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 | Children’s authors work to draw boys into books in the age of distraction
Mary Sue Daoud, Susan Olasky | The top 10 self-published books to cross WORLD's desk this year
Leigh Jones | Three light-hearted cozy mysteries offer gentler fare for lazy summer days
Janie B. Cheaney | Deluge of supernatural young adult novels produce plots with mangled biblical truths
Daniel James Devine | Science books proposing new perspectives on drugs, death, and design
Warren Cole Smith | Two books celebrating 50th anniversaries in the past year offered cures worse than the disease
Edward Lee Pitts | A closer look at three costly—but pivotal—battles spanning U.S. history
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
