Book Recommendations

• Autobiography
  • The Confessions by St. Augustine (Frank Sheed translation)
  • A Severe Mercy  by Sheldon Vanauken
• Novels
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis

• Plays
  • A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
  • Our Town by Thornton Wilder
• Epics
  • The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
• Supernatural Fantasy
  • The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
  • The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
• Science Fiction
  • A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Spirituality
  • The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
  • The Story of a Soul by St. Therese of Lisieux
• Apologetics
  • Pensées by Blaise Pascal
  • The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
• Classic Philosophy
  • Apology of Socrates by Plato
  • The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
• Popular Philosophy
  • St. Thomas Aquinas by G.K. Chesterton
  • Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
• History
  • The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
  • Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness by Warren Carroll
• Theology
  • Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
  • Summa Theologiae by St. Thomas Aquinas
• Poetry
  • Lepanto by G.K. Chesterton
  • The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot

Bonus Book Recommendations

• Autobiography
  • The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
  • Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
• Novels
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Plays
  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• Epics
  • The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Supernatural Fantasy
  • Descent Into Hell by Charles Williams
• Science Fiction
  • The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• Spirituality
  • Abandonment to Divine Providence by Jean-Pierre de Caussade
• Apologetics
  • Miracles by C.S. Lewis
• Classic Philosophy
  • Republic by Plato
• Popular Philosophy
  • Ethics by Aristotle
• History
  • City of God by St. Augustine
  • The Formation of Christendom by Christopher Dawson
  • The Dividing of Christendom by Christopher Dawson
• Theology
  • Theology of the Body for Beginners by Christopher West
• Poetry
  • The Dream of Gerontius by John Henry Newman

If you’ve already read all of these, we have more recommendations in our Libertarian Catholic Library.