Reading List

September 2026

1. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

2. The Odyssey - Homer (Robert Fagles’ translation)

3. East of Eden - John Steinbeck 

4. Defence Speeches - Cicero (Oxford Classics edition)

5. Phantastes - George MacDonald

October 2026

1. Paradise Lost - John Milton

2. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol

3. Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather

4. Willa Cather: Double Lives - Hermione Lee

5. Tales of the Elders of Ireland - translated by Ann Doley and Harry Roe

6. The Riddle-Master Trilogy - Patricia A. McKillip (rereading solely on my birthday)

November 2026

1. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

2. Butcher’s Crossing - John Williams

3. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful - Edmund Burke

4. The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis

5. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke

December 2026

1. The Iliad - Homer (Robert Fagles’ translation)

2. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories - Leo Tolstoy

3. The Virginian - Owen Wister

4. Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography - Marion Meade 

5. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life - Søren Kierkegaard

January 2027

1. Moby Dick - Herman Melville

2. The Aeneid - Virgil (Robert Fagles’ translation)

3. The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem - Matthew Hollis

4. The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa

5. The Strength of the Few - James Islington

February 2027

1. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 

2. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

3. Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal - The Brontës

4. Planet Narnia - Michael Ward

5. The Irish Princess - Elizabeth Chadwick

March-December 2027: TBD