Scripture

Biblical Texts & Critical Editions

• The Navarre Bible (10 Volumes) (RSV)
• The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha (NRSV)
• The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible (RSV)
• The Didache Bible
• The Word on Fire Bible (5+ Vols) (NRSV)
• The ESV Study Bible (ESV)

Biblical Reference

• John Barton, The Oxford Bible Commentary
• John Bergsma, A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: The Old Testament
• Henry Wansbrough, Introducing the New Testament

Biblical Exegesis

• St Thomas Aquinas, Catena Aurea (4 Vols)
• Robert Barron, The Great Story of Israel: Election, Freedom, Holiness
• Michael Casey, Sacred Reading: The Ancient Art of Lectio Divina
• John R. Donahue, Sacra Pagina: The Gospel of Mark
• St Gregory the Great, Moral Reflections on the Book of Job (5 Vols)
• St Gregory the Great, The Life of Moses
• Romano Guardini, Meditations on the Christ
• Romano Guardini, The Lord
• Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis, Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word: Meditations on the Gospel According to St. Matthew (4 Volumes)
• C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms
• Gerhard Lohfink, The Forty Parables of Jesus
• Ludolph of Saxony, The Life of Jesus Christ (4 Vols)
• Origen, Homilies on Luke
• Origen, Homilies on Genesis and Exodus
• Jason Paone, Thomas Aquinas: Selected Commentaries on the New Testament
• Brant Pitre, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper
• Brant Pitre, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah
• Brant Pitre, The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ
• Brant Pitre, Jesus and Divine Christology
• Sacra Pagina: The Gospel of Matthew, The Gospel of Mark, The Gospel of Luke, The Gospel of John, and The Acts of the Apostles, Daniel J. Harrington, Luke Timothy Johnson, Francis J. Moloney, and Luke Timothy Johnson (5 Vols).
• Adrienne von Speyr, Mark: Meditations on the Gospel of Mark
• Adrienne von Speyr, John (4 Vols)
• Henry Wansbrough, A Year With the Bible – 365 Daily Reflections

Biblical History

• Raymond E. Brown, An Introduction to the New Testament
• Raymond E. Brown, The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in Matthew & Luke
• Raymond E. Brown, The Death of the Messiah, From Gethsemane to the Grave, Volume 1: A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels (2 Vols)
• Michael Grant, Saint Peter: A Biography
• Lydia McGrew, Hidden in Plain View: Undesigned Coincidences in the Gospels and Acts
• Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, The Holy Land: An Oxford Archaeological Guide
• Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, Paul: His Story
• Margaret Nutting Ralph, And God Said What? (Revised Edition): An Introduction to Biblical Literary Forms
• N.T. Wright, Paul: A Biography
• N.T. Wright, The New Testament in its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature and Theology of the First Christians

Liturgy

Liturgical Texts

• CTS Daily Missal
• CTS Lectionary (4 Vols)
• The Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) (3 Vols)

Commentaries on Holy Mass

• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), The Spirit of the Liturgy
• Jeremy Driscoll, What Happens at Mass
• Anthony Esolen, The Beauty of the Word: A Running Commentary on the Roman Missal
• Romano Guardini, Meditations Before Mass
• Romano Guardini, The Spirit of the Liturgy
• Maria Montessori, The Mass Explained to Children
• Edward Sri, A Biblical Walk Through the Mass: Understanding What We Say and Do In The Liturgy

Commentaries on the Liturgy of the Hours

• St Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Morning and Evening Prayer: Meditations and Catechesis on Psalms and Canticles
• A.M. Roguet, The General Instruction on the Liturgy of the Hours with a Commentary
• Shirley Darcus Sullivan, A Companion to the Liturgy of the Hours

