Reading Revisited

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.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Other Books and Things

Shoutout to Christy Isinger for the original recommendation from the old Fountains of Home blog!

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Doesteyvsky

Murder of the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

The Inferno by Dante

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

The Purgatorio by Dante

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Paradise Lost by Milton

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Harry Potter Series

The Literary Life Podcast Harry Potter Series w/ Angelina Stanford

That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Leaf by Niggle by J.R.R. Tolkien

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

J.K. Rowling’s Mystery Novels

Caitie’s Masterpiece Honorable Mentions

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Caitie’s Top 5

* Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtrey

* A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

* Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

* The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

* A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

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

A Few Reminders:

If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us!

We have turned on paid subscriptions which will allow you to support the work we are doing here as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month and voice recordings of the Read Along Guides.

If you would like to make a small contribution to the work we’re doing here at Reading Revisited, we invite you to do so with the Buy (Us) a Coffee button below. We so appreciate your support!

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, we appreciate you using the links. The few cents earned with each purchase you make after clicking links (at no extra cost to you) goes toward the time and effort it takes to keep Reading Revisited running, and we appreciate it!

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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.

Books and Things Mentioned

Writing While Washing by Annelise Roberts

Everything Sad Is Untrue series by Close Reads Podcast HQ

Everything Sad Is Untrue Q&A feat. Daniel Nayeri by Close Reads Podcast HQ

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

The Children’s Tradition by Amanda Faus

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Walking on Water by Madeleine L’Engle

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

A Few Reminders:

If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us!

We have turned on paid subscriptions which will allow you to support the work we are doing here as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month and voice recordings of the Read Along Guides.

If you would like to make a small contribution to the work we’re doing here at Reading Revisited, we invite you to do so with the Buy (Us) a Coffee button below. We so appreciate your support!

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, we appreciate you using the links. The few cents earned with each purchase you make after clicking links (at no extra cost to you) goes toward the time and effort it takes to keep Reading Revisited running, and we appreciate it!

Song: Into The Light Music composed and recorded by Oak Studios. Link:

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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.

Reading Revisited is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

Today we have on a special guest: Haley Stewart! Haley is an award-winning author, the Editor of Word on Fire Votive, and host of the Votive Podcast. She is a single mom of four and lives in Florida. She sometimes leads pilgrimages and she always needs more bookshelves.

Women of the Catholic Imagination edited by Haley Stewart

Where Else to Find Haley

Haley’s Instagram

The Votive Podcast

Old Fountains of Carrots Podcast

Other Books by Haley Stewart

The Pursuit of the Pilfered Cheese

The Curious Christmas Trail

Strange Sound by the Sea

Jane Austen’s Genius Guide to Life

The Catholic Kid’s Cookbook

The Grace of Enough

Haley’s Top 5

* Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (RR Pick) OR The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt

* Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin

* Persuasion OR Emma by Jane Austen (RR Picks)

* Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (RR Pick)

* Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (RR Pick)

Other Books and Things

Brambley Hedge by Jill Barklem

Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Greene

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (RR Pick)

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (RR Book Swap)

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (RR Pick)

Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories (RR Pick)

In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden (RR Pick)

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (RR Pick)

Purgatorio by Dante (the new Jason M Baxter translation is out!)

Catholic Women Series

The Dry Wood by Caryll Houselander (RR Pick)

The Habit of Being by Flannery O’Connor (her letters)

Greta Gerwig Little Women (movie)

Claire the Catholic Feminist (recommended Hecules Beal to Haley)

The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

I Am, I Am, I Am Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell

This Must Be The Place by Maggie O’Farrell

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

A Few Reminders:

If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us!

We have turned on paid subscriptions which will allow you to support the work we are doing here as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month and voice recordings of the Read Along Guides.

If you would like to make a small contribution to the work we’re doing here at Reading Revisited, we invite you to do so with the Buy (Us) a Coffee button below. We so appreciate your support!

