Best book: Paul Ricoeur, Figuring the Sacred: Religion, Narrative, and Imagination (ed. Mark I. Wallace; Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995).

Best music: Bach, Restored Oboe Concerti (Edition Bachakademie Vol 131); and John Mellencamp, Life Death Love and Freedom [2008]

Best film: Lars and the Real Girl [2007]; and Things We Lost in the Fire [2007]

Best drink: Amaretto Disaronno