Books and Podcasts I Loved In 2024

If you love favorite things lists, podcasts and books, you’ll love this!

Dec 31, 2024

If you love favorite things lists, podcasts, and books, you’ll love this!

I’m going to keep this post light on commentary and stick to sharing simple lists of podcasts I created, things I read, and podcasts I listened to this year that I loved.

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Here we go!

All The Books I Read in 2024:

I think this is every book I finished in 2024!

Othered: Finding Belonging with the God Who Pursues the Hurt, Harmed, and Marginalized by Jenai Auman

Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor by Caleb Campbell

Christmas in Harmony (A Harmony Novel) by Philip Gulley

The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year: A Novel: An Enemies-to-Lovers Christmas Romance and a Cozy Mystery Set in the English Countryside by Ally Carter

The Way of the Dragon or the Way of the Lamb: Searching for Jesus’ Path of Power in a Church that Has Abandoned It by Jamin Goggin and Kyle Strobel

The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life by Bruce H. Wilkinson

His Needs, Her Needs Building an Affair-Proof Marriage by Willard F. Harley, Jr (do not recommend)

War by Bob Woodward

The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement by Sharon McMahon

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell

The After Party: Toward Better Christian Politics by Curtis Chang and Nancy French

Her Mother’s Hope (Book 1 of 2: Marta’s Legacy) by Francine Rivers

Her Daughter’s Dream (Book 2 of 2: Marta’s Legacy) by Francine Rivers

A Fine Sight to See: Leading Because You Were Made for It by Sophie Hudson

When the Church Harms God's People: Becoming Faith Communities That Resist Abuse, Pursue Truth, and Care for the Wounded by Diane Langberg

Final Accounting: Ambition, Greed and the Fall of Arthur Andersen by Barbara Ley Toffler and Jennifer Reingold

Never Lie by Freida McFadden

None of This Is True: A Novel by Lisa Jewell

Ghosted: An American Story by Nancy French

The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters by Susan Page

Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report

It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without RepeatingTheir Stories by Lisa-Jo Baker

Grieve, Breathe, Receive: Finding a Faith Strong Enough to Hold Us by Steve Carter

Darling Girls: A Novel by Sally Hepworth

The Understory: An Invitation to Rootedness and Resilience from the Forest Floor by Lore Ferguson Wilbert

Even If He Doesn't: What We Believe about God When Life Doesn’t Make Sense by Kristen LaValley

How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away by Emily P. Freeman

You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith

The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life by Marion Roach Smith

Why Can't I Get It Together?: Kick Unrealistic Expectations to the Curb and Rest in God's Truth by Jamie Ivey

The Women: A Novel by Kristin Hannah

You Shouldn't Be Here: A Novel by Lauren Thoman

The Total Woman by Marabel Morgan (I read this one to prepare for a podcast conversation about it. It’s not one I would recommend unless you want to understand unrealistic stereotypes for women or a gag gift)

Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott

Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio by Jessica Abel

Me, Myself, and Bob: A True Story About Dreams, God, and Talking Vegetables by Phil Vischer

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Healing What’s Within: Coming Home to Yourself—and to God—When You're Wounded, Weary, and Wandering by Chuck DeGroat

The Enneagram for Moms: See the True Colors of Yourself and Your Children as God Intends by Beth McCord and Lydia J. Craig

Podcast Series or Episodes I Loved in 2024

(I could not possibly share everything I listened to or everything I loved. Here are some episodes that come to mind right now. I need a better way to track what I listened to!)

Hysterical Here’s part of the description from the Wondery site: Hysterical investigates a mysterious illness that spreads among a group of high school girls in upstate New York. What is causing their sudden, often violent symptoms? Is there something in the water or inside the school? Or is it “all in their head?” The series examines the outbreak in LeRoy, NY, believed by some to be the most severe case of mass hysteria since the Salem Witch Trials.

What we got wrong about Covid Pantsuit Politics

The Corrupting of American Evangelicalism Roys Report

The While You Were Sleeping Deep Dive PopCast

Blowing Up the Evangelical Bro Code Saved By The City

The Vigilantes series from Heres’ Where it Gets Interesting with Sharon McMahon

Rediscovering Your Place in the Pew Midlife Repurposed with Michelle Rayburn

Loving our Christian Nationalist Neighbor Holy Post

The Daily Podcast The Interview with John Oliver

How the Wealthy Doge Taxes from Truce

Pastors Wives Tell All Mary DeMuth Episode 180

Who Trolled Amber? (Series)

Question Everything, (Check out episode 1)