Read It Again Challenge

I used to re-read books all the time. But as more and more books have interested me, I find that there are just too many books out there that I haven't read yet for me to go back and re-read old favorites. At this point, I don't usually even keep my fiction books once I've read them because it's likely I will never read them again. However, with non-fiction, I'm more likely to keep them - either to read again or for reference on a favorite topic.

Reading is for fun, for pleasure, a hobby. Sure I want to read a lot of books that I've never read before. But there are books that I've already read that I would like to read again. And there's nothing wrong with re-reading a book. After all, the whole point is to enjoy it. And with non-fiction, I can even learn things, whether I've read the book before or not. Sometimes re-reading a book can refresh my memory and encourage me.

So... I'm setting a personal challenge to myself to re-read some of my old favorites. I'm not putting a time limit on it. For myself, I hope to try and re-read at least 4-6 during a year. I have between 30-40 books I want to re-read, so that will take me close to 10 years. :-)

Here's some of the books I want to re-read:

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
All God's Children and Blue Suede Shoes by Kenneth Myers
Anne of Green Gables series by L. M. Montgomery
Biblioholism by Tom Raabe
Blackout by John Nance
The Bride by Charles Swindoll
Changes that Heal by Henry Cloud
The Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges
First Things First by Stephen Covey
The Grace Awakening by Charles Swindoll
Help, I'm Laughing and I Can't Get Up! by Liz Curtis Higgs
How People Grow by Henry Cloud
Ice by Shane Johnson
Intimate Faith by Jan Winebrenner
Knowing God by J.I. Packer
The Lies We Believe by Chris Thurman
The Life You've Always Wanted by John Ortberg
Lightposts for Living by Thomas Kinkade
Living a Purpose-Full Life by Jan Johnson
Living Above the Level of Mediocrity by Charles Swindoll
The Lost Art of Disciple Making by Leroy Eims
Making Work Work for the Highly Sensitive Person by Barrie Jaeger
Mind Siege by Tim LaHaye
Money, Possessions & Eternity by Randy Alcorn
Pandora's Clock by John Nance
The Practice of Godliness by Jerry Bridges
The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges
Quality Friendship by Gary Inrig
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Religiously Transmitted Diseases by Ed Gungor
Safe People by Henry Cloud
The Scarlet Thread by Francine Rivers
The Search for Significance by Robert McGee
Shattered Dreams by Larry Crabb
The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse by David Johnson
Telling Yourself the Truth by William Backus
Third Culture Kids by David Pollock
Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back by Charles Swindoll
Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges
Trusting God by Jerry Bridges
Utopia by Lincoln Child
Virus by Graham Watkins
When God's People Let You Down by Jeff VanVonderen
A Woman's Journey to the Heart of God by Cynthia Heald
Yearning by M. Craig Barnes
You Can Experience...A Purposeful Life by James Emery White