The 2025 Book Recommendations

These are the books from our 2025 reading list that we thought were worth sharing.

How many books did you finish?

Aaron: 113
Erin: 208

Which book made you laugh out loud?

Aaron: Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from A Simpler Mind by Nate Bargatze

Erin: The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty

Which book was the most formative?

Aaron: The Way of the Dragon or the Way of the Lamb: Searching for Jesus’ Path of Power in a Church that Has Abandoned It by Goggin & Strobel
Erin:
The Bible ; )

Anatomy of an Affair: How Affairs, Attractions, and Addictions Develop, and How to Guard Your Marriage Against Them by Dave Carder

In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives by Kenneth Davis

Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel

Which book was the most forgettable?

Aaron: The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

Erin: Speak to Me of Home by Jeanine Cummins

Which book would you recommend to a friend?

Aaron: Reconnected by Carlos Whittaker
Erin:
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

Which book surprised you the most?

Aaron:
The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear

Anatomy of an Affair: How Affairs, Attractions, and Addictions Develop, and How to Guard Your Marriage Against Them by Dave Carder

Erin: Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump by Kate Brower

Which book did you think about long after finishing?

Aaron: Living Life Backward by David Gibson
Erin:
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Hinton

The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan by Laurence Leamer

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Which book would you reread?

Aaron: Scrolling Ourselves to Death by Brett McCracken 

Erin: Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling

Which book was outside your usual genre?

Aaron: Captured: The Secret Behind Silicon Valley’s AI Takeover by Christopher Wylie
Erin:
A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City by Drew Philp

Crime and Punishment by FyodorDostoyevsky

Which book(s) did you not finish?

Aaron: Mark Twain by Ron Shernow

Erin: Wildwood Chronicles #1 by Colin Meloy

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