My 2024 Reading Plan
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- Опубліковано 29 гру 2023
- I discuss the books I'm planning to read in 2024:
New Releases
James by Percival Everett
Continuing to read some favorite authors:
Hermann Hesse - The Journey to the East
Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity
Teddy Wayne - Loner
Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks
Jane Austen - Emma and maybe Persuasion
Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye and Trouble is my Business
Ann Leckie - Translation State
Philip K Dick - Valis
Haruki Murakami - Sputnik Sweetheart
W Somerset Maugham - maybe Short Stories?
J.R.R. Tolkein - The Hobbit
Visit some new (to me) authors:
Marilynne Robinson.- Gilead
Thomas Merton - New Seeds of Contemplation and The Wisdom of the Desert
Colm Toíbín - House of Names
Jon Fosse - The Other Name: Septology I-II
Flannery O’Connor - The Violent Bear it Away
Continue/Complete Series:
Robert Jordan - Last 4 Books of Wheel of Time Series (complete the series)
Iain M Banks - Two Books in The Culture Series
Isaac Asimov - Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation (complete the series)
Historical Fiction:
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
Augustus by John Williams
Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth by Nabguib Mahfouz
History
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
A War Like No Other by Victor Davis Hanson
The World of Odysseus by MI Finley
House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance by John Hale
Magic Time: The Films and Scripts of Billy Wilder by J.R. Jordan
Biography/Memoir
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr
Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to the Life and Work by Gary Lachman
A U.S. President - probably American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
Philosophy/Spiritual:
In Praise of Forgetting by David Rieff
Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time by Marc Wittman
The Roots of Christian Mysticism by Olivier Clément
Breakthrough: Meister Eckhart’s Creation Spirituality in New Transition by Matthew Fox
Confucius and the Analects: New Essays by Bryan W. Van Norden
From Religion to Philosophy by Francis Macdonald Cornford
The Art of Memory by Frances A Yates
Up from Eden: A Transpersonal View of Human Evolution by Ken Wilbur
The Birth and Death of Meaning by Ernst Becker
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
The Republic by Plato
Other/Miscellaneous
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
The Third Man by Graham Greene
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Antkind by Charlie Kaufman
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Brasyl by Ian McDonald
Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
I greatly admire you and everyone else who has an organized plan for their reading year. I'm generally an organized person. You'd think I'd do the same. But life has been chaotic for a long time now and there's no sign of that changing. I don't have the brain space or energy to create/stick to plans of any kind. Watching other people's reading plans scratches the itch for me. Happy reading to you this year. I always appreciate your in depth discussions/reviews.
Thanks for much for the comment! Planned/structured reading is certainly not for everyone. I sometimes wish I were a bit less structured and I have actually tried to loosen up a bit...lol. Happy reading to you as well this year!
Wow - amazing list!
Thanks!
Interesting collection of books - you have a lot of possibilities for 2024. Nice to know where your channel is heading in the new year.
Many thanks for the comment and happy reading to you this year!
Your TBR list is very impressive, in amount and variety.
I have Buddenbrooks and The Waves on my reading list, so I'd like to hear your take on them.
"Red Wind" is the best story in Trouble is My Business.
Try O'Connor and Maugham's short stories, they are well written and never boring.
I suggest Grant's Personal Memoirs. It's the only presidential autobiography that reads like an intelligent man wrote it..by himself!
I actually think you might have been the viewer who recommended Trouble is My Business to me. I'm looking forward to reading it. I don't read a lot of short stories so I'm thinking I'll choose that for my Maugham this year. Grant's Memoirs are a fantastic suggestion! I read a biography of Grant a couple of years ago in which the memoirs were mentioned. He died very shortly after completing them and they were published by Mark Twain! I will rethink the Jackson biography and may do the memoirs instead. I hope we both enjoy Buddenbrooks and The Waves!
The Waves by Virginia Woolf is a truly singular work. I highly recommend carving out some time and personal space, perhaps space out in nature somewhere, to read that book. It's one of the few books I felt compelled to read in a single sitting, and it's remained one of the highlights of my reading life. You're lucky to have that experience ahead of you.
One thing to note: it's starkly different from To The Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway, far more poetic in form and style. If that difference feels like too far a stretch, I found her book Orlando to be a nice transition.
Thanks for the comment. If it's more poetic than To The Lighthouse it must be very poetic indeed! I actually thought about choosing Orlando and I might get to that one as well this year, if there is time. Thanks again!