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  • #1 and a few honorable mentions – The 2025 Best Reads List is complete

    31 December 2025

    Don’t call it a book about gaming. Gabrielle Zevin has written a book about life. →

  • #2 – The Antidote by Karen Russell – 2025 Best Reads

    30 December 2025

    Karen Russell knows how to show up the spiritual whirlwinds that linger in placid and forgotten landscapes. →

  • #3 – A Friend of Mr. Lincoln by Stephen Harrigan – 2025 Best Reads

    29 December 2025

    Abraham Lincoln may be the most written-about US President, but you’ve never seen him through Cage Weatherby’s eyes. →

  • #4 – Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel – 2025 Best Reads

    22 December 2025

    The reign of Henry VIII got messier in the second entry in Hilary Mantel’s Tudor trilogy. But Thomas Cromwell remained on top of his game. →

  • #5 – We Burn Daylight by Bret Anthony Johnston – 2025 Best Reads

    20 December 2025

    Surprise! A tale of Texas makes the Top 10 Best Reads of 2025. →

  • #6 – Erasure by Percival Everett – 2025 Best Reads

    18 December 2025

    Percival Everett makes the Top 10 list for the second straight year. →

  • Among the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers – 2025 Best Reads #10

    10 December 2025

    I’ve been ranking best reads of the year since 2017. Here’s what I wrote by way of criteria from that first year: Since everyone else is doing their end-of-the-year list, I decided to join the fray with a Heartlands Best Reads of 2017.  Some caveats: These are books I read in 2017, but they weren’t →

  • Fleming Rutledge would like a word…from God

    11 April 2025

    For all the space it takes up in our worship services, the sermon as an object of critical study has suffered from criminal neglect. Enter Fleming Rutledge. →

  • #1 and a recap – 2024 Best Reads List Concludes

    28 December 2024

    I like being an iconoclast but James was worthy of all the accolades. →

  • #2 – Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver – 2024 Best Reads

    26 December 2024

    The titular character, Demon, is looking back on this story with an adult’s eye and musing about how things got to where they did in the devastated, opioid-scarred landscape of Lee County. →

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