(This post was written during the first weeks of January. I wanted to come as close to completely composing the 2025 Reading Challenge as I could, so I delayed posting by a bit.)
A new calendar and a new reading list. These are a few of my favorite January things.
It is no secret that I love reading good books. Since I love books and reading it is with alacrity that I prepare an annual reading list. Part of the enjoyment is making the decisions of what books I will spend time reading throughout the year. So many books...
1. 19th Century Classic
Madame Bovary Gustav Flaubert
This could also count as a book in translation.
A note on this novel. I have in the past shied away from reading Madame Bovary due to it's notoriety in the literature world. It's a fact that Flaubert went to trial in 1857 on obscenity charges from French public prosecutors. However, he was acquitted from the charges and the novel went on to become even more popular. I certainly will not fail to lay aside this book if I find it obscene in any shape or form. There are way too many great classics worth reading to waste time on a novel that offends or is uninteresting.
2. 20th Century Classic
The Return of the Soldier Rebecca West
3. Dickens Classic
David Copperfield
4. Children's Classic
Anne of Ingleside Lucy M. Montgomery
5. Abandoned(Second Chance) Classic
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain
6. Perennial (Re-read)
Christy Catherine Marshall
7. Modern Fiction by a man
Nathan Coulter Wendell Berry
8. Modern Fiction by a woman
The Pilgrim's Inn Elizabeth Goudge
9. Biography or autobiography
St. Simon's Memoir Eugenia Price
10. Mystery
The ABC Murders Agatha Christie
11. Christian Non-Fiction
A Grief Observed C.S. Lewis
12. Self-help, craft, or cookbook, etc.
Nature Drawing and Journaling John Muir Lewis
13. Classic in Translation
Babette's Feast Isak Dineson
14. Non-Fiction
The Backyard Bird Chronicles Amy Tan
This is my definite list thus far, though there are some other genres I am seriously considering adding, for example: Classic with a Season in the Title, Classic with a Place in its title, Classic with an animal in the title, and even a Classic Play, perhaps. And then I will continue reading several other books not listed on my 2025 list.
Any suggestions?
Update:
I have finished reading:
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
The Return of the Soldier
St. Simon's Memoir
A Grief Observed
ABC Murders
I am presently reading David Copperfield, which I am supremely enjoying.
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