Once again, the Fare Forward editors offer you the (unexpected) favorites we discovered during the year past. If you stumble across them too, we recommend picking them up!

A long-ago winner of the Newbery Medal, Rabbit Hill deserves a place on our shelves and in our hearts.

More than a simple re-writing of the Cinderella story, Ella Enchanted offers an object lesson in what it means to be truly obedient.

George MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind can bear many a long, slow, careful re-reading.

The Animorphs series refused to shy away from the most heartbreaking and emotionally complex parts of reality.

Justin Ariel Bailey’s newest book takes a look at Christian cultural engagement and finds it wanting. By Alex Sosler

Moment by Moment, Day by Day Sally Thomas’s debut novel lovingly shows the small mercies that lead to our constant rebirth.Review by Aarik Danielsen In our human weakness, we cross thresholds,…

Louise Glück's first published work of fiction explores truth, reality, and inner life through the eyes of infant twins

An attempt to describe what makes a horror novel scary, and why this one is not.

The Bear shows us that we give love the best ways we know how—even if others can’t always feel love the way we express it.