This blog hardly needs any introduction, so let’s dive right in to my list of favourite reads from 2021!

Best fiction 

• The Book of Longings - Sue Monk Kidd

• Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng

• Midnight Library - Matt Haig
  

Best non-fiction / self help 

• Essentialism - Greg McKeown

• The Lazy Genius Way - Kendra Adachi 

• Share Your Stuff, I’ll Go First - Laura Tremaine

Best biography or autobiography  

• Me - Elton John

• Green Lights - Matthew McConaughey

• Checking In - Michelle Williams 
  

Best faith-based non-fiction

• Growing Slow - Jennifer Dukes Lee

• Simply Tuesday - Emily P. Freeman

• God On Mute - Pete Greig
  

Most life changing or inspiring reads

• An Altar In The World - Barbara Brown Taylor

• Live No Lies - John Mark Comer

• Hope, Anyway - Leanna Tankersley

Best devotionals & spiritual guides

• A Rhythm Of Prayer - ed. Sarah Bessey

• The Achiever: Growing As an Enneagram 3 - Elizabeth Bennett

• Honest Advent - Scott Erickson

Special mention

• Sand Between Your Toes - Anna Kettle

Okay, so I included this one because I wrote it, but publishing a book this year was pretty life changing event for me! (And I do recommend that you read it too!)

Top of my ‘to read’ list for 2022

• Atlas of the Heart - Brene Brown

• Wholehearted Faith - Rachel Held Evans  & Jeff Chu

• I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet - Shauna Niequist

My book aim for 2022:

I tend to read a lot of non-fiction and faith-based books as a default (sorry if that’s not your thing!). I make no apologies for this because for me, reading has always been mostly about personal growth & development. But this coming year I want to try to cut down on my netflix consumption and branch out into reading more fiction books for enjoyment and relaxation as well. I’ve even joined a book club with some friends to help guide me along on my way…

Full list of all 42 books I read in 2021:

• Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng

• The Book of Longings - Sue Monk Kidd

• Around the Clock Mom - Sarah K. Butterfield

• Share Your Stuff, I’ll Go First - Laura Tremaine

• Bread & Wine - Shauna Niequist

• Midnight Library - Matt Haig

• Shaping the Soul: An Artists Collective - Jennie Denney

• Rest & Reflect: A guided sabbath journal - Rachel Fahrenbach

• The Inbetween - Jeff Goins

• Inconceivable Redemption - Erin Greneaux

• The Lazy Genius Way - Kendra Adachi

• Take Heart - Lindsay Hausch

• Embracing This Special Life - Jenn Soehnlin

• Growing Slow - Jennifer Dukes Lee

• Chosen - Katherine Leigh

• Rest for the Weary - Shay S. Mason

• To Hell With The Hustle - Jefferson Bethke

• That Sounds Fun - Annie F. Downs

• Hope In The Wait - Lindsay Emery

• A Rhythm Of Prayer - Sarah Bessey

• Shameless - Nadia Bolz Weber

• Get Your Life Back - John Eldridge

• Checking In - Michelle Williams

• The Naked Now - Richard Rohr

• Garden City - John Mark Comer

• Simply Tuesday - Emily P. Freeman

• Saltwater & Honey - Lizzie Lowrie

• Chasing Vines - Beth Moore

• Green Lights - Matthew McConaughey

• Me - Elton John

• God On Mute - Pete Grieg

• Simply Tuesday - Emily P. Freeman

• Does Jesus Really Love Me? - Jeff Chu

• Hope Anyway - Leanna Tankersley

• The Brink of Being - Julia Bueno

• Live No Lies - John Mark Comer

• The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman

• An Altar In The World - Barbara Brown Taylor

• No Cure For Being Human - Kate Bowler

• Essentialism - Greg McKeown

• Honest Advent - Scott Erickson

• The Achiever: Growing As an Enneagram 3 - Elizabeth Bennett

• A Boy Called Christmas - Matt Haig

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