Showing posts with label Great Christian books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Christian books. Show all posts

Monday 20 January 2014

Great Christian books one must read


 Books can change your life.  The following are some of the all-time great books that Christians must read to enhance their spiritual growth, knowledge and faith. 
 This list was compiled by our friend Brandon Vogt (you can read about it in http://brandonvogt.com/best-catholic-books-of-all-time/) with the help of a list from Fr John McCloskey. I have added Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation 'Evangelii Gaudium' to the list. 
 This is a fantastic list. You can think of making a library of these books at home. However, these books come only after the Holy Bible. You can't categorise Bible or compare it with others. It's special. It's Life. It's the Word of God. 
You can start collecting these books now:

 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

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
 

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

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

Miscellaneous

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
Rice, Charles - 50 Questions on the Natural Law
Sertillanges, A.G. - The Intellectual Life
Stein, Edith - Essays on Woman
Francis, Pope - Evangelii Gaudium