Recommended Reading

Nonfiction

  1. Action: A Manual for the Reconstruction ofChristendom, Jean Ousset (Jeff)
  2. After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre (Lorraine)
  3. After Writing: On the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy, Catherine Pickstock (Julian, Peter)
  4. America’s British Culture, Russell Kirk (Jeff)
  5. All Things Considered, G.K. Chesterton (John)
  6. A Night in the Desert of the Holy Mountain, Metropolitan Hierotheos (Mark)
  7. Apologia Pro Vita Sua, John Henry Newman (Lorraine)
  8. Aristotle for Everybody, Mortimer Adler (Hilary)
  9. Commentary on the Gospel of John, St. Thomas Aquinas (Lorraine)
  10. Confessions of a Convert, Robert Hugh Benson(Lorraine)
  11. Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life, William Leach (Jeff)
  12. Development of Christian Doctrine, John Henry Newman (Hilary)
  13. Duties of the Catholic State, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani (Lorraine)
  14. Hallowed Be This House, Thomas Howard (Dale, Jeff)
  15. Heretics, Chesterton (Mark)
  16. How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler (Hilary)
  17. How to Speak/How to Listen, Mortimer Adler (Hilary)
  18. Ideas Have Consequences, Richard Weaver (Jeff)
  19. Imitation of Christ, Thomas a Kempis (Mark)
  20. Introduction to the Devout Life, Saint Francis de Sales (Mark)
  21. In Tune With the World: A Theory of Festivity, Josef Pieper (Lorraine)
  22. Liberty or Equality, Erik von Kuehlnelt-Leddihn (Jeff)
  23. Life of Saint Anthony of the Desert, Saint Athanasius (Mark)
  24. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle (Lorraine, Mark)
  25. On Being and Essence, St. Thomas Aquinas (Lorraine)
  26. On Monarchy and Kingship, St. Thomas Aquinas (Lorraine)
  27. Orthodoxy, Chesterton (Lorraine, Mark, Steve)
  28. Physics, Aristotle (Lorraine, Mark)
  29. Politics, Aristotle (Lorraine, Mark)
  30. Republic, Plato (Lorraine, Mark)
  31. Small Is Beautiful, E. F. Schumacher (Lorraine)
  32. Spiritual Conferences and Growth in Holiness, Fr. Faber (Hilary)
  33. Spiritual Counsels and Letters, Friedrich von Hügel (Hilary)
  34. Summa Theologica, St. Thomas (Lorraine, Mark)
  35. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Neil Postman (Jeff)
  36. Ten Philosophical Mistakes, Mortimer Adler (Hilary)
  37. The Beauty of Holiness and the Holiness of Beauty, Thomas Saward (Lorraine)
  38. The Church and Farming, Fr. Denis Fahey (Lorraine)
  39. The Church and the Land, Fr. Vincent McNabb (Lorraine)
  40. The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius (Lorraine, Mark)
  41. The Crisis of Civilization, Hilaire Belloc (Jeff)
  42. The Framework of a Christian State, Fr. E. Cahill S.J. (Hilary, Jeff)
  43. The Interior Castle, Saint Teresa of Avil (Lorraine, Mark)
  44. The Liturgical Year, Dom Prosper Gueranger (Lorraine)
  45. The Love of Learning and the Desire for God, Jean Leclercq (Lorraine)
  46. The Restoration of Christian Culture, John Senior (Jeff)
  47. The Restoration of Property, Hillaire Belloc (Lorraine)
  48. “The Saint Petersburg Dialogues,” Joseph De Maistre (Lorraine)
  49. The Sayings of the Desert Fathers, various authors (Mark)
  50. The sermons of John Henry Newman (Lorraine)
  51. The Silence of Angels, Dale C. Allison (Jeff)
  52. The Three Ages of the Interior Life, Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange. (Lorraine, Mark)
  53. The Way of the Pilgrim, anonymous (Mark)
  54. What are People For?, Wendell Berry (Lorraine)

Fiction

  1. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh (Lorraine)
  2. Green Dolphin Street, Elizabeth Goudge (Lorraine)
  3. Leaf By Niggle, Tolkien (Lorraine)
  4. Man Alive, Chesterton (Lorraine)
  5. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (Lorraine)
  6. The Betrothed, Alessandro Manzoni (Lorraine)
  7. The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis (Lorraine)
  8. The House at Pooh Corner, A.A. Milne (John)
  9. The Light Princess, George MacDonald (Lorraine)
  10. The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien (Lorraine, Mark)
  11. The Wise Woman and Other Tales, George MacDonald (Lorraine)
  12. Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne (John)

Poetry and Verse:

  1. El Cid, anonymous (Lorraine)
  2. The Ballad of the White Horse, G.K. Chesterton (Lorraine)
  3. “The Deserted Village”, Oliver Goldsmith (Lorraine)
  4. The Georgics, Virgil (Lorraine)
  5. “The Hound of Heaven”, Francis Thompson (Lorraine)
  6. The Illiad, Homer (Lorraine)
  7. The Odyssey, Homer (Lorraine)
  8. The Song of Roland, anonymous (Lorraine)

Essays and Letters:

  1. “Advice for a Ruler,” King St. Louis (Lorraine)
  2. “A Remaining Christmas,” Belloc (Lorraine)
  3. “Does Community Have A Value,” Wendell Berry (Lorraine)
  4. “Feminism, the Body, and the Machine,” Wendell Berry (Lorraine)
  5. “Living the Faith in Exile,” Edwin Faust (James)
  6. “On Fairy Stories,” Tolkien (Lorraine, Mark)
  7. “The Abolition of Man,” C.S. Lewis (Mark)
  8. “The Idea of a Pilgrimage,” Belloc (Lorraine)
  9. “The Mowing of a Field,” Belloc (Lorraine)
  10. “The Ottaviani Intervention,” Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci (Steve)
  11. “The Pleasures of Eating,” Wendell Berry (Lorraine)
  12. “Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer,” Wendell Berry (Lorraine)

Children’s Stories:

  1. An Alphabet of Saints, Robert Hugh Benson (Chris B.)
  2. A Child’s Rule of Life, Robert Hugh Benson (Chris B.)
  3. Old Testament Rhymes, Robert Hugh Benson (Chris B.)
  4. Singing Tree, Kate Seredy (Lorraine)
  5. The Good Master, Kate Seredy (Lorraine)
  6. The Railway Children, E.S. Nesbit (Lorraine)

Audio:

  1. “Music and Morality,” Fr. Basil Nortz (Lorraine)

Recommended With Reservations:

  1. Lost in the Cosmos, Walker Percy (Mark)
  2. Meditations, Marcus Aurelieus (Mark)

Reader Suggestions (Not necessarily reviewed or endorsed by CR):

  1. Abandonment to Divine Providence, Jean-Pierre de Caussade
  2. Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
  3. Confessions, Saint Augustine
  4. Fr. Elijah, Michael O’Brien
  5. Shakespeare: The Complete Works, William Shakespeare
  6. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
  7. Theology and Sanity, Frank Sheed
  8. The Quiet Light, Louis de Wohl
  9. The Soul of the Apostolate, Jean-Baptiste Chautard