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, we appreciate you using the links. The few cents earned with each purchase you make after clicking links (at no extra cost to you) goes toward the time and effort it takes to keep Reading Revisited running, and we appreciate it!

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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

A Few Reminders:

If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us!

We have turned on paid subscriptions which will allow you to support the work we are doing here as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month and voice recordings of the Read Along Guides.

If you would like to make a small contribution to the work we’re doing here at Reading Revisited, we invite you to do so with the Buy (Us) a Coffee button below. We so appreciate your support!

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, we appreciate you using the links. The few cents earned with each purchase you make after clicking links (at no extra cost to you) goes toward the time and effort it takes to keep Reading Revisited running, and we appreciate it!

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingrevisited.substack.com/subscribe

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.

Reading Revisited is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

Other Books and Things

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (RR Pick)

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Book Swap Pick)

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (RR Pick)

Boggs: A Comedy of Values by Lawrence Weschler

Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (RR Pick)

Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry (and any Port William novels)

Howards End by E.M. Forester

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

What We’re Reading Now/Next:

July

Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

August

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

September

Why Literature Still Matters by Jason Baxter

A Few Reminders:

If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us!

We have turned on paid subscriptions which will allow you to support the work we are doing here as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month and voice recordings of the Read Along Guides.

If you would like to make a small contribution to the work we’re doing here at Reading Revisited, we invite you to do so with the Buy (Us) a Coffee button below. We so appreciate your support!

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, we appreciate you using the links. The few cents earned with each purchase you make after clicking links (at no extra cost to you) goes toward the time and effort it takes to keep Reading Revisited running, and we appreciate it!

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingrevisited.substack.com/subscribe

Reading Revisited is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Find Elise Boratenski at…

Jane Austen Novels

Pride and Prejudice

Mansfield Park

Sense and Sensibility

Emma

Persuasion

Other Books and Things

Much Obliged, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (seriously, buy this copy and then thank me later…love, Kelsie)

All Creatures Great and Small (the book)

All Creatures Great and Small (the TV show)

Pints with Jack

ep. 36: Intro to the Space Trilogy w/ David Bates

Belinda by Maria Edgeworth

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Agnes Grey by Charlotte Bronte

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

What We’re Reading Now/Next:

July

Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

August

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

September

Why Literature Still Matters by Jason Baxter

A Few Reminders:

If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us!

We have turned on paid subscriptions which will allow you to support the work we are doing here as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month and voice recordings of the Read Along Guides.

If you would like to make a small contribution to the work we’re doing here at Reading Revisited, we invite you to do so with the Buy (Us) a Coffee button below. We so appreciate your support!

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, we appreciate you using the links. The few cents earned with each purchase you make after clicking links (at no extra cost to you) goes toward the time and effort it takes to keep Reading Revisited running, and we appreciate it!

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Meredith Hinds is a Catholic wife and mom who moonlights as a freelance writer and editor. Her first project for children was A Saint A Day, a devotional published by Tommy Nelson. She also wrote Eucharistic Saints, a collection of stories about 25 Saints' love for the Eucharist, published by TAN, and is currently writing another round of Saint bios for teens with YDisciple. Meredith is having her sixth baby in September and runs a Substack newsletter called Still Today, which is essentially a mom blog, but Kelsie Hartley thinks that it's one of the funniest things on Substack, and you should definitely subscribe to it. For the purpose of our discussion today she loves our current Book Club Pick, Everything Sad is Untrue.

Meredith’s Top 5

* Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

* The Baronet’s Song by George MacDonald

* Heidi by Joanna Spyri

* Pinocchio by Carlo

* Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Other Books and Things

Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Dr. Dolittle Series

Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

The Narnia Series by C.S. Lewis

Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne (and House at Pooh Corner)…actually just buy the whole set! Or here are the picture books!

