What I’ve Read | 2025

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Last year, I read over 27 books. I didn’t make my goal. I really struggled this year, emotionally, and just couldn’t get myself in a place where I wanted to read. I also chose two books to read at the same that ended up being very difficult to get through. I’m not done with them yet, but I’m going to stick it out. These are very good books, but they I need to read them. They’re like vegetables, which I am opposed to both literally and metaphorically.

Below is a running list of what I’ve read this year.

January

  1. Batman, Detective Comics, Vol. 1, Gotham Nocturne – Overture (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  2. Batman/Superman – World’s Finest, Vol. 3: Elementary (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  3. Steelworks, Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  4. Nightwing, Vol. 5: Time of the Titans (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  5. Superman: Lost (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  6. Our Endless and Proper Work Starting (and Sticking To) Your Writing Practice by Ron Hogan
  7. Revolution of Values Reclaiming Public Faith for the Common Good by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)

Running Total = 4

February

  1. Batman, Vol. 3: The Joker, Year One (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  2. Shazam, Vol. 1: Meet the Captain (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  3. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)

Running Total = 5.33

March

  1. Let Justice Roll Down by John M. Perkins
  2. Batman, Detective Comics, Vol. 2, Gotham Nocturne, Act 1 (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  3. Batman, Detective Comics, Vol. 3, Gotham Nocturne, Act 2 (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  4. Practicing the Way by John Mark Comer (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
  5. Superman, Vol. 3: The Dark Path (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  6. Batman, Vol. 4: Dark Prisons (Graphic Novel/One-Third)

Running Total = 8.33

April

  1. The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back by Madiba K.Dennie (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
  2. Batman Beyond, Vol. 2: Neo Gothic (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  3. Nightwing, Vol. 6: Standing at the Edge (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  4. James Baldwin: The Man and His Work by Rafael Walker (Audiobook/One-Third)*
  5. Batman – Santa Claus: Silent Knight (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  6. Discipleship with Monday in Mind: Connecting Faith and Work by Luke Bobo with Skye Jethani
  7. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
  8. The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen
  9. Batman Beyond, Vol. 1, Brave New Worlds (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  10. Batman Beyond, Vol. 2, City of Yesterday (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  11. Batman Beyond, Vol. 3, The Long Payback (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  12. Batman/Superman – World’s Finest, Vol. 4: Return to Kingdom Come (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  13. Justice Society of America, Vol. 2: Long Live the JSA (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  14. Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)

Running Total = 16.33

May

  1. Batman/Superman – World’s Finest, Vol. 5: Secret Origins (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  2. Points of Rebellion by Douglas Wilson
  3. Lead So Others Can Follow: 12 Practices and Principles for Ministry by James T. Bradford
  4. The Scandal of the Kingdom: How the Parables of Jesus Revolutionize Life with God by Dallas Williard (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
  5. The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis (Read wonderfully by John Cleese) (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)

Running Total = 20

June

  1. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
  2. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
  3. Batman, Detective Comics. Vol. 5, Gotham Nocturne, Act 3 (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  4. Batman, Vol. 5: The Dying City (Graphic Novel/One-Third)

Running Total = 23

July

  1. Superman, Action Comics, Vol. 1: Superstars (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  2. DC Comics: Absolute Power (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  3. The Steal Like an Artist Trilogy by Austin Kleon (Audiobook)
  4. Outsiders, Vol. 2: Never the End (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  5. Green Lantern, Vol. 1: Back in Action (Graphic Novel/One-Third)

Running Total = 25.33

August

  1. Spoon River America : Edgar Lee Masters and the myth of the American small town by Jason Stacy
  2. Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus Bordewich (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
  3. Wonder Woman, Volume 2: Sacrifice (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  4. Batman, Detective Comics, Vol. 4, Gotham Nocturne, Intermezzo (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  5. MultiVersus: Collision Detected (Graphic Novel/One-Third)

Running Total = 28

September

  1. Shazam, Vol. 2: Moving Day (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  2. Superman, Action Comics, Vol. 2: To Hell and Back (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  3. Batman/Superman – World’s Finest, Vol. 6: Impossible (Graphic Novel/One-Third)
  4. Justice League Unlimited, Vol. 1: Into the Inferno (Graphic Novel/One-Third)

Running Total = 29.33

December

  1. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. Loewen (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
  2. Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World by Henri Nouwen
  3. The Great Divorce by CS Lewis (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
  4. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
  5. The Problem of Pain by CS Lewis (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
  6. Joyful Recollections of Trauma by Paul Scheer (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
  7. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
  8. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (Audiobook/Two-Thirds)
  9. Confronting Jesus: 9 Encounters with the Hero of the Gospels by Rebecca McLaughlin

Cumulative Total = 36

*Technically, one of the Great Courses on Audible. Basically, it’s short a audiobook, which is why I reduced it’s value.