Reading Tally for 2024 and Goals for 2025

With two days to go it's unlikely I'll finish reading any more works. I began the year with some goals:

60-70 works, 15,000 pages    MET THIS GOAL
More spiritual reading, 13-15 works, including at least 2 encyclicals  WITH SOME OF THE NOVELS AND PLAYS, MADE THIS GOAL, AND ALSO MET THE ENCYCLICAL GOAL
Reading the Bible daily, including finishing all the OT books I have not yet read DID FINISH THE OT, BUT FELL SHORT ON THE DAILY READING 
Read at least five Dorothy Sayers Wimsey mysteries  READ SIX OF THEM
Read a couple of Agatha Christie mysteries READ TWO OF THEM
Read at least one Dickens novel that I haven't read before THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP
Read at least one Chesterton novel that I haven't read before READ TWO, THE FLYING INN and  THE BALL AND THE CROSS
Read all of Emily Dickinson's poetry READ THEM ALL
Read another Michael D. O'Brien novel BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON
Read Winter's Child by Margaret Coel READ IT

Except for falling short on reading the Bible daily, success! 

The Tally: 

72 Works - Page Count - 15,009 pages 

Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of Truth) by Pope St. John Paul II

Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII

Casti Connubii by Pope Pius XI

Cross-Examined: Catholic Responses to the World’s Questions by Fr. Carter Griffin

The Rocking Chair Prophet by Matthew Kelly

Jesuit at Large: Essays and Reviews by Paul V. Mankowski, S.J.

Heroes of the Catholic Reformation: Saints Who Renewed the Church by Joseph Pearce

Heretics by G. K. Chesterton

Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales

St. Francis of Assisi: Passion, Poverty and the Man Who Transformed The Catholic Church

by Bret Thoman, OFS

A Concise Guide to Catholic Social Teaching by Fr. Kevin McKenna - 

Lead Thou Me On! Selected Sermons of St. John Henry Cardinal Newman, Volume 1: Themes 

                               from the Old Testament

By the Rivers of Babylon by Michael D. O’Brien

The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor  

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter

The Flying Inn by G.K. Chesterton

The Ball and the Cross by G. K. Chesterton

The Golden Key and Other Fairy Tales by George MacDonald  

The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc

Looking for the King by David C. Downing

The Dry Wood by Carykk Houselander

Come Rack! Come Rope! by Fr. Robert Hugh Benson

One Poor Scruple by Josephine Wood

Signs and Wonders by Philip Gulley

Seaside Journeys of Faith by Jay Diedreck

A Cowboy in Shepherd’s Crossing by Ruth Logan Herne

Shepherd of the Highlands by Lily A. Bear

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells 

The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers

Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers

Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy Sayers  

The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy Sayers

Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers

The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers

The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie  

The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

Winter’s Child by Margaret Coel

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

The Sleeping Witness by Fiorella De Maria

In the Woods by Tana French

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw

Lysistrata  by Aristophanes

The Frogs by Aristophanes

The Children’s Crusade by Frances Chesterton

Sir Cleges by Frances Chesterton -

Piers Plowman’s Pilgrimage by Frances Chesterton

Abraham and Isaac by Anonymous

The Second Shepherd’s Play by Anonymous

Coldwater: An Eclectic History of the Hamlet by Donald G. Ionnone and John M. Robortella

Universal Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror by Michael Mallory

Even Santa Cries Sometimes by Bruce McGuy

Twas the Evening of Christmas by Glenys Nellist

Sparks from Rainbows by Julia A. Blodgett

Words with Wings: 

     A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art selected by Belinda Rochelle  

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes

Voices by Lucille Clifton

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Edited by Thomas H. Johnson

Hauling the Tide: Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology

T. S. Eliot: Collected Poems, 1909-1962

Prayerfully by Helen Steiner Rice

So what are my goals for 2025?

60-70 works, 15,000 pages, though not as strict about the page count

More spiritual reading, 13-15 works, including at least 2 encyclicals, and Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman plus a biography/study of Newman 

Reading the Bible daily
Read the two Dorothy Sayers Wimsey mysteries I haven't read yet (The Unpleasantness at the

          Bellona Club, and Have His Carcase )
Read at least 10 mysteries (in addition to the Sayers books)
Read Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Read The Poet and the Lunatics by G. K. Chesterton 

Read another Michael D. O'Brien novel
Reread The Lord of the Rings 
Read Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Read a biography of St. Francis

Although I'm not listing specific titles, I am in the process of finally reading some of the books I've accumulated over the years. Classics, science fiction and fantasy, mysteries, religious, and so on. Plus there are books I read 40 or 50 years ago that I am rereading. So these works will be among the books I will try to read this year. I also want to mix in some poetry collections. I haven't read a  lot of Longfellow, for example. He's on my radar!  

Pax et bonum