Ready for some winter reading recommendations? These are some of my reads from 2022. Click the links to read the descriptions.
Note: These are recommendations, but I cannot necessarily endorse 100% of each book’s content.
SPIRITUAL ENRICHMENT
Connecting: Healing Ourselves and Our Relationships by Larry Crabb
The Radiant Midnight: Depression, Grace, and the Gifts of a Dark Place by Melissa Maimone
You’re Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God’s Design and How That’s Good News by Kelly M. Kapic
Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us Out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode–and into a Life of Connection and Joy by Aundi Kobler
Given: The Forgotten Meaning and Practice of Blessing by Tina Boesch
MEMOIR / NON-FICTION
A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
Food Americana: The Remarkable People and Incredible Stories behind America’s Favorite Dishes by David Page
Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen
Elena Vanishing: A Memoir by Elena and Clare B. Dunkle
Women Who Risk: Secret Agents for Jesus in the Muslim World by Tom and JoAnn Doyle
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
Between Worlds: Essays on Culture and Belonging by Marilyn Gardner
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
FICTION
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
Happy reading!
Oh, I love book lists! Sometimes they’re all books I have read already, but this one contains a bunch of titles I never heard of–lucky me.
I’m glad to add a few more books to your list. I hope you like them as well as I did!