Fave reads in 2023
Best fiction
Lessons in chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
Our missing hearts - Celeste Ng
Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano
Best autobiography
Friends, lovers and the big terrible thing - Matthew Perry
Open - Andre Agassi
The Woman in Me - Britney Spears
Best non-fiction / self-help
Menopausing - Davina McCall
Let’s talk - Nihal Arthanayake
A year of living Danishly - Helen Russell
Best faith-based
How to her God - Pete Greig
Reappearing church - Mark Sayers
When God says no - Elizabeth Laing Thompson
Best devotional
The lives we actually live - Kate Bowler
Liturgy of the ordinary - Tish Harrison
Book of common courage - K J Ramsey
Best pregnancy loss / infertility
Walking through winter - Katherine Gantlett
Worst girl gang ever - Bex Gunn & Laura Buckingham
Waiting in hope - Kelley Ramsey & Jenn Hesse
Most challenging reads
On the spectrum - Daniel Bowman Jr
Undivided - Vicky Beeching
A heart that works - Rob Delaney
Most anticipated reads for 2024
Practising the way - John Mark Comer
Field notes for the wilderness - Sarah Bessey
Enchantment - Katherine May
A full list of all the books I read (or listened to) in 2023:
A Boy Called Christmas - by Matt Haig
The Satsuma Complex - Bob Mortimer
In Memoriam - Alice Winn
A Better Me - Gary Barlow
Wildflower - Drew Barrymore
How to hear God - Pete Greig
Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
Pressure off - Monique Thomas
The last devil to die - Richard Osman
The woman in me - Britney Spears
Let’s talk - Nihal Arthanayake
The audacity - Katherine Ryan
Lioness - Beth Mead
A heart that works - Rob Delaney
Before the coffee gets cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
More than a woman - Caitlin Moran
Tomorrow & tomorrow & tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano
And then it fell apart - Moby
You’ve got this - Louise Redknapp
Ultra-processed people - Chris van Tulleken
The Paper Palace - Miranda Cowley Heller
Worst idea ever - Jane Fallon
Yellowface - R F Kuang
Creation stories - Alan McGee
The lives we actually have - Kate Bowler
All adults here - Emma Straub
On the spectrum: autism faith and the gift of neurodiversity - Daniel Bowman Jr
The year of living Danishly - Helen Russell
Walking through winter - Katherine Gantlett
Everything I never told you - Celeste Ng
Girl woman other - Bernadine Evaristo
Undivided - Vicky Beeching
The bullet that missed - Richard Osman
Verse chrous monster - Graham Coxon
Glorious weakness - Alia Joy
When God says no - Elizabeth Laing Thompson
Waiting in Hope - Kelley Ramsey & Jenn Hesse
Apples Never Fall - Lianne Moriarty
Orphaned believers - Sara Billups
Quite - Claudia Winkleman
All my knotted up life - Beth Moore
The Life Council - Laura Tremaine
Worst girl gang ever - Bex Gunn & Laura Buckingham
Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Nineties - Chuck Klosterman
Afternoons with the blinds drawn - Brett Anderson
Grace for the good girl - Emily P Freeman
Lessons in chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
If you only knew - Jamie Ivey
Open - Andre Agassi
Begin again - Leanna Tankersley
Book Lovers - Emily Henry
Before the coffee gets cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Looking for lovely - Annie F Downs
Our missing hearts - Celeste Ng
Spare - Prince Harry
Book of common courage - K J Ramsey
A likely lad - Pete Doherty
Don’t overthink it - Anne Bogel
A song for you - Robyn Crawford
Once Upon a Tyre - Ant & Dec