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Our Recommendations
Hannah
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (the first Poirot)
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Kelsie
The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery (RR
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaefer
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (RR
Jessica
Why Literature Still Matters by Jason M Baxter (RR 2025)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (RR 2024)
Our Town by Thornton Wilder (RR
Where Not to Start? (but if they work for you then go for it!)
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (Hannah)
The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O’Connor (Kelsie)
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (Kelsie)
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (Jessica)
Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot (Jessica)
Other Books and Things
The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis (RR 2025)
ep. 33: The Violent Bear it Away (Book Swap)
Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor (essays) (RR 20
The Habit of Being by Flannery O’Connor (letters)
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor (short story)
Literary Life Podcast Introduction to Flannery O’Connor
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (RR 2020 and 2026)
Othello by William Shakespeare (RR 2025)
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (RR
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Girl Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
Atomic Habits by James Clear
The Lifegiving Home by Sally Clarkson and Sarah Clarkson
Book Girl by Sarah Clarkson
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (the first Miss Marple)
The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
Nancy Drew
Hardy Boys
Father Brown Reader by Nancy Carpentier Brown
Father Brown Reader II by Nancy Carpentier Brown
The Innocence of Father Brown (RR 2024)
The Woman Who Was Chesterton by Nancy Carpenter Brown
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Susan Bower
The Awakening of Miss Prim by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (RR 2025)
Middlemarch by George Eliot (RR 2024)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (RR
Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry (RR
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (RR
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (RR
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (RR
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis (RR
The Everything Store by Brad Stone
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Lillith by George MacDonald
Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
Book Drop Day Posts
ep. 62: How to Start a Book Club
Until next time, keep revisiting the good books that enrich your life and nourish your soul.
What We’re Reading Now/Next:
August
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
September
Why Literature Still Matters by Jason Baxter
October
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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