The Readings is a curated list of books. Began in late 2020.

For a list of all time favourites, see directory. For notes, thoughts, and writings on my readings, see notes.

reading list in progress

• The Magic Mountain: Thomas Mann
• The Conferences: John Cassian
• Dostoevsky, a Writer in His Time: Joseph Frank
• Anna Karenina: Leo Tolstoy ~ tr. Pevear & Volokhonsky
• The Wake: Paul Kingsnorth
• Mikhail Bakhtin, Creation of a Poetics: Gary Saul Morson & Caryl Emerson
• On the Incarnation: Saint Athanasius
• On Marriage and Family Life: St. John Chrysostom ~ Popular Patristics Series
• Fools for Christ: Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra
• The Religion of the Apostles: Stephen de Young
• Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

reading list continual

• The Orthodox Study Bible: ~
• My Life in Christ: Saint John of Kronstadt
• Lives of the Saints: OCA
• The Psalter: ~
• The Arena, An Offering to Contemporary Monasticism: Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov

reading list 2021

• Leviathan: Hobbes
• Discourse on Method: Descartes
• The Basic Political Writings: Rousseau
• The Prince: Machiavelli
• The Idiot: Dostoevsky ~ tr. Pevear & Volokhonsky
• The Book of the Body Politic: Christine de Pizan
• Netochka Nezvanova: Fyodor Dostoevsky ~ tr. Jane Kentish
• The Prince: Machiavelli ~ tr. N.H. Thompson
• Republic: Plato ~ tr. G.M.A. Grube & C.D.C. Reeve
• Politics: Aristotle ~ tr. C.D.C. Reeve
• Ethics: Aristotle ~ tr. J.A.K. Thomson
• City of God: Augustine ~ tr. Henry Bettenson
• Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte
• The Qur'an: ~ tr. M.A.S. Abdel Haleem
• Childhood, Boyhood, Youth: Tolstoy ~ tr. Louise and Aylmer Maude
• Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy: Cavallar and Kirshner
• From Peoples into Nations, A History of Eastern Europ: John Connelly
• Middlemarch: George Eliot
• The Last Gentleman: Walker Percy
• The Moviegoer: Walker Percy
• Lost in the Cosmos: Walker Percy
• Confessions: Augustine
• Inferno: Dante Alighieri
• Essays: Michel de Montaigne
• Don Quixote: Miguel de Cervantes
• Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
• Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen
• Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoevsky ~ tr. Pevear & Volokhonsky
• Dom Casmurro: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
• To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf
• Song of Solomon: Toni Morrison
• Love in the Ruins: Walker Percy
• The Trial: Franz Kafka

reading list 2020

• The Traitor Baru Cormorant: Seth Dickinson
• Christianity in East and West: Christopher Dawson
• Father Seraphim Rose, His Life and Works: Hieromonk Damascene
• Religion and the Rise of Western Culture: Christopher Dawson
• Citizen, An American Lyric: Claudia Rankine
• The Lord of the Rings: J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Iliad: Homer ~ Richard Lattimore
• If Not, Winter, Fragments of Sappho: Sappho ~ tr. Carson
• Odyssey: Homer ~ tr. Emily Wilson
• Oresteia: Aeschylus ~ tr. Lattimore
• Antigone: Sophocles ~ tr. Lattimore
• Father Comes Home from the Wars: Suzane-Lori Parks
• Symposium: Plato ~ trs. Nehamas, Woodruff
• Aeneid: Virgil tr. Mandelbaum
• The Captain's Daughter: Pushkin
• Metamorphoses: Ovid ~ tr. Raeburn
• The Tyrant Baru Cormorant: Seth Dickinson
• Wisdom and Innocence, A Life of G.K. Chesterton: Joseph Pearce