Books read & audiobooks listened to this year:

January

• More or Less – Jeff Shinaburger
• Blossom Street Brides – Debbie Macomber
• Made to Stick – Chip Heath & Dan Heath
• Mermaid Moon – Colleen Coble
• Twilight at Blueberry Barrens – Colleen Coble
• Rainy Day Kisses – Debbie Macomber
• Bringing Up Boys – Dr. James Dobson
• Changing Habits – Debbie Macomber
• The Return – Nicholas Sparks
• The Printed Letter Bookshop – Katherine Reay
• The Serving Leader – Kenneth R. Jennings & John Stahl-Wert
• Killing England – Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard
• Anything – Jennie Allen
• Four – Veronica Roth
• Dead Wake – Erik Larson
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Anne Shaffer & Anne Barrows
• Honeymoon in Paris – Jojo Moyes
• Not Forsaken – Louie Giglio
• Cottage by the Sea – Debbie Macomber
• Messy Spirituality II – Mike Yaconelli
• The Best Place to Work – Rob Friedman, PhD
• Truman – David McCullough
• The Marriage Builder – Larry Crabb
• The Hiding Place – Corrie ten Boom
• Treasured Grace – Tracie Peterson
• The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth – John Maxwell
• Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
• Mornings on Horseback – David McCullough
• Prayer – Timothy Keller
• In the Garden of Beasts – Erik Larson
• The Blessing – Gary Smalley
• Enemies of the Heart – Andy Stanley
• The Last Battle – C.S. Lewis
• The Prodigal God – Timothy Keller
• Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
• On Fire – John O’Leary
• How Do You Kill 11 Million People? – Andy Andrew
• The View from Rainshadow Bay – Colleen Coble
• Encounters with Jesus – Timothy Keller
• Jesus Among Other Gods – Ravi Zacharias
• Out of Sorts – Sarah Bessey
• Becoming Steve Jobs – Brent Schlender & Rick Tetzeli
• How Google Works – Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, & Alan Eagle
• Post Corona – Scott Galloway
• The House of Kennedy – James Patterson, Cynthia Faen

February

• Let Them Be Kids – Jessica Smartt
• Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away – Dr. Gary Chapman
• Anxious People – Fredrik Backman
• Through the Eyes of a Lion – Levi Lusko
• Once Upon a Secret – Mimi Alford
• The Holiness of God – R.C. Sproul
• The Fear of the Lord – John Bevere
• 17 Carnations – Andrew Morton
• The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters – Sam Kashner
• American Sherlock – Kate Winkler Dawson
• Einstein – Walter Isaacson
• All-American Murder – James Patterson
• And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer – Fredrik Backman
• 1944: FDR & the Year That Changed History – Jay Winik
• Perfectly Unique – Annie F. Downs
• America’s Reluctant Prince: The life of John F. Kennedy Jr. – Steven M. Gillon
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – C.S. Lewis
• Elizabeth the Queen – Sally Bedell Smith
• Let’s All Be Brave – Annie F. Downs
• Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush – Jon Meacham
• The Silver Chair – C.S. Lewis
• Becoming Dr. Seuss – Brian Jay Jones
• Midnight Sun – Stephenie Meyer
• In Order to Live – Yeonmi Park
• Midnight in Chernobyl – Adam Higginbotham
• The Four Winds – Kristin Hannah
• Walking With God Through Pain and Suffering – Timothy Keller
• The Queen of Hearts – Kimmery Martin
• That Sounds Fun – Annie F. Downs
• God’s Smuggler – Brother Andrew
• Hope in the Dark – Craig Groeschel
• Beach Haven – T.I. Lowe
• How Good is Good Enough? – Andy Stanley
• Fields of Gold – Andy Stanley
• Creating Community  – Andy Stanley
• Intentional Living – John C. Maxwell
• April 4, 1968 – Michael Eric Dyson
• Anne Frank Remembered – Miep Gies with Alison Leslie Gold

