I've been meaning to write this post for ages, but it keeps slipping away from me. Between finding a good list of books "you should read," and rooting through to find the ones that actually look like something you'll enjoy...it's a process. I've even kept Haley's blog post as an open tab to motivate myself to write it. She wrote that post almost a month ago...and I'm just now getting to it. #oi
Anyway, as this army from Monty Python would say:
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| "Get on with it!" |
Never Let Me Go—Kazuo Ishiguro
The Cuckoo's Calling—Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling)
February
Story of a Soul—St. Therese
Hunchback of Notre Dame—Victor Hugo
March
The Four Loves—CS Lewis
Confessions—St. Augustine
April
Confessions—St. Augustine
Picture of Dorian Grey—Oliver Wilde
May
Orthodoxy—GK Chesterton
Brideshead Revisited—Evelyn Waugh
June
Orthodoxy—GK Chesterton
Twelfth Night—Shakespeare
July
As You Like It—Shakespeare
Mansfield Park—Jane Austen
August
Til We Have Faces—CS Lewis
The Brothers Karamazov—Fyodor Dostoevsky
September
The Brothers Karamazov—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Why Matter Matters—David P Lang
October
Consuming the Word: The New Testament and the Eucharist in the Early Church—Scott Hahn
The Seven-Storey Mountain—Thomas Merton
November
Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives—Pope Benedict XVI
December
Catch up + find a good Advent devotion
So there we go! I feel like this is a bit of an ambitious list, but I'm looking forward to the challenge. If I can accomplish all of these readings, I'll be pretty satisfied and I think I'll feel way more cultured and educated. ;)
If you have any reading suggestions, please leave a comment! Especially if it has anything to do with marriage preparation (gotta work on that) or French kings/queens (very interested in that right now)!
Breaking it up month-by-month is an excellent idea! My reading lists usually go like this: "I want to read these 300 books sometime in the near future. Ok, now I deserve a cookie. *doesn't read anything*"
ReplyDeleteMine too! I also have the habit of buying loads of books but never reading them. My list includes some of those books, so I'm trying the whole "kill two birds with one stone" thing. Happy reading!
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