I’d love to see more people reading and talking about Willa Cather’s novels which is why I turned my personal plan of reading all twelve of Cather’s novels in 2012 into a public reading challenge.

Cather published 12 novels which makes this a perfect year-long reading challenge. Jump in anytime, read the novels in any order. There are no rules, just the pleasure of reading novels from this American master.

The novels in chronological order:

1. Alexander’s Bridge (1912)
2. O Pioneers! (1913)
3. The Song of the Lark (1915)
4. My Ántonia (1918)
5. One of Ours (1922)
6. A Lost Lady (1923)
7. The Professor’s House (1925)
8. My Mortal Enemy (1926)
9. Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
10. Shadows on the Rock (1931)
11. Lucy Gayheart (1935)
12. Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940)

The links below are the posts I wrote for the Willa Cather Novel Reading Challenge in 2012. There is two posts for each novel: An “introductory” post to the novel and then a “thoughts & comments” post. (I’ll eventually remove the dates to make this feel more evergreen.)

Sadly, not all of the comments survived when I transferred my blog from Blogger to WordPress, but some did. Please feel free to add your comments. I’d love to keep the conversation going!

1. Take the Willa Cather Novel Reading Challenge
2. Alexander’s Bridge: Book #1 Introduction
3. Alexander’s Bridge: Thoughts & Comments
4. O Pioneers!: Book #2 Introduction
5. O Pioneers!: Thoughts & Comment
6. The Song of the Lark: Book #3 Introduction
7. The Song of the Lark: Thoughts & Comments
8. My Antonia: Book #4 Introduction
9. My Antonia: Thoughts & Comments
10. One of Ours: Book #5 Introduction
11. One of Ours: Thoughts & Comments
12. A Lost Lady: Book #6 Introduction
13. A Lost Lady: Thoughts & Comments
14. The Professor’s House: Book #7 Introduction
15. The Professor’s House: Thoughts & Comments
16. My Mortal Enemy: Book #8 Introduction
17. My Mortal Enemy: Thoughts & Comments
18. Death Comes for the Archbishop: Book #9 Introduction
19. Death Comes for the Archbishop: Thoughts & Comments
20. Shadows on the Rock: Book #10 Introduction
21. Shadows on the Rock: Thoughts & Comments
22. Lucy Gayheart: Book #11 Introduction
23. Lucy Gayheart: Thoughts & Comments
24. Sapphira and the Slave Girl: Book #12 Introduction
25. Sapphira and the Slave Girl: Thoughts & Comments
26. Wrap-up Post