I love books and spend much of my life reading, but the way I read books has been undergoing a radical tranformation recently. When Kindle came along, I shifted from reading books in paper form to digital. And then in the last couple of years, I've shifted most of "reading" to listening to Audible books. And after discovering Hoopla, that is now my primary way for consuming books.

Turns out, I'm part of a much larger trend - reading habits are rapidly changing. According to a recent NEA survey, reading rates across all age groups in the US are plummeting. This article says, "Experts say literary reading could virtually disappear within 50 years.”

I listen to books on Hoopla.com, an app that connects to your library. You're allowed to check out six books a month. I listen to books on 1.5x speed while I work out, sit in the sauna, and drive. Usually I'm able to get through at least a book a week. I'm mostly a nonfiction reader. I read for ideas. But I read widely on a variety of subjects.

Are you a reader? How have your book reading habits changed? Here are the books I've read in the last couple of years. Any books you agree with or want to add to the list as suggestions?

Life-Changing Nonfiction

Voice in the Night (Sithole)

The Art of Possibility

Trillion Dollar Coach

Midlife and the Great Unknown (Whyte - only available on Audible)

When Breath Becomes Air

Freedom’s Forge

Living A Life of Fire: Reinhardt Bonnke

Almighty is His Name (Clarke)

American Prometheus

Sam Walton: Made in America

The Everything Store

Finding Chika

Fiction Favorites

Temeraire - Napoleonic War with Dragons (9 book series)

Beneath a Scarlet Sky (based on true story)

A Gentleman in Moscow

Other books

Growth Hacker Marketing

Living Fearlessly (Winship)

Leading Apple with Steve Jobs

The Inner Landscape

The Idea Factory

Judgment of Paris

Rome Sweet Rome

The Other Half of the Church

Take Back Your Family

Make it Stick

The House of Morgan

Scattered Minds

Hillbilly Elegy

Bird by Bird

City of Fortune

Empires of the Sea

Clear Mind, Wild heart - Whyte

The Song of Significance

Rare leadership

Killing the SS

Killing the Mob

Killing Lincoln

Birthing the Miraculous- Baker

The Seven-figure Agency Roadmap

Chasing Daylight (Lewis)

Chasing Daylight (McManus)

Scary Smart

Garden City

The Art of the Memoir (Karr)

Outlive

Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy

Mentoring 101

On the Brink of Everything- Palmer

Canoeing the Mountains

The 5 Lost Superpowers

The Element

Working Identity

Start with Why

One World Schoolhouse

Spiritual Direction (Nouwen)

Story (McKee)

The Journals of Jim Elliott

Suffering is Never for Nothing

Re-ignition

So Many Steves

Two Chairs

The Dichotomy of Leadership

Letters to the Church

Someday is Today

In the Shadow of the Banyan

Soul of Desire

The Intentional Father

Integrity (Cloud)

World Class

The Rough Riders

The Socratic method

The Servant

Servant Leader (Blanchard)

Courage Required