I love lists so I thought I would write one.
One of my New Years resolutions is to read more books. My goal is to read 20 books this year. Which is about one every two and a half weeks. I am also trying to broaden my subject base (a bit) by reading older books than I have read recently. C.S. Lewis said, “It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” I am going to adopt this philosophy. I have defined old books as anything older than 40 years, it was going to be 50 years, but The Hiding Place was published in 1971. Most of my old books were written within the last 100 years, which is not that old with regards to books, but I had to start somewhere.
Old Books.
Propaganda – Edward Bernays
Oil! – Upton Sinclair
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
The Hiding Place – Corrie Ten Boom
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
Essays on Positive Economics – Milton Freidman
Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion – P.T. Bauer
Orthodoxy – G.K. Chesterton
The Great Divorce – C.S. Lewis
New Books.
Orbiting the Giant Hairball – Gordon Mackenzie
QBQ – John G. Miller
Death by Meeting – Patrick Lencioni
Doctrine – Mark Driscoll & Gerry Breshears
Every Man’s Marriage – Steven Arterburn & Fred Stoeker
I Have A Dream (Writing & Speeches) – Martin Luther King Jr.
Defiance – Nechama Tec
Ball Four – Jim Bouton
Desiring God – John Piper
I am currently reading The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien and EntreLeadership by Dave Ramsey. I will finish these books before I begin on my list. I will read EntreLeadership again as a part of a group that is going to read and discuss the book. I am also going to read through the Bible in 2014. I only have 18 books listed so I am still in search of two more books to read and am open to suggestions. I also would love to receive “favorite book” suggestions from anyone that reads this for future reading. All of the books above are books that I have accumulated from listening to and reading suggestions.