Here's my 2024 reading list - 56 titles read

2024 book list: Here's my reading list from the year.

 Now that 2024 has been swept into history, I think it’s fair to say that the past year offered plenty of ups and downs. (It was a page-turner for sure!) And despite all the excitement, I spent considerable time diving into books. (Maybe you did too!)

 

 Continuing my pattern of tracking annual reads, here’s my reading list for the past year. I'm only listing cover-to-cover reads, and inclusion does not necessarily imply endorsement.

 Books are listed alphabetically (by title) and unsorted (by genre).

1. A Death in Cornwall, Daniel Silva
2. After That Night, Karin Slaughter
3. Argylle, Elly Conway
4. Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge, Richard Ovenden
5. Crosshairs, James Patterson
6. Deal Breaker, Harlan Coben
7. Diplomatic Immunity, Grant Sutherland
8. End of Story, A.J. Finn
9. Escape, James Patterson and David Ellis
10. First Lie Wins, Ashley Elston
11. Holmes, Marple & Poe, James Patterson and Brian Sitts
12. Indemnity Only, Sara Paretsky
13. It Starts with Us, Colleen Hoover
14. Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
15. Missing Persons, James Patterson and Adam Hamdy
16. None of This Is True, Lisa Jewell
17. Our Little Secret, Lisa Jackson
18. Proof, Fern Michaels
19. Salt to the Sea, Ruta Sepetys
20. Sophia Princess Among Beasts, James Patterson and Emily Raymond
21. Split Second, David Baldacci
22. Sting, Sandra Brown
23. The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd
24. The Boy, Tami Hoag
25. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Daniel James Brown
26. The Christmas Thief, Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
27. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Jonathan Freedland
28. The Faith of Elvis, Billy Stanley with Kent Sanders
29. The Final Judgment, Richard North Patterson
30. The Fury, Alex Michaelides
31. The Heir and the Spare, Emily Albright
32. The Inmate, Freida McFadden
33. The Jerusalem Scroll, Mike Evans and Robert Wise
34. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
35. The Last Summer, John Hough, Jr.
36. The Light in Hidden Places, Sharon Cameron
37. The Lightning Rod, Brad Meltzer
38. The Measure, Nikki Erlick
39. The Nest, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
40. The Paris Agent, Kelly Rimmer
41. The Perfect Son, Freida McFadden
42. The Storyteller, Jodi Picoult
43. The Teacher of Warsaw, Mario Escobar
44. The Teacher, Freida McFadden
45. The Third Victim, Lisa Gardner
46. The Wild Side, Fern Michaels
47. The Woman from Lydia: Emissaries, Book 1, Angela Elwell Hunt
48. The Women, Kristin Hannah
49. Think Twice: A Thriller, Harlan Coben
50. Tidings of Comfort and Joy, Davis Bunn
51. Too Much and Never Enough, Mary L. Trump
52. Turtles All the Way Down, John Green
53. West with Giraffes, Lynda Rutledge
54. When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection, Gabor Mate
55. Who’s Sorry Now, Jill Churchill
56. Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men, Lundy Bancroft

 This lineup does not include any books I authored, edited, or produced. It omits the Bible, Bible studies, children's books I read (again and again), cookbooks, daily devotionals, magazines, newspapers, reference books (such as atlases, dictionaries, and encyclopedias), training or instructional manuals, and so on. It's simply a list of full-length, cover-to-cover reads (to-date) for the year.

 Book titles hyperlink to Amazon, when possible. (Disclaimer: I'm an Amazon Affiliate,

 

What are you reading in 2025?

 I’m always looking for recommendations of worthy reads to add to my TBR (to-be-read) list. Got any outstanding books to recommend? Please comment with the titles/authors. Thank you!

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Here's my 2023 reading list.

 Reader recap: My 2023 reading list – 82 books read

Whew! Another year of reading comes to an end. Following is the complete list of titles I read in 2023. I'm only listing cover-to-cover reads, and inclusion does not necessarily imply endorsement.

 

Books are listed alphabetically (by title) and unsorted (by genre).

