In this special year-end bonus episode, hosts Father Wesley Walker and Dr. Junius Johnson take a break from their usual Great Books discussion to share their personal Top 5 favorite books read this year—works that fell (mostly) outside of the main Classical Mind reading list.

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Junius

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Phantastes by George MacDonald

The Liberation of Jerusalem by Torquato Tasso

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty

Wesley

The Meaning of Christian Brotherhood by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Ronald C. White

Attack Upon Christendom by Soren Kierkegaard

Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

Nietzsche is My Brother by Bridget Edman, O.C.D.

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