2008: The Best Fiction I Read This Year

1. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
3. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

2008: Best Short Story: “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor

2008: The Best Collection of Short Stories: The Dubliners by James Joyce

2008: Must-Read Unclassifiable Book: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

2008: Funniest Read of the Year: I Am America and So Can You by Stephen Colbert

2008: The Best of Christian Literature

1. The Attributes of God by A.W. Pink
2. Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
3. Commentary on Galatians by Martin Luther
4. A God-Entranced Vision of All Things ed. John Piper & Justin Taylor
5. This Beautiful Mess by Rick McKinley
6. The Gospel According to Real Life by Jerry Bridges
7. The Shack by William Young

Honorable Mentions: Seeing & Savoring Jesus Christ by John Piper; Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, but Nobody Wants to Die by David Crowder; David: A Man of Passion & Destiny by Chuck Swindoll; Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

Ones That Will Make the List When I Finish Them: The Reason for God by Tim Keller & Humility: True Greatness by C.J. Mahaney; Paradise Lost by John Milton; Dylan’s Vision of Sin

2008: Life-Changing Christian Article: “Advice to Young Converts” by Jonathan Edwards

2008: Biggest Let-Down: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

2008: Favorite New Poets (to me): Dylan Thomas & Francis Thompson

2009: First to bat: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner; The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath; With Christ and the School of Prayer by Andrew Murray; Jonathan Edwards by George Marsden