How many books did you read this year? Stephen Covey (7 Habits of Highly Effective People) said he read a book a week, that if you start tracking your readings, you can build up from a book a month until you will also read a (real) book every week. I didn’t believe him, but decided to try it. It works.
I can’t do it without audio books (21 this year, but often it's higher), but I’m going to hit 60 by next week. They’re not all doorstops, but my personal baseline is 100 pages. Anything less than that is a short story (35 this year) on my list.
Favorites this year include (in no particular order):
Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome by Anthony Everett, Good to Great by Jim Collins, For the Beauty of the Church by W. David O. Taylor (Editor), Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, The Emotionally Healthy Church by Peter Scazzero
If you don’t track your reading, you need to try it. Not to induce guilt, but to trigger memories of where and when you read it. It’s fun to see what the themes of your year might have been, as well as any notable accomplishments
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