Winter/Spring Reading 2024

The calendar has flipped. All is new again. And among other things, that means I get to make a new reading list.

I enjoyed most of the list with which I ended 2023. Here’s how I plan to begin 2024:

  • How Music Works by David Byrne
  • Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life by Wayne W. Dyer
  • Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World by Gretchen Rubin
  • The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning by Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham
  • Gentle Writing Advice: How to Be a Writer Without Destroying Yourself by Chuck Wendig
  • Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay
  • Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
  • Next of Kin by Melinda Mitchell
  • Body Drop: Notes on Fandom and Pain in Professional Wrestling by Brian Oliu
  • All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell

I’m going a little heavier on the nonfiction to start the year, but I’ll sprinkle in some more novels than I have on here as I go.

What books are you planning to start the year with?

Here are a few for you to consider.

Published by Jeff Nelson

Rev. Jeff Nelson serves as Minister for Ministerial Calls and Transitions as part of the MESA Team at the UCC national setting. He also serves as pastor of a small church in northeast Ohio. He is also a certified spiritual director in the tradition of Ignatius of Loyola. His latest book, The Unintentional Interim: Ministry in Times of Transition, released on April 15th, 2025.

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