My 2025 Q2 Reading List
2025 Book 15: The 40-Day Body Image Workbook by Heather Creekmore
Over the last year I’ve been very intentional about working on all aspects of my physical health, including my mental and emotional mindset regarding how I steward my body and my health. While I didn’t resonate with all of Heather’s ideology, she does have some good insights about shame and how we can talk to ourselves in a non-condemning way.
2025 Book 16: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
2025 Book 17: The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
I am re-reading through the Chronicles of Narnia series for the first time in a few years. They are a must-read for everyone – young and old.
2025 Book 18: Purposefooled by Kelly Needham
This is hands-down one of the most thought-provoking books I’ve read in the last 10 years. It is required reading for all my career-focused clients.
2025 Book 19: Hinds’ Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurdham
A sweet story that is richly soul nourishing; highly recommend for anyone who is discouraged.
2025 Book 20: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
I shared one of Jonathan’s articles in a previous ‘Friday Faves’. His research on the impact of smart phones, social media, and various apps on adolescents and teenagers is something that we should all be paying attention to – his findings can easily be extrapolated to adults and the rise in anxiety that is obvious in our day-to-day lives. Book 7, from earlier this year, is a very thoughtfully researched and written book from Jonathan and his colleague.
2025 Book 21: This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
Part memoir and part poetry, this is a beautifully written book. I loved her conversation about dignity.
2025 Book 22: Prayer in the Night by Tish Harrison Warren
Over the last decade my spiritual practices have changed to include more formal liturgies and observances like the recitation of creeds and set prayers based on the time of day and the church calendar. This deeply thoughtful and vulnerable book walks through the prayer of Compline, which is the final prayer service of the day as part of the Anglican church tradition. Tish shares how the prayer helped her through her darkest nights and deepest doubts, and how it can do the same for us.
2025 Book 23: Hope in Times of Fear by Tim Keller
I think we can all agree that fear, in our country and our world, is pretty high right now. If we’re honest, we can all easily name a handful things that we are scared of or worried about. In his usual (and masterful) way, Tim points us back to a place where hope overrides our fears. This is a must-read for anyone who is being kept up at night by fears and worries.
2025 Book 24: The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
The last book that I read in 2024 was MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind. As with that book, the poems and rhymes of The Princess and the Goblin are delightful, and the story itself is cute and witty. I highly recommend listening to Laura Sauriat’s narrated version of Audible – she makes the story truly come alive.
2025 Book 25: Horse by Geraldine Brooks
I decided that even though I am highly critical of fiction writing that I need to read more fiction. Several friends, who are novel connoisseurs, gave me an intriguing list, including this book and the two that follow.
I started with this historical fiction account of a real racehorse, and found it fascinating. The story about the horse and its life in the 1860s was excellent. In my critical opinion, the book would have been better off without the modern era portion of the story, but even so, it was a story that I enjoyed and am glad I read.
2025 Book 26: The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
Corey has always loved magical realism, so this book made it into my hands because of my curiosity about if the author would be heavy-handed or more lyrical in her attempt at magical realism. I was actually surprised that she was pretty covert, which kept some mystery to a fun and engaging story.
2025 Book 27: Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
My friend, Gina, has been telling me for over a year that I need to read this book. She was right. It is a wonderful story. It is a bit of a slow read in the second quarter and the cynic in me wondered how he was going to pick the pace back up, but he did, and ultimately left me bawling through the final 50 pages.
You can always find my reading lists from previous years here.
