“Through reading, I can imagine situations that I would never normally encounter.”
That’s what Russell Moore says in this final episode of the year. All about books, Russell’s conversation with producer Ashley Hales covers everything from storytelling and genre to book sorting and cultivating a love of reading at a young age.
Visit Russell’s book club, learn more about his reading habits, and discover his favorite books of the year. Russell shares why he loves the books that made the list and how he came up with them.
Russell’s Favorite Books in 2022:
- Malcolm Guite, The Word within the Word
- Timothy Keller, Allow the
- Clarence Jordan, The wrong Gospel
- Wendell Berry, How did he go
- Thomas S. Kidd, Thomas Jefferson
- Moses Naim, The revenge of power
- Paul D. Miller,The Religion of American Greatness
- Fintan O’Toole,We Don’t Know Ourselves
- Stephen Bullivant, Non-converts
- Mark Eliot, The Hag
- Jay Wellons,Everything that moves us
- Jason M. Baxter, The Medieval Mind of CS Lewis
- Additional books, podcast episodes and resources cited include:
- The Russell Moore show“Navigation Friends and Loss with Peter Wehner”
- The Russell Moore show“Tim Keller Says Forgiveness Is Key to Christian Witness”
- Russell Moore’s Journal
- MaryKate Morse, “The Power of Reading: A Requirement for All Leaders”
- John Grisham, The boy from Biloxi
- Book Square
- Shakespeare, King Lear
- TS Eliot, Four quartets
- 2023 Book Prize for Contemporary Christianity
- Barna’s Kingdom of the Church
- CS Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
- Wendell Berry,Life is a miracle
- Marilynne Robinson, “Theology Today”
- Chris Claremont’s X-Men era
- Maurice Sendak, Where the wild things are
- Louise Penny, Chief Inspector Gamache series
Ashley Hales is the producer of the The Russell Moore show, founder of the Willowbrae Institute, and author. Find out more at aahales.com.
“The Russell Moore Show” is a production of Christianity Today.
Chief Creative Officer: Erik Petrik
Executive Producer and Host: Russell Moore
Designer: Ashley Hales
Podcast Director: Mike Cosper
Director of Operations for CT Media: Matt Stevens
Production assistance: CoreMedia
Moderator: Beth Grabenkort
Sound Producer and Mixer: Kevin Duthu
Associate Producer: Abby Perry
Theme Song: “Dusty Delta Day” by Lennon Hutton
