If you’re looking for additions to your read/watch list for 2026, try out a few of our favorites from 2025. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year from the editors at Fare Forward!

A recent book explores our modern ambivalence towards childbearing. Review by Anna Heetderks

Palmer challenges us to rethink the questions we ask of history and the answers we expect from it.

In her debut novel Sleep, Honor Jones considers the ramifications of suffering childhood trauma in silence to appease one’s parents. Warning: this review contains spoilers.

Maddox’s latest poetry collection tackles suffering straight on—which means mingling the real darkness with real light. Review by Gloria Heffernan

A tour of a liturgical year in the life of a gardener invites readers to dwell in two sets of seasons as a way of drawing nearer to eternity.

A theologian re-envisions the highest ideal of family as Christlike devotion to those who share our space.

O’Donnell’s poetic missives to Dante on his way through the afterlife offer her readers, in turn, a companion for the journey of the Divine Comedy.

A guide to poetry as a spiritual practice offers new poetry readers and skeptics alike a pathway into the literary form.

A lay person’s memoir of the Book of Common Prayer offers a warm welcome into a tradition that reminds us of our part in the story of creation.