Welcome to the 15th annual So What Faith’s Top 10 Books of the Year. This year I read 84 books published in 2024.
The top ten are listed below in alphabetical order by author’s last name:
- Bruce Reyes Chow. Everything Good About God is True: Choosing Faith.
- Mark Elsdon, editor. Gone for Good? Negotiating the Coming Wave of Church Property Transition.
- Zeke Hernandez. The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers.
- Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood. Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism.
- Grace Ji-Sun Kim. When God Became White: Dismantling Whiteness for a More Just Christianity.
- Amy-Jill Levine. Jesus for Everyone: Not Just Christians.
- Grace Duddy Pomroy. Funding Forward: A Pathway to More Sustainable Models for Ministry.
- Cedar Monroe. Trash: A Poor White Journey.
- Karl B. Travis. God’s Gift of Generosity: Gratitude Beyond Stewardship.
- Amanda Udis-Kessler. Abundant Lives: A Progressive Christian Ethic of Flourishing.
Top Two
The two books on this year’s top ten that had the greatest impact on me are
- Everything Good About God is True: Choosing Faith by Bruce Reyes Chow
- Funding Forward: A Pathway to More Sustainable Models for Ministry by Grace Duddy Pomroy.
Prior Lists
There are so many great books published in recent years. Past editions of So What Faith’s Top 10 Books of the Year are available below. Notably just one author on this year’s list has appeared on a prior list: Amy-Jill Levine (2014). Mark Elsdon who appears on this year’s list as an editor previously appeared as an author (2021).