Top Books from the First Half of 2025

I thought it would be fun to look back over the first six months of the year and see what books rose to the top for me.  

Here are my top ten fiction books for the first half of 2025:

• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
• Ordinary Life: Stories by Elizabeth Berg
• Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
• Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• More or Less Maddy by Lisa Genova
• Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Bonded in Death by J.D. Robb
• Lethal Prey by John Sandford
• The Taste of Ginger by Mansi Shaw

And here are my top 5 nonfiction books:

• Followers Under 40 by Rachel Gilmore and Kris Sledge
• Baby Dinosaurs on the Ark? by Janet Kellogg Ray
• The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby
• How to Fight Racism by Jemar Tisby
• God and the Gay Christian by Matthew Vines

Have you read any of these, and what did you think of them?