Suggested Reading

Basics

• The Bible (Douay-Rheims or RSV)
• The Catechism of the Catholic Church 2nd Edition

Daily Meditation

• In Conversation with God – Frederico Suarez
• Magnificat

Spiritual Reading

• City of God – St. Augustine
• Confessions – St. Augustine
• The Soul of the Apostolate – Dom Chautard
• This Tremendous Lover – Eugene Boylan
• Difficulties in Mental Prayer – Eugene Boylan
• Frequent Confession – Benedict Bauer
• In Silence with God – Benedict Bauer
• Twelve Steps to Holiness and Salvation – St. Alphonsus Ligouri
• Uniformity With God’s Will – St. Alphonsus Ligouri
• Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena – St. Catherine of Siena
• Christ is Passing By (Josemaria Escriva)
• Friends of God (Josemaria Escriva)
• The Way/Furrow/The Forge – St. Josemaria Escriva
• The Way of the Cross – St. Josemaria Escriva
• Abandonment to Divine Providence – St. Francis de Sales
• Introduction to the Divine Life – Jean Pierre de Caussade
• Treatise on the Love of God – St. Francis de Sales
• The Imitation of Christ – St. Thomas a Kempis
• The Seven Story Mountain – Thomas Merton
• The Interior Castle of the Soul- St. Teresa of Avila
• True Devotion to Mary – St. Louis de Monfort
• Reed of God – Caryll Houselander
• The Way of Perfection – St. Teresa of Avila
• Meditations Before Mass – Romano Guardini

Biography

• The Long Lonliness – Dorothy Day
• Witness to Hope – George Weigel

Marriage

• Coventented Happiness – Cormak Burke
• Three to Get Married – Fulton Sheen

Historical Novels

• Joan of Arc – Mark Twain

Literature

• The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
• Diary of a Country Priest – George Bernanos
• Don Quixote – Manuel Cervantes
• The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Divine Comedy – Dante
• Four Quartets – T.S. Eliot
• Hopkins: Poetry and Prose – Gerald Manly Hopkins
• Journal of a Soul – Blessed John XXIII
• Kristin Lavransdattar – Singrid Undest
• Flannery O’Connor: The Complete Stories – Flannery O’Connor
• Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
• Lost in the Cosmos – Walker Percy
• The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
• Quo Vadis? Henrik Sienkiewitz

History & Culture

• The History of the Church – Eusebius
• A Short History of the Catholic Church – Jose Orlandis
• Triumph – H.W. Crocker, iii
• The Great Heresies – Hillaire Belloc
• How the Reformation Happened – Hillaire Belloc
• The Stripping of the Altars – Eamon Duffy
• Christianity and European Culture – Christopher Dawson
• Crossing the Threshold of Hope – Pope Jon Paul II
• The Bones of St. Peter – William Thomas Walsh

Theology

• To Know Christ Jesus – Frank Sheed
• Lord of the World – Robert Hugh Benson
• The Spirit of Catholicism – Carl Adam
• Theology for Beginners – Frank Sheed
• The Life of Christ – Fulton Sheen

Apologetics

• Catholic for a Reason – Scott Hahn
• Rome Sweet Home – Scott Hahn
• Christianity for Modern Pagans – Peter Kreeft
• Handbook of Christian Apologetics – Peter Kreeft
• Catholicism and Fundamentalism – Karl Keating

Saints

• St. Theresa of Avila – Marcelle Auclair
• The Song of Bernadette – Franz Werfel
• St. Francis of Assisi – G.K. Chesterton
• The Story of a Soul – St. Therese of Lisieux
• Our Lady of Fatima – William Thomas Walsh