Linda's Literature - 73 books

[Linda]

This will be my place for keeping track of the books I'm reading in 2025.

I also keep track of challenges here.

The Visual Theology Christian Reading Challenge

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JAN

✔ Epistolary Fiction - Address Unknown, by Kathrine Kressman Taylor - ★★★★★

✔ Baby's Picture Book - His First Bible, by Melody Carlson, illustrated by Tish Tenud - ★★★★★

✔ Survival Literature - Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition, by Buddy Levy - ★★★★★

✔ Biblical Studies Challenge 2025 - Knowing Scripture, by RC Sproul - ★★★★★

✔ Epistolary Fiction - Several People Are Typing, by Calvin Kasulke - ★

✔ Survival Literature - Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Journey - ★★★★★

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FEB

✔ Grand Canyon Literature - The Man Who Walked Through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon, by Colin Fletcher - ★★★★★

✔ Survival Literature - Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World, by Eric Jay Dolan - ★★★★★

✔ Survival Literature - 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea, by Jonathan Franklin - ★★★★★

✔ History - The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal: 1870-1914, by David McCullough - ★★★★★

✔ Classic Fiction - Precious Bane, by Mary Webb - ★★★★★

✔ Christian Nonfiction - Defiant Joy: Taking Hold of Hope, Beauty, and Life in a Hurting World, by Stasi Eldredge - ★★★★

✔ Christian Nonfiction - Moms in Prayer, by Fern Nichols - ★★★★★

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MAR

✔ Nautical History - Mutiny on the Bounty, by Peter Fitzsimmons - ★★★★★

✔ Fiction - The Berry Pickers, by Amanda Peters - ★★★★★

✔ Psychological Thriller - The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith - ★★

✔ Historical Mystery - The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tay - ★★

✔ Gothic Suspense - My Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier - ★★★★★

✔ Christian Nonfiction - The Overcomer: God's Answers to Overcoming Life's Greatest Challenges, by James Collins - ★★★★★

✔ Christian Nonfiction - Your Story Has a Villain: Identify Spiritual Warfare and Learn How to Defeat the Enemy, by Jonathan (JP) Pokluda - ★★★★★

✔ Historical True Crime - Trespassers at the Golden Gate, by Gary Krist - ★★★★★

✔ Biography - Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt, by David McCullough - ★★★★★

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APR

✔ Biography - Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man, by Barton H. Barbour - ★★★★★

✔ Memoir - Raising Hare, by Chloe Dalton - ★★★★★

✔ Epistolary Memoir - Elizabeth and Her German Garden, by Elizabeth von Arnim - ★★★★

✔ Christian Epistolary Biography - Ann Judson: A Missionary Life For Burma, by Sharon James - ★★★★★

✔ Juvenile Fiction - Scary Stories for Young Foxes, by Christian McKay Heidicker - ★★★★★

✔ History - The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, by Hampton Sides - ★★★★★

✔ Memoir - Night, by Elie Wiesel - ★★★★★

✔ Memoir - Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington - ★★★★★

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MAY

✔ Christian Memoir - Tramp for the Lord, by Corrie Ten Boom - ★★★★★

✔ True Crime Memoir - Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, by Tom O'Neill - ★★★★★

✔ Christian Biography - Katharine Barnwell: How One Woman Revolutionized Modern Missions, by Jordan Monson - ★★★★★

✔ Christian Nonfiction - The Master Plan of Evangelism, by Dr. Robert E. Coleman - ★★★★★

✔ Classic Fiction - Agnes Grey, by Anne Brontë - ★★★★

✔ Christian Nonfiction - Just Open the Door, by Jen Schmidt - ★★★★★

✔ American History - Brave Companions: Portraits in History, by David McCullough - ★★★★★

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JUN

✔ Slave Narrative Memoir - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Ann Jacobs - ★★★★★

✔ Survival History - Island of the Blue Foxes, by Stephen R. Bown - ★★★★★

✔ Western History - The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend, by Glenn Frankel - ★★★★★

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JUL

✔ Western - The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick deWitt - ★★★

✔ - Epistolary Memoir - A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, by Isabella Lucy Bird - ★★★★★

✔ - Romantic Suspense - Jamaica Inn, by Daphne du Maurier - ★★★★

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AUG

✔ - History / Biography - Truman, by David McCullough - ★★★★★

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SEP

✔ Classic Fiction - Shepherd of the Hills, by Howard Bell Wright - ★★★★★

✔ Nonfiction - The Art Thief, by Michael Finkel - ★★★★★

✔ Classic Fiction - Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo - ★★★★★

✔ Memoir - The Warrior Woman: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston - ★★★★★

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OCT

✔ Mystery Novella - Trapdoor, by J.P. Pomare - ★★★★★

✔ Post-apocalyptic Novella - I Who Have Never Known Men, by Jacqueline Harpman - ★★★★★

✔ Horror - A Short Stay in Hell, by Steven L. Peck - ★★★★★

✔ Drama - Marrow, by Aditi Brennan Kapil - ★★★★

✔ Historical Fiction - North Woods, by Daniel Mason - ★★★★

✔ Epistolary Fiction - The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans - ★★★★★

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NOV

✔ YA Dystopian - The Grace Year, by Kim Liggett - ★★★

✔ Classic Short Fiction - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving - ★★★★★

✔ Fiction - What Kind of Paradise?, by Janelle Brown - ★★★★★

✔ Nonfiction - The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, by Margareta Magnusson - ★★★★★

✔ Art - Beginning Pastel: Tips and Techniques for Learning to Paint in Pastel, by - ★★★★★

