Reading Revisited
Reading Revisited
ep. 66: Where to Start in the Reading Life
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ep. 66: Where to Start in the Reading Life

in which we tempt you to seriously overspend your book budget
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Our Recommendations

Hannah

Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (the first Poirot)

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Kelsie

The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery (RR

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaefer

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (RR

Jessica

Why Literature Still Matters by

(RR 2025)

Why Literature Still Matters by Jason M. Baxter | Goodreads

East of Eden by John Steinbeck (RR 2024)

Our Town by Thornton Wilder (RR

Where Not to Start? (but if they work for you then go for it!)

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (Hannah)

The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O’Connor (Kelsie)

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (Kelsie)

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (Jessica)

Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot (Jessica)

Other Books and Things

The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis (RR 2025)

ep. 33: The Violent Bear it Away (Book Swap)

Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor (essays) (RR 20

The Habit of Being by Flannery O’Connor (letters)

A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor (short story)

Literary Life Podcast Introduction to Flannery O’Connor

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (RR 2020 and 2026)

Othello by William Shakespeare (RR 2025)

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (RR

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Girl Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

Atomic Habits by James Clear

The Lifegiving Home by

and

Book Girl by

Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (the first Miss Marple)

The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz

The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)

Nancy Drew

Hardy Boys

Father Brown Reader by Nancy Carpentier Brown

Father Brown Reader II by Nancy Carpentier Brown

The Innocence of Father Brown (RR 2024)

The Woman Who Was Chesterton by Nancy Carpenter Brown

Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Susan Bower

The Awakening of Miss Prim by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (RR 2025)

Middlemarch by George Eliot (RR 2024)

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (RR

Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry (RR

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (RR

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (RR

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (RR

Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis (RR

The Everything Store by Brad Stone

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Lillith by George MacDonald

Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

Book Drop Day Posts

ep. 62: How to Start a Book Club

Until next time, keep revisiting the good books that enrich your life and nourish your soul.

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What We’re Reading Now/Next:

August

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

September

Why Literature Still Matters by Jason Baxter

Why Literature Still Matters, 2nd Ed. – Cassiodorus Press

October

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain


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