Commentaries on the Annual Liturgical Cycle

• John Bergsma, The Word of the Lord: Reflections on the Sunday Mass Readings A, B, and C (3 Vols)
• Raniero Cantalamessa, The Power of the Cross: Good Friday Sermons from the Papal Preacher
• Francisco Fernandez-Carvajal, In Conversation with God: Meditations for Each Day of the Year (7 Vols)
• Hans Urs Von Balthasar, You Crown the Year with Your Goodness: Sermons Throughout the Liturgical Year
• Erik Varden, Entering the Twofold Mystery: On Christian Conversion
• George Weigel, Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches

Church Teachings & History

Teachings of the Catholic Church

• Catechism of the Catholic Church: Full Text and Theological Commentary
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Introduction to the Catechism of the Catholic Church
• The Companion to the Catechism of the Catholic Church: A Compendium of Texts Referred to in the Catechism of the Catholic Church
• Henry Denzinger, Enchiridion Symbolorum: A Compendium of Creeds, Definitions and Declarations of the Catholic Church
• Peter Klein, The Catholic Source Book
• Josef Neuner, The Christian Faith: In the Doctrinal Documents of the Catholic Church
• Vatican II Collection: Constitutions, Decrees and Declarations (2 Vols)

Histories of the Catholic Church

• Rod Bennett, Four Witnesses: The Early Church in Her Own Words
• Thomas Bokenkotter, A Concise History of the Catholic Church
• The Penguin History of the Church (7 Vols)
• Marcellino D’Ambrosio, When the Church Was Young: Voices of the Early Fathers
• Eusebius, The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
• Richard P. McBrien (ed.), The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism
• Richard William Southern, Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages
• Carolinne White, Early Christian Lives
• John R. Willis, The Teachings of the Church Fathers

Theology

Patristics

• St Thomas Aquinas, Catena Aurea (4 Vols)
• Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (13 Vols)
• St Augustine, Expositions of the Psalms (6 Vols)
• St Augustine, Morality and Christian Asceticism
• St Augustine, Teaching Christianity
• St Augustine of Hippo, Faith, Hope and Charity
• St Augustine of Hippo, City of God
• St Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
• St Basil the Great, On Fasting and Feasts
• Gabriel Bunge, Earthen Vessels: The Practice of Personal Prayer According to the Patristic Tradition
• St Gregory the Great, Dialogues
• St Gregory the Great, Moral Reflections on the Book of Job (5 Volumes)
• St Gregory the Great, The Life of Moses
• St Jerome, Letters
• Maximus the Confessor, The Ascetic Life, The Four Centuries on Charity
• Aidan Nichols, The Singing-Masters: Church Fathers from Greek East and Latin West
• Origen, Homilies on Luke
• Origen, Homilies on Genesis and Exodus
• Maxwell Staniforth, Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers
• Milton Walsh (ed.), Witness of the Saints: Patristic Readings in the Liturgy of the Hours

Nouvelle Théologie & Contemporary Theology

• Yves Congar, The Meaning of Tradition
• Robert Barron, Light from Light: A Theological Reflection on the Nicene Creed
• Romano Guardini, Eternal Life: What You Need to Know About Death, Judgment, and Life Everlasting
• Romano Guardini, The Lord’s Prayer
• Romano Guardini, The Human Experience: Essays on Providence, Melancholy, Community, & Freedom
• Romano Guardini, The End of the Modern World
• Henri de Lubac, The Drama of Atheist Humanism
• Henri de Lubac, Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man
• Henri de Lubac, Paradoxes of Faith
• Henri de Lubac, More Paradoxes of Faith
• Henri de Lubac, Vatican Council Notebooks (2 Vols)
• Henri de Lubac, The Splendor of the Church
• Henri de Lubac, A Brief Catechesis on Nature and Grace
• John Nepil, To Heights and unto Depths: Letters from the Colorado Trail
• Josef Pieper, An Anthology
• Josef Pieper, A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart
• Josef Pieper, Divine Madness: Plato’s Case Against Secular Humanism
• Josef Pieper, For Love of Wisdom: Essays on the Nature of Philosophy
• Josef Pieper, In Defense of Philosophy: The Power of the Mind for Good or Evil, Consists in Argumentation
• Josef Pieper, In Search of the Sacred: Contributions to An Answer
• Josef Pieper, Leisure the Basis of Culture
• Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Christian and Anxiety
• Erik Varden, Chastity: Reconciliation of the Senses
• Erik Varden, Healing Wounds
• Erik Varden, The Shattering of Loneliness: On Christian Remembrance

See also: Papal Lives & Writings and Charisms.

Papal Lives & Writings

St Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)

• St Gregory the Great, Dialogues

St John XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, 1881-1963)

• St Pope John XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli), Journal of a Soul

St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła, 1920-2005)

• Nick Bakalar, The Wisdom of John Paul II: The Pope on Life’s Most Vital Questions
• Dan Burke, The Contemplative Rosary with St. John Paul II and St. Teresa of Avila
• Rocco Buttiglione, Karol Wojtyla: The Thought of the Man Who Became Pope John Paul II
• John F. Crosby, The Personalism of John Paul II
• Stanisław Dziwisz, A Life with Karol: My Forty-Year Friendship with the Man Who Became Pope
• Stanisław Dziwisz, Let Me Go to the Father’s House: John Paul II’s Strength in Weakness
• André Frossard, Be Not Afraid: Andreé Frossard In Conversation With Pope John Paul II
• André Frossard, Portrait of John Paul II
• Stanislaw Grygiel, Discovering the Human Person: In Conversation with John Paul II
• Peter Heinegg, Stories of Karol: The Unknown Life of John Paul II
• George Huntston Williams, The Mind of John Paul II: Origins of his Thought and Action
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), Faith According to Saint John of the Cross
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), Man & Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), A Year with John Paul II: Daily Meditations from His Writings and Prayers
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), The Likeness of All Things
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), A Sign of Contradiction
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), Love and Responsibility
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), The Jeweler’s Shop
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), Crossing the Threshold of Hope
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), Daily Lenten Meditations: Prayerful Reflections from John Paul II
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering: Salvifici Doloris
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), Psalms and Canticles: Meditations and Catechesis on the Psalms and Canticles of Morning Prayer
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), The Place Within: The Poetry of Pope John Paul II
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), Teachings for an Unbelieving World: Newly Discovered Reflections on Paul’s Sermon at the Areopagus
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), Gift and Mystery
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), Way to Christ
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), Go in Peace: A Gift of Enduring Love
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), Pope John Paul II: In My Own Words
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), RISE, Let Us Be on Our Way
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), Rosarium Virginis Mariae: Apostolic Letter on the Most Holy Rosary
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), The Rosary Hour: The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), Memory and Identity
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), Person and Act and Related Essays (The English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II, Vol. 1)
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), The Lublin Lectures and Works on Max Scheler (The English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II, Vol. 2)
• St Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Morning and Evening Prayer: Meditations and Catechesis on Psalms and Canticles
• Garry O’Connor, Universal Father: A Life of Pope John Paul II
• Slawomir Oder, Why He Is a Saint: The Life and Faith of Pope John Paul II and the Case for Canonization
• Caroline Pigozzi, Pope John Paul II: An Intimate Life: The Pope I Knew So Well
• Wlodzimierz Redzioch, Stories about Saint John Paul II: Told by His Close Friends and Co-Workers
• George Weigel, The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II – The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy
• George Weigel, Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II
• George Weigel, Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
• Lino Zani, The Secret Life of John Paul II

Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger, 1927-2022)

• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), In the Beginning
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) and St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), Morning and Evening Prayer: Meditations and Catechesis on Psalms and Canticles
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Holiness is Always in Season
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Introduction to the Catechism of the Catholic Church
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to Augustine
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), The Legacy of John Paul II: Images and Memories
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Last Testament
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Journey to Easter: Spiritual Reflections for the Lenten Season
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Milestones: Memoirs: 1927 – 1977
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), A School of Prayer: The Saints Show Us How to Pray, Complete
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance Into Jerusalem to the Resurrection
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Jesus, the Apostles and the Early Church
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Saint Paul
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Church Fathers and Teachers: From Saint Leo the Great to Peter Lombard
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Holy Men and Women: Of the Middle Ages and Beyond
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Charity in Truth: Caritas in Veritate
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Saved in Hope: Spe Salvi
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Heart of the Christian Life: Thoughts on the Holy Mass
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), God Is Love: Deus Caritas Est
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), God Is Near Us: The Eucharist, The Heart of Life
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), The God of Jesus Christ: Meditations on the Triune God
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Introduction to Christianity
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), God and the World: A Conversation with Peter Seewald
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Seek That Which Is Above
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) (with Peter Seewald), Salt of the Earth: The Church at the End of the Millennium
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) (with Peter Seewald), Light of the World
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), The Spirit of the Liturgy
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), The Divine Project
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Principles of Christian Morality
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger),The Transforming Power of Faith
• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), What Is Christianity?: The Last Writings
• Peter Seewald, Benedict XVI: A Life (2 Vols)

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 1936-2025)

• Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), Life: My Story Through History
• Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), A Good Life
• Sergio Rubin, Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio

Lives of the Saints

• Butler’s Lives of the Saints: The Full Edition (13 Volumes)
• Thomas Dubay, Saints: A Closer Look
• Robert Ellsberg, The Saints’ Guide to Happiness
• Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta
• Patricia A. McEachern, A Holy Life: St. Bernadette of Lourdes
• François Trochu, The Curé D’Ars: St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney

See also: Charisms

Spiritual Life

Guides to the Spiritual Life

• Jordan Aumann, Christian Spirituality in the Catholic Tradition
• Louis Bouyer, Introduction to the Spiritual Life
• Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence: With Letters of Father de Caussade on the Practice of Self-Abandonment
• Madeleine Delbrêl, The Dazzling Light of God: A Madeleine Delbrêl Reader
• Madeleine Delbrêl, The Holiness of Ordinary People
• Thomas Dubay, Happy are You Poor: The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom
• Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, The Three Conversions in the Spiritual Life
• Romano Guardini, Learning the Virtues: That Lead You to God
• Romano Guardini, Living the Drama of Faith: What Faith Is and Where It Leads You
• Dietrich von Hildebrand, The Art of Living
• Dietrich von Hildebrand, Transformation in Christ: On the Christian Attitude
• Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
• Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis, The Way of the Disciple
• Jacques Philippe, Interior Freedom
• Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
• Jacques Philippe, Called to Life
• Brant Pitre, Introduction to the Spiritual Life: Walking the Path of Prayer with Jesus
• Henri Nouwen, The Selfless Way of Christ: Downward Mobility and the Spiritual Life
• St Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
• Anselm Stolz, The Doctrine of Spiritual Perfection
• Anselm Stolz, Christian Asceticism
• Adolphe Tanquerey, The Spiritual Life: A Treatise on Ascetical and Mystical Theology
• Mary David Totah, The Joy of God: Collected Writings

Introductions to Prayer & Fasting

• Thomas Dubay, Prayer Primer: Igniting a Fire Within
• Thomas Dubay, Deep Conversion, Deep Prayer
• Thomas Dubay, Authenticity: A Biblical Theology of Discernment
• Thomas Dubay, Seeking Spiritual Direction: How to Grow the Divine Life Within
• Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings
• Evagrius Ponticus, Evagrius Ponticus: The Praktikos. Chapters on Prayer
• Romano Guardini, Art of Praying: The Principles and Methods of Christian Prayer
• Thomas à Kempis, Bountiful Goodness: Spiritual Meditations for a Deeper Union with Christ
• Thomas à Kempis, On the Passion of Christ
• Joseph Letendre, When You Fast: The Why and How of Christian Self-Discipline
• Raïssa Maritain, The Journal of Raïssa Maritain
• Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer
• Jacques Philippe, Time for God
• Jacques Philippe, Thirsting for Prayer
• Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
• Robert Cardinal Sarah, The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise
• Joseph Simler, Catechism of Mental Prayer
• A.C. Spearing (ed.), The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works
• Mary David Totah, Christian Fasting – Disciplining the Body, Awakening the Spirit
• Mary David Totah, Deepening Prayer: Life Defined by Prayer
• Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer
• Adalbert de Vogüé, To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience

