…that’s the promise I’m making myself. The book pile next to my bed is just too high, and I keep accumulating without making much progress. So, it’s time to whittle down the pile.

In no particular order, here’s what I’ve got piled up.

First, the ones I’ve not read yet:

• Surprised by Scripture, NT Wright
• Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong
• Meditative Prayer, Thomas Merton
• Resurrection and Moral Order, Oliver O’Donavan
• Paul and the Faithfulness of God, NT Wright
• A Severe Mercy, Shelden Vanauken
• From the Bible Belt to the Sun Belt, Darren Dochuk
• Parables of Judgment, Robert Capon
• Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris
• Evangelical Theology, Karl Barth
• Confessions of a Guilty Bystander, Thomas Merton
• The Wounded Healer, Henri J. M. Nouwen
• The Monster in the Hollows, Andrew Peterson

Books I’ve started but not yet finished:

• The Kingdom of Christ, Russell Moore
• Jesus Manifesto, Frank Viola & Leonard Sweet
• The Fiddler’s Green, A. S. Peterson

Books I wanna re-read:

• The Sacredness of Questioning Everything, David Dark
• When I Was a Child I Read Books, Marilynne Robinson
• Between Noon and Three, Robert Capon

Unread on my Kindle:

• Barefoot Church: Serving the Least in a Consumer Culture, Brandon Hatmaker
• Center Church, Tim Keller
• The Pastor: A Memoir, Eugene Peterson
• Reimagining Church: Pursuing the Dream of Organic Christianity, Frank Viola
• Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation’s Treasures from the Nazis, Robert Edsel
• Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality, Richard Beck
• Why Holiness Matters: We’ve Lost Our Way–But We Can Find it Again, Tyler Braun

By my count, that’s 26 books. At my current rate, I might finish them by the end of the year.

Unless I hit the Half Price Books or the library again and find another pile of reading material. But I’m gonna try not to.