Seven Favorite Books from 2024 & Three Well-Written Books I Wish Didn't Exist
If You Enjoy Reading, 2024 Did Not Disappoint
Twenty-twenty four proved to be another wonderful year for books. It also proved to be a year I read (and thoroughly enjoyed) books by authors and subject matter I didn’t anticipate. Below you will find, in no particular order, two separate sets of books. The first seven are several of my favorite reads of the year. If you click on the link (Amazon), you can read a synopsis of each work (thus, I will spare you that here). Every one of the first seven mentioned I strongly recommend.
The final three books are books I read and enjoyed reading. I enjoyed reading because they were so well written. I did not, however, enjoy the content. The female authors of the final three books mentioned here courageously went public with their church abuse stories. Their journey’s are both heartbreaking and redemptive.
Though not included below, two books I highly recommend have already been mentioned earlier this year here and here.
What were some of your favorite reads of 2024?
Healing What’s Within: Coming Home to Yourself - and to God - When You’re Wounded, Weary, and Wandering by Chuck DeGroat
Confessions of an Amateur Saint: The Christian Leader’s Journey From Self-Sacrifice to Resiliance on God by Mandy Smith
The Mary We Forgot: What the Apostle to the Apostles Teaches the Church Today by Jennifer Powell McNutt
Understory: An Invitation to Rootedness and Resilience from the Forest Floor by Lore Ferguson Wilbert
Land of My Sojourn: The Landscape of a Faith Lost and Found by Mike Cosper
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment without Burnout by Cal Newport
The books mentioned below I read and /or listened to (Audible). Each were compelling page turners. They also made me both mad and sad. All were stories from females who had been abused as children, only to have their abuse ignored and/or covered up by church leadership. Compelling, but heartbreaking stories.
All My Knotted Up Life: A Memoir by Beth Moore
Ghosted: An American Story by Nancy French
Baptistland: A Memoir of Abuse, Betrayal, and Transformation by Christa Brown