4 old books for the new year

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Start the new year off by reflecting on the past.
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We are already inundated with lists of books published in the past year or about to be published. So I'm going to do something different: I'm going to recommend books that you should read in 2017 that are quite old. While three of the books are from the 20th century, all of them are from dead authors. Why am I recommending these books, in particular? Well, first, because end-of-year and New Year's lists are a good opportunity to remind people that there are great books from before 2016 and 2017. And second, I'm recommending these four in particular because each of them, in its own particular way, changed my life.

1. The Gospel according to Luke

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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is a writer and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His writing has appeared at Forbes, The Atlantic, First Things, Commentary Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Federalist, Quartz, and other places. He lives in Paris with his beloved wife and daughter.