Top Audiobooks of 2025 (not ranked)
The Art of Clear Thinking - Hasard Lee
Every Weapon I Had - Paris Davis
Master of Drums - Rosenthal

Top Graphic novels read 2025 (not ranked)
Sound: comic anthology Budjette Tan
Harvey Kurtzman’s Marley’s Ghost
Akutagawa’s Rashomon
Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram Kendi
The Awl Vol 1-2
Capital and Idealogy - Claire Alet

Encounters with Silence - Karl Rahner
Akutagawa's Rashomon
Practice the presence - brother Lawrence (new translation) by Herman
Capital and Idealogy - Claire Alet

Top Books read 2025(not ranked)
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life - James Hollis
Living Between Worlds - James Hollis
The Master of Drums - Rosenthal
The Crucifixion - Fleming Rutledge
Jesus Changes Everything - Stanley Hauerwas
The Mystery of Christ - Robert Capon

Top Anime from 2025 (not ranked)
Solo-Leveling
Gachiakuta
Violet Evergarden
Sanda
Clevatess
The Blue Wolves of Mibu

Top Episodic Shows from 2025 (not ranked)
The Bear
Rogue Heroes
Blue Lights
Severance
Shoresy
Andor
Slow Horses
The Dark Money Game

Top Movies watched 2025 (not ranked)
Brazil (rewatch)
Out of the Blue
Lynch/Oz
1408
Frankenstein
The Six Triple Eight

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Top PPVs for 2025

Pro- Wrestling
AEW - All In and Double or Nothing

Match of the year - john Cena vs AJ Styles

MMA
UFC - 311, 323

Match of the year
Merab Dvalishvili v Umar Nurmagomedov ufc 311 and 323 Dvalishvili v Yan 2

Best undercard - UFC Fight Night 252

Top 2025 Podcast Mini-series:
All the buried women;
Devil and the deep blue sea;

Top 10 Podcasts 2025 (not ranked)
SWAJ
Holy Post
Busted Open
Bible for Normal People
Christian History Almanac
Day1
Father Bill W
Highest Power: Church & State
Religion on the Mind
SkyPod

Derek Webb - Survival Songs
The Pandemics - Youthful Exuberance
Space Monkey Media - Death of the Party
Linda May Han Oh - Strange Heaven
Mt Joy - Hope we have fun

Top 10 Albums of 2025 (not ranked)
Fishbone - Stockholm syndrome
Bite Me Bambi - Eat This
Dropkick Murphys - For the People @dropkickmurphys.com
Robert Randolph - Preacher Kids
Andy Gullahorn - Winning Streak

Top New Artists Discovered in 2025
Sabaton
Bite Me Bambi @bitemebambi.bsky.social
Dismemberment Plan
Craig Finn
Annie and the Caldwells

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Anime
Solo leveling,
violet evergarden
Blue wolves of Mibu

Docuseries
The Dark Moneygame

2025 Mid-year review - Top Video

Movies
Out of the blue 1980
Lynch/Oz 2022
We live in time 2024
The seventh victim 1943
Better Off Dead (rewatch)

Episodic Shows
Rogue heroes
Severance
Dark side of the ring
Murderbot
Andor
1923
Little America

2025 top Midyear Graphic Novels
Sound: comic anthology Budjette Tan
Harvey Kurtzman’s Marley’s Ghost
Akutagawa’s Rashomon
Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram Kendi
The Awl Vol 1-2

When an American Town Massacred Its Chinese Immigrants In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of their Asian neighbors in Rock Springs, Wyoming. A hundred and forty years later, the story of the atrocity is still being unearthed.

In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of Chinese residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The story of the atrocity is still being unearthed 140 years later.

2025 Mid-year top reads
History
The master of drums: Gene Krupa - Elizabeth Rosenthal
Every weapon I had - Paris Davis

Political
Anti-Greed Gospel - Malcolm Foley
The Bible and the Ballot - Tremper Longman

Sci-fi/Fantasy
Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K Leguin (reread)

The Anatomy of Deconversion - John Marriott
Woman to woman: African American voices on faith - Quinta Ogletree
Jesus and the Disinherited - Howard Thurman

2025 Mid-year review - Top Books
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Religious
The Crucifixion - Fleming Rutledge
Encounters with Silence - Karl Rainer
The Mystery of Christ & Why we don’t get it - Robert Capon
Embracing Prodigals - John Sanders

History on Fire - Ep111 When Monsters choose war
Holy Post - Jan 24 Small men; Feb 10 Beth Moore why I’m still Christian; feb 24 Adam Kinzinger; June 27 spiritual warfare and political violence
Martyr Made - July 21 Peculiar institution
The Weight - June 5 trust Transparency

Crackers and Grapejuice - 459 - Walter Brueggeman
Day1 - 4186 Hope that doesn’t quit
4182 Among Mortals
4174 Renouncing the devil
4169 Power of position

Highest power - ep35 Romans 13

2025 mid-year review Top Podcasts
Mini-series:
All the buried women;
Devil and the deep blue sea;
charismatic revival fury

Top individual Episodes: (not ranked)
Biblical Mind - May 8 - why intellectual humility is the key to understanding scripture

2025 Mid-year review
Music
Newly discovered
Sabaton
Tillman brothers

Top Albums
Fishbone - Stockholm Syndrome @fishboneband.bsky.social
Jason Isbell Foxes in the Snow

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