This list is a compilation of new works, old favorites, and award winners from the speakers slated for Festival 2024*.

Since this list is a sampling of speakers' writings, we encourage you to use the list as a starting point and continue to explore their work beyond what's included here!

Kaveh Akbar

Calling a Wolf a Wolf

M. T. Anderson

Elf Dog & Owl Head

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

Elan Babchuck

Picking Up the Pieces: Leadership After Empire

Fred Bahnson

Soil & Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith

Making Peace with the Land: God's Call to Reconcile with Creation

"On the Road with Thomas Merton"

Amy Julia Becker

To Be Made Well: An Invitation to Wholeness, Healing, and Hope

White Picket Fences: Turning Towards Love in a World Divided by Privilege

A Good and Perfect Gift: Faith, Expectations, and a Little Girl Named Penny

Sonya Bilocerkowycz

On Our Way Home from the Revolution: Reflections on Ukraine

Los Angeles Review of Books: interview with Sonya Bilocerkowycz

Sarah Blake

Naamah: A Novel

Let's Not Live on Earth

Bryan Bliss

Thoughts and Prayers

No Parking at the End Times

We'll Fly Away

Anne Bogel

I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

Don't Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life

Reading People: How Seeing the World Through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything

Byron Borger

Hearts and Minds book review blog, "BookNotes"

Daniel Bowman, Jr.

On The Spectrum: Autism, Faith, and the Gifts of Neurodiversity

A Plum Tree in Leatherstocking Country

Ayşe Papatya Bucak

The Trojan War Museum and Other Stories

Interview: Fiction Writers Review

Casey Cep

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Harper Lee’s Abandoned True-Crime Novel

Danielle Chapman

Delinquent Palaces: Poems

S. J. Dahlman

A Familiar Wilderness: Searching for Home on Daniel Boone's Road

With Eyes to See Addiction, Appalachian Churches Respond to the Opioids Crisis

Peter Ho Davies

A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself

The Welsh Girl

Adam Day

Left-Handed Wolf

Model of a City in Civil War

Jennifer De Leon

Don't Ask Me Where I'm From

White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, and Writing

Mary DeMuth

Love, Pray, Listen: Parenting Your Wayward Adult Kids with Joy

The Most Misunderstood Women of the Bible: What Their Stories Teach Us about Thriving

We Too: How the Church Can Respond Redemptively to the Sexual Abuse Crisis

Matthew Dickerson

The Betrayed: The Daegmon War Book 2

The Voices of Rivers

A Tale of Three Rivers

Kent & Kevin Dixon

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Anthony Doerr

Cloud Cuckoo Land

All the Light We Cannot See

Margaret Feinberg

Taste and See: Discovering God Among Butchers, Bakers and Fresh Food Makers

Scouting the Divine: Searching for God in Wine, Wool, and Wild Honey

Fight Back With Joy

Leslie Leyland Fields

Nearing a Far God: Praying the Psalms with Our Whole Selves

Your Story Matters: Finding, Writing, and Living the Truth of Your Life

Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers: Finding Freedom from Hurt and Hate

Yaa Gyasi

Transcendent Kingdom

Silas House

Lark Ascending

A Parchment of Leaves

Sarah Hurwitz

Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)

Jessica Jacobs

unalone (March 2024)

Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going

Pelvis with Distance

Rachel Pieh Jones

Pillars: How Muslim Friends Led Me Closer to Jesus

Stronger Than Death

Laleh Khadivi

A Good Country

The Age of Orphans

Kenneth Kraegel

Mushroom Lullaby

This is a Book of Shapes

King Arthur's Very Great Grandson

Aviya Kushner

The Grammar of God: A Journey Into the Words and Worlds of the Bible

WOLF LAMB BOMB

Paul Lisicky

Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship

The Burning House

Maurice Manning

The Common Man

Marilyn McEntyre

Midwinter Light: Poems and Reflections for the Long Season

Make a List: How a Simple Practice Can Change Our Lives and Open Our Hearts

The Mindful Grandparent: The Art of Loving our Children's Children

Nishta Mehra

The Pomegranate King: Essays

Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion

Diane Mehta

Tiny Extravaganzas

Forest with Castanets

Meghan O'Gieblyn

Interior States

God, Human, Animal, Machine

Mitali Perkins

Hope in the Valley

Steeped in Stories

You Bring the Distant Near

Karen Swallow Prior

The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books

Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me

Patrick B. Reyes

The Purpose Gap: Empowering Communities of Color to Find Meaning and Thrive

Nobody Cries When We Die: God, Community, and Surviving to Adulthood

Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

Voices of Lament: Reflections of Brokenness and Hope in a World Longing for Justice

Mentor for Life: Finding Purpose Through Intentional Discipleship

A Sojourner's Truth: Choosing Freedom and Courage in a Divided World

Rebecca Sheir

The Lion's Whisker

The Great Ball Game

A Taste of Honey

Curtis Sittenfeld

Romantic Comedy

James K. A. Smith

On the Road with Saint Augustine

How to Inhabit Time

You Are What You Love

Tracy K. Smith

Such Color: New and Selected Poems

Ordinary Light: A Memoir

Traci Sorell

Indian No More

Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series

Suzanne Stabile

The Journey Toward Wholeness: Enneagram Wisdom for Stress, Balance, and Transformation

The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

The Path Between Us: An Enneagram Journey to Healthy Relationships

Randy-Michael Testa

Growing Up Poor: A Literary Anthology

Tales ‘Told Twice’ Through Close Cross-Media Comparisons

Truth's Table

Truth's Table: Black Women's Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation

Faithful Antiracism: Moving Past Talk to Systemic Change

Asma T. Uddin

When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom

The Politics of Vulnerability: How to Heal Muslim-Christian Relations in a Post-Christian America

Chanequa Walker-Barnes

Sacred Self-Care: Daily Practices for Nurturing Our Whole Selves

I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation

Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength

Christian Wiman

Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair (December 2023)

Hammer is the Prayer: Selected Poems

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

Hilary Yancey

Forgiving God: A Story of Faith

* The books on this list are linked to independent booksellers when possible. The CCFW encourages you to support local and independent bookshops.