Bookish Ambitions for 2016
I put one of these together every year. They’re not binding – “more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules,” as Barbossa would say – but lists are pleasant to write, and they keep my head clearer than it would otherwise be, thank God. Therefore, in no particular order:
Homer, The Odyssey
Michael O'Brien, Voyage to Alpha Centauri
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Eternal Husband
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (revisiting)
Jose Saramago, The Cave
Pierce Brown, The Red Rising Trilogy
Thomas Tryon, The Other
T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland and Other Poems
Cormac McCarthy, The Border Trilogy (revisiting)
Richard Russo, Empire Falls
Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Stephen King, The Bazarre of Bad Dreams
Tim Powers, Declare
Thomas Sowell, Vision of the Anointed
Douglas Wilson, Papa Don't Pope
Peter Leithart, The Baptized Body
Theodore Dalrymple, Life at the Bottom
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (revisiting)
C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock
Matthew Sims, We Believe: Creeds and Confessions
John Frame, Salvation Belongs to the Lord
Karl Barth, Evangelical Theology
Jeffrey Meyers, The Lord's Service
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Anthony Esolen, Life Under Compulsion
John Senior, The Death of Christian Culture
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
James Sire, Habits of the Mind