I fill a journal about every three months, in which I include a running list of books I’m reading. From June to August this year I read:

Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen

Orientalism — Edward W. Said

The Waves — Virginia Woolf

Cold Enough for Snow — Jessica Au

No God But God — Reza Aslan

Rough Crossing — Rachel McGuire

The Perfect Storm — Sebastian Junger

Old God’s Time — Sebastian Barry

My Antonia — Willa Cather

Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy

Freedom — Sebastian Junger

Antarctica — Claire Keegan

Mouth to Mouth — Antoine Wilson

A Search for Solitude — Thomas Merton

Jayber Crow — Wendell Berry

The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Leo Tolstoy