Fave reads in 2022

Best fiction 

  • The Dictionary of Lost Words - by Pip Williams

  • The Midnight Library - by Matt Haig

  • The Lido - by Libby Page

Best non-fiction

  • Wintering - The Power of Rest & Retreat in Difficult Times - by Katherine May

  • One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child - by Lauren Sandler

  • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy - by Jenny Odell

Best self-help 

  • Life Can Be Good Again: Putting Your Life Back Together After it All Falls Apart - by Lisa Appelo

  • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection & the Language of Human Experience - by Brene Brown

  • Unexpecting: Real Talk on Pregnancy Loss - by Rachel Lewis

Best auto-biographicals  

  • Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story - by Bono

  • Will - by Will Smith

  • The Storyteller: Tales of Life & Music - by Dave Grohl

Best faith-based

  • Wholehearted Faith - by Rachel Held Evans

  • Falling Upward: A Spirituality for Two Halves of Life - by Richard Rohr

  • God on Mute: Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer - by Pete Greig

Most inspiring reads

  • I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working - by Shauna Niequist

  • What If It’s Wonderful? Release Your Fears, Choose Joy & Find Courage to Celebrate - by Nicola Zasowksi

  • Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World - by Jennie Allen

Most challenging reads

  • God Is Not a White Man: And Other Revelations - by Chine McDonald

  • Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms and Profits Are Hurting the Church - byKatelyn Beaty

  • God and the Gay Christian: he Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships - by Mathew Vines

Top of my ‘to read’ list for 2022

  • Apples Never Fall - by Liane Moriarty

  • A Burning in My Bones - by Eugene H Peterson

  • The Light We Carry - by Michelle Obama

A full list of all the books I read (or listened to on audio) in 2022:

  • Simply Tuesday - by Emily P Freeman

  • No Cure for Being Human - by Kate Bowler

  • A Simpler, More Soulful Life: Self Paced Practices & Prompts - by Shauna Niequist

  • All Along You Were Blooming - by Morgan Harper Nichols

  • Courageously Expecting - by Jenny Albers

  • Wintering: The Power of Rest & Retreat in Difficult Times - by Katherine May

  • God and the Gay Christian - by Matthew Vine

  • I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - by Austin Channing Brwon

  • You Don’t Have to Do It All - by Elli Johnson

  • Gay Girl, Good God - by Jackie Hill Perry

  • The Storyteller: Tales of Life & Music - by Dave Grohl

  • Reasons to Stay Alive - Matt Haig

  • God on Mute: Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer - by Pete Greig

  • Will - by Will Smith

  • God Is Not a White Man - by Chine McDonald

  • The Brink of Being: Talking About Miscarriage - by Julia Bueno

  • Atomic Habits - by James Clear

  • What If It’s Wonderful - by Nicole Zasowski

  • A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss - by Jerry Sittser

  • Unexpecting - by Rachel Lewis

  • Spinning Plates - by Sophie Ellis-Bextor

  • Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World - by Jennie Allen

  • Wholehearted Faith - by Rachel Held Evans

  • Atlas of the Heart - by Brene Brown

  • The Man Who Died Twice - by Richard Osman

  • Unexpecting - by Rachel Lewis

  • The Midnight Library - by Matt Haig

  • I Take My Coffee Black - by Tyler Merritt

  • WayMaker - by Ann Voskamp

  • The Lido - by Libby Page

  • Depth: Growing Through Heartbreak to Strength - by Jodi Rosser

  • Good Pop, Bad Pop - by Jarvis Cocker

  • Falling Upwards: A Spirituality for Two Halves of Life - by Richard Rohr

  • The Dictionary of Lost Words - by Pip Williams

  • Almost Everything: Notes on Hope - by Anne Lamott

  • Life Can Be Good Again - by Lisa Appelo

  • Called to Create - by Jordan Raynor

  • Sorrow & Bliss - by Meg Mason

  • An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith - by Barbara Brown Taylor

  • Undistracted - by Bob Goff

  • The Lord is My Courage - by K J Ramsey

  • I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet - by Shuana Niequist

  • Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Plaforms and Profits Are Hurting tthe Church - by Katelyn Beaty

  • Menopausing - by Davina McCall

  • How to Do Nothing - by Jenny Odell

  • One & Only: The Freedom of Having An Only Child - by Lauren Sandler

  • Surrender : 40 Songs, One Story - by Bono

  • The Dark Womb: Reconceiving Theology Through Reproductive Loss - by Karen O’Donnell

  • Honest Advent - by Scott Erickson

  • A Boy Called Christmas - by Matt Haig

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