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Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

What a great novel! It reminds me a little bit of Catcher in the Rye but the main character is an Iranian-American drug and alcohol addict trying to figure out how to make his life and death matter. Funny, sad, sweet, bittersweet, odd, cool, all the things.

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Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

The best memoir ever. A joy to read.

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Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard J. Foster

A book written in the ‘80s about the Spiritual Disciplines—long before they became “cool.”

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Kitchen Hymns | Poems by Pádraig Ó Tuama

Another awesome collection of poems by my favorite poet, Pádraig Ó Tuama.

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Jesus through Medieval Eyes: Beholding Christ with the Artists, Mystics, and Theologians of the Middle Ages by Grace Hamman

I’ve fallen in love with beautiful books—and this is one.

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Herman

Another sign of God’s love: Awe.

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Books I Read in 2025

The list, my star rating, and some notes. In 2018 I started trying to keep a count and list of all the books I read in a year, in addition to the longer entries about particular books.

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Family Family by Laurie Frankel

Very fun book that explores families, parenting, adoption, and great characters with lots of funny lines and humorous pearls of wisdom. Highly recommend!