- Sweet Relief: The Marla Ruzicka Story
, Jennifer Abrahamson
- KGB: The Inside Story
, Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky
- Stet: An Editor's Life
, Diana Athill
- Midnight At The Dragon Café, Judy Fong Bates
- The Feast of Love: A Novel
, Charles Baxter
- See Poverty ... Be the Difference!, Donna M. Beegle
- Element Order (Studies in the Modern Russian Language)
, R. Bivon
- Mind the Light: Learning to See with Spiritual Eyes
, Brent Bill
- The Beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Son of God, Anthony Bloom
- O vstreche [On Meeting]
, Anthony Bloom
- Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War (Vintage)
, Rodric Braithwaite
- D*U*C*K
, Poppy Z. Brite
- Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age,
Matthew Brzezinski
- The Second World War, Volume 1: The Gathering Storm,
and the other five volumes as well; Winston Churchill
- The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
, Shane Claiborne
- Border Crossings: Christian Trespasses on Popular Culture and Public Affairs
, Rodney Clapp
- Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction: Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation,
Rodney Clapp
- Why Angels Fall: A Journey Through Orthodox Europe from Byzantium to Kosovo
, Victoria Clark
- South of Broad: A Novel,
Pat Conroy
- Rethinking the Soviet Collapse: Sovietology, the Death of Communism and the New Russia
, ed. Michael Cox
- The Gospel According To America: A Meditation On A God-Blessed, Christ-Haunted Idea
, David Dark
- Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World
, Paul Davies
- A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy
, Nathaniel Davis
- My Faith So Far: A Story of Conversion and Confusion
, Patton Dodd
- Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide
, Maureen Dowd
- A Visit from the Goon Squad,
Jennifer Egan
- The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation
, Tom Engelhardt
- Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
, Sebastian Faulks
- Peace Like a River
, Leif Enger
- Marina Tsvetaeva: The Double Beat of Heaven and Hell
, Lily Feiler
- To Live Free: William Wilberforce: Experiencing the Man, the Mission, and the Legacy (Barbour Value Tradepaper)
, Lon Fendall
- Practicing Discernment Together--Finding God's Way Forward in Decision Making
, Lon Fendall, Jan Wood, Bruce Bishop
- The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
, Orlando Figes (Johan's 2008 Book of the Year)
- The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent
, Richard Florida
- The Pillars of the Earth,
Ken Follett
- World Without End,
Ken Follett
- Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture
, Michael Frost (Johan's 2006 BOOK OF THE YEAR)
- Skinner's Drift: A Novel
, Lisa Fugard
- Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary
, Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali
- Dark Star: A Novel
, Alan Furst
- Spies of the Balkans: A Novel, Alan Furst
- The Spies of Warsaw: A Novel,
Alan Furst
- Mister God, This Is Anna
, Fynn
- The Elements of Legal Style
, Bryan A. Garner
- Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia,
John Garrard, Carol Garrard
- Within the Whirlwind
, Eugenia Ginzburg
- In This House of Brede
, Rumer Godden
- Evensong
, Gail Godwin
- The Confession, John Grisham
- The King of Torts,
John Grisham
- The Last Juror,
John Grisham
- The Rainmaker
, John Grisham
- Be My Knife: A Novel
, David Grossman
- The Dream Life of Sukhanov
, Olga Grushin
- Unspeakable : Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror
, Os Guinness
- Snow in August
, Pete Hamill
- Disobedience: A Novel
, Jane Hamilton
- Mariette in Ecstasy
, Ron Hansen
- Late Nights on Air: A Novel
, Elizabeth Hay
- I Don't Believe in Atheists,
Chris Hedges
- War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
, Chris Hedges
- Close Quarters: A Novel
, Larry Heinemann
- The Kite Runner,
Khaled Hosseini
- The Elementary Particles
, Michel Houellebeco
- The Sorrows of an American: A Novel,
Siri Hustvedt
- What I Loved: A Novel
, Siri Hustvedt
- Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home, Rhoda Janzen
- God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis
, Philip Jenkins (Johan's 2007 BOOK OF THE YEAR)
- Intellectuals
, Paul Johnson
- The Time of Light
, Gunnar Kopperud
- The Historian,
Elisabeth Kostova
- Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago
, Alex Kotlowitz
- Towards an Orthodox Christian Theology of Mission: An Interpretive Approach, Valentin Kozhuharov
- Understanding Spiritual Power: A Forgotten Dimension of Cross-Cultural Mission and Ministry,
Marguerite G. Kraft
- Identity: A Novel
, Milan Kundera
- Ignorance: A Novel
, Milan Kundera
- The Joke (Definitive Version),
Milan Kundera
- Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
, Anne Lamott
