Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2017 {from my very favorite 2016 reads}

January means one thing for the avid reader. You might sit down to map out a tentative book list. Perhaps, like me, you have an ongoing book list on Goodreads and one in the notepad of your smart phone, as well! 

With a fresh year ahead, I want to share some of my very favorite books from the past year. You might want to add some of these to your own booklist!  

I read quite a few books in 2016. May I share my absolute favorites? I highly recommend each of these books, sweet friend.

They were too good to rate in any specific order.  I’ll simply list my favorites in the order I read them.  Okay? 

Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World: How One Family Learned That Saying No Can Lead to Life’s Biggest Yes By Kristen Welch

Women Are Scary: The Totally Awkward Adventure of Finding Mom Friends By Melanie Dale

Hope Heals: A True Story of Overwhelming Loss and an Overcoming Love By Katherine & Jay Wolf

Life-Giving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming By Sally Clarkson & Sarah Clarkson

Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World By Bob Goff

Steadfast Love By Lauren Chandler

Wild and Free: A Hope-Filled Anthem for the Woman Who Feels She Is Both Too Much and Never Enough By Jess Connolly & Hayley Morgan

A Mile Wide: Trading a Shallow Religion for a Deeper Faith By Brandon Hatmaker

It’s Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn’t Choose By Melanie Dale

Wild in the Hollow By Amber C. Haines

Redeeming Love By Francine Rivers

66 Ways God Loves You: Experiencing God’s Love for You in Every Book of the Bible By Jennifer Rothschild

Present Over Perfect By Shauna Niequist

Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out and Lonely By Lysa TerKeurst

The Happiness Dare: Finding the Sweet Spot of Your Heart’s Deepest, Holiest, and Most Vulnerable Desire By Jennifer Dukes Lee

The Broken Way By Ann Voskamp

The Magnolia Story By Chip & Joanna Gaines

Hosea DVD Leader Kit By Jennifer Rothschild

Hosea: Unfailing Love
by Jennifer Rothschild

Do You Know You’re Already Amazing? 30 Truths to Set Your Heart Free By Holley Gerth

The Greatest Gift: An Advent Devotional By Ann Voskamp

Best Family Read Aloud from 2016:

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe By C.S. Lewis

Happy reading!

From my heart to yours,

~Courtney