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Best Books of 2023

January 3, 2024
For The King
For The KingRocky Ramsey

This episode highlights the best books I read in 2023 along with a few other items. Thanks for listening to the podcast the past year and I look forward to the next with you!

Fiction: 1.)The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien

2.)Beowulf

3.)Ransom Trilogy C.S. Lewis

Honorable mentions:

* Crime and punishment

* The Death of Ivan Iliyich

* George Macdonald's fairy tales

* Scottish Seas by Douglas M Jones III

Nonfiction:

1.) Heretics/Orthodoxy/Winter fire by G.K. Chesterton

2.) In the house of Tom Bombadill by C.R. Wiley

3.) Monsters from the ID by E. Michael Jones

Honorable Mentions:

* Churchill Hitler and the unnecessary war/ the problem with Lincoln

* Commentary on Romans by John Murray

* God's Good Design by D. Michael Clary

* Re-enchanting time/the unseen by Josh Robinson

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