The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

Lauren Walker ❤️ loved this book because...

Sebastian is such an honest writer! The pacing and story were remarkable and intense. It read like a thriller, but it is true story written with compassion and intelligence and powerful ideas that will challenge you to think about your own mortality and how you live your life! I read it twice and then I got to interview Sebastian so I read it again. This will change the way you think about everything....

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Sebastian Junger,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked In My Time of Dying as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm.

For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Where Science Meets Spirit

Lauren Walker ❤️ loved this book because...

...WoW! This book was a revelation! What would happen to you if you had a life altering accident? MaryJo teaches us about her journey with love, compassion, even humor. It is intense to read, but also incredibly insightful and powerfully transformative. I was crying at many parts, and not the ones you would think! Yes, MaryJo lives in a wheelchair. But her insights and her teachings transcend, like all good yoga - the body. And leave us squarely with the power of our own minds. This book is a must!

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Mary-Jo Fetterly,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Where Science Meets Spirit as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Zebra fish can repair paralyzed limbs. Many other species can regenerate limbs and specialized tissue. Are humans missing something? Why are some people healers, despite the odds, while others are not?

By the time you are close to death, there is a one-in-five chance you will incur a disability. Wouldn't you want science and medicine to do whatever possible to avert chronic debilitation? Why can't science use that simple fish's technology if you become paralyzed? What if Where Science Meets Spirit showed you that we could do much more to access our healing potential, but we don't?

This is an…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Stolen Child

Lauren Walker ❤️ loved this book because...

I don't read a lot of fiction, and as I started reading this I was thinking: With so much to learn in the world, why am I reading a made up story..
That lasted about ten minutes as I was sucked in to these worlds and the characters and emotions! And by the end, I understood, all over again, why we read fiction. The emotionality was so raw and so deep, and I honestly can't stop thinking about these characters and the choices they made in their lives, and in retrospect, thinking about the choices I have made!

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Emotions
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Ann Hood,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Stolen Child as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

For decades, Nick Burns has been haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, when a French artist he'd befriended thrust both her paintings and her baby into his hands-and disappeared. In 1974, with only months left to live, Nick enlists Jenny, a college dropout desperate for adventure, to help him unravel the mystery. The journey leads them from Paris galleries and provincial towns to a surprising place: the Museum of Tears, the life's work of a lonely Italian craftsman. Determined to find the baby and the artist, hopeless romantic Jenny and curmudgeonly Nick…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Energy Medicine Yoga

By Lauren Walker,

Book cover of Energy Medicine Yoga

What is my book about?

My FIRST book is celebrating it's 10 year anniversary! This is the one that started it all. Find out what Energy really means in your body, and in your life. I provide you with simple practices to create your own yoga practice or add them in to the practice you already have. These techniques are powerfully healing and transformational. And Oh, So, Easy! You'll never look at yoga, or energy, or your own self, the same way again!

Book cover of In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Book cover of Where Science Meets Spirit
Book cover of The Stolen Child

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