Schedule

Here at World LiteraTour, I devote each month to studying a language and some of its most notable literature, but I also read and review new releases, post monthly reading wrap-ups, and just generally talk about all things literary. Below you will find a rough schedule for the posts I hope to make in the month ahead, as well as an overview of my year-long plans for studying and analyzing literature from around the world.

 

April-May Posting Schedule

UPDATE: As of April 16, I’m easing up on my schedule a bit for a few weeks. I’m hitting pause on my classics-from-around-the-world project and will pick up where I left off with Ancient Egypt once life has settled down again. For now, my focus will be on reading and reviewing new and upcoming releases, but I can’t guarantee which days I’ll be posting which. I’ll keep the following list updated with my upcoming reviews, so please check back, subscribe, or follow me on Goodreads or Bluesky if you’d like to be notified when they’re posted.

Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk by Faiz Siddiqui (NetGalley ARC)

Audition by Katie Kitamura (April release)

Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes (April release)

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global by Laura Spinney (NetGalley ARC)

The Names by Florence Knapp (NetGalley ARC)

The Story of ABBA by Jan Gradvall (NetGalley ARC)

Girl in the Creek by Wendy N Wagner (NetGalley ARC)

Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization by Tim Queeney (NetGalley ARC)

The October Film Haunt by Michael Wehunt (NetGalley ARC)

Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds by Jess Zafarris (NetGalley ARC)

 

2025 Schedule (PAUSED)

Month – Language – Literary Works

• January – Sumerian – The Kesh Temple Hymn; The Instructions of Shuruppag; The Epic of Gilgamesh
• February – Sanskrit – Rig Veda; The Upanishads
• March – Old and Middle Chinese – I Ching; Tao Te Ching
• April – Ancient Egyptian – The Book of the Dead; Writings from Ancient Egypt (Penguin collection)
• May – Biblical Hebrew/Aramaic – The Apocrypha; The Dead Sea Scrolls
• June – Classical Arabic – Tales from 1,001 Nights; The Mu’allaqat
• July – Japanese (hiragana) – The Tale of Genji; The Pillow Book
• August – Greek (Homeric/Ionian) – The Iliad; The Histories of Herodotus
• September – Maya – Popol Vuh; The Annals of the Cakchiquels
• October – Latin – The Aeneid; Letters from a Stoic
• November – Old English – Beowulf; Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People
• December – Old Norse – Prose Edda; The Vinland Sagas