Welcome to Reading Revisited, a place for friends to enjoy some good old-fashioned book chat while revisiting the truth, beauty, and goodness we’ve found in our favorite books.

Our Favorite “Memento Mori” Books

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The Divine Comedy by Dante

A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken

Other Books/Things Mentioned

Check out Rhea Forney and The Reader and The Writer

Attende Domine (Lent Prose)

Word in the Wilderness by Malcom Guite

The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times by Dom Jean-Charles Nault

Death on a Friday Afternoon by Fr. Richard John Neuhaus

The Power of the Cross: Good Friday Sermons from the Papal Preacher by Raniero Cantalamesa

These Beautiful Bones: An Everyday Theology of the Body by Emily Stimpson Chapman

Why Read Fiction - Kristin Lavransdatter Edition by Jessica Risma

The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

Richard II by William Shakespeare

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

Death Comes For the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry

Until next time, keep revisiting the good books that enrich your life and nourish your soul.

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Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

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Paradise Lost by John Milton

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