My 2024 Booklist

I've read a total of 91 books this year. I always surprise myself at how many books I get through yet still far too many have left on my shelf. It's a never-ending battle!

Here are some of my previous booklist posts:

• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2020

Nonfiction

As has become my tendency recently, this is where most of my reading has been again this year. I have enjoyed quite a few of these as a part of the reviewer program with The Good Book Company & have started doing more consistent reviewing through NetGalley.

Christian

1. Just be Honest: How to Worship through Tears and Pray without Pretending by Clint Watkins
2. More to the Story: Deep Answers to Real Questions on Attraction, Identity, and Relationships by Jennifer M Kvamme
3. The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation by Wendy Speake
4. Futureproof: How to Live for Jesus in a Culture that Keeps on Changing by Stephen McAlpine
5. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South by Esau McCaulley
6. The Cross in Four Words by Kevin DeYoung
7. On Getting Out of Bed by Alan Noble
8. Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity by Alisa Childers
9. 5 Things to Pray for a Suffering Friend: Prayers that Change Things for Friends or Family Who Are Walking Through Trials by Helen Thorne
10. Peace over Perfection: Enjoying a Good God When You Feel You're Never Good Enough by Faith Chang
11. Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
12. Our Radiant Redeemer: Lent Devotions on the Transfiguration of Jesus by Tim Chester
13. The Understory: An Invitation to Rootedness and Resilience from the Forest Floor by Lore Ferguson Wilbert
14. Now and Not Yet: Pressing in When You're Waiting, Wanting, and Restless for More by Ruth Chou Simons
15. Together is a Beautiful Place: Finding, Keeping, and Loving Our Friends by Bailey T. Hurley
16. Well Said: Choosing Words that Speak Life, Give Grace, and Strengthen Your Faith and Family by Sarah Molitor
17. How to Tell the Truth: The Story of how God Saved Me to Win Hearts--Not Just Win Arguments by Preston Perry
18. Do the Thing: Gospel-Centered Goals, Gumption, and Grace for the Go-Getter Girl by Rebecca George
19. Beautiful Freedom: How the Bible Shapes Your View of Appearance, Food, and Fitness by Stacy Reaoch
20. Does the Bible Affirm Same-Sex Relationships?: Examining 10 Claims about Scripture and Sexuality by Rebecca McLaughlin
21. American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church by Andrew L. Whitehead
22. The Discipleship Opportunity: Leading a Great-Commission Church in a Post-Everything World by Daniel Im
23. Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere by Savannah Guthrie
24. Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World by Bob Goff
25. Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, Self-Obsessed by Alisa Childers
26. Deep Roots, Good Fruit: Seeing the Fruit of the Spirit through Story & Scripture by Kristin Elizabeth Couch
27. Reading Wile Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise of Hope by Esau McCaulley
28. Saved: Experiencing the Promise of the Book of Acts by Nancy Guthrie
29. One-to-One Bible Reading: A Simple Guide for Every Christian by David R. Helm
30. Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan
31. A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society by Eugene H. Peterson
32. Safe All Along: Trading Our Fears and Anxieties for God's Unshakeable Peace by Katie Davis Majors
33. All Who Are Weary: Finding True Rest By Letting Go of the Burdens We Were Never Meant to Carry by Sarah Hauser
34. Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It by Jennie Allen
35. The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis by Karen Swallow Prior
36. Letters to the Church by Francis Chan
37. This is Not Forever: Hopeful Reminders That God Has Abundantly More in Store by Sarah Grace Hallas
38. You're the Worst Person in the World: Why It's the Best News Ever that You Don't Have it Together, You Aren't Enough, and You Can't Fix It on Your Own by Scarlet Hiltibidal
39. Enjoying Jesus: Experience the Presence and Kindness of the Son of God in Everyday Life by Tim Chester
40. The Foundation of a Disciple Making Culture by Justin Gravitt
41. (A)Typical Woman: Free, Whole, and Called in Christ by Abigail Dodds
42. The Scars That Have Shaped Me: How God Meets Us in Our Suffering by Vaneetha Rendall Risner
43. Advent for Exiles: 25 Devotions to Awaken Gospel Hope in Every Longing Heart by Caroline Cobb

Parenting

1. Hard is Not the Same Thing as Bad: The Perspective Shift That Could Completely Change the Way You Mother by Abbie Halberstadt
2. Missional Motherhood: The Everyday Ministry of Motherhood in the Grand Plan of God by Gloria Furman
3. Raising Mentally Strong Kids: How to Combine the Power of Neuroscience with Love and Logic to Grow Confident, Kind, Responsible, and Resilient Children and Young Adults by Daniel G. Amen & Charles Fay
4. Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World: How One Family Learned the Saying No Can Lead to Life's Biggest Yes by Kristen Welch
5. Until the Streetlights Come On: How a Return to Play Brightens Our Present and Prepares Kids for an Uncertain Future by Ginny Yurich
6. The Rhythm of Home: Five Intentional Practices for a Thriving Family Culture by Chris and Jenni Graebe
7. Parenting without Panic in an LGBT-Affirming World: Discipling Our Kids with Jesus' Truth and Love by Rachel Gilson
8. The Flourishing Family: A Jesus-Centered Guide to Parenting with Peace and Purpose by David & Amanda Erickson
9. Gospel Mom: How to Make Biblical Decisions and Discover the Mom God Created You to Be by Emily A. Jensen & Laura Wifler

Juvenile & Young Adult

1. P is for Pilgrim by Stephen Cottrell
2. Stories of the Spirit of Justice by Jemar Tisby

Other

1. How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare by Ken Ludwig
2. ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD by Penn Holderness
3. The Anxious Generations: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
4. The Sense of Wonder by Rachel Carson
5. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt
6. Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It needs to Be by Timothy P. Carney
7. Really Very Crunchy: A Beginner's Guide to Removing Toxins from Your Life without Adding Them to Your Personality by Emily Morrow
8. Yonder Come Day: Exploring the Collective Witness of the Formerly Enslaved by Jasmine L. Holmes
9. T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People by Ian Karmel & Alisa Karmel
10. The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement by Sharon McMahon
11. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
12. A Simply Healthy Life: Your Guide to Cultivation a Happy, Connected, and Intentional Life by Caroline Fausel
13. We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine by Jordan B. Peterson

Fiction

As usual, some of these are from reading aloud with my kids, but I also managed to find a few good ones that were just for me.

Juvenile & Young Adult

1. The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
2. The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue by Karina Yan Glaser
3. Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
4. The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
5. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
6. Heaven to Betsy by Maud Hart Lovelace
7. Ten Thousand Tries by Amy Makechnie
8. The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
9. Betsy in Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace
10. The Green Ember by S.D. Smith
11. A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus
12. Betsy Was a Junior by Maud Hart Lovelace
13. Betsy and Joe by Maud Hart Lovelace

Classic

1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Contemporary

1. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
2. The Girl in Tower by Katherine Arden
3. The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
4. Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
5. Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharti

Christian

1. A Tapestry of Light by Kimberly Duffy
2. The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
3. Once a Queen by Sarah Arthur

If you want to see reviews of some of these, you can take a peek at this post to find those.

Thanks for following along as I constantly seem to be talking about reading!

Cheering you on!

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