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title: "Andrew Toy Thinks You Need to Read More Fiction"
description: "Andrew Toy, blogger at AdoptingJames and author of the recent book The Man in the Box  has made a commitment to read more fiction.  I fully agree with this commitment and I have been increasing my amo..."
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date: 2013-01-04
modified: 2013-01-04
author: "Adam Shields"
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# Andrew Toy Thinks You Need to Read More Fiction

[![stack-of-books](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/stack-of-books.jpg)](http://adoptingjames.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/about-fiction/)Andrew Toy, blogger at [AdoptingJames](http://adoptingjames.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/about-fiction/) and author of the recent book [The Man in the Box](http://www.amazon.com/dp/161318137X) has made a commitment to read more fiction.  I fully agree with this commitment and I have been increasing my amount of fiction the last couple years.  I think it is particularly important for Evangelicals that tend to be too focused on the utilitarian purposes of books.

> I have an unusual New Year’s commitment for someone as widely-read as myself. It’s not to read more history, more biographies, or even more theologically-grounded books. It’s to read more fiction. I’ve thought through this. Since picking up a book is often a large commitment, I have discovered that this will do me (and possibly you) some good in a variety of different ways.

[Continue reading the rest of the post](http://adoptingjames.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/about-fiction/)