Books I Plan To Read in 2018

One of my favorite hobbies is reading! I love to curl up with a cup of coffee and dig into a really good book. Due to the fact that I was actually writing a book of my own last year, while working and planning a wedding, I didn’t accomplish the amount of reading that I would have liked. Since I have more white space, I made a goal to read at least 36 books this year. Three books a month feels manageable!

Reading books on a screen isn’t my cup of tea. I much prefer feeling the pages of the book as I turn them, and I typically always have a book with me (that’s what purses are for, right!) It’s amazing the “spare moments” I can find during the day to get a few pages read – waiting on a friend for coffee, riding the bus home, reading for a few minutes before cooking dinner, etc. You make time for what’s important, but if you’re intentional, it’s not hard to find time to read. What is important is being willing to step away from your phone and social media in order to dive into books!

I decided to a compile a list of books I’d like to read this year! Many of the titles are books I’ve been wanting to read for a long time, or recommendations from friends! I’d love to hear from you – what are you reading? Did I miss any must reads?

All of the books are linked to Amazon, just click on the title!

1. 1. What Are We Doing Here?: Essays – Marilynne Robinson
   2. Unseen: The Gift of Being Hidden in a World That Loves to Be Noticed – Sarah Hagerty
   3. Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life – Makoto Fujimura
   4. You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit  – James K.A. Smith
   5. Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold – C.S. Lewis
   6. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World – Cal Newport
   7. My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel – Ari Shavit
   8. C. S. Lewis — A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet – Alister McGrath
   9. Far Above Rubies: The Life of Bethan Lloyd-Jones (Biography) – Lynette G. Clark
   10. The Company We Keep: In Search of Biblical Friendship – Jonathan Holmes
   11. Soul Friends: The Transforming Power of Deep Human Connection – Stephen Cope
   12. The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God – Dallace Willard
   13. Recapturing the Wonder: Transcendent Faith in a Disenchanted World – Mike Cosper
   14. 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You – Tony Reinke
   15. Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service (Disney Institute Book, A)
   16. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative – Austin Kleon
   17. The Artist’s Way: 25th Anniversary Edition – Julia Cameron
   18. God and the Transgender Debate – Andrew Walker
   19. Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro’s Gulag – Armando Valladares
   20. Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone – Brené Brown
   21. The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor
   22. A Man Called Ove: A Novel – Fredrik Backman
   23. Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition – Kerry Patterson
   24. As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Conversation on the Ways of God Formed by the Words of God – Eugene Peterson
   25. Awe: Why It Matters for Everything We Think, Say, and Do – Paul Tripp
   26. Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work – Timothy Keller
   27. Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art – Madeline L’Engle
   28. Small Great Things: A Novel – Jodi Picoult
   29. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life – Anne Lamott
   30. The Stories We Tell: How TV and Movies Long for and Echo the Truth – Mike Cosper
   31. Steal Away Home: Charles Spurgeon and Thomas Johnson, Unlikely Friends on the Passage to Freedom – Matt Carter and Aaron Ivey
   32. When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment – Ryan Anderson
   33. A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918 – Joseph Loconte
   34. Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
   35. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business – Charles Duhigg
   36. The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery – Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile