Best fiction 

Top choice: American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins

Also highly recommended:

• The Life Impossible - Matt Haig

• The Prophet Song - Paul Lynch

Best (auto)biography

Top choice: Brutally Honest - Melanie Brown

Also highly recommended:

• Rebel Rising - Rebel Wilson

• I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You - Miranda Hart

Best non-fiction / self-help 

Top choice: 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 / prayer related

Top choice: Liturgy of the Ordinary - Tish Harrison Warren

Also highly recommended:

• The Louder Song - Aubrey Sampson

• And Yet - Rachael Newham

Best grief / loss / infertility

Top choice: Praying through Infertility - Sheridan Voysey

Also highly recommended:

• Life Almost - Jennie Agg

• The Wait - Lucy West

Best easy reads / chick lit

Top choice: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkin Reid

Also highly recommended:

• It Ends with Us - Colleen Hoover

• Fourteen Days - Margaret Atwood

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

• The Creative Act - Rick Rubin

• 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

• A Boy Called Christmas - Matt Haig