Winter/Spring Reading

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Now that we are at the beginning of a new year, I have to compile a new list of books to read. Between the obligations of writing a manuscript and preparing for Lent and Easter, I'm not sure how quickly I'll be able to get to them. But there they'll sit on my nightstand, beckoning in those free moments.

So here is at least a sampling of what I'm planning to read between now and summer:
  • Vital Vintage Church by Michael Piazza
  • Wildwood by Colin Meloy
  • Cold Fire by Kate Elliot
  • Behemoth by Scott Westerfield
  • Endure by Daniel D. Maurer
  • The Walking Dead Volume 29 by Robert Kirkman
  • Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
  • Spiritual Friendship after Religion by Joseph A. Stewart-Sicking
  • Finding Seekers by Bruce Tallman
  • Courageous Faith by Emily C. Heath
  • The Very Worst Missionary by Jamie Wright
  • Everything is Flammable by Gabrielle Bell
So, a few churchy/spirituality books, a few novels, some poetry, and a couple graphic novels.

What's on your list for this first part of 2018?

As always, I need to make one suggestion.

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