels (1986) and The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture (1993), are technical studies aimed at other scholars. Starting in the late 1990s, he began writing for a broader audience with books like Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium (1999) and Lost Christianities (2002).
His biggest popular success came with Misquoting Jesus (2005), which introduced general readers to the field of textual criticism. That book showed how copying errors and intentional changes by scribes affected the New Testament text we have today. He followed it with a string of bestsellers that tackled other questions: why the Bible contains contradictions (Jesus, Interrupted), who really wrote the books attributed to Paul and Peter (Forged), and how a small Jewish sect grew into the Roman Empire’s official religion (The Triumph of Christianity).
Ehrman’s more recent books have continued to explore new territory. Heaven and Hell (2020) traces how beliefs about the afterlife developed in Jewish and Christian thought. Journeys to Heaven and Hell (2022) examines ancient accounts of visits to the afterlife. Armageddon (2023) looks at what the Bible actually says about the end times, compared to popular assumptions about it.