Book Reviews - A Comprehensive Index by Author
This index lists all of the JwJ book reviews by author. We also provide a single listing of all reviews organized by category. All reviews are by Daniel B. Clendenin except as noted.
Our four most recent book reviews
| 20 May 2012 | William J. Stuntz, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice |
| 13 May 2012 | Elaine Pagels, Revelations; Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation |
| 6 May 2012 | Harold Bloom, The Shadow of a Great Rock; A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible |
| 29 April 2012 | Jana Riess, Flunking Sainthood; A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor |
- Mark Adams, Turn Right at Machu Picchu; Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time.
- Andre Agassi, Open; An Autobiography.
- Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow; Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
- Paul Alexander, Signs and Wonders; Why Pentecostalism is the World's Fastest Growing Faith.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- James Allen, Hilton Als, Congressman John Lewis, and Leon F. Litwack, Without Sanctuary; Lynching Photography in America.
- Amnesty International Report 2010: The State of the World's Human Rights.
- Karen Ande (photography) and Ruthann Richter (text), with a foreword by Peter Piot, Face to Face; Children of the AIDS Crisis in Africa.
- Maya Angelou, Mother; A Cradle to Hold Me.
- Reza Aslan, No god but God; The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam.
- David Augsburger, Dissident Discipleship; A Spirituality of Self-Surrender, Love of God, and Love of Neighbor.
- Wes Avram, ed., Anxious About Empire; Theological Essays on the New Global Realities.
- Mahmoud M. Ayoub, Islam: Faith and History.
- Andrew Bacevich
- Randall Balmer, Thy Kingdom Come; An Evangelical's Lament. How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America.
- Ruth Bancewicz, editor, Test of Faith; Spiritual Journeys with Scientists.
- M. Craig Barnes, Searching for Home; Spirituality for Restless Souls.
- Julian Barnes, Nothing to Be Frightened Of.
- Bartholomew I, His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch, Encountering the Mystery; Understanding Orthodox Christianity Today.
- Diana Butler Bass, A People's History of Christianity; The Other Side of the Story.
- Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
- Timothy Beal, The Rise and Fall of the Bible; The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book.
- Greg Behrman, The Invisible People; How the US Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time.
- Harry Belafonte with Michael Shnayerson, Harry Belafonte: My Song
- Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis; Repainting the Christian Faith.
- Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack; The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right.
- Michael Benson, Far Out; A Space Time Chronicle.
- Morris Berman, Dark Ages America; The Final Phase of Empire.
- Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest.
- Daniel Berrigan
- Bertice Berry, The Ties That Bind; A Memoir of Race, Memory, and Redemption.
- J. Brent Bill, Holy Silence; The Gift of Quaker Spirituality.
- Harold Bloom, The Shadow of a Great Rock; A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible.
- Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba, editors, American Religious Poems, An Anthology.
- Marcus Borg
- The Heart of Christianity; Rediscovering a Life of Faith.
- Jesus; Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary.
- The Last Week; A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalem.
- Speaking Christian; Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power, and How They Can Be Restored.
- Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan, The First Christmas; What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth.
- Jennifer Finney Boylan, She's Not There; A Life in Two Genders.
- Gregory A. Boyd, The Myth of a Christian Nation; How the Quest for Political Power is Destroying the Church.
- Timothy Bradshaw, ed., The Way Forward? Christian Voices on Homosexuality and the Church.
- Bernard Brady and Mark Neuzil, A Spiritual Field Guide; Meditations for the Outdoors.
- Rick Bragg
- Bertram D. Brochmann, The Art of Reading the Bible.
- Daniel James Brown, The Indifferent Stars Above; The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride.
- Ian Brown, The Boy in the Moon; A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son.
- Walter Brueggemann,
- Bill Bryson
- David Brooks, On Paradise Drive; How We Live Now (And Always Have) In The Future Tense.
- Margaret Bullitt-Jonas
- W. David Buschart, Exploring Protestant Traditions; An Invitation to Theological Hospitality.
