My 2024 Q3 Reading List
Below are the books that I read over the summer months. I spent a little more time in the garden and a little less time reading, so the list is a little shorter than usual, but it was a good trade-off.
2024 Book 30: Bright Line Eating by Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D.
I needed to press the reset button for my nutrition, and this was just the book to help me do so. Highly recommended for anyone who is overeating, grazing, or eating too much junk and not enough substance.
2024 Book 31: Why Everything That Doesn’t Matter, Matters So Much by Charlie Peacock and Andi Ashworth
I felt like I was sitting in their living just having a conversation about life – my favorite sort of book these days – where wisdom is being shared and I’m being mentored and encouraged through the thoughtful and loving words of someone who is a little further down the road. Their words were life-giving and instructive in the kindest of ways – particularly those shared on trauma, marriage, aging, identity, and fruitfulness.
2024 Book 32: Surrender Your Story by Tara Sun
I don’t have many 20-somethings in my life, so I love following several on social media who have wisdom beyond their Gen Z years. Tara is one of those! This is an excellent book for anyone who feels the weight of having to get it all done and keep it all under control and doing so with a genuine smile on your face.
2024 Book 33: The 40-Day Sugar Fast by Wendy Speake
A guided sugar detox with daily reminders that our dependence on, and addiction to, sugar is not actually about the sugar itself. I sincerely appreciated Wendy’s encouragement, willingness to share her own struggles, and wisdom to help us not only address the sugar itself but the challenges going on inside our hearts and heads that are causing us to reach for the sugar to begin with.
She also has a 40-Day Social Media Fast and the 40-Day Feast (which is on my 2023 reading list).
2024 Book 34: What Went Wrong? By Philip Yancey and John A. Bernbaum
This book educated me about what is going on between Russia and Ukraine and the history that brought things to the point they’re at today. Very informative and insightful.
2024 Book 35: What’s So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey
Oy vey! This is one of those books that I wish I read when it came out (over 20 years ago)! But alas, I did not, so I thank God for how it is transforming me today. In an era that is so polarized and where intolerance is the norm and kindness is in short supply, this is a book that has the power to help us grow in love and compassion. I wish it could be required reading for every westerner.
2024 Book 36: None Like Him by Jen Wilkin
A very informative overview of 10 attributes of God and descriptions that show how we (humans) are different than God.
2024 Book 37: Great to Good by Jae Hoon Lee
This is like a modern-day version of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount; a good guide for how live in the 21st century.
2024 Book 38: Ambition Monster by Jennifer Romolini
Though the details may be different, Jennifer’s story is the anthem of Gen X women. I hear the themes in every coaching conversation that I have with women over 40: trying to have it all, do it all, be everything to everyone, and winding up with an exhausted life filled with resentment. While Jennifer’s book does a phenomenal job of describing how and why we got where we are, Jen Oshman’s book, Enough About Me, does a phenomenal job of pointing the way forward and helping us move past our hurts to lasting healing and health.
You can always find my previous reading lists here.
Happy reading!
