Announcing Goudge Readalong 2024 🎉 🎉 🎉
We have been doing readalongs on Instagram since 2019, so 2024 will be our sixth year! It’s been a delight to have some of you along for some joyous Goudge readings through the past five years.
Since we added many new Goudge readers in 2023 through the new venues here on Substack (!) and FB, I’ve decided to go for it this year and do a book each month next year! I have been chatting with readers here, and these titles definitely rose to the top of the list. As of 2023 we completed all of Goudge’s main adult and children’s titles, so we will be repeating many of her best loved titles this year! ❤️📖✨
So without further ado…
January: The Heart of the Family
February: Towers in the Mist
March: God So Loved the World
April: The Rosemary Tree
May: The Scent of Water
June: The Little White Horse
July: Linnets & Valerians
August: Island Magic
September: Green Dolphin Street (also title Green Dolphin Country)
October: The White Witch
November: A City of Bells
December: Sister of the Angels
Wide range of genre
As is typical of Goudge, we will have a wide range of genre to pick from this year.
Eight adult novels, that are very suitable for young adults as well.
Three children’s books which would make wonderful read-aloud books that your could read over zoom or in person to the young ones in your life.
One devotional book which we will read during Lent to meditate on Jesus’ life.
Perhaps you would like to invite a friend, sister, niece or aunt to read along with us here on Substack this year?
Which Goudge are you looking forward to reading in 2024? Will it be a new book for you? Love to hear below!
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I am so pleased to be here with you all this year and excited to read this selection of books. I have read ‘The Eliot Chronicles’ previously and am finding it is a very rich experience to read them again more thoughtfully. I loved ‘The Deans Watch’ which I read a few months ago, before you read it together here. Most of the books on this year’s list are new to me, except ‘Green Dolphin Country’ and ‘City of Bells’. I am so looking forward to all these books.
There are quite a few on the list that I haven’t read yet. So this is very exciting for me. Although as soon as I finish reading a Goudge book, I instantly feel like I want to flip back to the first page and start it all over again. I’m particularly looking forward to The White Horse, The Rosemary Tree and The White Witch.
Thank you for providing this space for us, a year of sharing Elizabeth Goudge’s books with you all is a hopeful and inspiring start to the year ahead.