Congratulations to all who participated in the 2025 American Masterpieces Chapter-a-Day Read-Along! We began with Roots by Alex Haley, followed by Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, and finished just today with the great white whale itself, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. Whether you read all three with us or joined us for one or two, I'm glad … Continue reading 2025 American Masterpieces Chapter-a-Day Read-Along Wrap-Up
Chapter-a-Day Read-Along
Preparing for the 2026 Tolstoy Chapter-a-Day Read-Along: Anna Karenina
With January 1 just around the corner, it’s time to get ready to begin our 2026 Year of Tolstoy. We’ll be reading it the way we always do—one chapter a day, steadily and without pressure. If you’re already signed up, consider this a chance to take a breath, gather your book, and ease into the … Continue reading Preparing for the 2026 Tolstoy Chapter-a-Day Read-Along: Anna Karenina
Announcing the 2026 Leo Tolstoy Chapter-a-Day Read-Along
Welcome to the official sign-up post for the 2026 Leo Tolstoy Chapter-a-Day Read-Along. This will be the ninth year of our chapter-a-day tradition, and for the first time since our 2020 reading of War and Peace, we are returning to one of literature’s most powerful voices: Leo Tolstoy. In past years we’ve read epics of … Continue reading Announcing the 2026 Leo Tolstoy Chapter-a-Day Read-Along
Preparing for the 2025 American Masterpieces Chapter-a-Day Read-Along: Moby-Dick
As the sun sets on our reading of Lonesome Dove, we prepare for the final read-along of the year, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. I am so excited to finally reach this part of the year, because Moby-Dick is one of my desert-island books and I can't wait to start reading it again. But just as it … Continue reading Preparing for the 2025 American Masterpieces Chapter-a-Day Read-Along: Moby-Dick
Week 1: Beginnings – Roots and the Power of Origins
Welcome to Week 1 of Roots, the beginning of the American Masterpieces Chapter-a-Day Read-Along. In Chapters 1-5 we are introduced to the world of Kunta Kinte’s village of Juffure, or Jufureh, in The Gambia, West Africa. These opening chapters set the stage for the story by immersing us in the life, culture, and traditions of … Continue reading Week 1: Beginnings – Roots and the Power of Origins
2024 Read-Along Wrap-Ups
We've come to the end of 2024, and that means it's time wrap up two different read-alongs, the Aubrey/Maturin Chapter-a-Week 4 Year Read-Along Odyssey and the 2024 Fantasy Classics Chapter-a-Day Read-Along. The Aubrey/Maturin Series The Aubrey/Maturin Read-Along lasted four years, from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2024. In those four years we read all 209 … Continue reading 2024 Read-Along Wrap-Ups
Preparing for the 2025 American Masterpieces Chapter-a-Day Read-Along: Roots
As we stand on the threshold of the new year, I am very happy to welcome you to the 2025 American Masterpieces Chapter-a-Day Read-Along. My hope for you is that this year's read-along becomes a daily rhythm of savoring the language, characters, themes, and landscapes of three extraordinary works of American literature: Roots by Alex … Continue reading Preparing for the 2025 American Masterpieces Chapter-a-Day Read-Along: Roots
Announcing the 2025 American Masterpieces Chapter-a-Day Read-Along
Welcome to the official sign-up post for the 2025 American Masterpieces Chapter-a-Day Read-Along. This year we will be reading some of the most important and beloved works of American literature, including two Pulitzer Prize winners and a book that some call "the great American novel." This is the eighth year of the chapter-a-day read-along, and in … Continue reading Announcing the 2025 American Masterpieces Chapter-a-Day Read-Along
A New Home for the Chapter-a-Day Read-Along
Welcome to the new home of Nick's Chapter-a-Day Read-Along, an online community of global readers who read great literature together, one chapter each day. (If you're new to the read-along, please see the About page for the full story.) After seven years of hosting the read-along at my personal blog, One Catholic Life, I've decided … Continue reading A New Home for the Chapter-a-Day Read-Along
George Eliot Chapter-a-Day Read-along Wrap-Up
Today marks the end of our year-long reading of nearly all of George Eliot's novels. By reading a chapter a day, we finished Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda. Looking back over the past year, I have to admit that this year's challenge was more difficult for … Continue reading George Eliot Chapter-a-Day Read-along Wrap-Up