Some of My Best Reads from 2018

I read 125 books in 2018, which is below my average of 150. Part of that is because I actually spent more time doing other things. The other part is that I spent more time in my morning routine reading the Bible. Over the course of the year, I read the entire Bible once, and several parts multiple times, including the Psalms, Prophets and the New Testament.

I say all that not to brag, but to show how much you can do with a little bit of time invested each day. I spend about an hour at Starbucks reading every morning, and then the better part of Saturday afternoon. Over time, it adds up to quite a stack of reading.

This year, I was going to post about the best books I read, but then decided to take some time off over Christmas break. Then, I participated in a series of posts over at Christ and Pop Culture. Rather than focus on books I enjoyed, I focused on writers I enjoyed reading, and they were (click thru to see a book I had in mind):

As I said in the post:

From some authors, I was confronted with ideas I deeply disagreed with, but was forced to articulate why. From others, the authors helped me break out of ruts in my thinking and understand current issues in a different way. And some helped me think through better approaches to life management and goal setting and how to make 2019 leave 2018 in the dust

You should click on through and read the longer blurbs for each author, and if you want, pick up a copy and add to your 2019 stack.

Now, just so this post goes to 11 twice, here are 11 books that I gave 5 stars to on Goodreads. There is actually a considerable list of books out of the 125 that got 5 stars, but I took out all the books that I got for review and will post about at a later date. That leaves these 11, which I would highly recommend for one reason or another:

Here’s to another year of reading!