I’ve continued a decent reading streak for the past month. I finished off eight books (yes, two of them were junk food books during a rough week) and started another three while making some progress on a few others. And, of course, I added a few more to the list!
I will try to write up some reviews this month, but my schedule doesn’t really let up until June when I’ll have more time to write. I’d pick some favorites, but I’ve read such a range of styles and topics that it’s difficult to compare the books!
What I haven’t yet read this year is a quality adult fiction book that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed.
I enjoyed my junk food books, but they are not quality. I’ve read several books that were fascinating or astounding or enlightening, but I wouldn’t say that I enjoyed them due to the difficult or intellectually challenging subject matter. I thoroughly enjoyed one quality book, but it was a children’s book. Although it wasn’t a fun book, The Chosen probably comes the closest. The narrative kept my interest and it was a fascinating window into a world so different from mine. It wasn’t cheerful, but it wasn’t brutal.
Did you read any enjoyable quality fiction this past month?
Here is my updated list.
The 2015 Book List Challenge
[*Added to original list]
Novels
Lila: A Novel
Hood
The Sunday Philosophy Club
A Girl of The Limberlost (ChocLit Guild)
The Brothers K
The Road
Dune
The Once and Future King
The Chosen
Beloved [in progress]
The Book Thief
*Whose Body?
Clouds of Witness
Catch-22
Lord of the Flies
The Great Gatsby
Invisible Man
The Return of the Native
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
The Grapes of Wrath
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Signature of All Things [in progress]
*Godric: A Novel
Merry Hall
*Go Set a Watchman: A Novel
*Gone with the Wind (ChocLit Guild)
Classics
Pride and Prejudice (ChocLit Guild)
Gulliver’s Travels (An abridged re-telling)
Moby Dick
Paradise Lost (ChocLit Guild)
The Brothers Karamazov
The Lord of the Rings
Frankenstein [in progress]
No Name (Or something else by Wilkie Collins. ChocLit Guild)
Hamlet (CC Moms Book Club) [deep reading in progress]
Ancients
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Children’s and YA Novels
The Door in the Wall (CC Challenge A)
A Gathering of Days (CC Challenge A)
Crispin: The Cross of Lead (CC Challenge A)
Where the Red Fern Grows (CC Challenge B)
Junk Food
*Highland Fling
*Paradise Fields
Non-Fiction
Biography/History
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (ChocLit Guild)
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (ChocLit Guild)
The Hiding Place (CC Challenge B)
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Faith, Culture, and Education
The Pursuit of God (ChocLit Guild) [in progress]
Beauty Will Save the World: Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age (CiRCE Conference)
Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education (CiRCE Conference) [in progress]
Leisure: The Basis of Culture
The Soul of Science (CC Parent Practicum)
Wisdom & Wonder: Common Grace in Science & Art (CC Parent Practicum)
Honey for a Teen’s Heart
Invitation to the Classics: A Guide to Books You’ve Always Wanted to Read
*Just Walk Across the Room (ChocLit Guild)
Re-Reads
*The Bronze Bow (CC Challenge A)
*The Question (CC Moms Book Club) [deep reading in progress]
*A Tale of Two Cities (reading aloud) [in progress]
*The Catcher in the Rye
*Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
*Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (read aloud)
*Heidi by Johanna Spyri