March

• Operation Paperclip – Annie Jacobsen
• Ask It  – Andy Stanley
• The Way I Heard It – Mike Rowe
• Secrets at Cedar Cabin – Colleen Coble
• Frozen in Time – Mitchell Zuckoff
• In Praise of Walking – Shane O’Mara
• Communicating for a Change – Andy Stanley
• The Principle of the Path – Andy Stanley
• Family Discipleship – Matt Chandler
• To Hell with the Hustle – Jefferson Bethke
• Countdown 1945 – Chris Wallace
• The Magician’s Nephew – C.S. Lewis
• Adulting 101 – Josh Burnette & Pete Hardesty
• Haven of Swans – Colleen Coble
• Night Music – Jojo Moyes
• My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry – Fredrik Backman
• The End of Me – Kyle Idleman
• Relative Silence – Carrie Stuart Parks
• Hurricane Season – Lauren K. Denton
• The Good Dream – Donna VanLiere
• The Hiding Place – Corrie ten Boom
• True Self False Self – Richard Rohr
• Checkpoint Charlie – Ian MacGregor
• Cry in the Night – Colleen Coble
• Love Unending – Becky Thompson
• A.D. 30 – Ted Dekker
• The House at Saltwater Point – Colleen Coble
• Someone Like You – Karen Kingsbury
• One Mission – Chris Fussell with C.W. Goodyear
• Beneath Copper Falls – Colleen Coble
• The Everlasting Man – G.K. Chesteton
• Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson
• Same Kind of Different As Me – Ron Hall & Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent
• The Dream Manager – Matthew Kelly
• Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier
• Alone in Plain Sight – Ben Higgins
• Counter Culture – David Platt
• Reflections on the Psalms – C.S. Lewis

April

• The Highly Sensitive Parent – Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.
• Louder Than Words – Andy Stanley
• The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 – Garrett M. Graff
• Franklin and Winston – Jon Meacham
• Britt-Marie was Here – Fredrik Backman
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris
• Understanding People – Larry Crabb
• Glory Road – Lauren K. Denton
• The Summer House – Lauren K. Denton
• 101 Ways to Be Less Stressed – Dr. Caroline Leaf
• Restless – Jennie Allen
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
• The Rhythm of Life – Matthew Kelly
• Seabiscuit – Lauren Hillenbreand
• Winning the War in Your Mind – Craig Groeschel
• Follow Me – David Platt
• The Four Seasons of Marriage – Gary Chapman
• You Are Free – Rebekah Lyons
• The Grace of God – Andy Stanley
• A Walk Along the Beach – Debbie Macomber

May

• The Perfect Couple – Elin Hildebrand
• Personality Types – Don Richard Riso & Russ Hudson
• The Zookeeper’s Wife – Diane Ackerman
• The Fifth Avenue Story Society – Rachel Hauck
• Get Lucky – Katherine Center
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt – Edmund Morris
• The Lost Husband – Katherine Center
• Under the Tulip Tree – Michelle Shocklee
• One Little Lie – Colleen Coble
• The Splendid and the Vile – Erik Larson
• Get Your Life Back – John Eldredge
• Her Mother’s Hope – Francine Rivers
• Her Daughter’s Dream – Francine Rivers
• Stamped From the Beginning – Ibram X. Kendi
• Grace – Richard Paul Evans
• A Different Kind of Happiness – Dr. Larry Crabb
• The Fight to Flourish – Jennie Lusko
• The Enneagram Type 4 – Beth McCord
• Half Broke Horses – Jeanette Walls
• Sheltering Rain – Jojo Moyes
• The Jane Austen Society – Natalie Jenner
• The Last Days of John Lennon – James Patterson
• If You Want to Walk on Water You Have to Get Out of the Boat – John Ortberg
• Two Reasons to Run – Colleen Coble
• The Atonement Child – Francine Rivers
• Jayber Crow – Wendell Berry
• The Heart Mender – Andy Andrews
• Because You’re Mine – Colleen Coble
• A Delayed Life – Dita Kraus

June

• The One Hundred Years of Lenni & Margot – Marianne Cronin
• Power Moves – Adam Grant
• Send for Me – Lauren Fox
• The Suspect – Kent Alexander & Kevin Salwen
• The Wife Between Us – Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
• Happiness for Beginners – Katherine Center
• The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
• The Home Edit – Clea Shearer & Joanna Teplin
• They Turned the World Upside Down – Charles Martin
• The Book of Lost Names – Kristin Harmel
• Angels at the Table – Debbie Macomber
• Make Life Beautiful – Sad & Shea McGee
• Deep in the Valley – Robyn Carr
• In Five Years – Rebecca Serle
• Eleanor – David Michaels
• Am I Messing Up My Kids? – Lysa TerKeurst
• Dear Mr. Knightley – Katherine Reay
• Don’t Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table – Louie Giglio
• When God’s Ways Make No Sense
• Just Over the Mountain – Robyn Carr
• The Home Edit Life – Clea Shearer & Joanna Teplin
• Angels Walking – Karen Kingsbury
• The Leader’s Greatest Return – John C. Maxwell
• The Power of a Woman’s Words – Sharon Jaynes
• I Declare War – Levi Lusko
• All Things Bright & Beautiful – James Herriot
• I Want You to Know We’re Still Here – Esther Safran Foer
• Under the Magnolias – T.I. Lowe
• The Culture Code – Daniel Coyle
• Leader Shift – John C. Maxwell
• The American Spirit – David McCullough
• Beneath a Scarlet Sky – Mark Sullivan
• Have a New Life by Friday – Dr. Kevin Leman
• Encouragement – Dr. Larry Crabb
• Humble Inquiry – Edgar H. Schein & Peter A. Schein
• The Restaurant – Pamela M. Kelly
• The Enneagram Triads – Dick Wright
• American Icon – Bryce G. Hoffman
• Share Your Stuff. I’ll Go First – Laura Tremaine

