My Top Ten Reads of 2025

In spite of spending more concentrated time in prayer (praying and fasting once a week), I read more books in 2025 than in 2024. I read a total of 73 books. Over half of those (41 books, or 56%) were 4 or 5 page-turners. 38% were 3 page-turners. Only 4 books were disappointing.

My top ten reads of 2025 (in order read, not by preference):

The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

Letters from the Mountain by Ben Palpant

Saving the Saved by Bryan Loritts

The Story She Left Behind by Patti Callahan Henry

Good Catastrophe by Benjamin Windle

Coming Clean by Seth Haines

The Deconstruction of Christianity by Alisa Childers and Tim Barnett

Five Mere Christians by Jordan Raynor and Kaleigh Cox

Heaven and Nature Sing by Hannah Anderson

I wish to give the following five non-fiction books an honorable mention:

You Are a Tree by Joy Marie Clarkson

Becoming Elisabeth Elliot by Ellen Vaughn

Being Elisabeth Elliot by Ellen Vaughn

E. M. Bounds: Man of Prayer by Lyle Wesley Dorsett

A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst

It appears only 2 of these highly recommended reads were fiction. I focused on nonfiction reads more than fiction this year. I read 39 nonfiction books and 34 fiction books. Plus, 11 of these 15 titles are Christian books. Out of 73 books, 44 were Christian reads. I still like to read a wide variety of books, but have been selecting more from my worldview.