Brent's Books 2017

The Best:
My Top 10 of 2017

The List:

1. The Black Stallion
Walter Farley

2. The Damnation of Theron Ware
Harold Frederic

3. Reading Revelation Responsibly
Michael Gorman

4. Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi

5. Seeing Is Believing: Experiencing Jesus Through Imaginative Prayer
Greg Boyd

6. The Black Stallion Returns
Walter Farley

7. Runaway
Alice Munro

8. Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee

9. Pastoralia
George Saunders

10. Inventing the Flat Earth
Jeffrey Burton Russell

11. Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison

12. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
Cesar Aira

13. Memento Mori
Muriel Spark

14. You, Restless, and No Longer Reformed
 Austin Fischer

15. A More Christlike God
Brad Jersak

16. The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood

17. Fair Play
Tove Jansson

18. Voss
Patrick White

19. The Great Divorce
C.S. Lewis

20. Under the Net
Iris Murdoch

21. Disarming Scripture
Derek Flood

22. Play It as It Lays
Joan Didion

23. Jack of Shadows
Roger Zelazny

24. Idaho
Emily Ruskovich

25. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Roald Dahl

26. On the Incarnation
Athanasius

27. Old Man's War
John Scalzi

28. Home
Marilynne Robinson

29. Christus Victor
Gustf Aulen

30. The Medusa Frequency
Russell Hoban

31. Son of the Black Stallion
Walter Farley

32. How to Be Evangelical Without Being Conservative
Roger Olson

33. The Black Stallion and Satan
Walter Farley

34. Psalms: The Church's Prayer Book
Deitrich Bonnhoeffer

35. The Medusa Frequency
Russell Hoban

36. An Unnecessary Woman
Rabih Alameddine

37. The Towers of Trezibond
Rose Macauley

38. Hail, Holy Queen
Scott Hahn

39. Brighton Rock
Graham Greene

40. Walkabout
James Vance Marshall

41. Post Office
Charles Bukowski

42. Texts Under Negotiation: The Bible in Postmodern Thought
Walter Brueggermann

43. The Suffering of God: An Old Testament Perspective
Terence E. Fretheim

44. Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
Alice Munro

45. Jesus and the Disinherited
Howard Thurman

46. The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
Henri Nouwen

47. The Black Stallion's Filly
Walter Farley

48. Kleinzeit
Russell Hoban

49. Jamaica Inn
Daphne Du Maurier

50. Evangelical Theology
Karl Barth

51. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

52. Measure for Measure
William Shakespeare