- Carmen Acevedo Butcher, translator and editor, Hildegard of Bingen; A Spiritual Reader.
- Will D. Campbell
- John Cassian (tr. by Boniface Ramsey)
- Paul-Gordon Chandler, Pilgrims of Christ on the Muslim Road; Exploring a New Path Between Two Faiths.
- Veronica Chater, Waiting for the Apocalypse; A Memoir of Faith and Family.
- Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton.
- James Childs, editor, Faithful Conversation; Christian Perspectives on Homosexuality.
- Bruce Chilton, Mary Magdalene; A Biography.
- Joan Chittister
- Noam Chomsky, Failed States; The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy.
- John Chryssavgis, In the Heart of the Desert; The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers.
- Amy Chua, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability.
- Norris J. Chumley, Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer; Experiencing the Presence of God and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of an Ancient Spirituality.
- Rodney Clapp, Tortured Wonders; Christian Spirituality for People, Not Angels.
- Eric Clapton, Clapton: The Autobiography.
- G.W. Clarke, translation and introduction, The Octavius of Minucius Felix, no. 39, Ancient Christian Writers
- John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent.
- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist.
- Paul Collier
- Francis Collins, The Language of God; A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief in God.
- James A. Connor, The Last Judgment; Michelangelo and the Death of the Renaissance.
- Gerald F. Cox, The Radical Peasant.
- Harvey Cox
- Barbara C. Crafton, Jesus Wept: When Faith and Depression Meet.
- Lindsey Crittenden, The Water Will Hold You; A Skeptic Learns to Pray.
- John Dominic Crossan, The Greatest Prayer; Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of the Lord's Prayer
- Carol Curoe and Robert Curoe, Are There Closets in Heaven? A Catholic Father and a Lesbian Daughter Share Their Story.
- John Bul Dau with Michael S. Sweeney, God Grew Tired of Us; A Memoir.
- Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (review by Martin Marty).
- Judith M. Dean, Julie Schaffner, and Stephen L.S. Smith, editors, Attacking Poverty in the Developing World; Christian Practitioners and Academics in Collaboration.
- Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy; Ordinary Lives in North Korea.
- Dieter Dengler, Escape from Laos.
- Jared Diamond, Collapse; How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.
- Larry Diamond, Squandered Victory; The American Occupation and The Bungled Effort To Bring Democracy To Iraq.
- Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking.
- John Patrick Diggins, Why Niebuhr Now?
- David Herbert Donald, Lincoln.
- Eamon Duffy, Marking the Hours; English People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570.
- Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution; Reflections on the God Debate.
- William Easterly, The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (guest review by Julie Schaffner, Visiting Associate Professor of International Economics in the Fletcher School at Tufts University).
- Elaine Howard Ecklund, Science vs. Religion; What Scientists Really Think.
- William Edgar, Reasons of the Heart; Recovering Christian Persuasion (guest review by Ray Cowan).
- Dave Eggers, Zeitoun.
- Bart D. Ehrman and Zlatko Plese, The Apocryphal Gospels; Texts and Translations
- Peter Eichstaedt, Consuming the Congo; War and Conflict Minerals in The World's Deadliest Place.
- Mohamed ElBaradei, The Age of Deception; Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times.
- Deborah Ellis, Children of War; Voices of Iraqi Refugees.
- Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.
- Jacques Ellul and Patrick Troude-Chastenet, Jacques Ellul on Politics, Technology and Christianity.
- Helen Epstein, The Invisible Cure; Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS.
- Evagrius of Ponticus, The Praktikos and Chapters on Prayer.
- Anthony Everitt, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome.
- Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power; Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor.
- Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering; Death and the American Civil War.
- Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time to Keep Silence.
- Lori Anne Ferrell, The Bible and the People.
- Tina Fey, Bossypants
- Dexter Filkins, The Forever War.
- Hans Conrad Fischer, Johann Sebastian Bach; His Life in Pictures and Documents, with CD.
