Marvin Olasky | Superb reporting and storytelling about a modern-day underground railroad make Melanie Kirkpatrick's Escape from North Korea WORLD’s Book of the Year
Emily Belz, Timothy Lamer | A look at Nixon as VP, a tour of New York’s Grand Central Terminal, and a history of Thomas Becket’s battle with a king
Warren Cole Smith | Two books celebrating 50th anniversaries in the past year offered cures worse than the disease
Janie B. Cheaney | Deluge of supernatural young adult novels produce plots with mangled biblical truths