Meadows Book Club: 2025 Reading List

I am a month late on releasing this year’s reading list – my apologies! It’s going to be a hectic year and truth be told, I am still catching up on the list from last year. For 2025 I just have three great novels for your consideration, all of which are relatively short. The Screwtape Letters will be the most philosophical of the bunch. Pro tip: prayerfully request wisdom before embarking on each chapter. Happy reading!

Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)

“Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.”

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (1942)

“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts… Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.”