In 2025, I made it my goal to read 100 books and I am proud that I was able to read 103 book this year.  As I do every year, almost, I wanted to put together a list of the best books I read during the year 2025. I both love and hate making lists like this. I love them because they invite reflection, an opportunity to look back and notice what has stayed with me, what has shaped my thinking, prayer, and imagination over the past year. I hate them because lists suggest a kind of finality and precision that simply doesn’t exist. Books don’t arrange themselves neatly in our lives, and rankings change depending on context, season, and mood. So consider this list provisional. The order could shift tomorrow. This is simply the list as it stands according to the mood I was in when I sat down to write it.  1. For Such a Time as This: An Emergency Devotional — Hanna Reichel This devotional totally surprised me. It is the book that best captured the urgency, anxiety, and moral and theo...