International travel gave me a good start to my reading year. I also continued to make good use of the Libby app to borrow audiobooks from the public library system. Here’s what I’ve read (or listened to) in order of completion for the first quarter of 2025:
Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund (audiobook, re-read)
The LORD of Psalm 23 by David Gibson (1st time)
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell (1st time)
Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 by Giles Milton (1st)
A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay (1st, from a recommendation by C.S. Lewis)
Soul Keeping by John Ortburg (1st)
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry (1st, audiobook)
The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke (1st)
The Stalin Affair by Giles Milton (1st, audiobook)
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson (1st)
God, Technology, and the Christian Life by Tony Reinke (1st)
You’re Only Human by Kelly Kapic (re-reading with men’s group)
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson (1st, audiobook)
Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson (1st)
The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma Ndeche (1st)
The Latin Mass Explained by Msgr George J. Moorman (1st)
A Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters (1st)
17 down towards my goal of 1 per week (52) with a stretch goal of 70. I’ve already posted about a few of these but if anyone is looking for feedback/recommendations, feel free to ask about a book in the comments!
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