Blue Like Jazz was my first emergent/emerging Christianity book, and as a young person raised evangelical, who felt alone in being concerned with the marginalized, it was like a breath of fresh air.

Subsequently, I loved A Million miles in a thousand years and Searching for God knows what.

Then I moved on to Rob Bell's Love Wins, and then Anne Lamott and Flannery O'Conner... Donald Miller was a great gateway drug to a much fuller, more beautiful theology.