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.
June Posting Schedule
(subject to change)
June 2 – Hidden Treasure by Jessie Burton review (ARC)
June 4 – May Reading Wrap-Up
June 6 – William by Mason Coile review (Sept 2024 release)
June 9 – Reports of His Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated by James Goodhand review (ARC)
June 11 – Diplomatica’s “Great Reads from Around the World” project
June 13 – The Egyptian Book of the Dead analysis
June 16 – Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner review (ARC)
June 18 – Best 2025 Releases So Far
June 20 – Ru and Unearthing (for ‘Top 100 Canadian Books’ and ‘Great Reads from Around the World’ projects)
June 23 – The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen review (ARC)
June 25 – Writings from Ancient Egypt analysis
June 27 – Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix review (Jan 2025 release)
June 30 – Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization by Tim Queeney review (ARC)
2025 Schedule
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-June – Ancient Egyptian – The Book of the Dead; Writings from Ancient Egypt (Penguin collection)
- July – Biblical Hebrew/Aramaic – The Apocrypha; The Dead Sea Scrolls
- August – Classical Arabic – Tales from 1,001 Nights; The Mu’allaqat
- September – Japanese (hiragana) – The Tale of Genji; The Pillow Book
- October – Greek (Homeric/Ionian) – The Iliad; The Histories of Herodotus
- November – Maya – Popol Vuh; The Annals of the Cakchiquels
- December – Latin – The Aeneid; Letters from a Stoic
2026
- January – Old English – Beowulf; Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People
- February – Old Norse – Prose Edda; The Vinland Sagas