Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books.

Trust by Hernan Diaz

Where to Find Sean

Close Reads Podcast

The Daily Poem Podcast

Look for Sean Johnson at his future 1,000 Good Books Project

Sean’s Top 5

* The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

* The Divine Comedy by Dante OR The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (RR 2022)

* Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy OR The Sword of Honor Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh

* A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

* As You Like It by William Shakespeare

Honorable Mentions (Poetry Edition)

Complete Works of Gerard Manly Hopkins

Slow Pilgrim by Scott Cairns

Collected Poems by John Robert Lee

Other Books and Things

Everything Sad is Untrue by Khosrou Daniel Nayeri (RR 2025)

Close Reads Series on Trust (with David Kern, Heidi White, Tim McIntosh, and Sean Johnson)

David Kern and Bethany Kern’s Book Store- Goldberry Books

In the Distance by Hernan Diaz

Trust by Domenico Starnone

On the Incarnation by Athanasius (Introduction essay by C.S. Lewis…On the Reading of Old Books)

New York Review of Books

The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (RR Book Swap Podcast 2024)

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Pevear translation)

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Katz translation)

The Divine Comedy (John Ciardi translation)

The Divine Comedy (Dorothy Sayers translation)

The Divine Comedy (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation)

Jason M Baxter’s translation of The Divine Comedy

The Power and the Glory by Graham Grene (RR 2021)

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Helena by Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (RR 2020)

ep. 53: Beauty and Imitation w/ DANIEL McINERNY

Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

Close Reads 2024 Year in Reading

Lacunae by Scott Cairns

Waiting on the Word by Malcolm Guite

The Eagle and the Hart by Helen Castor

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (RR ????)

The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni

Hymns on Paradise by St. Ephrem the Syrian

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Coifer

The Death of Christian Culture by John Senior

The Children’s Tradition Curriculum by Amanda Faus

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

In Case You Missed It:

On the Podcast:

* ep. 51: Intro to Death Comes for the Archbishop and Willa Cather

* ep. 52: Bookish Bio of Joel J. Miller

* ep. 53: Beauty and Imitation w/

DANIEL McINERNY

* ep. 54: Revisiting the Moonstone

What We’re Reading Now/Next:

June

Trust by Hernan Diaz

July

Everything Sad is Untrue by

Khosrou Daniel Nayeri

August

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

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