- Suzanne Woods Fisher, Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World.
- Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers; How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth.
- Richard Wightman Fox, Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession.
- Philip L. Fradkin, Wallace Stegner and the American West.
- Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit.
- Charles Freeman, Holy Bones, Holy Dust; How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe
- James Frey, A Million Little Pieces.
- George Friedman, The Next 100 Years; A Forecast for the 21st Century.
- Thomas L. Friedman
- Paul Froese and Christopher Bader, America’s Four Gods: What We Say About God — and What That Says About Us
- Amy Frykholm, Julian of Norwich, A Contemplative Biography.
- Francis Fukuyama
- Peter W. Galbraith, Unintended Consequences; How War in Iraq Strengthened America's Enemies.
- Nora Gallagher
- Joakim Garff, Soren Kierkegaard; A Biography.
- Becky Garrison, Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church; Eyewitness Accounts of How American Churches Are Hijacking Jesus, Bagging the Beatitudes, and Worshipping the Almighty Dollar.
- Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto; How to Get Things Right.
- Leymah Gbowee, with Carol Mithers, Mighty Be Our Powers, A Memoir: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
- Dr. Glenn W. Geelhoed, with Patricia Edmonds, Gifts from the Poor; What the World's Patients Taught One Doctor About Healing
- David W. Gill, Doing Right: Practicing Ethical Principles.
- Owen Gingerich, God's Universe.
- Peter H. Gleick, Bottled and Sold; The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water.
- Peter Godwin, The Fear; Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe.
- Mitchell Gold, editor, with Mindy Drucker, Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America.
- Michelle Goldberg, Kingdom Coming; The Rise of Christian Nationalism.
- Lorrie Goldensohn, editor, American War Poetry; An Anthology.
- Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Worse Than War; Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity.
- Warren Goldstein, William Sloane Coffin, Jr., A Holy Impatience.
- Brad Gooch, Flannery; A Life of Flannery O'Connor.
- Mary Gordon, Reading Jesus; A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels.
- Raymond G. Gordon, Jr., ed., Ethnologue: Languages of the World.
- Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families; Stories From Rwanda.
- Andrew Greeley, Jesus; A Meditation on His Stories and His Relationships with Women.
- Paul Greenberg, Four Fish; The Future of the Last Wild Food.
- Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World; How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare.
- Melissa Fay Greene, There Is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue Africa’s Children.
- Kathryn Greene-McCreight, Darkness Is My Only Companion; A Christian Response to Mental Illness.
- Jeffrey P. Greenman, Timothy Larsen, and Stephen R. Spencer, eds., The Sermon on the Mount Through the Centuries: From the Early Church to John Paul II (guest review by Ray Cowan).
- Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Moses.
- Adam Hamilton, Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White.
- Thomas D. Hamm, Quaker Writings; An Anthology, 1650-1920.
- Ron Hansen, Exiles.
- Paul Harding, Tinkers.
- Sam Harris
- Stanley Hauerwas
- Chris Hedges
- Douglas A. Hicks, Money Enough; Everyday Practices for Living Faithfully in the Global Economy.
- Jonathan Hill, What Has Christianity Ever Done For Us?
- Joshua Key as told to Lawrence Hill, The Deserter's Tale; The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq.
- Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great; How Religion Poisons Everything.
- J. Allan Hobson, Dreaming; An Introduction to the Science of Sleep.
- Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains; Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves.
- Jennifer L. Holberg, ed., Shouts and Whispers; Twenty-One Writers Speak About Their Writing and Their Faith.
- Roger Housden, Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living.
- James M. Houston, Joyful Exiles; Life in Christ on the Dangerous Edge of Things.
- Gwen Ifill, The Breakthrough; Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.
- Robert Inchausti, Subversive Orthodoxy; Outlaws, Revolutionaries, and Other Christians in Disguise.
- Walter Isaacson
- Alan Jacobs, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction.
- Max Jammer, Einstein and Religion.