✔ Fiction - Wild Dark Shore, by Charlotte McConaghy - ★

✔ Historical Fiction - The Frozen River, by Ariel Lawhon - ★★★★★

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DEC

✔ Fiction - The Sun Down Motel, by Simone St. James - ★★★★★

✔ History - John Adams, by David McCullough - ★★★★★

✔ Art - Pacific Northwest Line Drawing, by Peggy Dean - ★★★★★

✔ Fiction - The Briar Club, by Kate Quinn - ★

✔ Christian Classic - On the Incarnation, by Athanasius - ★★★★★

✔ History - Grace O'Malley: The Pirate Queen of Ireland, by History Nerds - ★★★★

✔ Nonfiction - The Art of Story Telling, by John Walsh - ★★★★

✔ Mystery - The Book of Cold Cases, by Simone St. James - ★★★★★

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Books I own that I'd like to read in 2025


Charting the End Times, by Tim LaHaye
When Helping Hurts, by Corbett & Fikkert
Speaking the Truth in Love, by Koch & Haugk
Anatomy of a Revived Church, by Thom S. Rainer
Something Needs to Change, by David Platt
When Cultists Ask, by Geisler & Rhodes
I'm Out to Change My World, by Ann Kiemell
Holier Than Thou, by Jackie Hill Perry

Hoot, by Carl Hiaasen
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume
Journey Outside, by Mary Q. Steele
The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise, by Dan Gemeinhart

How to Read a Book, by Adler & Van Doren
The Dreamt Land, by Mark Arax
Operation Paperclip, by Annie Jacobsen

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California Books

Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner
California Gold, by John Jakes
Bellboy: A Mule Train Journey, by McClain
Shadows in the Rain, by King
Miracle Country, by Atleework
Tales Along El Camino Sierra I and II, by Woodruff/Woodruff
Charles S. Graves
Lore & Legends of the Klamath River Indians
Before the White Man Came
Cool, Gray City of Love, by Gary Kamiya
Forests, Fires, and Wild Things, by Bob Gray
The Haight Ashbury, a History, by Charles Perry
White Poplar, Black Locust, by Louise Wagenknecht
Beginner's Luck, by Malcolm Terence

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Books I read for People April 2025 --

Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man, by Barton H. Barbour

Raising Hare, by Chloe Dalton

Elizabeth and Her German Garden, by Elizabeth von Arnim

Ann Judson: A Missionary Life For Burma, by Sharon James

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, by Hampton Sides

Night, by Elie Wiesel

Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington

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The Well-Educated Mind

I'm taking time away from Booktube to educate myself better with this book, by Susan Wise Bauer.

Currently, just finished part one of the book and am starting on part two, in the novel categories.

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These are the novels she recommends. [Note: I can change or add to, or decide not to read a book if it doesn't feel right to me.]

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★ ∅ Don Quixote - 300pp? - Reread from pg. 1

✔ Pilgrims Progress - Reread

✔ Gulliver's Travels - Read it already and will scan or skim but don't plan a full reread. Ever.

✔ Pride & Prejudice - Reread

✔ Oliver Twist - Reread

✔ Jane Eyre - Reread

✔ Scarlet Letter - Reread

∅ Moby Dick - 2/3 - Reread

☆ Uncle Tom's Cabin - Read

✔ Madam Bovary - Reread (2023)

∅ Crime & Punishment - pt 1 - Reread (DNF in 2020)

✔ Anna Karenina - Scan? I read this in 2016.

☆ Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy - Read

☆ Portrait of a Lady - Read

☆ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Read

✔ The Red Badge of Courage - Reread

✔ Heart of Darkness - Reread

✔ The Great Gatsby - Reread

☆ Mrs. Dalloway - Read

☆ The Trial, by Franz Kafka - Read

☆ Native Son, by Richard Wright - Read

✔ The Stranger - Reread

✔ 1984 - Reread

✔ Invisible Man - Reread

☆ Seize the Day, by Saul Bellow - Read

✔ One Hundred Years of Solitude - Reread

☆ If On a Winter's Night a Traveler - Read

☆ Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison - Read

☆ White Noise, by Don DeLillo - Read

☆ Possession, by AS Byatt - Read

✔ The Road - Reread

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What to read each month?

1. one book for Biblical Studies

2. one book for classical education

3. one California book

4. one by David McCullough

5. audiobooks

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Read Your Own Books

1-10

✔ Epistolary Fiction - Address Unknown, by Kathrine Kressman Taylor - ★★★★★

✔ Baby's Picture Book - His First Bible, by Melody Carlson, illustrated by Tish Tenud - ★★★★★

✔ Biblical Studies Challenge 2025 - Knowing Scripture, by RC Sproul - ★★★★★

✔ Epistolary Fiction - Several People Are Typing, by Calvin Kasulke - ★

✔ History - The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal: 1870-1914, by David McCullough - ★★★★★

✔ Christian Nonfiction - Moms in Prayer, by Fern Nichols - ★★★★★

✔ Christian Nonfiction - The Overcomer: God's Answers to Overcoming Life's Greatest Challenges, by James Collins - ★★★★★

✔ Biography - Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt, by David McCullough - ★★★★★

✔ Christian Epistolary Biography - Ann Judson: A Missionary Life For Burma, by Sharon James - ★★★★★

✔ Juvenile Fiction - Scary Stories for Young Foxes, by Christian McKay Heidicker - ★★★★★

10-20

✔ Memoir - Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington - ★★★★★

✔ Christian Nonfiction - The Master Plan of Evangelism, by Dr. Robert E. Coleman - ★★★★★

✔ Christian Nonfiction - Just Open the Door, by Jen Schmidt - ★★★★★

✔ American History - Brave Companions: Portraits in History, by David McCullough - ★★★★★

✔ Western History - The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend, by Glenn Frankel - ★★★★★

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