Books Issue

Because we know our readers love to read, WORLD's editors have dedicated an issue of the magazine every summer since 1999 to books, authors, and trends in the publishing industry. Here are links to WORLD's annual issues on books:

2011 Books Issue Books of the Year
By Marvin OlaskyCover Story | Two new books are important responses to the rapidly growing promotion of theistic- or, more properly, deistic-evolution.

Previous Book Issues

2010 Books Issue More than money | By Marvin OlaskyCover Story | WORLD's 2010 Book of the Year makes a compelling case that the clash between free enterprise and socialism is a moral battle.

2009 Books Issue Book of the year | By Marvin OlaskyCover Story | It's based on the best-selling book of all time, but WORLD's 2009 winner takes Bible study to new levels.

2008 Books Issue What's black and white and read all over? | By Marvin OlaskyCover Story | Graphic novels are the latest blockbuster answer to an image-driven culture in search of stories and meaning.

2007 Books Issue 7 fat years | By Marvin OlaskyCover Story | A wealth of treadmill books, 400 to be almost exact, boiled down to an all-time favorite 100.

2006 Books Issue From disapproval to delight | By Marvin OlaskyCover Story | Novels and movies were once generally suspect in evangelical eyes, but now the emphasis is on discernment. Thirty evangelicals reveal their favorites.

2005 Books Issue Out of the ghetto | By Gene Edward Veith and Lynn VincentCover Story | Christian publishers reach for a share of the secular market, mainstream publishers jostle for Christian market share–and readers win from the competition.

2004 Books Issue Truth and fiction | By Gene Edward VeithCover Story | A Christian publishing company aims to restore a great literary heritage: high-quality, general-market fiction written by Christians and from a biblical worldview.

2003 Books Issue Western culture's Top 50 books | By Gene Edward Veith Feature | Give yourself an education by checking out these books.

2002 Books Issue A look in the mirror | By Gene Edward VeithCover Story | Books–how they're written and who writes them, the ideas they fight over, and the unpleasant implications they ignore–tell a lot about a culture.

2001 Books Issue Going mainstream | By Gene Edward Veith Feature | Trends in the publishing industry are opening up new avenues for Christian writers, and some Christian books are selling millions of copies in mainstream bookstores. Does this mean that Christianity has become culturally influential again? Or does it merely signal that Christians have been swallowed up by the larger culture?