Reading list

It's been a little while since I last blogged, but I figured that it's probably better that I think long and hard about what I put on here so that I don't get caught with my foot in my mouth. I promise that this entry shouldn't do that. Who knows...maybe it might?

Since graduating from college in December, I've had a lot of things demanding my time and it caused me to question my priorities. What really is important to me in my life? One of the things that I never thought would be is reading. Since graduating, reading has become somewhat of a savior to my mind in that because I'm not in classes everyday I no longer feel challenged intellectually. I feel as if over the last four and a half years my mind has become a sponge, and now that the "water" is gone...well...we all know what happens to sponges when they just sit for a while...

I've been trying to put together a reading list for myself so that I can put it down somewhere and track my progress. I thought to myself, "Why not put it on the blog?". I also thought it would be cool if readers would comment at the bottom some suggestions on books that maybe I should add to it. That's all up to you. Below is my reading list since the turn of the new year, and it will increased as soon as I hear back from you on what I should read. What I have read or am reading will be in bold:

The New Testament Epistles and Acts (God)

Blue Like Jazz (Donald Miller)

The Seven Checkpoints (Andy Stanley)

The Forgotten Ways (Alan Hirsch)

A Series of Unfortunate Events books 1-5 (Lemony Snicket)

How to Read a Book (Mortimor Adler)

Searching for God Knows What (Donald Miller)

Through Painted Deserts (Donald Miller)

To Own a Dragon (Donald Miller)

ReJesus (Alan Hirsch)

Untamed (Alan Hirsch)

Jesus for President (Shane Claiborne)

The Connecting Church (Randy Frazee)

Lectures to My Students (C.H. Spurgeon)

Vintage Jesus (Mark Driscoll)

The Signature Classics (C.S. Lewis)

A Series of Unfortunate Events books 6-13

Ready. Set. Go.