My Reading Projects

Reading lists are the best lists. I made a couple of reading-related New Year's resolutions and joined a really great reading challenge that a fellow blogger set up, and here's where I keep track of my progress with each of these projects. Whenever I finish a book I'll strike its name on the list, and as soon as I get the review finished you can find it on the "Book Reviews" page.

Project 'Entire Sherlock Holmes Canon'

Goal: read the canon in publishing order

A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of Four
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Return of Sherlock Holmes

• 'The Empty House'
• 'The Norwood Builder'
• 'The Dancing Men'
• 'The Solitary Cyclist'
• 'The Priory School'
• 'Black Peter'
• 'Charles Augustus Milverton'
• 'The Six Napoleons'
• 'The Three Students'
• 'The Golden Pince-Nez'
• 'The Missing Three-Quarter'
• 'The Abbey Grange'
• 'The Second Stain'

His Last Bow
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes


Project 'Aubrey/Maturin Series'

Goal: Read all of Patrick O'Brian's 'Aubrey/Maturin' novels

Master and Commander
Post Captain
HMS Surprise
The Mauritius Command
Desolation Island
The Fortune of War
The Surgeon's Mate
The Ionian Mission
Treason's Harbour
The Far Side of the World
The Reverse of the Medal
The Letter of Marque
The Thirteen Gun Salute
The Nutmeg of Consolation
Clarissa Oakes
The Wine-Dark Sea
The Commodore
The Yellow Admiral
The Hundred Days
Blue at the Mizzen
The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey


Project 'Shakespeare'

Goal: Read all of William Shakespeare's 36 plays in the order in which they are listed in my Oxford Library compilation by the end of 2017

King Henry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3
King Richard III
Titus Andronicus
The Comedy of Errors
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Love's Labour's Lost
Romeo and Juliet
A Midsummer Night's Dream
King John
The Taming of the Shrew
King Richard II
The Merchant of Venice
King Henry IV parts 1 and 2
King Henry V
Much Ado About Nothing
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Julius Caesar
As You Like It
Twelfth Night
Hamlet
Troilus and Cressida
All's Well That Ends Well
Measure for Measure
Othello 
Macbeth
King Lear
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Timon of Athens
Pericles
Cymbeline
The Winter's Tale
The Tempest
King Henry VIII