[ This Best Books piece was featured in the Advent 2011 issue
of our print magazine, but we thought we’d also feature it here for all of our readers. ]
Englewood Honor Books – The Best Books of 2011!
Every December, we pick the best books we’ve encountered in that year. Our primary criterion both for selecting books to review and for honoring the year’s best books is to choose books that are “for the life of the Church” – i.e., books that energize us to be the community of God’s people that God has called us to be and that nurture us to follow in the way of God’s reconciliation of all things.
*** 2011 Book of the Year ***
Food and Faith:
A Theology of Eating
By Norman Wirzba.
Paperback: Cambridge UP, 2011.
“[This book] is about trying to help each other, to be merciful to each other and together to start to eat in ways that are better. By better, I mean ways that honor God’s creation, ways that facilitate or promote health among God’s creatures, ways that create better community among people.” (From our interview with Norman Wirzba, Eastertide 2011 print issue).
[ Read our review… ] Purchase the book: [ Amazon ]
Englewood Honor Books
Our Best Books of 2011!
(Books are Arranged alphabetically by author’s last name…)
| This Day: Photographs. by Robert Adams [ Read our review… ] Purchase the book: [ Amazon ]
Who Is My Enemy?
Year of Plenty
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The Pleasures of Reading In An Age of Distraction. by Alan Jacobs Review in print issue #3. Purchase the book: [ Amazon ][ Kindle ]
The Politics of Yahweh:
The Tiger’s Wife
The Bible Made Impossible
A Public Faith: |
2011 Englewood Honor Books
Runners Up:
| Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity and Writing. LL Barkat [ Read our review… ] Purchase the book: [ Amazon ] [ Kindle ]
William Carlos Williams |
Caleb’s Crossing: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks Read our review in print issue #4 Purchase the book: [ Amazon ] [ Kindle ]
Seeing Trees |
C. Christopher Smith is the founding editor of The Englewood Review of Books. He is also author of a number of books, including most recently How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church (Brazos Press, 2019). Connect with him online at: C-Christopher-Smith.com
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