- Rhoda Janzen, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress; A Memoir of Going Home.
- Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?
- Philip Jenkins
- Chalmers Johnson
- Paul Johnson, Jesus: A Biography from a Believer.
- Robert Johnston, Useless Beauty; Ecclesiastes through the Lens of Contemporary Film.
- Tony Jones, The New Christians; Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier.
- Mildred Armstrong Kalish, Little Heathens; Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression.
- Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna and Emily Holland, And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation
- Robert Kaplan
- Mary Karr, Lit: A Memoir.
- Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst, editors, with additional commentary by Bart D. Ehrman, The Gospel of Judas.
- David A. Kessler, The End of Overeating; Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite.
- Tracy Kidder
- Russell King, et al., People on the Move; An Atlas of Migration.
- Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life.
- David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons, UnChristian; What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity.
- Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.
- Brian Kolodiejchuk, ed., Mother Teresa; Come Be My Light; The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta".
- Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven; A Story of Violent Faith.
- Charles Kimball, When Religion Becomes Evil.
- Michael Kimmelman, The Accidental Masterpiece; On the Art of Life and Vice Versa.
- Mary-Ann Kirkby, I Am Hutterite.
- William W. Klein, Become What You Are; Spiritual Formation According to the Sermon on the Mount.
- Woodeene Koenig-Bricker, Ten Commandments for the Environment; Pope Benedict XVI Speaks Out for Creation and Justice.
- David Kuo, Tempting Faith; An Inside Story of Political Seduction.
- Peter Kramer, Against Depression.
- Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky; Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.
- Anne Lamott
- Brent Landau, translation and introduction, Revelation of the Magi.
- Eric Lax, Faith, Interrupted: A Spiritual Journey.
- Peter Leithart, 1&2 Kings; Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible.
- Matthew Levering, Ezra and Nehemiah; Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible.
- Madeline Levine, The Price of Privilege; How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids.
- Michael Lewis, The Big Short; Inside the Doomsday Machine.
- Gordon Livingston, M.D., Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart – Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now.
- Mario Livio, Is God a Mathematician?
- Charlie Louvin with Benjamin Whitmer, Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers
- Roger Lowenstein, The End of Wall Street.
- Beverly Lowry, Harriet Tubman, A Biography.
- John Lukacs, The Legacy of the Second World War.
- Andrea D. Lyon, Angel of Death Row; My Life as a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer.
- Gabe Lyons, The Next Christians; The Good News About the End of Christian America. How a New Generation is Restoring the Faith.
- Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Margaret MacMillan, Dangerous Games; The Uses and Abuses of History.
- Jonathan Malesic, Secret Faith in the Public Square; An Argument for the Concealment of Christian Identity.
- Brennan Manning, A Glimpse of Jesus; The Wisdom of Tenderness; and The Ragamuffin Gospel.
- Manning Marable, Malcolm X; A Life of Reinvention
- George Marsden, A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards.
- Charles Marsh, Wayward Christian Soldiers; Freeing the Gospel from Political Captivity.
- Martin Marty
- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Face on Your Plate; The Truth About Food.
- Jane Mayer, The Dark Side; The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals.
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road.
- Tori Murden McClure, A Pearl in the Storm; How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean.
- Frank McCourt, Teacher Man; A Memoir.
- Donald McCullough, The Consolations of Imperfection; Learning to Appreciate Life’s Limitations.
- Christopher McDougall, Born to Run; A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen.
- George McGovern and William R. Polk, Out of Iraq; A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now.
- Alister McGrath, Christianity's Dangerous Idea; The Protestant Revolution—A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First.
- Bill McKibben
- Scot McKnight, The Jesus Creed; Loving God, Loving Others.
- Brian McLaren,
- James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln.
- Jon Meacham
- American Gospel; God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation.
- Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship.
- Martin Meredith, The Fate of Africa; From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair: A History of 50 Years of Independence.
- Robyn Meredith, The Elephant and the Dragon; The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us.
