Love your list, Jessica! I discovered Flannery O'Connor this year so I had a whirlwind diving deep into her work and other tangential works connected to her.
1. Wise Blood/The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
2. Art and Scholasticism by Jacques Maritain
3. The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Paul Elie
4. Flannery by Brad Gooch
5. Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
6. Giving the Devil His Due by Jessica Hooten Wilson (that's you!)
7. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
8. The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
9. The Strangest Way by Bishop Barron/On the Road with St. Augustine by James K. A. Smith/Letters to a Young Catholic by George Weigel (All wonderful books using different devices to examine the heart of Christiantiy)
Love this question! In no particular order, ten books I hadn't read before this year that for various reasons I'm so glad I did:
1. Olav Audunsson I (Vows), Sigrid Undset
2. The Wild Orchid / The Burning Bush, Sigrid Undset (maybe cheating to call this dyad one book)
3. Images in a Mirror, Sigrid Undset
4. Marta Oulie, Sigrid Undset (possibly sensing a theme here?)
5. Problems of Dostoyevsky's Poetics, Mikhail Bakhtin
6. The Five Wounds, Kirstin Valdez Quade
7. One of Ours, Willa Cather (astonishing, so good)
8. The Troll Garden, Willa Cather
9. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, Toni Morrison
10. Christ and Apollo, William Lynch, SJ
You should stay in touch for when we announce the details of our Undset pilgrimage to Norway!
1.Love in the Ruins, Percy
2. The Man who was Thursday, Chesterton
3. Strange Rites, Burton
4. Radical Hope, Jonathan Lear
5. A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole
6. Chaos...the secret history of the Sixties, O'Neill
7. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
8. Tell Your Children (Marijuana, Mental Illness & Violence), Alex Berenson
9. Trans, Helen Joyce, senior editor at The Economist
10. Sgt. Reckless, a children's picture book about an heroic horse in the Korean conflict.
Hi Jessica, I'm not a Christian but enjoy your posts and have found this one particularly interesting, I
have now purchased The Knot of Vipers and Kristin Lavransdatter Vol.1 for next year's reading list.
That's great to hear. The Knot of Vipers is intense. The second half is twice as good as the first part of the book. I know you'll love Lavransdatter.
Both books were excellent, looking forward to reading more Sigrid Undset this year. Thank you for the recommendation!
Love your list, Jessica! I discovered Flannery O'Connor this year so I had a whirlwind diving deep into her work and other tangential works connected to her.
1. Wise Blood/The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
2. Art and Scholasticism by Jacques Maritain
3. The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Paul Elie
4. Flannery by Brad Gooch
5. Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
6. Giving the Devil His Due by Jessica Hooten Wilson (that's you!)
7. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
8. The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
9. The Strangest Way by Bishop Barron/On the Road with St. Augustine by James K. A. Smith/Letters to a Young Catholic by George Weigel (All wonderful books using different devices to examine the heart of Christiantiy)
10. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Here's to more happy reading in 2022!
So glad you discovered Flannery! Thanks for reading my book! I'm guessing you've seen my Flannery YouTube videos? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQd0G0l2M5k
My husband read Hamilton's bio and loved it. Great choices here!