Read
The daily readings are free online. When you want a book in your hands, these are good companions for the challenge: Bradbury himself, guides to reading more closely, and a few novels and stories.
Ray Bradbury
Where the challenge comes from.
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (opens Amazon in a new tab)
Ray Bradbury
A hundred stories in one volume: a short story a day for more than three months, from the master of the form.
Fahrenheit 451 (opens Amazon in a new tab)
Ray Bradbury
A fireman whose job is to burn books starts to read them. Short, urgent, and still uncomfortably current.
How to read
For getting more out of each day’s poem, essay and story.
How to Read a Poem (opens Amazon in a new tab)
Terry Eagleton
A guide to reading poems closely, paying attention to tone, rhythm, syntax and form as well as meaning.
How to Read Literature (opens Amazon in a new tab)
Terry Eagleton (Kindle edition)
Openings, character, narrative, interpretation and value: a lively short course in reading attentively.
This Is Shakespeare (opens Amazon in a new tab)
Emma Smith
One chapter per play, more interested in the open questions the plays leave than in tidy answers.
Fiction
Labyrinths (opens Amazon in a new tab)
Jorge Luis Borges (Kindle edition)
Stories, essays and parables about infinite libraries, mirrors and forking paths: ideas that unfold in a few pages.
A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening (opens Amazon in a new tab)
Mário de Carvalho, translated by Gregory Rabassa
A Portuguese novel set in a town of Roman Lusitania, told by a magistrate facing a crisis he cannot control.
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