- Thomas Merton, The Inner Experience; Notes on Contemplation.
- Donald E. Messer, Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence; Christian Churches and the Global AIDS Crisis.
- Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
- Sara Miles
- Calvin Miller, The Path of Celtic Prayer; An Ancient Way to Everyday Joy.
- Kenneth Miller, Finding Darwin's God.
- Edmund Morris, Beethoven; The Universal Composer.
- Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools; Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- Richard Mouw
- Malcolm Muggeridge, Something Beautiful for God; The Classic Account of Mother Teresa's Journey Into Compassion.
- Lydia Munn and Heather Munn, How Huge the Night
- Cullen Murphy
- Les Murray, Killing the Black Dog, A Memoir of Depression
- Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran; A Memoir in Books.
- National Academies Press, Science and Creationism: A View From the National Academy of Sciences.
- National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine, Science, Evolution, and Creationism.
- Richard John Neuhaus, American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile.
- Mark A. Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis.
- Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me; A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life.
- Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus; Reflections on Christian Leadership.
- Ronald L. Numbers, editor, Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths About Science and Religion.
- Robert O'Harrow, Jr., No Place to Hide.
- Mary Oliver
- George Packer, Assassins' Gate; America in Iraq.
- Elaine Pagels, Revelations; Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation.
- Camille Paglia, Break, Blow, Burn; Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems.
- Palladius, The Lausiac History.
- Parker Palmer
- Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow, The Last Lecture.
- Fred Pearce, Confessions of an Eco-Sinner; Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff.
- Jaroslav Pelikan
- Charles Peters, Lyndon B. Johnson.
- Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places; A Conversation In Spiritual Theology.
- William Pfaff, The Irony of Manifest Destiny; The Tragedy of America's Foreign Policy.
- Karl Pillemer, 30 Lessons for Living; Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans.
- John Polkinghorne, Science and Religion in Quest of Truth.
- Michael Pollan
- Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.
- Samantha Power, A Problem From Hell; America and the Age of Genocide.
- Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations; A People's History of the Third World.
- Reynolds Price, Letter to a Godchild (Concerning Faith).
- Stephen Prothero
- Thom S. Rainer and Eric Geiger, Simple Church; Returning to God's Process for Making Disciples.
- Ethan Rarick, Desperate Passage; The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West.
- Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth.
- Erik Reece, An American Gospel; On Family, History, and the Kingdom of God.
- David S. Reynolds, Mightier Than the Sword; "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the Battle for America
- Anne Rice,
- Mark Richard, House of Prayer No. 2; A Writer's Journey Home
- Jana Riess, Flunking Sainthood; A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor.
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Pictures of God; Rilke's Religious Poetry.
- Eugene Robinson, Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America.
- Gene Robinson, In the Eye of the Storm; Swept to the Center By God.
- Marilynne Robinson
- Peter Rogers and Susan Leal, Running Out of Water: The Looming Crisis and Solutions to Conserve Our Most Precious Resource.
- Kevin Roose, The Unlikely Disciple; A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University.
- Roger Rosenblatt, Unless It Moves the Human Heart; The Craft and Art of Writing.
- Philip Roth, Nemesis.
- Joan Roughgarden, Evolution and Christian Faith; Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist.
- Norman Russell, tr., The Lives of the Desert Fathers (Historia Monachorum in Aegypto).
- Jeffrey Sachs
- Oliver Sacks
- Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience; A Personal View of the Search for God.
- Philippe Sands, Torture Team; Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values.
- Stephen Sangirardi, Life on the Planet: 7 Stories.
- Lamin Sanneh, Whose Religion is Christianity?The Gospel Beyond the West.
- Jason Brian Santos, A Community Called Taizé; A Story of Prayer, Worship and Reconciliation.
- Dorothy Sayers, Are Women Human?
- Åsne Seierstad, trans. by Ingrid Christopherson, The Bookseller of Kabul.
- Amartya Sen, Identity and Violence; The Illusion of Destiny.
