How Russell Chooses His Annual Book List

Russell shares his favorite reads of the year, an annual tradition on the Russell Moore Show.

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Russell’s top ten books (in alphabetical order by author):

• Leslie Baynes, Between Interpretation and Imagination: C. S. Lewis and the Bible (Eerdmans)

• Wendell Berry, Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story (Counterpoint)

• Nicholas Carr, Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart (Norton)

• Catherine Conybeare, Augustine the African (Norton)

• Stephen King and Maurice Sendak, Hansel and Gretel (HarperCollins)

• Ian McEwan, What We Can Know: A Novel (Knopf)

• Daniel Nayeri, The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story (Levine Querido)

• Adam Plunkett, Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

• Jonathan Rauch, Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy (Yale University Press)

• Graham Tomlin, Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made the Modern World (Hodder & Stoughton)

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