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title: "Christianity Today’s Best Books of 2014 List"
description: "Christianity Today released their Best Books of 2014 list . Like normal they have several categories and with a couple of ties, there are 23 books on the list. The book of the year is Teach Us to Want..."
url: https://bookwi.se/christianity-todays-best-books-2014-list/
date: 2014-12-15
modified: 2014-12-15
author: "Adam Shields"
categories: ["Uncategorized"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Christianity Today’s Best Books of 2014 List

Christianity Today released their [Best Books of 2014 list](http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2015/januaryfebruary/christianity-todays-2015-book-awards.html). Like normal they have several categories and with a couple of ties, there are 23 books on the list.

![](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/BBB56760-1AA6-425C-A3A7-DB5B4A977124.png)The book of the year is [Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith by Jen Pollock Michel](http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Us-Want-Longing-Ambition/dp/0830843124). It is one among several of this list that I have picked up, but not yet read. [There is an excerpt on CT’s website](http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2015/januaryfebruary/can-we-ever-trust-our-own-hearts.html).

I won’t list the rest of the books, y[ou can look through the list on your own](http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2015/januaryfebruary/christianity-todays-2015-book-awards.html). But below are the Bookwi.se reviews of the books that are on the list.

- [How (Not) to be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor by James KA Smith](https://bookwi.se/how-not-to-be-secular/)
- [Lila: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson](https://bookwi.se/lila-novel-marilynne-robinson/)
- [Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary life of Hannah More””Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist by Karen Swallow Prior](https://bookwi.se/fierce-convictions/)