RECOMMENDED READINGS

Academic ​

• Belloc, Hilaire -The Path to Rome 

• Benson, Robert Hugh - Lord of the World

• Chesterton, G.K. - The Everlasting Man

• Dawson, Christopher - Progress and Religion

• Dawson, Christopher - The Crisis of Western Education

• Eco, Umberto - Foucault’s Pendulum

• Evans, Stan - The Theme is Freedom

• Jaki, Father Stanley - Cosmos and the Creator

• John Paul II - On Human Work

• Johnson, Paul - Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky 

• Kurt, Russell - Roots of American Order

• Madino, Og - How to be the Greatest Salesman (but nothing else by this person)

• McDowell, Josh - The Disconnected Generation

• Merton, Thomas - No Man is an Island

• Philippe, Father Jacques - Time for God (and others by him)

• Pius X - Encyclical of Pope Pius X on the Doctrines of the Modernists

• Rice, Charles – 50 Questions on the Natural Law

• Schall, Father James - Another Sort of Learning

• Sertillanges, A.G. – The Intellectual Life

• Sheed, Frank - Theology for Beginners

• Stein, Edith – Essays on Woman

• Sullivan, Daniel J. - An Introduction to Philosophy: Perennial Principles of the Classical Realist Tradition

• The Baltimore Catechism

• Young, R.V. - Introduction to Western Literature

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History and Culture

• Belloc, Hilaire – The Great Heresies

• Belloc, Hilaire – How The Reformation Happened

• Belloc, Hilaire – Survivals and New Arrivals

• Carroll, Warren – Christendom I: Founding of Christendom

• Carroll, Warren – Christendom II: The Building of Christendom

• Carroll, Warren – Christendom III: The Glory of Christendom

• Carroll, Warren – Christendom IV: The Cleaving of Christendom

• Crocker III, H.W. – Triumph

• Dawson, Christopher – Christianity and European Culture 

• Knox, Ronald – Enthusiasm

• Leclercq, Jean – Love of Learning and the Desire for God

• Walsh, William – Our Lady of Fatima

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Holy Men and Women

• Chesterton, G.K. – St. Francis of Assisi 

• Chesterton, G.K. – St. Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox

• Day, Dorothy – The Long Loneliness

• John XXIII, Pope John – Journal of a Soul 

• Merton, Thomas – The Seven Storey Mountain 

• Muggeridge, Malcolm – Something Beautiful for God

• Newman, John Henry – Apologia Pro Vita Sua

• Suarez, Federico – Mary of Nazareth

• Trochu, F. – The Cure of Ars

• Wegemer, Gerard – Thomas More: A Portrait of Courage

• Weigel, George – Witness to Hope

• John Paul II, Bl. Pope – Crossing the Threshold of Hope

• Masson, Georgina – The Companion Guide to Rome

• Monti, James – The King’s Good Servant but God’s First

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Humor

• James Martin - "Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life"

• Pope John XXIII, Henri Fesquet - "Wit and Wisdom of the Good Pope John"

• Tom Sheridan - "The Book of Catholic Jokes"

Literary Classics

• Alighieri, Dante – The Divine Comedy 

• Benson, Robert Hugh – Lord of the World

• Bernanos, George – The Diary of a Country Priest

• de Cervantes, Miguel – Don Quixote 

• Eliot, T.S. – Christianity and Culture

• Endo, Shusaku – Silence

• Hopkins, Gerard Manley – Poems and Prose

• Newman, John Henry – The Idea of a University

• O’Conner, Flannery – The Complete Stories 

• Percy, Walker – Lost in the Cosmos

• Percy, Walker – Love in the Ruins

• Sienkiewicz, Henryk – Quo Vadis 

• Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Lord of the Rings 

• Undset, Sigrid – Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Bridal Wreath

• Undset, Sigrid – Kristin Lavransdatter II : The Wife

• Undset, Sigrid – Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross

• Waugh, Evelyn – Brideshead Revisited

Spiritual Classics

• Aquinas, St. Thomas – My Way of Life/Summa Theologica 

• Augustine, St. – The City of God 

• Augustine, St. – Confessions

• Catherine of Siena, St. – Little Talks with God

• Chesterton, G.K. – The Everlasting Man

• Chesterton, G.K. – Orthodoxy 

• John of the Cross, St. – Dark Night of the Soul

• Lewis, C.S. – Mere Christianity

• Lewis, C.S. – The Problem of Pain 

• Lewis, C.S. – The Screwtape Letters

• Oursler, Fulton – The Greatest Story Ever Told

• Teresa, Bl. Mother – Meditations from a Simple Path

• Teresa of Avila, St. – Interior Castle

• Teresa of Avila, St. – The Way of Perfection

• Therese of Lisieux, St. – Story of a Soul

Spiritual Reading

• A’Kempis, Thomas – The Imitation of Christ 

• Aumann, Jordan – Spiritual Theology

• Baur, Benedict – Frequent Confession

• Baur, Benedict – In Silence with God

• Boylan, Eugene – Difficulties in Mental Prayer

• Boylan, Eugene – This Tremendous Lover

• Burke, Cormac – Covenanted Happiness

• Chautard, Jean-Baptiste – The Soul of the Apostolate

• de Caussade, Jean-Pierre – Abandonment to Divine Providence

• de Montfort, Louis-Marie – True Devotion to Mary 

• de Sales, St. Francis – An Introduction to the Devout Life

• de Sales, St. Francis – Treatise on the Love of God

• Escriva, Jose Maria – Christ is Passing By 

• Escriva, Jose Maria – Friends of God

• Escriva, Jose Maria – The Way, Furrow, The Forge

• Escriva, Jose Maria – The Way of the Cross

• Faber, Frederick – All for Jesus

• Garrigou-Lagrange, Fr. Reginald – Three Ages of Interior Life 

• Liguori, Alphonso – The Great Means of Salvation and Perfection 

• Liguori, Alphonso – Uniformity with God’s Will

• Louis of Grenada, Venerable – The Sinner’s Guide

• Lovasik, Lawrence – The Hidden Power of Kindness 

• Manzoni, Alessandro – The Betrothed 

• Martinez, Luis – True Devotion to the Holy Spirit

• More, St. Thomas – The Sadness of Christ

• Perquin, Bonaventure – Abba Father 

• Rohrbach, Peter – Conversation with Christ

• Scupoli, Lorenzo – Spiritual Combat

• Sheed, Frank – Theology and Sanity

• Sheed, Frank – Theology for Beginners

• Sheed, Frank – To Know Christ Jesus

• Sheen, Fulton – Life of Christ

• Sheen, Fulton – Three to Get Married

• Tanqueray, Adolphe – The Spiritual Life

• von Hildebrand, Dietrich – Transformation in Christ 

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Theology and Basics of Catholicism

• Adams, Karl – The Spirit of Catholicism

• Bouyer, Louis – Spirit and Forms of Protestantism

• Catholic Church – Catechism of the Catholic Church 

• Guardini, Romano – The End of the Modern World

• Guardini, Romano – The Lord

• Hahn, Scott – Rome Sweet Home

• Kreeft, Peter – Christianity for Modern Pagans 

• Newman, John Henry – Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine

• Newman, John Henry – Parochial and Plain Sermons

• Ott, Ludwig – Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma

• Pieper, Josef – The Four Cardinal Virtues

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