- Sarah Sentilles, Breaking Up With God; A Love Story.
- Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near; Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War.
- David Shipler, The Working Poor; Invisible in America.
- Ronald J. Sider
- Michael Sims, The Story of Charlotte's Web; E.B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, This Child Will Be Great.
- Lewis B. Smedes, My God and I; A Spiritual Memoir.
- Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers.
- David Livingstone Smith, The Most Dangerous Animal; Human Nature and the Origins of War.
- Huston Smith, The Soul of Christianity; Restoring the Great Tradition.
- Huston Smith, with Jeffrey Paine, Tales of Wonder, Adventures Chasing the Divine: An Autobiography.
- Jeffrey Spier, editor, Picturing the Bible; The Earliest Christian Art.
- Frank Anthony Spina, The Faith of the Outsider; Exclusion and Inclusion in the Biblical Story.
- John Shelby Spong, The Sins of Scripture; Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love.
- Karen Stabiner, The Empty Nest; 31 Parents Tell the Truth About Relationships, Love, and Freedom After the Kids Fly the Coop.
- Jason K. Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters; The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa.
- Brian Steidle, The Devil Came on Horseback; Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur.
- Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War; The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict.
- William J. Stuntz, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice.
- Anthony Swofford, Jarhead; A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
- George Tenet, At the Center of the Storm; My Years at the CIA.
- Gabriel Thompson, Working in the Shadows; A Year of Doing the Jobs [Most] Americans Won't Do.
- Phyllis Tickle, The Great Emergence; How Christianity is Changing and Why.
- Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine; Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.
- Dang Thuy Tram, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace; The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram.
- Daniel J. Treier, Introducing the Theological Interpretation of Scripture: Recovering a Christian Practice.
- Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu, Made for Goodness, And Why This Makes All the Difference.
- Christopher Tyerman, God's War; A New History of the Crusades.
- Abraham Verghese, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS.
- Dan O. Via and Robert A.J. Gagnon, Homosexuality and the Bible; Two Views.
- Gore Vidal, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace; How We Got To Be So Hated.
- Ed Viesturs, with David Roberts, No Shortcuts to the Top; Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks.
- Miroslav Volf, A Public Faith; How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good
- Grant Wacker, Heaven Below; Early Pentecostals and American Culture.
- Jim Wallis, Gods's Politics; Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It; A New Vision for Faith and Politics in America.
- Benedicta Ward (tr.), The Sayings of the Desert Fathers; The Alphabetical Collection.
- Rick Warren, The Purpose-Driven Life; What On Earth Am I Here For?.
- Karl Weber, editor, Waiting for Superman; How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.
- Mel White, Stranger at the Gate; To Be Gay and Christian in America.
- Elie Wiesel, Rashi.
- Robert Louis Wilken
- Steve Wilkens and Don Thorsen, Everything You Know About Evangelicals Is Wrong (Well, Almost Everything); An Insider's Look at Myths & Realities (guest review by Ray Cowan).
- Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns; The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.
- Rowan Williams
- Garry Wills
- Diane Wilson, Holy Roller; Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down Drag Out; Or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus.
- E.O. Wilson, The Creation; An Appeal to Save Life on Earth.
- Ben Witherington III, The Gospel Code; Novel Claims About Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Da Vinci.
- World Resources Institute, Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Synthesis. A Report of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
- Herman Wouk, The Language God Talks; On Science and Religion.
- Jonathan Wright, Heretics; The Creation of Christianity from the Gnostics to the Modern Church.
- N.T. Wright, Simply Christian; Why Christianity Makes Sense.
- Wm. Paul Young, in collaboration with Wayne Jacobsen and Brad Cummings, The Shack; Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity.
- Muhammad Yunus
- Fareed Zakaria
- Elizabeth Zelensky and Lela Gilbert, Windows to Heaven; Introducing Icons to Protestants and Catholics.
- Howard Zinn
- General Tony Zinni and Tony Koltz, The Battle for Peace; A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose.