I began the year with certain reading goals:
60-70 works, 15,000 pages
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, and Have His Carcase - by Dorothy Sayers
A Dickens novel (Little Dorrit or Our Mutual Friend)
Lord of the Rings (reread)
Kristin Lavransdatter
Apologia Pro Vita Sua (reread)
Bio/Study of Newman
The Poet and the Lunatics (Chesterton)
Some Mystery novels
Some Encyclicals
With one day to go, I'm not likely to finish another work, so here is the tally for 2025:2025 - 76 Books - Page Count - 17,312 pages
Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography by Holly Ordway
The Sermons of the Cure of Ars
John Henry Newman: Snapdragon in the Wall by Joyce Sugg
Apologia Pro Vita Sua by St. John Henry Cardinal Newman
The Epistle of Barnabas
The Epistle to Diognetus
The Didache
Letter to the Corinthians - Clement of Rome
Simplicity by John Michael Talbot with Dan O’Neill
Peace on Earth (Pacem In Terris) - Pope St. John XXIII
Christianity and Social Progress (Mater et Magistra) by Pope St. John XXIII
The Redeemer of Man (Redemptor Hominis) by Pope St. John Paul II
St. Thomas More by E. E. Reynolds
Catherine of Siena by Sigrid Undset
God’s Troubadour: The Story of Saint Francis of Assisi by Sophie Jewett
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
The Real Story: Understanding the Big Picture of the Bible by Edward Sri and Curtis Martin
33 Days to Eucharistic Glory
Set All Afire (St. Francis Xavier) by Louis de Wohl
Because God is Real by Peter J. Kreeft
The Poet and the Lunatics by G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
Descent Into Hell by Charles Williams
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
The Wreath by Sigrid Undset
The Wife by Sigrid Undset
The Cross by Sigrid Undset
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Fool Of New York City by Michael D. O’Brien
Father Malachy’s Miracle by Bruce Marshall
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy Sayers
Have His Carcase by Dorothy Sayers
Murder in the Lincoln White House by C. M. Gleason
Murder at the Capitol by C. M. Gleason
The Vanishing Woman by Fiorella De Maria
See No Evil by Fiorella De Maria
Death of a Scholar by Fiorella De Maria
Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
Rough Cider by Peter Lovesey
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
The Holy Thief by Ellis Peters
Dead Man’s Ransom by Ellis Peters
The Surprise by G. K. Chesterton
The Judgement of Dr. Johnson by G. K. Chesterton
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
Medea by Euripides
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
John the Balladeer by Manly Wade Wellman
The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells
The Food of the Gods by H. G. Wells
In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Selected Poems
The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda by Sumita Oyama (translated by William
Scott Wilson
A Good Time Was Had By All by Stevie Smith
Tender Only To One by Stevie Smith
Mother, What Is Man? by Stevie Smith
Harold’s Leap by Stevie Smith
Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith
Haiku selected and edited by Peter Washington
Ginko Gold anthology
Christmas Presence: Twelve Gifts That Were More Than They Seemed
edited by Gregory F. Augustine Pierce
Christmas Curiosities: Odd, Dark, and Forgotten Christmas by John Grossman
The Autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff Guinn
Making the Best of What’s Left by Judith Viorst
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-50 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
John Adams by David McCullough
The usual eclectic mix. I read more works and pages than I had planned. Some good reads. Some clunkers.
I'm now up to 597 works read since I started keeping count in 2013.
Pax et bonum
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