Fave reads in 2024
Introduction
Below is a summary of my favourite books from 2024, themed under a range of genres/types - including a top pick, and also a couple of other highly recommended.
(In the interests of transparency, I’ve also included a full list of everything I read underneath too).
Best fiction
Top pick: American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins
Also highly recommended:
The Life Impossible - Matt Haig
The Prophet Song - Paul Lynch
Best ‘easy’ reads or chick lit
Top pick: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkin Reid
Also highly recommended:
It Ends with Us - Colleen Hoover
Someone Else’s Shoes - Jojo Moyes
Cat Lady - Dawn O’ Porter
Best (auto)biographical
Top pick: Brutally Honest - Melanie Brown
Also highly recommended:
Rebel Rising - Rebel Wilson
Managing Expectations - Minnie Driver
Best non-fiction / self-help
Top pick: The Anxious Mind - Jonathan Haidt
Also highly recommended:
Menopausing - Davina McCall
Raising Emotionally Strong Boys - David Thomas
Best faith-based
Top choice: Field Notes for the Wilderness - Sarah Bessey
Also highly recommended:
Practising the Way - John Mark Comer
How to Walk Into a Room - Emily P. Freeman
Best devotional / spiritual practice
Top choice: Liturgy of the Ordinary - Tish Harrison Warren
Also highly recommended:
The Louder Song - Aubrey Sampson
And Yet - Rachael Newham
Best infertility themed
Top choice: Praying through Infertility - Sheridan Voysey
Also highly recommended:
Life Almost - Jennie Agg
The Wait - Lucy West
Full list of all the books I read (or listened to on audio) in 2024:
The Satsuma Complex - Bob Mortimer
Praying Through Infertility - Sheridan Voysey
Managing Expectations - Minnie Driver
Liturgy of the Ordinary - Tish Harrsion Warren
The Wait - Lucy West
And Yet - Rachael Newham
The Prophet Song - Paul Lynch
Different - Sally Clarkson
When Narcissum comes to the church - Chuck DeGroat
Believe - Funke Oham
Life Almost - Jennie Agg
Reappearing Church - Mark Sayers
The Louder Song - Aubrey Sampson
Fourteen Days - Margaret Atwood & friends
Practising the Way - John Mark Comer
Brutally Honest - Melanie Brown
She Believed HE could, so she did - Becky Beresford
Resilient - Sheridan Voysey
Have a Little Faith - Rev Kate Bottley
Live Slowly - Jodi H. Grubbs
Rebel Rising - Rebel Wilson
Field Notes for the Wilderness - Sarah Bessey
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
It Ends with Us - Colleen Hoover
Enchantment - Katherine May
The Marriage Portrait - Maggie O’Farrell
Nothing Wasted - Kim Patton
American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins
The Expectation Gap - Jamie Hallman
The List of Suspicious Things - Jennie Godfrey
We all want impossible things - Catherine Newman
Really good, actually - Monica Heisey
Loosely based on a made up story - James Blunt
Someone Else’s Shoes - Jojo Moyes
The Twat Files - Dawn French
It Starts With Us - Colleen Hoover
How to Walk into a Room - Emily P. Freeman
The Whalebone Theatre - Joanna Quinn
Americanah - Chimamnda Ngozi Adichie
Raising Emotionally Strong Boys - David Thomas
The Way of Belonging -Sarah E. Westfall
Mr Loverman - Bernadine Evaristo
The Tech-wise Family - Andy Crouch
I haven’t been entirely honest with you - Miranda Hart
Brotherless Night - V V Ganeshanathan
It’s Getting Hot in Here - Jane Costello
Cat Lady - Dawn O Porter
The Anxious Mind - Jonathan Haidt
Menopausing - Davina McCall
The Life Impossible - Matt Haig
My Amy - Tyler James
A Boy Called Christmas - Matt Haig
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