Book Recommendations

Book Recommendation


While certainly not complete, this list is intended

to provide initial suggestions for those wishing to do further reading.  


Prayer
In Silence With God - Benedict Baur
Difficulties in Mental Prayer - Eugene Boylan
Prayer Primer - Thomas Dubay
In Conversation With God, Meditations for Each Day of the Year - Francis Fernandez
Listening at Prayer- Benedict Groeschel


Discipleship
Frequent Confession - Benedict Baur
This Tremendous Lover - Eugene Boylan
Christ is Passing By - Josemaria Escriva
Friends of God - Josemaria Escriva
The Imitation of Christ - Thomas a Kempis
The Hidden Stream - Ronald Knox
Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
Introduction to the Devout Life - Francis de Sales
Story of a Soul - Therese of Lisieux


Faith Formation
Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton
A Father Who Keeps His Promises - Scott Hahn, 
The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth- Scott Hahn
Making Sense Out of Suffering - Peter Kreeft
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
To Know Christ Jesus - Frank Sheed


Marriage
God’s Plan for a Joy-Filled Marriage - Ascension Press DVD se
Marriage is for Keeps - Foundation for the Family
First Comes Love - Scott Hahn
Life-Giving Love - Scott and Kimberly Hahn
Three to Get Married - Fulton Sheen

For Teenagers
Real Love: The Ultimate Dating, Marriage and Sex Question Book - Mary Beth Bonacci
Prove It! (series of books on various topics)
Did Adam and Eve Have Bellybuttons? - Matthew Pinto


Saints
St. Francis of Assisi - G.K. Chesterton
With God in Russia - Walter Ciszek
The Reed of God - Caryll Houselander
John Henry Newman: A Biography - Ian Ker
St. Joan of Arc - Mark Twain
Edmund Campion - Evelyn Waugh
Thomas More: A Portrait of Courage - Gerard Wegemer


Fiction
Come Rack, Come Rope - R.H. Benson
Lord of the World - R.H. Benson
Diary of a Country Priest - George Bernanos
Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
The Divine Comedy - Dante
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
The Last Crusader: Don John of Austria - Louis de Wohl