This year I read 120 books published in 2020, and shared my ratings here on So What Faith.
Based on my ratings, the top 20 books are
| Author | Title |
| Sarah Ciavarri | Finding Our Way to the Truth: Seven Lies Leaders Believe and How to Let Go of Them |
| Kaitlin B. Curtice | Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God |
| Kathy Escobar | Practicing: Changing Yourself to Change the World |
| Guthrie Graves- Fitzsimmons | Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity |
| Lisa Greer and Larissa Kostoff | Philanthropy Revolution: How to Inspire Donors, Build Relationships, and Make a Difference |
| David P. Gushee | After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity |
| Cameron Harder | Tough Questions, Honest Answers: Faith and Religion for 21st Century Explorers |
| J. Douglas Holladay | Rethinking Success: Eight Essential Practices for Finding Meaning in Work and Life |
| Robert P. Jones | White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity |
| Shaun King | Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future |
| Kristin Kobes Du Mez | Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation |
| Casper ter Kuile | The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities Into Soulful Practices |
| G. Jeffrey MacDonald | Part-Time is Plenty: Thriving Without Full-Time Clergy |
| Robin R. Meyers | Saving God from Religion: A Minister’s Search for Faith in a Skeptical Age |
| Amy Peterson | Where Goodness Still Grows: Reclaiming Virtue in an Age of Hypocrisy |
| Ariel Sabar | Veritas: A Harvard Professor, A Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife |
| Emily M. D. Scott | For All Who Hunger: Searching for Communion in a Shattered World |
| Nelson D. Schwartz | The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business |
| Barbara Brown Taylor | Always a Guest: Speaking of Faith Far From Home |
| Robert Wuthnow | What Happens When We Practice Religion: Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life |
This year exactly 1 out of every 6 books (17%) rated here at So What Faith received a rating of 5 or 5+. This math made selecting the volumes for the top twenty list a much simpler task than expected.
Interestingly, last year was the first year I published a list of the volumes rated 5 or 5+ published that year (and it also ended up showcasing the top 17% of books).
Coming Soon
The 11th annual So What Faith list of the top ten books of the year will be published on December 21.
If you’d like to buy a good book before then consider the list above or browse the first ten years of top ten lists