While I endeavored to make a Top 10 list, l evidently failed. Instead, here are twenty of my favorite books from 2025. These encouraged me, challenged me, taught me, corrected me, and inspired me. This isn’t an endorsement for any particular author (though there are some great ones herein) but these books are a few of the most edifying ones from the last year.

Out of all of the systematic theology books I have passed the pages through, Do You Believe? offers a uniquely pastoral voice to it. Paul David Tripp takes lofty doctrinal concepts and unpacks them in a way that is easy to digest.

I’m not sure I turned a single page without reading about the good news of Jesus Christ. With the compassion of a pastor and the honesty of someone who has walked this journey before, J. Gerrett Kell calls brothers and sisters to purity in Christ.

If you are a young man who is watching porn, this book is for you. Though men and women of all ages can glean from it, The Death of Porn is written like a father to his son.

A Christian book review of Carl Trueman’s book: The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self. Compellingly academic with an unapologetic Christian worldview.