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Flannery O’Connor Short Stories

Anne of Green Gables Series by L.M. Montgomery

An example of Meredith’s hilarious acronyms (NFP article)

Haley Baumeister’s Substack…Life Considered

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

The Arabian Nights

Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes

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

What We’re Reading Now/Next:

July

Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

August

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

September

Why Literature Still Matters by Jason Baxter

A Few Reminders:

If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us!

We have turned on paid subscriptions which will allow you to support the work we are doing here as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month and voice recordings of the Read Along Guides.

If you would like to make a small contribution to the work we’re doing here at Reading Revisited, we invite you to do so with the Buy (Us) a Coffee button below. We so appreciate your support!

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, we appreciate you using the links. The few cents earned with each purchase you make after clicking links (at no extra cost to you) goes toward the time and effort it takes to keep Reading Revisited running, and we appreciate it!

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingrevisited.substack.com/subscribe

Reading Revisited is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

If you would like to join a book club or start one, please message us! Specifically if you are in the Nashville or Chicago area….please join our fledgling groups! We also have other options as well so please reach out even if you are in another area of the country.

We also would love to encourage you to share our Book Club opportunities with real life friends who may or may not be on Substack. We love Substack, but I am sure there are readers out there who aren’t on Substack and would love to read books with us!

Books and Things

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaeffer

Book Club for Two…A Substack essay by our friend Shannon Hood

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

What We’re Reading Now/Next:

July

Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

August

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

September

Why Literature Still Matters by Jason Baxter

A Few Reminders:

If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us!

We have turned on paid subscriptions which will allow you to support the work we are doing here as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month and voice recordings of the Read Along Guides.

If you would like to make a small contribution to the work we’re doing here at Reading Revisited, we invite you to do so with the Buy (Us) a Coffee button below. We so appreciate your support!

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, we appreciate you using the links. The few cents earned with each purchase you make after clicking links (at no extra cost to you) goes toward the time and effort it takes to keep Reading Revisited running, and we appreciate it!

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingrevisited.substack.com/subscribe

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

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Books and Things

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos

Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

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

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

A Few Reminders:

If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us!

We have turned on paid subscriptions which will allow you to support the work we are doing here as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month and voice recordings of the Read Along Guides.

If you would like to make a small contribution to the work we’re doing here at Reading Revisited, we invite you to do so with the Buy (Us) a Coffee button below. We so appreciate your support!

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, we appreciate you using the links. The few cents earned with each purchase you make after clicking links (at no extra cost to you) goes toward the time and effort it takes to keep Reading Revisited running, and we appreciate it!

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingrevisited.substack.com/subscribe

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.

Heidi’s Top 5

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery

Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Books/Things Mentioned

Close Reads Podcast HQ

The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams by Khosrou Daniel Nayeri

Plato’s Mino

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

This is Happiness by Niall Williams

The Divided Soul: Duty and Desire in Literature and Life by Heidi White

In Case You Missed It:

On the Podcast:

* ep. 56: What We’re Reading (May 2025)

* ep. 57: Bookish Bio of Griffin Gooch (a Bookish PhD Student)

* ep. 58: One Year Anniversary of the Reading Revisited Podcast

* ep. 59: Book Drop Day 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

A Few Reminders:

If you are wanting to get in on the in person or virtual community please contact us!

We have turned on paid subscriptions which will allow you to support the work we are doing here as well as receive Read Along Guide PDFs each month and voice recordings of the Read Along Guides.

If you would like to make a small contribution to the work we’re doing here at Reading Revisited, we invite you to do so with the Buy (Us) a Coffee button below. We so appreciate your support!

*As always, some of the links are affiliate links. If you don’t have the books yet and are planning to buy them, we appreciate you using the links. The few cents earned with each purchase you make after clicking links (at no extra cost to you) goes toward the time and effort it takes to keep Reading Revisited running, and we appreciate it!

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit readingrevisited.substack.com/subscribe