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.

We hope you enjoy this lovely conversation we had with one of our favorite Substackers, Griffin Gooch! Don’t forget that we have our Reading Revisited annual holiday, Book Drop Day, on June 14th! So be sure that you are subscribed and following along so you don’t miss any of the fun announcements for next year’s book list!

Where to Find Griffin on the Internet

Reality Theology with Griffin Gooch on Substack

Griffin’s Top 5

(in no particular order)

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

White Noise by John Dillilo

Welcome to the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Other Books and Things

On Reading Well by Karen Swallow Prior

Why Pastors Should Read Fiction (a Literary Life Podcast episode)

Harry Potter Series

Pendragon Series by D.J. MacHale

Charlie Bone Series by Jenny Nimmo

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

Narnia Series by C.S. Lewis

Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan

1984 by George Orwell

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Trust by Hernan Diaz

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingslover

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

The Documents of Vatican II

Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Doesteyvsky

The Divine Comedy by Dante (translation by Dr. Jason M Baxter)

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

This is Happiness by Niall Williams

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

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. 52: Bookish Bio of Joel J. Miller

* ep. 53: Beauty and Imitation w/

DANIEL McINERNY

* ep. 54: Introduction to Trust and Contemporary Novels w/

Sean Johnson

* ep. 55: What We’re Reading (May 2025)

What We’re Reading Now/Next:

June

Trust by Hernan Diaz

July

Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

August

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

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