No commentary this year, though I did send a newsletter with a few highlights.
*Asterisks mark books I read on Kindle.
For School (6)
- The Odyssey, Homer (trans. Emily Wilson)
- Watership Down, Richard Adams
- The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula K. Le Guin
- Gilgamesh the Hero, Geraldine McCaughrean
- The God Beneath the Sea, Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen
- The Oresteia, Aeschylus (trans. Ted Hughes)
Children’s (11)
- Penrod, Booth Tarkington
- *Children of the New Forest, Francis Marryat
- *The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest, Charlotte M. Yonge
- *Moonfleet, John Meade Falkner
- Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper
- *Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome
- The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, Julie Andrews Edwards
- The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
- Teddy’s Button, Amy Le Feuvre
- *The Midnight Folk, John Masefield
Fiction (8)
- The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey
- Have His Carcase, Dorothy L. Sayers
- The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
- *The High Window, Raymond Chandler
- *Penny Plain, O. Douglas
- *The Mystery, Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams
- *We Did Not Reason Why, H. W. Taylor
- Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
Non-fiction (14)
- *Hills and the Sea, Hilaire Belloc
- Poetics, Aristotle (trans. Kenneth A. Telford)
- Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubnar
- A Nature Diary, Richard Adams
- The Theopolitan Vision, Peter J. Leithart
- Good to Great, Jim Collins
- The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt
- The One Thing, Gary Keller
- *Leadership and Emotional Sabotage, Joe Rigney
- Schaeffer on the Christian Life, William Edgar
- Apocalypse Never, Michael Shellenberger
- *Men and Marriage, George Gilder
- Hospitality, Mark Brians and Drew Knowles
- The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton
Read-Alouds (2)
- Brave Ollie Possum, Ethan Nicolle
- The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
Total: 41
Christian Leithart 