Wrapping Up My 2023 Reading
Reading + listening + reading aloud = 70 books
As I hold a tiny baby in my arms right now, I do not have much energy or motivation to eloquently divulge my final opinions on The Count of Monte Cristo or to finish reading Pensées, but I'm pleased to share my list of finished books with you all one last time. Thank you for joining me in 2023!
2023 Reading Goals
1. Finish Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: DONE!
2. Read Tartuffe by Molière (a play): DONE!
3. Candide by Voltaire (a satirical novella): DONE!
4. The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc: DONE!
5. Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: DONE!
6. Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts: DONE!
7. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: DONE!
8. Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: DONE!
9. An anthology of French poetry: DONE!
10. Pensées by Blaise Pascal (philosophical musings of a great mathematician): 10% done
11. The First Discourse by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: DONE!
Lafayetteby Harlow Giles Unger:DONE!From Mother and Daughter: an anthology of the writings of Madeleine and Catherine des Roches
Other (Non-French) Things I Read:
Madeleine L’Engle’s Crosswicks Journals: The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman
A Man Called Ove and Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backmann
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Nineteen Steps by Millie Bobby Brown
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The God of the Garden by Andrew Peterson
15 more chapters in War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Next Steps
Thank you all for joining me on my reading journey this year! I’ll share my 2024 goals in a couple of weeks. I encourage you to choose your own short list of books that you'd like to read this year— I'd suggest just 3 to 12 “goal” titles, depending on your reading mileage and the length of the books.
There will still be room for spontaneity, and the list might motivate you to branch out and learn something new or different. Please share your lists with me!
Happy New Year!