Some books should be read once and others should be read over and over. Building a good reading habit includes creating a list of books to read over again. My list includes several genres: literature, theology, philosophy, politics, and leadership. My goal is to be reading a book on this list every few months. Sometimes I just skim the book and other times I read it again cover to cover. At the end, I ask: should this book stay on the list? A strong test for a book is if you continue to learn something from it after reading it multiple times. That is what I find in these books. I learn something new each time I go through these books so I decided to revisit them again in the future. I re-read Orthodoxy last year and I am looking at reading some more Faerie Queene.

1. The Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spenser
2. Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan
3. The Four Loves, by C.S. Lewis
4. Common Grace and the Gospel, by Cornelius Van Til
5. Planet Narnia, by Michael Ward
6. The Intellectual Life, by A.G. Sertillanges
7. Ideas Have Consequences, by Richard Weaver
8. Orthodoxy, by G.K. Chesterton
9. Paradise Lost, by John Milton
10. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R Tolkien
11. I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, by Rene Girard
12. Failure of Nerve, by Edwin Friedman