1. 12 Months to Live, James Patterson and Mike Lupica
2. A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
3. Absolute Fear, Lisa Jackson
4. All My Knotted-Up Life, Beth Moore
5. A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
6. American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt, Karen Harper
7. Angel Falls, Kristin Hannah
8. Black AF History, Michael Harriot
9. Chasing Shadows, Karen Harper
10. Code Name Sapphire, Pam Jenoff
11. Cold, Cold Heart, Tami Hoag
12. Daughter of Jerusalem (Daughters of Faith), Thom Lemmons
13. Dreamland, Nicholas Sparks
14. Drowning Tides, Karen Harper
15. Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe, Voddie T. Baucham, Jr.
16. Friends Like These, Kimberly McCreight
17. Girls and Their Horses, Eliza Jane Brazier
18. Grief’s Journey: A Companion for Friends Who Mourn, Hal Edwards
19. Hang the Moon, Jeannette Walls
20. Home Again, Kristin Hannah
21. Honeymoon, James Patterson and Howard Roughan
22. How Far to the Promised Land, Esau McCaulley
23. I Love It When You Lie, Kristen Bird
24. In Their Footsteps, Tess Gerritsen
25. I Will Find You, Harlan Coben
26. Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon, Greg Laurie with Marshall Terrill
27. Just the Nicest Couple, Mary Kubica
28. Kill Shot, Vince Flynn
29. Lennon, Dylan, Alice & Jesus: The Spiritual Biography of Rock and Roll, Greg Laurie with Marshall Terrill
30. Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
31. Lincoln's Battle with God: A President's Struggle with Faith and What It Meant for America, Stephen Mansfield
32. Mad Honey, Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
33. Murder at Black Oaks, Phillip Margolin
34. Never Never, Colleen Hoover
35. Out of Nowhere, Sandra Brown
36. Private Moscow, James Patterson and Adam Hamdy
37. Rainwater, Sandra Brown
38. Reckless Girls, Rachel Hawkins
39. Shiver, Lisa Jackson
40. Sing Her Down, Ivy Pochoda
41. Someone Else’s Shoes, Jojo Moyes
42. The Book of Lost Friends, Lisa Wingate
43. The Christmas Basket, Debbie Macomber
44. The Christmas Clock, Kat Martin
45. The End of the Pier, Martha Grimes
46. The Escape Artist, Brad Meltzer
47. The First Counsel, Brad Meltzer
48. The Giver of Stars, Jojo Moyes
49. The Golden Couple, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
50. The Greatest Beer Run Ever, John “Chick” Donohue and JT Molloy
51. The Hotel Nantucket, Elin Hilderbrand
52. The House Girl, Tara Conklin
53. The House in the Pines, Ana Reyes
54. The Housemaid, Freida McFadden
55. The House of Wolves, James Patterson and Mike Lupica
56. The Jailhouse Lawyer & Power of Attorney, James Patterson and Nancy Allen
57. The Last Romantics, Tara Conklin
58. The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave
59. The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly
60. The Maidens, Alex Michaelides
61. The Ninth Month, James Patterson and Richard DiLallo
62. The Pact, Jodi Picoult
63. The Sanctuary, Ted Dekker
64. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
65. The Sixth Day, Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison
66. The Spy Coast ,Tess Gerritsen
67. The Stranger, Harlan Coben
68. The Surgeon, Tess Gerritsen
69. The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
70. The Vanishing at Castle Moreau, Jaime Jo Wright
71. The Villa, Rachel Hawkins
72. The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife, Shannon Harris
73. The Wrong Side of Goodbye, Michael Connelly
74. Turbulence, Stuart Woods
75. Walk in My Combat Boots, James Patterson and Matt Eversmann
76. Walk the Blue Line, James Patterson and Matt Eversmann
77. We Begin at the End, Chris Whitaker
78. What Is a Girl Worth, Rachael Denhollander
79. Where Are the Children, Mary Clark Higgins
80. Wicked Dreams, Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush
81. Wild, Kristin Hannah
82. Zero Days, Ruth Ware

This total does not include books I wrote, children's books I read (again and again), the Bible (which I read cover-to-cover with a few friends), devotionals, Bible studies, cookbooks, reference books, magazines, newspapers, etc. It's just full-length, cover-to-cover reads for the past year.

Titles hyperlink to Amazon, when possible. (Disclaimer: I'm an Amazon Affiliate, so I may earn a very small commission from orders placed through links on my sites.)

Have you read any of these books? Which did you love? Which did you not love so much? What wonderful reads did I miss?

Now I’m beginning to dig into my 2024 reads. Looking for super recommendations in various genres. What’s on your reading list for the year?

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