Episode 76: The Literary Life 19 Books in 2021 Reading Challenge
Today on the podcast, your hosts Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins and Thomas Banks take a deep dive into the Literary Life 19 Books for 2021 challenge! This episode is full of ideas and book suggestions to help inspire your #LitLife192021 reading, so be sure to scroll down in your podcast app to view the comprehensive book link list! They not only give reasons behind each category and suggests for the adult reading challenge, but many titles for the kids’ version of the challenge, as well!
Also, don’t forget that our Literary Life Commonplace Books are now available to order via Amazon! These high quality journals are perfect for recording what you are reading, as well as all your favorite quotes, and we have both adult and children’s versions. Our publisher, Blue Sky Daisies, is providing us with a fun giveaway, so head over to their Facebook page, our Facebook group, or our Instagram to find the social media image to share and find all the details!
Cindy’s List of Literature of Honor for Boys
Cindy’s List of Books for Fortitude linked at The Redeemed Reader
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Commonplace Quotes:
In anything that can be called art, there is a quality of redemption.
Raymond Chandler
The right teacher would have his pupil easy to please, but ill to satisfy; ready to enjoy, unready to embrace; keen to discover beauty, slow to say, “Here I will dwell.”
George MacDonald
It is difficult for a moneylender to grow old gracefully
David Mathew
Christ’s Nativity
by Henry Vaughan
Awake, glad heart! get up and sing!
It is the birth-day of thy King.
Awake! awake!
The Sun doth shake
Light from his locks, and all the way
Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.
Awake, awake! hark how th’ wood rings;
Winds whisper, and the busy springs
A concert make;
Awake! awake!
Man is their high-priest, and should rise
To offer up the sacrifice.
I would I were some bird, or star,
Flutt’ring in woods, or lifted far
Above this inn
And road of sin!
Then either star or bird should be
Shining or singing still to thee.
I would I had in my best part
Fit rooms for thee! or that my heart
Were so clean as
Thy manger was!
But I am all filth, and obscene;
Yet, if thou wilt, thou canst make clean.
Sweet Jesu! will then. Let no more
This leper haunt and soil thy door!
Cure him, ease him,
O release him!
And let once more, by mystic birth,
The Lord of life be born in earth.
Book List:
The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler
A Dish of Orts by George MacDonald
The Great Tudors ed. by Katharine Garvin
The Oxford Book of English Verse ed. by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Classic Hundred Poems ed. by William Harmon
The Top 500 Poems ed. by William Harmon
Letters to An American Lady by C. S. Lewis
Selected Letters of Jane Austen ed. by Vivien Jones
Lord Chesterfield’s Letters ed. by David Roberts
The Habit of Being by Flannery O’Connor
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Heroes by Stephen Fry
Mythos by Stephen Fry
From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun
The Educated Imagination by Northrup Frye
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Leaf by Niggle by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
The Shooting Party by Anton Chekov
Kristen Lavrensdatter Trilogy by Sigrid Undset
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Milton by Rose Macaulay
Chaucer by G. K. Chesterton
Churchill by Paul Johnson
Napoleon by Paul Johnson
The Enchanted Places by Christopher Milne
The Narnian by Alan Jacobs
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Natural by Bernard Malamud
The Brothers K by David James Duncan
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas Á Kempis
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays by William Hazlitt
The Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Macaulay
Imaginary Conversations by Walter Savage Landor
Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
How the Heather Looks by Joan Bodger
The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
Travels with a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
What I Saw in America by G. K. Chesterton
The History of the Second Boer War by Winston Churchill
The Heroes by Charles Kingsley
A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Children of Odin Padraic Colum
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
Betsy-Tacy Treasury by Maud Hart Lovelace
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
American Tall Tales by Adrian Stoutenberg
Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Children’s Homer by Padraic Colum
The Golden Fleece by Padraic Colum
The Tale of Troy by Roger Lancelyn Green
Tales from the Odyssey by Mary Pope Osborne
Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald J. Sobol
Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfield
The Adventures of Tin-tin by Hergé
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green
King Arthur Trilogy by Rosemary Sutcliff
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
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One Comment
Janet Cupo
Re the Tudor error: once in a church, I saw a sign that said it was a non-prophet organization.