Books worth your time: John Woods' top 2025 picks

en Reviews Editor, John Woods, shares his top picks for Christian books from 2025. For more reviews, click here.

For leaders

A special shout-out for the magnificent two-volume commentary on Numbers by Michael Morales (see review here).

Here are my top picks for leaders:

1. Tim Keller on the Christian Life by Matt Smethurst (see review here).
2. The Transfiguration of Christ by Patrick Shreiner (see review here).
3. Authority by Jonathan Leeman (see review here).
4. You Will Be My Witnesses by Brian A. Devries (see review here).
5. The Gospel After Christendom edited by Collin Hansen, Skyler R. Flowers, and Ivan Mesa (see review here).

For general readers

I guess I cannot nominate my own book on fatherlessness, Good Bad No Dad? but I was pleased by the kind review by Dan Strange (see here). In fact, a very big thank you to all our en reviewers. Here are my top picks for general readers:

1. You Have a Calling by Karen Swallow Prior (see review here and interview with the author here).
2. The Art of Disagreeing by Gavin Ortland (see review here).
3. The Intimacy Deficit by Ed Shaw (see review here).
4. God’s Book by Andrew Ollerton (see review here and interview with the author here).
5. Single Ever After by Danielle Treweek (see review here).