In this special year-end bonus episode, hosts Father Wesley Walker and Dr. Junius Johnson take a break from their usual Great Books discussion to share their personal Top 5 favorite books read this year—works that fell (mostly) outside of the main Classical Mind reading list.
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Junius
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Phantastes by George MacDonald
The Liberation of Jerusalem by Torquato Tasso
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty
Wesley
The Meaning of Christian Brotherhood by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Ronald C. White
Attack Upon Christendom by Soren Kierkegaard
Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
Nietzsche is My Brother by Bridget Edman, O.C.D.
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