Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Intentions, goals & projects! How I'm trying to read and think about reading in the new year 🖤

people:
@NerdyNurseReads 's year with Edith Wharton: youtube.com/watch?v=oQAwSTQBYko&t=587s
@benreadsgood 's read good challenge: youtube.com/watch?v=sl6NEuMRXF4&t=630s

books:
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (1905)
La force de l'âge (The Prime of Life) by Simone de Beauvoir (1960)
Les Mandarins (The Mandarins) by Simone de Beauvoir (1954)
La femme rompue (The Woman Destroyed) by Simone de Beauvoir (1967)
Dead Souls / Les âmes mortes by Nikolai Gogol (1842)
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Virgil (70-19 BCE)
Ovid (43 BCE-ca. 18 CE)
Catullus (ca. 84-ca. 54 BCE)
Homer (8th-c. BCE)
Nizami Ganjavi (ca. 1141-1209)
The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector (1946)
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector (1961)
Paradise by Toni Morrison (1998)
A Mercy by Toni Morrison (2008)
Home by Toni Morrison (2012)
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison (2015)
We Do Not Part by Han Kang (trans. Emily Yae Won & Paige Aniyah Morris) (out in translation January 2025)
Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey by Elena Ferrante (2003)
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante (2020)
The Beach at Night by Elena Ferrante (2016)
Annie Ernaux (1940-)
The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care by Anne Boyer (2019)
Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse (trans. Damion Searls) (2010)
Une si longue lettre (So Long a Letter) by Mariama Bâ (1980)

socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com