Nonconformisto 2025 Root

My name is Will and I like the concept of reading some of the books that have been on my shelves for years. I never pass up an opportunity to add to my collection but I somehow feel wasteful ignoring some of my older volumes.

I'm new to this challenge, so in my first go around I'll be starting small:

1. The Tomb and Other Tales by H.P. Lovecraft
2. Tales and stories for Black folks edited by Toni Cade Bambara
3. The Time Machine and The Man Who Could Work Miracles by H.G. Wells
4. The Family Reader of American Masterpieces edited by Ralph L. Woods

Welcome Will. Glad to see a new 'face' with the ROOTers.

>2 connie53: Thanks, Connie

Welcome aboard! I find this group helpful for just the reason you've mentioned: I love buying books, and could easily go for a long time without reading any of the books I already own. Keeping a record here helps keep me focused on trying to make sure around a third of the books I read have been in the house for a while. Cheers!

Welcome! I've discovered many a treasure that had been sleeping on my shelves. I've become a convert to this group!

Welcome and I wish you many pleasant discoveries on your shelves!

>4 rocketjk: Ta
>6 MissWatson: Thank you
>5 Cecilturtle: Thanks, I am looking forward to this

glad you're with us!

5. Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks

6. 200 Years of Great American Short Stories edited by Martha Foley

7. The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason

Wow, almost to the halfway point with some 10 months to get there. Excellent job.

>12 connie53: Thank you. I am progressing quicker than I had expected.

8. Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner

9. Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger

10. The Words by Jean-Paul Sartre

11. The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler

12. The Screwtape Letters/Screwtape Proposes a Toast by C.S. Lewis

13. Oresteia by Aeschylus

14. Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche

15. The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht

16. The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear by Ralph Keyes

17. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

Congrats on surpassing your goal!

>24 MissWatson: Thank you. I am tempted to increase my goal! Haha

18. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin

19. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law In All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

20. U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic by Walter Lippmann

You did it, Will. Great job, congrats!

21. The Best American Short Stories 1995 edited by Jane Smiley and Katrina Kenison

>29 connie53: Thanks, Connie

22.The Basic Kafka by Franz Kafka

You are doing so well with those ROOTs, Will. Great job.

23.The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber

Just popping in to see what you are reading. I hope you are doing fine.

>35 connie53: thanks for popping in, Connie. I might have one more Root book left this year. Lately, though, I've been reading a little philosophy. I hope you are doing well.

I'm doing okay for now. I have had some troubling times. But everything is settling down now. Thank you for asking.

>37 connie53: I am glad you seem to have made it through the troubles and hope you find yourself stronger.

24. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

25. Great Narrative Essays edited by Joseph Mersand