1. Hold Me Tight, Sue Johnson (2008).
2. Downstream, David O’Hara and Matthew Dickerson (2014).
3. Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV (2026).
4. When Trees Testify, Beronda Montgomery (2026).
5. The Glorians, Terry Tempest Williams (2026).
6. The Enchantments of Mammon, Eugene McCarraher (2022).
7. The Nature of Oaks, Douglas Tallamy (2021).
8. The Teenage Brain, Frances Jensen (2016).
9. On Lying and Politics, Hannah Arendt (2022).
10. Good Prose, Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd (2013).
11. Radical Reconciliation, Alan Boesak and Curtis DeYoung (2012).
12. America, U.S.A., Eddie Glaude (2026).
13. Watch and Wonder, Ragan Sutterfield (2026).
14. Glimmerings, Miroslav Volf and Christian Wiman (2026).
15. The Technological Society, Jacques Ellul (1954).
16. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (1878).
17. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff (2020).
18. A Natural History of the Chicago Region, Joel Greenberg (2004).
19. Why I Am Not an Atheist, Christopher Beha (2026).
20. Art and Faith, Makoto Fujimura (2025).
21. Replica, Lisa Low (2026).
22. Birds of the Great Lakes, Dexter Patterson (2025).
23. How Fascism Works, Jason Stanley (2018).
24. Mother Emanuel, Kevin Sack (2025).

Here’s last year’s list.