If your reading habits need some rehab, you can take on two books a month and cover some of the best from Christian writers old and new. Try this eclectic but meaty 12-month reading plan:
January
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
February
Augustine, Confessions
John Dillenberger, ed. Martin Luther: Selections from his Writings
March
Ron Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger
Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy
April
Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love
Marva Dawn, Sexual Character
May
Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
June
Frank Whaling, ed. John and Charles Wesley, Selected Writings
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
July
Christine Pohl, Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition
Stanley Hauerwas, Resident Aliens
August
Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society
Frederica Mathewes-Green, At the Corner of East and Now
September
J.I. Packer, Knowing God
John Paul II, The Gospel of Life
October
Stanley Grenz, The Moral Quest
Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew
November
Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited
John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus
December
Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind
Jon Sobrino, Spirituality of Liberation