(Part 2) Best christian hymns & hymnals books according to redditors

In my opinion, North American Reformed Hymnody reached it's apex with the grey Psalter Hymnal. It's got everything you'd want:

• All 150 Psalms with excellent metrical settings as the first 150 songs.
  
• An additional ~75 Bible Songs - other passages of scripture set to music, including the Nunc Dimintis, Magnificat, and of course Ere zij God (If your hymnal does not have this, look for another).
  
• Another 400 traditional Hymns.
  
• Ecumenical Creeds and Reformed Confessions
  
• Free Online MIDI files in case you forget what a hymn sounds like.
  
• Complete indices of Biblical References and topics
  
  Seriously, go grab a copy. Other options you might want to consider in addition to the Psalter Hymnal (not instead!):
  
  
• Lift Up Your Hearts. This is supposed to be the replacement to the Psalter hymnal and includes some more modern songs. Also has a free iPad/Android app! (Public Domain songs free, copyrighted songs require in app purchase). Sadly it doesn't include all 150 Psalms.
  
• Anglo-Genevan Psalter. English edition of the classic Genevan melodies.
  
• Psalms for All Seasons. Another good Psalter. This is a "modern" treatment, and includes liturgical aids. (n.b. this is a continental psalter and as such includes Bible songs such as the Nunc Dimittis, the Lord's Prayer, etc., per the church order of Dort.)
  
• Then Sings My Soul: 150 of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories - not a hymnal, but a collection of famous hymns and thier backstories. Quite interesting and can have some devotional value, I think, but due to it's design some hymns with questionable theology snuck in.
  

Closely related. Church of the Brethren is an anabaptist and pietist church, born from the Schwarzenauer Neutäufer (Schwarzenau New Baptists) in Germany. They are, to my mind, about one generation more integrated into the culture than are Mennonites. Almost none still speak German, some (but very few) still wear plain clothes, and many Brethren churches are simply very kind, very awesome mainstream churches. But they do have a foundation of Anabaptism, and so I would not call them Protestant.

I love Brethren churches, and have often gone when I didn't have a Mennonite church to hand. And Brethren and Mennonites share a hymnal, see my comment on my favorite hymn, above!

We mostly used Come & Praise but it didn't cover everything so we sometimes used [With Cheerful Voice] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0713612770) as well. The Come & Praise version of The Lord's Prayer was a weird Caribbean version that had "Hallowed Be Thy Name" every other line. Come & Praise 2 came out in 1987 which was far too late for my junior school to pick it up. They've redesigned the covers of both 1 and 2 but the only one that counts as far as I'm concerned is [this one] (http://www.eightieskids.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/take-you-back-to-school-1.jpg). Must have the 70s knitwear and the kid on the right at the back thinking the title is Praise and Come judging by the look on his face.

Then you would love Miguel Leon-Portilla's anthology Native Mesoamerican Spirituality: Ancient Myths, Discourses, Stories, Doctrines, Hymns, Poems from the Aztec, Yucatec, Quiche-Maya and Other Sacred Traditions.

Well, I guess it would really depend on what tradition you come from, but coming from the SBC tradition and Missionary Baptist churches, I like a lot of the songs in the Heavenly Highway Hymns, The Heavenly Highway Hymnal (Second Edition), and The Church Hymnal for your general low church Hymnal. I don't like the whole "Mother" section in their topical indexes, but I do like the rest of the songs. For High Church or your "First Baptist", "First Presbyterian", etc. or even for use in Low Churches I like The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration or The Baptist Hymnal. These hymnals feature responsive readings, with the Hymnal for Worship and Celebration containing an extensive topical index and the Apostles Creed, Nicene Creed, and a Contemporary or Modern Creed for use in service. One of my personal favorites, while it's extremely old, and you're lucky if you can find one, is the Northfield Hymnal. There's a lot of good old songs there, and it features a nice little topical index.

Edit: While I'm not very familiar with it, another which comes to mind is The Celebration Hymnal. It seems to be another favorite in High Church, or your "First 'insert denomination' Church" churches.