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage)
, Stieg Larsson
- How Russia Really Works: The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics And Business (Culture and Society After Socialism)
, Alena D. Ledeneva
- The Eye of the Storm
, Kenneth Leech
- A Big-Enough God: Artful Theology
, Sara Maitland
- Requiem for a Lost Empire: A Novel
, Andrei Makine
- The Bronski House
, Philip Marsden
- A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-Hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished CHRISTIAN
, Brian McLaren
- Black Earth: A Journey through Russia After the Fall
, Andrew Meier
- The Bible and Literature, Alexander Men'
- Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945,
Catherine Merridale
- Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium
, Donald Miller
- Searching for God Knows What,
Donald Miller (Johan's 2009 BOOK OF THE YEAR)
- How the Dead Dream: A Novel
, Lydia Millet
- My Happy Life
, Lydia Millet
- Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
, Lydia Millet
- The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
, Christopher Moore
- A Very Good Marriage
, Tom Mullen
- The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch
- What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa
, David E. Murphy
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
, Azar Nafisi
- The Almond
, Nedjma
- The Redbreast,
Jo Nesbø
- Getting the Blues: What Blues Music Teaches Us about Suffering and Salvation,
Stephen J. Nichols
- The Snowman,
Jo Nesbø
- Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945,
Richard Overy
- Letters: Summer 1926: Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, Rilke
, edited by Yevgeny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak, and Konstantin M. Azadovsky
- State of Wonder,
Ann Patchett
- Taft: A Novel
, Ann Patchett
- Eyes of a Child
, Richard North Patterson
- Plain Truth
, Jodi Picoult
- Discerning the Spirits: A Guide to Thinking About Christian Worship Today
(Calvin Institute for Christian Worship Liturgical Studies), Plantinga and Rozeboom
- Reasons for Hope: The Faith and Future of the Friends Church
, John Punshon
- Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet
, Roberta Reeder
- A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-1944
, Willy Peter Reese
- Church Marketing 101: Preparing Your Church for Greater Growth
, Richard L. Reising
- Adam Haberberg
(Vintage International), Yasmina Reza
- Signs of Salvation
, Ben Richmond (Johan's 2005 BOOK OF THE YEAR)
- The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina
, Frank Rich
- Christianity for the Twenty-First Century: The Prophetic Writings of Alexander Men
, ed. Elizabeth Roberts, Ann Shukman
- Gilead: A Novel
, Marilynne Robinson
- Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in the Louisiana Swamp
, Gwen Roland; photos by C.C. Lockwood
- Mohawk
, Richard Russo
- The Butterfly Effect
, Pernille Rygg
- Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village
, Serge Schmemann
- Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel,
John Scott, enlarged ed. prepared by Stephen Kotkin
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- Cross and Covenant: Interpreting the Atonement for 21st Century Mission
, R. Larry Shelton
- Brain Plague (Elysium Cycle)
, Joan Slonczewski
- The Gift of the Stranger: Faith, Hospitality, and Foreign Language Learning,
David I. Smith, Barbara Carvill
- Stalin's Ghost: An Arkady Renko Novel
, Martin Cruz Smith
- Nine
, Andrzej Stasiuk
- Evangelism after Christendom: The Theology and Practice of Christian Witness
, Bryan Stone
- A Week in October: A Novel
, Elizabeth Subercaseaux
- Translation Nation
, Héctor Tobar
- Nikolai's Fortune
, Solveig Torvik
- A Passionate Man: A Novel
, Joanna Trollope
- Other People's Children: A Novel
, Joanna Trollope
- If Morning Ever Comes: A Novel
, Anne Tyler
- Noah's Compass
, Anne Tyler
- The Ministry of Pain
, Dubravka Ugresic
- The Funeral Party: A Novel
, Liudmila Ulitskaya
- God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
, Jim Wallis
- The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post-Religious Right America
, Jim Wallis
- Clear and Convincing Proof
, Kate Wilhelm
- Sleight Of Hand (Barbara Holloway Novels)
, Kate Wilhelm
- Girl Meets God: A Memoir
, Lauren F. Winner
- Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity
, Lauren F. Winner
- Good Grief: A Novel
, Lolly Winston
- Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
, N.T. Wright
- In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
, Michela Wrong
- A People's History of the United States, Abridged Teaching Edition
, Howard Zinn
- Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries
, Marina Tsvetaeva, ed. and tr. Jamey Gambrell
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