Books read 📚 2021

Aeschylus— Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides. 

Paul Johnson— A History of the American People. 

Victor Hugo— Les Miserables. 

Aldous Huxley— Brave New World (2nd reading). 

John Milton— Paradise Lost. 

L. M. Montgomery— Anne of Green Gables (3rd reread), Anne of Avonlea (reread), Anne of the Island (5th reread), Rainbow Valley (reread), Rilla of Ingleside (3rd reread), Uncollected Short Stories, Emily of New Moon (reread), Emily Climbs (reread), Magic for Marigold. 

Euripides— Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus. 

Louis Berkhof— Principles of Biblical Interpretation, Manual of Christian Doctrine. 

J. R. R. Tolkien— The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring. 

Herman Melville— Billy Budd, Sailor. 

Fyodor Dostoevsky— The Gambler, The Brothers Karamazov (2nd reading). 

D. A. Carson— The King James Only Debate. 

Flannery O’Connor— Everything that Rises Must Converge. 

Virginia Woolf— To the Lighthouse. 

James Joyce— Dubliners

G. K. Chesterton— The Man Who Was Thursday, The Incredulity of Father Brown.

Plato— Gorgias, Protagoras, Meno, Phaedrus, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, The Symposium (2nd reading), Euthyphro. 

Jane Austen— Persuasion (2nd reading), Sense and Sensuality (2nd reading), Mansfield Park (2nd reading). 

A. W. Pink— The Sovereignty of God (2nd Reading). 

John Steinbeck— East of Eden. 

Dorothy Mills— Renaissance and Reformation Times. 

Sophocles— Antigone (2nd reading), Oedipus the King (2nd reading), Oedipus at Colonus. 

Thomas Christopher— In Search of Lost Roses. 

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn— The Gulag Archipelago. 

Thomas Hardy— Tess of the D’Urbervilles. 

William Hendrickson— Survey of the Bible. 

Edmund Burke— Reflections on the Revolution in France. 

Andrew Lang— The Blue Fairy Book. 

Aristophanes— Lysistrata, Achanians, The Clowds. 

Jacob Grimm— The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. 

John Jefferson Davis— Evangelical Ethics. 

Charles Dickens— David Copperfield (2nd reading). 

Ray Bradbury— Fahrenheit 451. 

Willa Cather— My Antonia, O Pioneers. 

Will Durant— The Life of Greece. 

Greg Bahnsen— By This Standard (2nd reading). 

Herodotus— The Histories. 

Anton Chekhov— Ward 6. 

Edgar Allen Poe— The Fall of the House of Usher. 

Washington Irving— The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle. 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— The Courtship of Miles Standish. 

O. Palmer Robertson— Christ of the Covenants. 

Elizebeth Gaskell— Cranford. 

William Faulkner— Collected Short Stories. 

O. Henry— Collected Short Stories.

Leo Tolstoy— Anna Karenina (2nd reading). 

William Shakespeare— Romeo and Juliet (2nd reading). 


3 thoughts on “Books read 📚 2021

  1. Wow. Just wow. I’m in awe. This is so awesome! #readinggoals

    The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle – We read these 2 years ago for the first time– I really liked them! Have you read the short story “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O Henry? written around the same time era (the kids loved that one)

    I just read Anna Karenina in 2021 for my first time through. I’m still recovering lol. She was such a trainwreck (no pun intended!) Yikes. She joins Scarlett O Hara and Becky Sharp as my top 3 “worst-ever fiction anti-heroines”. I will have to read it again. All of the good in Levin and Kitty was lost on me because I was so disgusted/appalled/shocked by Anna.

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    1. Thanks!

      Washington Irving is great. Yes, the Ransom of Red Chief is hilarious, I’ve read that one with my reading students a few times.

      You should to give Anna Karenina a reread. That’s one of my top five novels. Kitty and Levin are delightful. I don’t think it does Anna justice to place her with Becky Sharp or Scarlett. They do manipulative things in such a heartless way. Anna’s torn, and she follows her passions; they lead her first to pleasure and then to death. I think it’s just great, but definitely not to everyone’s taste.

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