August Reading Challenge

For the past couple months I have been challenging myself to read more and from different categories. In this post I want to give an update for the July challenge and where I ended with it as well as share my August challenge.

Here are the books and categories I read from. My reviews/notes/summaries are hyperlinked in below.

• 2 books on Healthy Relationships
  • Dont Go to Bed Angry: Stay Up and Fight
  • The Power of Together
• 2 Leadership books
  • The Ideal Team Player
  • Team Genius: The New Science of High Performing Organizations
• 1 Biography/Memoir
  • When Breath Becomes Air
• 1 Book Written Before 1900 (I actually over-completed this and read 2. Though one was short)
  • The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
  • Humility:The Journey Toward Holiness by Andrew Murray
• 1 Psychology/Sociology book
  • Originals: How Noncomformists Move the World
• 1 Fiction Book
  • Imagine Me Gone
• 2 Additional book in any categories (I actually completed three in this category for July. For me this consists of spiritual formation books, discipleship and missional living)
  • The Daniel Prayer (really probably my least favorite book of the month)
  • Kingdom First: Starting Churches That Shape Movements
  • Simply Good News

For a total of 2935 pages.

Overall I liked the format of this reading challenge because it challenges me to read a bit broader than I always do.

For August Here are the Categories I want to read from:

• 1 Book on Healthy Relationships (for me this will most likely be a marriage book)
• 1 Book on Leadership
• 1 Biography/Memoir
• 1 Book Written Before 1900’s
• 1 Psychology/Sociology Book
• 1 Fiction Book
• 1 Family/Parenting Book
• 1 Historical Book (could be fiction or non-fiction)
  • This is another category that I do not read much from
• 2 Additional Books in any categories
  • For me this will consist of something in discipleship, missional living or spiritual formation.

10 books total. Feel free to follow along if you want. If a page goal is easier this will probably be somewhere near 2500 pages.