2017 is fast approaching and it has been three years since I last made a bookish list for the new year. I am not looking to join many reading challenges. I am currently in the middle of one with my best friend, and even that one I am not entirely sure I will be able to complete given my recent reading trend. However, I would like to finish about fifteen to twenty categories on the list of thirty. I am also looking forward to seeing what categories are up for Back-to-the-Classics 2017, and I just might join the Deal Me In challenge as well. Neither of them is up as yet.
So, while I am waiting for these challenges to pop up, I decided to make a TBR list of my own for 2017. I did, for a few brief hours, toy with the idea of running my own non-fiction reading challenge and Shakespearean reading challenge, but dropped the idea when I thought of the amount of commitment it would require. It is not a commitment I am willing to make since flexibility in reading whatever I want to whenever I want to is upper most on my mind.
This list is subject to change, mostly due to additions.
So, while I am waiting for these challenges to pop up, I decided to make a TBR list of my own for 2017. I did, for a few brief hours, toy with the idea of running my own non-fiction reading challenge and Shakespearean reading challenge, but dropped the idea when I thought of the amount of commitment it would require. It is not a commitment I am willing to make since flexibility in reading whatever I want to whenever I want to is upper most on my mind.
This list is subject to change, mostly due to additions.
NON-FICTION BOOKS
- Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome
- Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India by Walter Reid
- The South Asian Papers: A Critical Anthology of Writings by Stephen Philip Cohen
- The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
- Beginning French by Marty Neumeier (NetGalley)
- Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood by Jan Marsh (NetGalley)
- The Faith of William Shakespeare by Graham Holderness (NetGalley)
- How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage by Peter Lake (NetGalley)
- In Xanadu by William Dalrymple
- Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
- My Husband and Other Animals by Janaki Lenin
- Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas by Ruskin Bond
- Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: A Book for an Idle Holiday by Jerome K. Jerome
- A Book of English Essays by Emrys Williams
- Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
- Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus by Nabeel Qureshi
- The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The Real Face of Atheism by Ravi Zacharias
- Chopped, Sprinkled and Ready to Serve: Spiritual Memoirs by Anita Lazarus
- The Holy Bible (KJV following the Legacy Reading Plan )
FICTION AND POETRY
- Paradise Lost by John Milton (read-along)
- On Love and Barley by Matsuo Basho
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Llew Wallace (re-read)
- The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery (re-read)
- Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (re-read) (read-along)
- Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott (re-read)
- The Hobbit (graphic novel) by J. R. R. Tolkien (re-read)
- The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (re-read)
PLAYS BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
- Cymbeline
- Timon of Athens
- All's Well that Ends Well (the only one of Shakespeare's plays that Shaw liked)
- Coriolanus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Love's Labour's Lost
Looks like a great list to work off from. Nice mix of genres. Those year long readalongs can be tough to keep up with. I have one that I want to do and am eyeballing others, but I am trying to be cautious. Enjoy your 2017 reading. I look forward to reading about what you read.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about the long read-alongs, Toady. I have found that I can't keep a slow pace. However, in this case I am more sure than not that I will be able to stay on track. There is no way I will finish Paradise Lost in just once shot. And I mean to savour the Lord of the Rings. :D
DeleteThank you!
This is quite an impressive list. Good luck to you in getting these read!
ReplyDeleteHere's my Holiday Gift Guide!
Thank you, Deb!:)
DeleteI'm PLANNING to read The Cost of Discipleship January 2017. : )
ReplyDeleteI think I'd like to look at #15, too.
Heheheh.... it would be nice to do some sort of buddy read, but I doubt I'll be touching it until much later into the year, God willing.:) And I am very much looking forward to #15...likely that will be a January or February read. :D
DeleteI don't know why I said #15...I meant #17. I'm going to add it to my TBR; AND I am also itching to read Ben-Hur (I may have mentioned that already another time), AND both of your C.S. Lewis titles.
DeleteI was a bit puzzled by your comment because I knew you had been talking about the Qureshi book. Then I realised the change in numbers was my doing... I added two more books to the list.:)
DeleteBen-Hur!....a beautiful book! I regret not having written anything on it when I read it the first time. This time around I want it to be a slow process with some stops along the way to journal in my thoughts.
C.S. Lewis...I'm really excited about these. :D....actually I'm looking forward to all of them!! I only hope I don't waste my time.:-/
Really awesome list for 2017!
ReplyDeleteThe Blue Castle is one of my favorite books. To me, that book is a kindred spirit. :)
I see some other really good titles here, and a few are reminders of perhaps some books I need to finally read in 2017.
Hehe...thank you, Tarissa! I've read The Blue Castle only once and found it beautiful. I read it online at the time though. I now have a hard copy...it isn't a very good copy, but it will suffice until I can get myself a better one. This seems to be a very hard book to come by!!
DeleteWhich titles are you looking at?