Top Books

My Goodreads Book List

2022

  1. Live No Lies - John Mark Comer

  2. The Skeletons in God's Closet - Joshua Ryan Butler

  3. Crucial Conversations - Patterson et al.

  4. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self - Carl Trueman

  5. Reading While Black - Esau McCauley

  6. A Gospel Primer - Vincent

  7. Scary Close - Donald Miller

  8. Lies My Teacher Told Me - James Loewen

  9. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

  10. Embodied - Preston Sprinkle

Honorable Mentions:

  • 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You - Reinke

  • The Christian Atheist - Groeschel

  • Improbable Planet - Hugh Ross

2023

  1. He Saw that it was Good - Sho Baraka

  2. The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis

  3. The Red Pony - John Steinbeck

  4. Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey

  5. Why Does God Care who I sleep with? - Sam Allberry

  6. Gentle and Lowly - Dane Ortlund

  7. Letters From a Skeptic - Greg Boyd

  8. Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  9. Finding Chika - Mitch Albom

  10. In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan

    Honorable Mentions:

    People to be Loved - Preston Sprinkle

    Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis

    Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankel

    Lead like IT Matters - Craig Groeschel

2024

  1. The Truth About Us - Brant Hansen

  2. The Ragamuffin Gospel - Brennan Manning

  3. The Creative Act - Rick Rubin

  4. Unreasonable Hospitality - Will Guidara

  5. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck

  6. Steal Like an Artist - Austin Kleon

  7. The Color of Compromise - Jemar Tisby

  8. Lead - Paul David Tripp

  9. Garden City - John Mark Comer

  10. Hate Inc. - Matt Taibbi

    Honorable Mentions:

    Soundtracks - John Acuff

    The Deeply Formed Life - Rich Villodas

    Unexpected Legacy of Divorce - Judith Wallerstein

2025

  1. The Party Crasher - Joshua Ryan Butler

  2. Dominion - Tom Holland

  3. Circle Maker -Mark Batterson

  4. The Anxious Generation - Johnathan Haidt

  5. The Unseen Realm - Michael Heiser

  6. What if Jesus was Serious: About Prayer? - Skye Jethani

  7. The Familiar Stranger - Tyler Staton

  8. 7 Myths About Singleness - Sam Allberry

  9. When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

  10. The Emotional Lives of Teenagers - Lisa Damour

    Honorable Mentions:

    • What’s so Amazing about Grace - Phillip Yancey

    • Dangerous Prayers - Craig Groeschel

    • Beyond Basketball - Coach K

Compelling Movies

My Letterboxd Movies List

2022

  1.  A Hidden Life

  2. Tree of Life

  3. The Place Beyond the Pines

  4. Tenet

  5. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

  6. Thin Red Line

  7. Peanut Butter Falcon

  8. Warrior

  9. There Will Be Blood

  10. Whiplash

Honorable Mentions:

    • Spiderman: No Way Home

    • Mid90's

    • Django Unchained

    • Citizen Kane

2023

  1. Before Sunrise

  2. Goodfellas

  3. The Godfather

  4. Moonrise Kingdom

  5. Badlands

  6. At Eternity's Gate

  7. The Batman

  8. Casablanca

  9. Before Sunset

  10. Taxi Driver

Honorable Mentions:

    • The Seventh Seal

    • Coda

    • Belfast

    • Silence

2024

  1. Prisoners

  2. Cidade De Deus

  3. American Hustle

  4. Pale Blue Eye

  5. First Reformed

  6. American Gangster

  7. Isle of Dogs

  8. Silver Linings Playbook

  9. Training Day

  10. Amsterdam

Honorable Mentions:

  • Gone Girl

  • A River Runs Through It

  • Avatar: Way of Water

2025

  1. The Usual Suspects

  2. Spotlight

  3. Ainda Estou Aqui

  4. Conclave

  5. Parasite

  6. A Complete Unknown

  7. Zodiac

  8. The Present

  9. 3:10 to Yuma

  10. Troy

    Honorable Mentions:

    • The Rat Catcher

    • The Town

    • Past Lives