Reading Challenge 2025

I plan to get some more books off the shelf of opportunity in the new year. Here is the categorical breakdown...

Fiction--

• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• On Basilisk Station by David Weber
• Eclipse of the Sun by Michael O'Brien
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman--reviewed here.
• From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury--reviewed here.
• Goethe's Faust translated by Walter Kaufman
• Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
• Probably another bunch of books from A Good Story is Hard to Find Podcast
• The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim--reviewed here.
• Ad Limina by Cy Kellett--reviewed here.
• Scum of the Earth by Alexander C. Kane

Theology--

• The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc--reviewed here.
• When the Church Was Young: Voices of the Early Fathers by Marcellino D'Ambrosio
• Practical Theology by Peter Kreeft
• Arguing Religion by Robert Barron--reviewed here.
• Catholic Essays by Stanley Jaki--reviewed here.
• Saint Katharine Drexel: Apostle to the Oppressed by Lou Baldwin--reviewed here.
• The Dialogue by Catherine of Siena--reviewed here.
• Life of Christ by Fulton J. Sheen--reviewed here.
• Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G. K. Chesteron by Joseph Pearce--reviewed here.
• Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture Volume VIII: Psalms 51-150

Philosophy--

• The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy by Etienne Gilson
• Conversations of Socrates by Xenophon
• The Hound of Distributism edited by Richard Aleman--reviewed here.
• Love and Friendship by Allan Bloom
• The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos by Sohrab Ahmari

Folklore/Mythology

• American Indian Trickster Tales by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz
• Haunted Hotels: Eerie Inns, Ghoulish Guests, and Creepy Caretakers by Tom Ogden
• Ghosthunting Maryland by Michael J. Varhola and Michael H. Varhola--reviewed here.

I will still read a lot of graphic novels available on Hoopla and through my local library. And the handful that I buy or are given as gifts!

I will still read a lot of graphic novels available on Hoopla through my local library. And the handful that I buy or are given as gifts! Here's this year's reads...

1. Batman: Year One--reviewed here.
2. Death of Wolverine--reviewed here.
3. Hunt for Wolverine: Weapon Lost--reviewed here.
4. Hunt for Wolverine: The Adamantium Agenda--reviewed here.
5. Hunt for Wolverine: The Claws of a Killer--reviewed here.
6. Hunt for Wolverine: Mystery at Madripoor--reviewed here.
7. Daredevil: Back in Black Volume 8--reviewed here.
8. Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1956--reviewed here.
9. Space Usagi: Death and Honor--reviewed here.
10. Usagi Yojimbo Book 12--reviewed here.
11. Batman: The Long Halloween The Sequel: Dark Victory--reviewed here.
12. Usagi Yojimbo Book 13--reviewed here.
13. Destroy All Humans Volume 1--reviewed here.
14. The Irredeemable Ant-Man Volume 1--reviewed here.
15. Superman by Mark Millar--reviewed here.
16. Spy x Family Volume 13--reviewed here. 
17. Destroy All Humans Volume 2--reviewed here.
18. Usagi Yojimbo Volume 14--reviewed here.
19. The Last Mermaid Book 01--reviewed here.
20. Wolverine: Sabretooth Reborn--reviewed here.
21. Batman New 52 Volume 1--reviewed here.
22. Usagi Yojimbo Volume 15--reviewed here.
23. Batman New 52 Volume 2--reviewed here.
24. God's'dog Volume 1--reviewed here.
25. Usagi Yojimbo Volume 16--reviewed here.
26. God's'dog Volume 2--reviewed here.
27. ???