In part two of our “Best Books of the Year” conversation, Hunter and Autumn share their favorite reads as categorized within general interest, children’s books, and fiction and literature, reflecting on the stories that stuck with them this year. From critiques of modern discourse and meditations on land and interdependence to novels of grace, friendship, and moral awakening, these books ask what it means to live well and love rightly.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

General Interest:

Summer of our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse by Thomas Chatterton Williams

A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

From Strength to Strength by Arthur Brooks

Children’s:

We Sing! and Pippa and the Singing Tree by Kristyn Getty

Colorado: 50 Hikes With Kids by Wendy Gorton and Kristin Tillack

Fiction and Literature:

Lord of the Rings (3 Vols.) by J.R.R. Tolkien - Fiction and Literature

Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot

Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Small Things Like These by Clare Keegan