I’ve been posting my reading lists since 2008. It’s fun to look back and see what I was reading at different times! I can see shifts from heavy theology (when I had just graduated from seminary), to lots of books on autism, to business and marketing books, to now mostly fiction. I still read books from all the categories of course, but fiction is currently king.
As we close out the decade, I thought it would be interesting to look back through the lists and see what my top books are. I was surprised that some of the books that still stand out to me now didn’t always make my “best of the year” lists. But being memorable is different from being best.
I didn’t limit myself to a certain number of books from each year. I just picked the ones that stood out the most. Here they are! (Amazon affiliate links included if you want to click over and check them out!)
2010
A Praying Life by Paul E. Miller
2011
Wrestling with an Angel by Greg Lucas
Calm My Anxious Heart by Linda Dillow
The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
2012
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
2013
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
2014
A Loving Life by Paul Miller
Essentialism Greg McKeown
11/26/63 by Stephen King
2015
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Start with Why by Simon Sinek
2016
The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile
2017
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
2018
Are My Kids on Track? by Sissy Goff, David Thomas, and Melissa Trevathan
Suffering by Paul David Tripp
2019
Adorning the Dark by Andrew Petterson
What books did you read in the last decade that are still memorable to you?
