The year of 2024 is filled with books! So thankful to have found likeminded ladies who love to read books. We have started a book club, from just my dear friend and myself, to the three of us, and then four of us. Lord willing we will be able to encourage other ladies to read good and edifying books!

Reading Overview

I still hate audiobooks, e-books, and hardcovers. My tolerance to hardcover books is better than the first two. 😁 However, I want to change up my reading game this year. I would like to give audiobooks and e-books a second chance.

I have finished one book on Audible this week and started my second book. It is not bad. In fact, I have been enjoying listening to an audiobook while painting. But, honestly it will only work for easy read type of books.

I haven’t gave the e-book a try. I won’t be able to do it on my smartphone as it is too small (my eyes have recently been “awarded” with an extra +1 and reading has been a different experience for me). I am hoping to get a cheap tablet to read e-books.

Other things I want to do more this year is to read history and classic fiction. The later I think would be the hardest for me. I will start by using Audible to ease my reluctant and the goal is to read 2 classic novels. I have been collecting classic novels with hope I would read them and fall in love with them. But they have been serving as a nice decoration on my bookshelves and a conversation starter that doesn’t go anywhere because, well, I haven’t read them. 😆 Let’s change that this year!

List of Books to Read

With the game plan laid out successfully, I would like to excite you with list of books I want to read this year. Please pay attention to the word that is underlined, italicized, and is in bold. The emphasise means that so often I don’t get what I want, plan changes, life happens, and need arises. Thus, this list is subject to change and is very adaptable to my life season. Not in order, this list will be updated quarterly.

1. Demolishing Supposed Bible Contradictions vol.1 – Ken Ham
2. Demolishing Supposed Bible Contradictions vol.2 – Ken Ham
3. Expository Apologetics – Voddie Baucham
4. 2000 Years of Christ’s Power Volume 1: The Age of the Early Church Fathers – Nick Needham
5. The Excellent Wife – Martha Peace
6. Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
7. Prayer – John Bunyan
8. A Brief History of Indonesia – Tim Hannigan
9. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
10. Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith – Russ Russell 
11. Unity – Conrad Mbewe
12. When Christians Disagree – Tim Cooper
13. World Religions in Seven Sentences – Douglass Groothuis
14. Blame it on the Brain? – Ed Welch
15. Devoted To God’s Church – Sinclair Ferguson
16. The Gospel according to Jesus – John MacArthur
17. Gospel People – Michael Reeves
18. Christian Mind – William Edgar
19. Gentle and Lowly – Dane Ortlund
20. The Holy Trinity – Herman Bavinck
21. What is the Trinity – R.C. Sproul
22. The Gospel in Leviticus – Henry Law
23. Discipline of Grace – Jerry Bridges
24. Madre – Dee Lestari
25. Sharing the Gospel with Jehovah’s Witness – Tony Brown
26. Christ Call to Reform the Church – John MacArthur
27. Heretics and Believers – Peter Marshall
28. Just Do Something – Kevin DeYoung
29. Church History 101 – Sinclair Ferguson
30. Jesus the Son of God – D.A. Carson

___________________ Updates ____________________

• Written (4 January) | Total books on the list: 15 books
• Quarter 1 (27 March) | Book read: 7 | Total on list: 21 books
• Quarter 2 (June)
• Quarter 3 (September)
• Quarter 4 (December)