My Very Own {Tentative} Book List for 2017

Hey friends!  Yesterday, I posted a list of recommendations for your book list based on books I read last year.  Today, I’m switching gears with a different type of book list.

This is my own, personal book list for Twenty-Seventeen, friends! I am so excited about this list of books.  I’ve spent time looking into books I wish I’d read earlier as well as those titles launching this year!

Listen, friends.  My book list may vary a bit because as new books are released, I always add to my tentative list that I initially make in January!  I also really love taking part in launch teams for new books, so that will switch the list up a bit as well!

For now, here’s a list of twenty books that caught my attention!  I hope to read as many of these as possible.  Join me, wont you?

1) The Fringe Hours by Jessica Turner

2) Craving Connection: 30 Challenges for Real-Life Engagement  by {In}Courage

3) Nothing to Prove: Why We Can Stop Trying so Hard by Jennie Allen

4) Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and a Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

5) Love Lives Here by Maria Goff

6) Wonder by RJ Polaccio

7) The Mother Letters by Seth and Amber Haines

8) You are Free: Be Who You Already Are by Rebekah Lyons

9) The Women of Easter by Liz Curtis Higgs

10) Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

11) Different: The Story of the Outside-the-Box Kid and the Mom Who Loved Him by Sally and Nathan Clarkson

12) Cold Tangerines; Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life by Shauna Niequist

13) I Will Carry You by Angie Smith

14) Befriend: Create Belonging in an Age of Judgment, Isolation, and Fear by Scott Sauls

15) Giddy Up, Eunice: Because Women Need Each Other by Sophie Hudson

16) The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

17) Riley Unlikely: With Simple, Childlike Faith, Amazing Things Can Happen by Riley Banks-Snyder

18) Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

19) Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah Moore, Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist by Karen Swallow Prior

20) Looking for Lovely by Annie F. Downs

Have you read any of these books? Which should I read first, dear reading friends?  I’d love to hear what you have on your reading list this year.  Let me know what you’ll be reading in the comments!

From my heart to yours,

~Courtney