2025 Reading List

The Midwestern Spy Reading List for 2024 is afoot, let the reading begin!

2025 Reading List
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Drew here! These are the books I'll be reading in 2025 or trying to!

  1. The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
  2. Tales of the Greek Heroes by Roger Lancelyn Green
  3. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
  4. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
  5. Othello by William Shakespeare
  6. Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
  7. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  8. The Writings of the Desert Fathers by (various authors) - Early Christian monastic texts.
  9. The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
  10. Myths of the Norsemen by Roger Lancelyn Green
  11. Leaf by Niggle by J.R.R. Tolkien
  12. Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis - Space Trilogy
  13. Perelandra by C.S. Lewis - Space Trilogy
  14. That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis - Space Trilogy
  15. The Ballad of the White Horse by G.K. Chesterton
  16. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frank
  17. Paradise Lost by John Milton
  18. Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
  19. Descent into Hell by Charles Williams
  20. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
  21. Darkest at Noon by Arthur Koestler
  22. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  23. Robin Hood and His Merry Men by Roger Lancelyn Green
  24. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
  25. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  26. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  27. The Holy War by John Bunyan
  28. Lillith: A Romance by G.K. Chesterton
  29. King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
  30. The Golden Key by G.K. Chesterton
  31. Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women by G.K. Chesterton
  32. The Light Princess by G.K. Chesterton
  33. A Study In Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  34. 1984 by George Orwell
  35. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  36. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  37. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  38. Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green
  39. Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
  40. The Once and Future King by T.H. White
  41. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
  42. Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  43. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  44. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
  45. War in Heaven by Charles Williams
  46. The Greater Trumps by Charles Williams
  47. The Place of the Lion by Charles Williams
  48. The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
  49. The Ball and the Cross by G.K. Chesterton