2024 Bookish favorites and goals

These are my favorite reads of 2024, not necessarily 2024 releases.

Favorite 2024 release: The Divine Proverb of Streusel? The Berlin Letters? Both so completely different that I couldn't really decide.

Favorite audio book: By the Great Horn Spoon (secular, middle grade)

Favorite biblical retelling: Eli by Bill Myers (Christian, fiction)... though I also thoroughly enjoyed the middle grade read The Bronze Bow!

Favorite Christmas book: Tin Can Serenade (Christian, historical fiction) 

Favorite cookbook: Sweet Indulgence- all treats sweetened naturally with fruits! 

Favorite general/contemporary fiction: When We Were Young by Karen Kingsbury (Christian, fiction)

Favorite health book: Slow Death by Rubber Duck (secular, nonfiction)  

Favorite historical fiction: Long Way Home by Lynn Austin (Christian, fiction) 

Favorite history: Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates (secular, nonfiction)

Favorite homeschool book: 8 Great Smarts for Homeschoolers (Christian, nonfiction)

Favorite memoir: I debated for way too long but ultimately decided it's a tie between Tuesdays With Morrie (secular) and Called for Life (Christian). 

Favorite middle grade: Evan Miller is Waking Down (Christian, middle grade, dystopian fiction)

Favorite mothering book: Practicing Presence (Christian, nonfiction)

Favorite nonfiction: Mountain of the Dead by Keith McCloskey (secular)

Favorite pregnancy fiction: Shaped by the Waves by Christina Suzann Nelson (Christian) 

Favorite pregnancy nonfiction: Bumpology (secular)

Favorite read-aloud with my kids: Little House in the Big Woods (secular)

Favorite secular fiction: The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom (secular, fiction) (contains a curse word, the A word)

Favorite secular nonfiction: Disconnect (secular, nonfiction, science & technology)

Favorite series: The Baxters! (Christian fiction) Y'all, I finished! Or at least for now, since I assume there will still be more standalone novels in the future.

Favorite suspense: Airborne by Diann Mills

Favorite TGTB book list selection: Sylvia and Aki (secular, middle grade, fiction)

Favorite YA: The Enigma Girls (secular, YA, nonfiction)

Favorite bookish blog: Redeemed Reader 

Favorite bookish podcast: Read Aloud Revival

Favorite bookish YouTube channel: Wandering With Stacy

Favorite bookstore: Rediscovered Books in Boise, Idaho or Faithful Christian Books in Spokane, Washington

Favorite book-to-movie (or show) adaptation: A Thousand Tomorrows or The Best Christmas Pageant Ever 

2024 bookish goals...

✔ Complete a Bible study

✔ Read 20 books I already owned

✔ Read 50 YA & middle grade novels

✔ Read a marriage book

✔ Read a motherhood book

✔ Read one book set in a state not already on my location list

2025 Bookish goals... 

📝Continue slow daily Bible study 

📝Read 50 YA/middle grade novels

📝 Read one book set in a state not already on my location list (One of these- Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont)

📝 Start nightly bedtime books back up