July

• Down By the River – Robyn Carr
• Larkspur Cove – Lisa Wingate
• The Path to Sunshine Cove – RaeAnne Thayne
• An Anonymous Girl – Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
• Wild Things – Stephen James & David Thomas
• Blue Moon Bay – Lisa Wingate
• Winter in Paradise – Elin Hildebrand
• A Distant Shore – Karen Kingsbury
• Why Your Kids Misbehave & What to Do About It – Dr. Kevin Leman
• The Johnstown Flood – David McCullough
• Bookshop By the Sea – Denise Hunter
• What Happens in Paradise – Elin Hildebrand
• Firefly Island – Lisa Wingate
• Three Missing Days – Colleen Coble
• The Lost Choice – Andy Andrews
• The Best Motivational Speeches of All Time – Author’s Republic
• Wildwood Creek – Lisa Wingate
• The One You’re With – Lauren K. Denton
• The Story Keeper – Lisa Wingate
• The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork – John C. Maxwell
• It’s Better This Way – Debbie Macomber
• Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla – Marc J. Seifer
• Canoeing the Mountains – Tod Bolsinger
• Hiding in the Light – Rifqa Bary
• Leadership in Turbulent Times – Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Rediscover Jesus – Matthew Kelly
• I Dared to Call Him Father – Bilquis Sheikh
• The View From Alameda Island – Robyn Carr

August

• Anonymous – Alicia Britt Chole
• This Time Next Year – Sophie Cousens
• The Clutter Free Home – Kathi Lipp
• It’s Not Your Turn – Heather Thompson Day
• The Tech-Wise Family – Andy Crouch
• The Hotel – Pamela M. Kelly
• Hooked on You – Kathleen Fuller
• Leading at a Distance – James M. Citrin & Darleen DeRosa
• The Final Summit – Andy Andrews
• Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets – Andy Stanley
• Adventuring Together – Greta Eskridge
• Seven More Men – Eric Metaxas with Anne Morse
• Boundaries for Your Soul – Alison Cook, PhD and Kimbery Miller, Mth, LMFT
• The French for Love – Fiona Valpy
• The Speed of Trust – Stephen M. R. Covey
• Greenlights – Matthew McConaughey
• Killing Patton – Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard
• When the Men Were Gone – Marjorie Herrera Lewis
• Big Summer – Jennifer Weiner
• Jingle All the Way – Debbie Macomber
• You Are Not Alone – Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
• Soundtracks – Jon Acuff
• Actual Parenting – Susie Allison
• The Letter Keeper – Charles Martin
• Beautiful Day – Elin Hilderbrand
• The Happiest Man on Earth – Eddie Jaku
• Troubles in Paradise – Elin Hilderbrand
• The Matchmaker – Elin Hilderbrand
• Facing the Mountains – Daniel James Brown
• The Paris Library – Janet Skeslien Charles
• Everyone is Beautiful – Katherine Center

September

• 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You – Tony Reinke
• From To-Do to Done – Maura Nevel Thomas
• A Slow Fire Burning – Paula Hawkins
• The Complete Enneagram – Beatrice Chestnust, PhD
• Love People, Use Things – Joshua Field Milburn & Ryan Nicodemus
• Replenish – Lance Witt
• Gentle & Lowly – Dane C. Ortlund
• House on the Harbor – Elizabeth Bromke
• The Guilt Trip – Sandie Jones
• Cultivate – Lara Casey
• The Rumor – Elin Hilderbrand
• What Happened to You? – Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD & Oprah Winfrey
• None Like Him – Jen Wilkin
• 28 Summers – Elin Hilderbrand
• Fear Gone Wild – Kayla Stoecklein
• The Seven Levels of Intimacy – Matthew Kelly
• The Case Against Sugar – Gary Taubes
• The Power of Self-Compassion – Laurie Cameron
• Effortless – Greg McKeown
• Forgiving What You Can’t Forget – Lysa TerKeurst
• The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan – Liesl Clark & Rebecca Rockefeller
• Risen Motherhood – Emily Jensen & Laura Wifler
• Fasting – Jentezen Franklin
• H3 Leadership – Brad Lomenick
• The Peace Project – Kay Wills Wyma
• The Broken Way – Ann Voskamp
• The Mingling of Souls – Matt Chandler
• Eight Hundred Grapes – Laura Dave
• The Last Thing He Told Me – Laura Dave

