I have recently joined Quest One at www.heartthoughtsretreat.org.  The challenge is to read ten books this year that will stretch you.  I had already decided that I need to increase the amount of reading I do, so this gave me the perfect excuse to start! Some of the books on my list may not be a great challenge as far as reading level goes, but I know they will stretch me spiritually. Here is my list.

To Challenge

Decision Making and the Will of God - Friesen

Twelve Extraordinary Women - MacArthur

Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis

After Darkness, Light - Essays in honor of R. C. Sproul

Paradise Lost - Milton

The Holy War - Bunyan

Canterbury Tales -  Chaucer

Of Plymouth Plantation - Bradford

The Three Musketeers -  Dumes

Beowolf

I am also aiming to read ten more books this year that are a little more "fun" focused as well as reread a few others.  Some of the books on this list didn't make the other list because they were started last year and are almost complete.

For Fun

Hard Times - Dickens

North and South - Gaskel

Emma - Austen 

To Reread

The Joy of Fearing God - Bridges

Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis

Debating Calvinism - Hunt/White

Her Hand in Marriage - Phillips

Already Started

The Invisible Hand - R. C. Sproul

The Silmarillion - Tolkein

Let Me Be a Woman - Elliot

So anyway, I think this will keep me pretty busy. I am looking forward to all these books. Now that I don't have "school work "  to do I actually have time to read again!