OLD
Little Women, L. Alcott
Persuasion, J. Austen
Jane Eyre, C. Bronte*
The Man Who Was Thursday, G. Chesterton
The Quiet American, G. Greene
On the Road, J. Kerouac
To Kill a Mockingbird, H. Lee*
The The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, C. McCullers
The Second Coming, W. Percy
The Chosen, C. Potok*
The Promise, C. Potok*
The Warden, A. Trollope
Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath, S. Undset
Around the World in 80 Days, J. Verne
The House of Mirth, E. Wharton
How Right You Are, Jeeves, P. Wodehouse
NEW
Hannah Coulter, W. Berry
Intuition, A. Goodman
A Long Way Down, N. Hornsby
Never Let Me Go, K. Ishiguro
The History of Love, N. Krauss
The Second Wives Club, J. Moore
American Pastoral, P. Roth
On Beauty, Z. Smith
White Teeth, Z. Smith
CHILDREN’S & YA
The Secret Garden, F. Burnett
The Twenty-One Balloons, W. du Bois
Looking for Alaska, J. Green
Across Five Aprils, I. Hunt
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. Lewis*
Prince Caspian, C. Lewis*
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C. Lewis*
The Silver Chair, C. Lewis*
The Horse and His Boy, C. Lewis*
The Magician’s Nephew, C. Lewis*
The Last Battle, C. Lewis*
Twilight, S. Meyer
New Moon, S. Meyer
Eclipse, S. Meyer
NON-FICTION
Your 4-Year-Old, L. Ames
I Am America (And So Can You!), S. Colbert
Death By Love, M. Driscoll
The Reason for God, T. Keller
My City Was Gone, D. Love
Compassion, Justice & the Christian Life, R. Lupton
Being Human, MacAulay & Barrs
The Faith of Barack Obama, S. Mansfield
Beautiful Boy, D. Sheff
The Nine, J. Toobin
Surprised by Hope, N. Wright
Books read: 50
Rereads: 11
Ten New Reads I’d Read Again: Little Women, Persuasion, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Second Coming, How Right You Are Jeeves!, Hannah Coulter, American Pastoral, The Twenty-One Balloons, Death by Love and Compassion, Justice & the Christian Life.
Please Don’t Read: A Long Way Down
Reviews for all can be found in the “book” category.
How did The Second Coming compare to The Moviegoer? The latter has to be one of my favorite books read over the last five years.
I enjoyed the Moviegoer a great deal, but The Second Coming was less esoteric without being less personal and I adored it. Here’s what I wrote when I finished it:
“I loved this novel and couldn’t put it down. The quirky, and yet oddly believable characters, and their fascinating takes on both the extraordinary and mundane happenings of their own lives. It didn’t hurt that the settings were Southern ones, of great familiarity in their own ways. Entertaining and yet deep and thought provoking, I know that more than the Moviegoer, The Second Coming will propel me towards reading the rest of the Percy canon. 9/10”
Lovely list, Kristen. Even though we’ve never met, I know we could occupy several hours at a table with some good beverage (tea is my choice), scones and booktalk.
Reading your list makes me sigh for the authors I love (Berry, Trollope, Undset, Chesterton to name a few) and interested in ones I have yet to read. The Moviegoer is on my shelf.
I love your wrap up format, particularly the Please Don’t Read category.