Julie’s 2013 Personal Reading Challenge

Last updated on: January 1, 2013 at 9:01 am by Julie Davis

Julie’s 2013 Personal Reading Challenge 2012-12-28T17:03:44-06:00 Julie Davis

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My 2012 book challenge was so rewarding, making me pick up books I would just keep skipping over in favor of lighter reading. I’m doing it again this year. Some books are carried over from last year and some I dropped because they just didn’t look interesting to me right now. But you can see I have plenty of others to fill in the gaps.

As before, I may not get through all of them in a year, but I will be trying always read one of them despite other distractions. In no particular order.

Classics

Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens
Middlemarch* – Eliot
Belly of Paris* (Emile Zola)
Wuthering Heights* – Charlotte Bronte (began this in 2012, finishing it in 2013)

Modern

Momento Mori – Muriel Spark
Last Call* – Tim Powers (not a true classic, I know … but still a “challenging” read which is what all these are for me)
Galactic Pot Healer – Philip K. Dick (I wanted to try a novel instead of short stories and this was recommended as being one of the most complete stories told in a novel.)
Journal of the Gun Years – Richard Matheson (I’m so curious to see what sort of Western Matheson writes since he was such a science fiction award winner)

Religion

Introduction to the Devout Life* – St. Francis de Sales (began this in 2012, finishing it in 2013)
The Way of Perfection* – St. Teresa of Avila
A Song for Nagasaki – Glynn
The Scarlet and the Black – Gallagher

Rereading

The Sand Pebbles*
Nine Princes in Amber – Zelazny

Nonfiction

Tolkien’s Letters
The Inklings – Humphrey Carpenter
H.V. Morton travel book
King Peggy

* Carried over from the 2012 Book Challenge.

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