BiblioFiles #59: Wintertime Reading
Always winter. Never Christmas. That’s January for you. We need the perfect winter reads to get us through these dreary days. The CenterForLit crew shares their personal winter predilections and suggestions about what to read (and what not to read!) in order to survive until spring.
Referenced Works:
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– Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
– War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
– “For The Time Being” by W.H. Auden
– The Cuckoo’s Calling, Lethal White by Robert Galbraith
– The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
– Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
– One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
– The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom (with Elizabeth and John Sherrill)
– Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier
– The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
– The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
– Dickensian by BBC, available on Amazon Prime
– Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
– The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé
– The Father Brown Stories by G.K. Chesteron
– Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
– Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs
– Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman
– The Mitten by Jan Brett
– Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton
– The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, Smiley’s People, A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
– The Night Manager by BBC, available on Amazon Prime
– Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
– The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
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