My top read this year was Elisabeth Elliot. A Life, by Lucy Austen. It helped me process so much of my formative experiences when I became a Christian. I love EE and deeply appreciated this very human and nuanced biography. https://paolabarrera.substack.com/p/my-top-read-this-year
Small Things Like These, How to Stay Married, and Address Unknown are excellent reads. I appreciated them, too. My favorite fiction read this year was Shark Heart by Emily Habeck.
I also loved several of these you mention! In addition, I loved the audiobook of Beth Moore’s memoir, and my favorite book of the year was Elisabeth Elliot: A Life by Lucy S. R. Austen -- it was a nostalgic read (because I soaked up Elisabeth Elliot’s writings as a young adult) but also a very nuanced examination of an earnest woman. It struck all the right notes for me, looking clearly at a woman that many have tended to put on a pedestal and yet at the same time not throwing her under the bus. It was more absorbing than any novel I read this year!
Reading While Black was very, very insightful for me. I'm currently reading Promised Land (very slowly).
Also (slowly) making my way through Everything Sad is Untrue. It keeps making me TOO sad so I have to take a respite and then pick it back up a week later. It's very, very good.
People Love Dead Jews and How to Stay married are on my to-read list for this year. :)
I love book lists. A few of these are on my TBR, thanks for the encouragement to move them up :) On my favourites list this year I enjoyed The Wager by David Grann and Women & Work edited by Courtney Moore.
So many great ones here! And others I haven't read. Claire Keegan is such a wonderful writer I (re)discovered this year, too. Reading While Black entirely blew me away - it ends up painting a much more expansive and rich picture of scripture than I was already anticipating.
My top read this year was Elisabeth Elliot. A Life, by Lucy Austen. It helped me process so much of my formative experiences when I became a Christian. I love EE and deeply appreciated this very human and nuanced biography. https://paolabarrera.substack.com/p/my-top-read-this-year
Beth Moore's memoir will remain close to my heart ...
https://lindastoll.substack.com/p/my-4-favorite-2023-books-porch-122
Small Things Like These, How to Stay Married, and Address Unknown are excellent reads. I appreciated them, too. My favorite fiction read this year was Shark Heart by Emily Habeck.
Thanks for this! There are some books that I too loved, and some that I want to read now!
I also loved several of these you mention! In addition, I loved the audiobook of Beth Moore’s memoir, and my favorite book of the year was Elisabeth Elliot: A Life by Lucy S. R. Austen -- it was a nostalgic read (because I soaked up Elisabeth Elliot’s writings as a young adult) but also a very nuanced examination of an earnest woman. It struck all the right notes for me, looking clearly at a woman that many have tended to put on a pedestal and yet at the same time not throwing her under the bus. It was more absorbing than any novel I read this year!
Reading While Black was very, very insightful for me. I'm currently reading Promised Land (very slowly).
Also (slowly) making my way through Everything Sad is Untrue. It keeps making me TOO sad so I have to take a respite and then pick it back up a week later. It's very, very good.
People Love Dead Jews and How to Stay married are on my to-read list for this year. :)
I love book lists. A few of these are on my TBR, thanks for the encouragement to move them up :) On my favourites list this year I enjoyed The Wager by David Grann and Women & Work edited by Courtney Moore.
So many great ones here! And others I haven't read. Claire Keegan is such a wonderful writer I (re)discovered this year, too. Reading While Black entirely blew me away - it ends up painting a much more expansive and rich picture of scripture than I was already anticipating.