By: Peter Shaffer (New York: Scribner, 2005). Summary: Equus is a Broadway play written in 1973 by Peter Shaffer, who also wrote Amadeus. (Both plays won the Tony Award for Best Play.) In 2008, there was a Broadway revival of Equus with Harry Potter’s Daniel...
By: Michael Ondaatje (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1992) Summary: “Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert,” says the English patient, a mysterious and knowledgeable man burned beyond any type of recognition. In 1945, Hana, a...
By: Orson Scott Card (New York: Tor Books, 1985) Summary: Ender Wiggin is a “Third,” a child born to a family that already has two siblings, something that requires government permission. The government allowed Ender to be born because there is a great need. The...
By: John Steinbeck (New York: Viking Press, 1952) Summary: Steinbeck, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote in his journal, “There is only one book to a man.” East of Eden was this book. An allegory written to...
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (New York: Vintage Classics, 1993) Summary: Written in 1866, Crime and Punishment is a book by Fyodor Dostoevsky that bears no little influence from the author’s actual decade of suffering during his...
By: Wesley Hill (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010) Summary: “By the time I started high school, two things had become clear to me. One was that I was a Christian…. The second thing was that I was gay.” And so begins Wesley Hill’s memoir that chronicles his journey as a...
By: Kevin Roose (New York: Grand Central, 2009). Summary: “Even in its weather patterns, Lynchburg, Virginia is a fundamentalist city. Unlike the fickle New England winters I came from, where snow, sun, fog, and rain operate on a twenty-minute loop, Lynchburg in...
By: Laura Hillenbrand (New York: Random House, 2010). Summary: Louie Zamperini was a lieutenant in a WWII Army Air Forces bomber, which once landed with 594 bullet holes. He was also an Olympic runner, a childhood vandal, and a man who survived 47 days in the Pacific...
By: Wesley Hill (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2015) Summary: “Friendship is entirely voluntary, uncoerced, and unencumbered by any sense of duty or debt.” Should it be this way? That is the central question of this book. Using not only Scripture and tradition but also...
By: Nancy Pearcey (Nashville: B&H Publishing Group, 2010) Summary: The primary question concerning Saving Leonardo is whether “secularism [is] a positive force in the modern world.” Nancy Pearcey, evangelical author and professor, answers with an emphatic no and...
