Year in Books 2024

According to GoodReads (where I try to track my reading), I’ve read 177 books this year. However, quite a few of those were children’s picture books that took maybe 10 minutes to read, some were audiobooks, and a few were even graphic novels, so those stats aren’t as impressive as they sound. I want to be more intentional with my reading in 2025, but I haven’t yet decided what that should look like. Guess I need to get that figured out, huh? Maybe it will help to sort my “2024 Reads” into genres to give me a better overview of where “mood reading” took me this past year. I’ll provide links to my reviews. Here goes…

The Bible

I went through the Bible twice in 2024. Partly reading and partly listening to the audio on the app.

English Standard Version
King James Version

Nonfiction

60 Promises to Pray Over Your Children (Lyle and I did this one as a daily devotional.)
Artisan Sourdough Made Simple: A Beginner’s Guide to Delicious Handcrafted Bread with Minimal Kneading by Emilie Raffa
Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life by Seamus Bruner
The Dawn of Redeeming Grace: Daily Devotions for Advent by Sinclair B. Ferguson (Lyle and I did this one as a daily devotional.)
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts–Not Just Arguments by Preston Perry
Letter to the American Church by Eric Mataxas
Oh No, Not “The Home”: Observations and Confessions of a Grandmother in Transition by Peggy Rowe
Religionless Christianity: God’s Answer to Evil by Eric Mataxas
Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda by Megan Basham
The Smear: How the Secret Art of Character Assassination Controls What You Think, What You Read, and How You Vote by Sharyl Attkisson
Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn’t Food by Chris van Tulleken
Upon Waking: 60 Daily Reflections to Discover Ourselves and the God We Were Made For by Jackie Hill Perry (Lyle and I did this one as a daily devotional.)
Vacuuming in the Nude and Other Ways to Get Attention by Peggy Rowe

Historical Fiction

The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
The British Booksellers by Kristy Cambron
Cloaked in Beauty by Karen Witemeyer
The Elusive Truth of Lily Temple by Joanna Davidson Politano
The Girl from the Hidden Forest by Hannah Linder
Hidden Yellow Stars by Rebecca Connolly
Hope Like Wildflowers by Pepper Basham
Just Once by Karen Kingsbury
Kissing Kate by K. Lyn Smith
A Lady’s Guide to Marvels and Misadventures by Angela Bell
A Shadow in Moscow by Katherine Reay
The Seaside Homecoming by Julie Klaasen
Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate
The Song of Sourwood Mountain by Ann H. Gabhart
These Tangled Threads: A Novel of Biltmore by Sarah Loudin Thomas
Tomorrow’s Sun by Becky Melby
What the Mountains Remember by Joy Calloway
The Wish Book Christmas by Lynn Austin

Contemporary Fiction

The Beekeeper Next Door by Danielle Thorne
Belle by Daphne Simpkins
The Bride’s Room by Daphne Simpkins
Charade by Gilbert Morris
The Cowboy’s Christmas Treasures by Jill Kemerer
Kingdom Come by Daphne Simpkins
Love Overboard by Shannon Sue Dunlap
Lovejoy by Daphne Simpkins
Once Upon a Winter Wonderland by Susan May Warren et al
The Roads We Follow by Nicole Deese
Mildred Budge in Cloverdale by Daphne Simpkins
Mildred Budge in Embankment by Daphne Simpkins
Shepherds Abiding by Jan Karon

Cozy Mysteries

Be Still, My Soul by Faith Blum (audiobook)
Christmas, Criminals, and Campers by Tonya Kappes
The Sign of the Calico Quartz by Jan Drexler (audiobook)

Suspense or Thrillers

The Auschwitz Escape by Joel C. Rosenberg (audiobook)
Brightstar by Jared N. Michaud
Chasing the Seeds by Devin Rose
The Exchange by John Grisham
Informed Consent by Sandra Glahn
The Mark by John E. Rock
Night Falls on Predicament Avenue by Jaime Jo Wright
Seven Seals by Mark Goodwin (audiobook)
Seven Trumpets by Mark Goodwin (audiobook)
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
The Twelfth Imam by Joel C. Rosenberg (audiobook)
Veil of Mystery by Vannetta Chapman
Witness to a Trial by John Grisham

Classics

Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel by George Orwell
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (audiobook)
Murder on the Orient Express: The Graphic Novel by Agatha Christie

Re-reads from My Teen Years

I don’t know for sure that I read all of these titles when I was a teen, but these are definitely authors I read in the early 1980s—most of which were written well before that time.

All Through the Night by Grace Livingston Hill
Amorelle by Grace Livingston Hill
Danny Orlis and His Crises at Cedarton by Bernard Palmer
Danny Orlis and the Contrary Mrs. Forester by Bernard Palmer
Danny Orlis, Big Brother by Bernard Palmer
Danny Orlis on the Valiant by Bernard Palmer
Felicia Cartright and the Case of the Green Medallion by Bernard Palmer
Felicia Cartright and the Case of the Missing Sideboard by Bernard Palmer
Felicia Cartright and the Uncut Diamond by Bernard Palmer
Flower of Alaska by Colleen L. Reece
Flower of the North by Colleen L. Reece
Jack-o’-Lantern House by Francena Arnold
Job’s Niece by Grace Livingston Hill
The Light in My Window by Francena Arnold
The Magic Garden by Gene Stratton Porter
Marigold by Grace Livingston Hill
Mystery Flowers by Grace Livingston Hill
The Scar by Sallie Lee Bell
Sister Sue by Eleanor H. Porter
Through These Fires by Grace Livingston Hill
White Orchids by Grace Livingston Hill

Middle-Grade or YA Novels

Act by Kayla Miller (graphic novel)
Alexi’s Secret Mission by Anita Deyneka
Arne and the Christmas Star by Alta Halverson Seymour
The Brownie Scouts in the Cherry Festival by Mildred A. Wirt
Dust by Dusti Bowling
Ellen Tebbits by Beverly Cleary
Emily’s Runaway Imagination by Beverly Cleary
Escape by Gordon Korman
Forbidden Child by Gwen Newell
Freddy Goes to Florida by Walter Rollin Brooks
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Hush Hush by Remy Wilkins
Irena by Jean-David Morvan (graphic novel)
Joy Sparton of Parsonage Hill by Ruth I. Johnson
The Key House by Mike Curtis
Kill the Dragon, Get the Girl by Cheston Hervey
Kristy’s Great Idea by Ann M. Martin (graphic novel)
The Legend of the Last Library by Frank L. Cole
Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien
Mitch and Amy by Beverly Cleary
The Memory Index by Julian R. Vaca
The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien by John Hendrex (graphic novel)
The Mystery of the Man in the Tall Black Hat by Margaret M. Sandberg
Otis Spofford by Beverly Cleary
A Pilgrim Maid by Marion Ames Taggart
Remarkables by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Sinking City by Christine Cohen
Socks by Beverly Cleary
Shipwreck by Gordon Korman
Spirit Sleuths: How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost Hoaxes by Gail Jarrow (nonfiction)
Strays by Remy Wilkins
Survival by Gordon Korman
The Switch by Roland Smith
A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg
The Truth About Stacey by Ann M. Martin (graphic novel)
Voice of Power by Melanie Cellier
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed (graphic novel)
The Winter King by Christine Cohen