Instead of waiting for the end of the year to talk about my favorite books, I decided, for this episode of Courage Becomes Her, to share the best books I read in the first half of 2023.

 I talk about the memoirs, self-care, soul-care, and personal growth books that have been life-giving to me this year. I also share about some of the changes in my reading practices, why I read the genres that I do, why I don’t read fiction, and how I choose what to read.

 Here is my reading list for the first half of 2023 (with the 7 best noted with **):

·       Book 1: Good and Beautiful and Kind by Rich Villodas

·       Book 2: The 40-Day Feast by Wendy Speake

·       Book 3: Martin Luther by Eric Metaxas

·       Book 4: A Prayer Journal by Flannery O’Connor

·       Book 5: What Your Mind Needs for Anxious Moments by Holley Gerth **

·       Book 6: Women Who Risk by Tom and Joann Doyle

·       Book 7: Judges for You by Tim Keller

·       Book 8: The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak by Shannon Bream

·       Book 9: The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates

·       Book 10: All My Knotted-Up Life by Beth Moore **

·       Book 11: The 40-Day Sugar Fast by Wendy Speake

·       Book 12: Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell

·       Book 13: The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom **

·       Book 14: What Your Heart Needs for the Hard Days by Holley Gerth

·       Book 15: Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh **

·       Book 16: Life Whimsy by Wendy Conklin

·       Book 17: Free of Me by Sharon Hodde Miller **

·       Book 18: The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness by Tim Keller **

·       Book 19: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy **

·       Book 20: Option B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant

·       Book 21: Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown

·       Book 22: Stuff I’d Only Tell God by Jennifer Dukes Lee

·       Book 23: Relentless Joy by Rachel Joy Baribeau

·       Book 24: Soul-Deep Beauty by Melissa L. Johnson

 Don’t miss episode 19 from January 17 where I share about my practice, habit, and discipline of reading, including why I read, what I read, when I read, and where I read.

 

Here are the best books I read in 2022:

·       Scary Close by Donald Miller

·       Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas

·       So Long, Insecurity by Beth Moore

·       The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown

·       I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet by Shauna Niequist

·       Encounters with Jesus by Tim Keller

·       What If It’s Wonderful? by Nicole Zasowski

·       Hidden Christmas by Tim Keller

 

And here is my entire 2022 Reading List.

 

You can always find my reading lists from previous years here.

And the books that literally transformed my life are here.

 

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