If you want to join me reading one, two, or all of these books, feel free!
Forbidden Romance-
January: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
February: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Dystopian-
March: 1984 by George Orwell
April: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Fantasy-
May: The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
June: Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
Science Fiction-
July: From Earth to Moon and Around the Moon by Jules Verne
August: The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov
Historical Fiction-
September: Death Comes For the Archbishop by Willa Cathar
October: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Horror-
November: Dracula by Bram Stoker
December: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Some nonfiction I will be reading this year-
Claude Debussy by Paul Roberts (January)
The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
John Quincy Adams: American Visionary by Fred Kaplan
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
The Gershwins by Robert Kimball
The Piano by Jeremy Siepmann
Do you have any reading goals this year?
Sounds like a neat challenge! I do know a bit a about George MacDonald, and that he was the author who inspired C. S. Lewis to write in his allegorical style. I've read Back of the North Wind by him, which was interesting, and The Wise Woman and Other Stories we had to read for school. I also read Lilith, which was really strange. Supposedly Lilith was Adam's first wife before he met Eve... very strange story indeed. :)
ReplyDeleteWow, that is strange! I've heard his books for adults are a lot harder to get through than his books for children, so I'm hoping The Princess and the Goblin won't be too drastically difficult!
DeleteLilith is possibly my favorite George MacDonald book ever. Though I also love his children's stories. The Princess and the Goblin is an all-time favorite, and not difficult at all. I may have to join you on that one.
ReplyDeleteI don't usually do reading goals... but if I had to, I think my goal this year is to read a lot more Indie authors... because I have quite a few of them whose blogs I read and love, but I haven't gotten around to reading their books yet.