October

• Is This Anything? – Jerry Seinfeld
• Live in Love – Lauren Akins
• The Ground Truth – John Farmer
• Love Centered Parenting – Crystal Paine
• Talk of the Town – Lisa Wingate
• Blue Like Jazz – Donald Miller
• This Beautiful Truth – Sarah Clarkson
• A Million Miles in a Thousand Years – Donald Miller
• Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy – Mark Vroegop
• The Common Rule – Justin Whitmel Earley
• Thunderstruck – Erik Larson
• Never Say Never – Lisa Wingate
• Fervent – Priscilla Shirer
• How to Be Rich – Andy Stanley
• The Four Loves – C.S. Lewis
• The Wish – Nicholas Sparks
• Killing Crazy Horse – Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard
• How to Build Meaningful Relationships Through Conversation – Carol Ann Lloyd
• God’s Double Agent – Bob Fu
• Fearless – Eric Blehm
• For the Children’s Sake – Susan Schaeffer McCaulay
• It Worked for Me – Colin Powell
• In a Sunburned Country – Bill Bryson
• Camino Island – John Grisham
• The Things We Keep – Sally Hepworth
• No One Goes Alone – Erik Larson
• The Pioneers – David McCullough
• The Diana Chronicles – Tina Brown
• How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius – Nick Greene
• The Rooster Bar – John Grisham

November

• To the Moon and Back – Karen Kingsbury
• God on Mute – Pete Grieg
• Behold the Dreamers – Imbolo Mbue
• The Whistler – John Grisham
• Infidel – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• The Good Girl – Mary Kubica
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
• 102 Minutes – Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn
• Sycamore Row – John Grisham
• Just Jones – Andy Andrews
• Six Hours One Friday – Max Lucado
• Here’s to Us
• To the Moon and Back – Karen Kingsbury
• God on Mute – Pete Grieg
• Behold the Dreamers – Imbolo Mbue
• The Whistler – John Grisham
• Infidel – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• The Good Girl – Mary Kubica
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
• 102 Minutes – Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn
• Sycamore Row – John Grisham
• Just Jones – Andy Andrews
• Six Hours One Friday – Max Lucado
• Here’s to Us – Elin Hilderbrand
• In His Image – Jen Wilkin
• What We Find – Robyn Carr
• The Looming Tower – Lawrence Wright
• Any Day Now – Robyn Carr
• It’s Better to Be Feared – Seth Wickersham
• Think Again – Adam Grant
• On the Road with Saint Augustine – James K. A. Smith
• Catching the Wind – Melanie Dobson
• Anne of Green Gables – L. M. Montgomery
• Eternal Living: Reflections on Dallas Willard’s Teaching on Faith & Formation – Edited by Gary W. Moon
• No God But One – Nabeel Qureshi
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
• The Thief of Corinth – Tessa Afshar
• The Christmas Pig – J. K. Rowling
• The Lost Airman – Seth Meyerowitz
• Even Better Than Eden – Nancy Guthrie
• Unknown Valor – Martha MacCallum
• Missional Motherhood – Gloria Furman

December

• Happy Now – Courtney Ellis
• The Christmas Light – Donna VanLiere
• The Reckoning – John Grisham
• The Christmas Star – Donna VanLiere
• Once Upon a Wardrobe – Patti Callahan
• Driftwood Dreams – T.I. Lowe
• The Christmas Table – Donna VanLiere
• I Want to Thank You – Gina Hamadey
• Mother & Son: The Respect Effect – Emerson Eggerichs, PhD
• Following Jesus – Henri J. M. Nouwen
• Sea Glass Castle – T.I. Lowe
• Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
• The Christmas Promise – Richard Paul Evans
• The Bright Side of Disaster – Katherine Center
• Live No Lies – John Mark Comer
• How to Talk to Anyone – Leil Lowndes
• The Christmas List – Chrissie Manby
• An Unforgettable Christmas – Ginny Baird
• Prepare Him Room – Susie Larson
• Heavenly Man – Brother Yun with Paul Hattaway
• Talking to Strangers – Malcolm Gladwell
• Wait, What? And Life’s Other Essential Questions – James E. Ryan
• The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up – Beatrice Chestnut, PhD, Uranio Paes, MM
• Going Home – James D. Shipman
• Fly Girls – Keith O’Brien
• The Personal Librarian – Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
• Malibu Rising – Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Destiny of the Republic – Candice Millard
• The Greater Journey – David McCullough
• The Wall of Winnipeg & Me – Mariana Zapata
• George Whitefield – Arnold A. Dallimore
• A Wind in the House of Islam – David Garrison
• In This Moment – Karen Kingsbury
• John Quincy Adams – Harlow Giles Unger
• Trade Your Cares for Calm – Max Lucado
• A Good Day at Auschwitz – Stephen Tobolowsky