Not as many as I had hoped but 1 a week isn’t so bad for the year we’ve had… As ever the absolute recommends are in bold.
1. A Manual for Heartache- Cathy Rentzenbrink
2. The 10,000 doors of January- Alix E Harrow
3. Diary of a Young Naturalist- Dara McAnulty
4. Everything is Spiritual – Rob Bell
5. The Wild Silence – Raynor Winn
6. Ask Again Yes- Mary Beth Keane
7. Utopia Avenue- David Mitchell
8. Dear Reader- Cathy Rentzenbrink
9. Lectio Divina- Christine Valters Painter
10. Once Upon a River- Diane Setterfield
11. Rumblestar- Abi Elpinstone
12. Queenie- Candice Carty-Williams
13. Beartown – Fredrick Backman
14. Night Music- JoJo Moyes
15. Faith after Doubt- Brian McClaren.
16. How the Bible Actually Works- Pete Enns.
17. The Trick To Time- Kit de Waal.
18. The Switch – Beth O’Leary
19. Mum and Dad- Joanna Trollope.
20. All the Lonely People- Mike Gayle.
21. The Colour of Water- James McBride.
22. The Woman Who Stole My Life- Marian Keyes
23. The Frequency of Us- Keith Stuart
24. Lullaby Beach- Stella Duffy
25. The Children of Castle Rock- Natasha Farrant
26. Jungledrop- Abi Elphinstone
27. Gift from the Sea- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
28. The Forgiveness Project- Marina Cantacuzino
29. Grown Ups- Marian Keyes
30. How to Train a Dragon- Cressida Cowell
31. The Vanishing Half- Brit Bennett
32. The Three of us- Ruth Jones
33. On Looking- Alexandra Horowitz
34.Wild- Kristin Hannah
35. The Preaching Life- Barbara Brown Taylor
36. Days of Wonder- Keith Stuart
37. The Anthropocene Reviewed – John Green (If I could put this in bold twice I would, absolute book of the year)
38. Home Stretch- Graham Norton
39. Nothing But Blue Sky – Kathleen MacMahon
40. The Truants- Kate Weinberg
41. Thin Places- Kerri ni Dochartaigh
42. Let Your Life Speak- Parker Palmer
43. The Dutch House- Ann Patchett
44. Ordinary Grace- William Kent Kruger
45. Clock of Stars- Francesca Gibbons
46. God is not a white man- Chine McDonald
47. Boy made of Blocks -Keith Stuart
48. Phosphorescence- Julia Baird
49. Anxious People- Fredrik Backman
50. Us against you- Fredrik Backman
51. The Last Resort- Jan Carson
52. Can you see me? – Libby Scott and Rebecca Westcott
53. The Family Experience of PDA- Eliza Fricker
Amazing list as always. Looks like you covered a lot of themes. No idea what anthropocenes are though. Wish I had as much reading time! And you’ve done it with a large move like us! Then again half of my house is fabric and paper so it takes at least twice as long to unpack! I hope you’re settling in ok and that it’s warmer there than is is for us at the moment! I’ve got big dreams hoping to achieve this year (or at least start on) as I have a clear diary (no teaching, commissions or exhibitions yet), so I hope to plan a better work life balance which will entail a lot of Thriving Christian Artists book and blog reading, and enough fiction to escape into!
I hope you all have an exciting 2022 too