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2026-2027 Book List:

Year-Long Book About Books:

Beauty and Imitation: A Philosophical Reflection on the Arts by DANIEL McINERNY

September:

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

October:

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

November:

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

December:

Works of Mercy by Sally Thomas

January:

Richard III by William Shakespeare

February:

Galahad and the Grail by Malcolm Guite

March-April:

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

May:

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

June:

Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos

July:

China Court by Rumer Godden

August:

The Feast by Margaret Kennedy

Society Member Read-Along (Jan 2027-August 2028):

The Iliad by Homer

The Odyssey by Homer

Kelsie’s Top 5:

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Hannah’s Top 5:

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

The Feast by Margaret Kennedy

Jess’ Top 5:

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Emma by Jane Austen

Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Other Books/Things Mentioned:

The Good Death of Kate Montclair by DANIEL McINERNY

Walking On Water by Madeleine L’Engle

The Pleasures of Reading In An Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs

An Experiment in Criticism by C.S. Lewis

Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know by Joseph Pearce

RR ep. 32: The House of Mirth

Close Reads Podcast HQ episodes on Age of Innocence

Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

RR ep. 16: Intro to Jane Eyre and Gothic Novels w/ Eleanor Bourg Nicholson

“Christmas and the Common Birth” by Ann Ridler

Close Reads Podcast HQ episodes on the Henriad

Othello by William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Henry V by William Shakespeare

The Ballad of the White Horse by G.K. Chesterton

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Until next time, keep revisiting the good books that enrich your life and nourish your soul.

What We’re Reading Next:

June

Oedipus Rex and Antigone by Sophacles

July

The Good Death of Kate Montclair by DANIEL McINERNY

Paid Subscriber Read-Along

Paradise Lost by John Milton

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