See also: Monasticism and Orthodox Christianity

Monasticism

Desert Fathers & Mothers

• John Cassian, The Institutes
• John Cassian, The Conferences
• Peter H. Gorg, The Desert Fathers: Saint Anthony and the Beginnings of Monasticism
• Evagrius Ponticus, Evagrius Ponticus: The Praktikos. Chapters on Prayer
• Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers
• Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century
• Benedicta Ward, The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks

Benedictine

• St Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of St. Benedict
• Michael Casey, Strangers to the City: Reflections on the Beliefs and Values of the Rule of Saint Benedict
• Charles Cummings, Monastic Practices
• Nicolas Diat, A Time to Die: Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life
• Luke Eberle, The Rule of the Master
• St Gregory the Great, Dialogues
• Richard J. Goodrich ed., The Desert Fathers: Verba Seniorum III, VI, and VII
• Kathleen Norris, Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life
• Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk
• Mark W. McGinnis, The Wisdom of the Benedictine Elders: Thirty of America’s Oldest Monks and Nuns Share Their Lives’ Greatest Lessons
• Adalbert de Vogüé, To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience
• Adalbert de Vogüé, Reading Saint Benedict: Reflections on the Rule
• Adalbert de Vogüé, The Rule of Saint Benedict: A Doctrinal and Spiritual Commentary
• Esther de Waal, Seeking God: The Way of St Benedict

Carthusian & Cistercian

• St Bernard of Clairvaux, Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings
• John W. Kiser, The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love, and Terror in Algeria
• Christophe Lebreton, Born from the Gaze of God: The Tibhirine Journal of a Martyr Monk (1993-1996)
• Robin Bruce Lockhart, Halfway To Heaven: The Hidden Life of the Carthusians
• Carl McColman, Befriending Silence: Discovering the Gifts of Cistercian Spirituality
• Nancy Klein Maguire, An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World’s Most Austere Monastic Order
• Thomas Merton, The Courage for Truth: The Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers
• Thomas Merton, Monastic Journey
• Thomas Merton, Life and Holiness
• Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain
• Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
• Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas
• Thomas Merton, The Journals of Thomas Merton (8 Vols)
• Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
• Thomas Merton, In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems
• Thomas Merton, A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals
• Thomas Merton, Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing
• Thomas Merton, Seeds
• Thomas Merton, Thomas Merton: A Life in Letters: The Essential Collection
• Thomas Merton, The Intimate Merton: His Life From His Journals
• Thomas Merton, The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation
  Thomas Merton, The Letters of Thomas Merton (5 Vols)
• Thomas Merton, Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition
• A Monk, The Hermitage Within
• Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery
• Tim Peeters, When Silence Speaks: The Spiritual Way of the Carthusian Order
• David D. Perata, The Orchards of Perseverance: Conversations With Trappist Monks About God, Their Lives and the World
• A Priest, Report from Calabria: A Season with the Carthusian Monks
• Paul Quenon, In Praise of the Useless Life: A Monk’s Memoir
• Paul Wilkes, Merton by Those Who Knew Him Best

Other

• Jean-Jacques Antier, Charles De Foucauld
• Carlo Carretto, Letters from the Desert
• Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time to Keep Silence
• St Charles de Foucauld, Meditations of a Hermit
• St Charles de Foucauld, Selected Writings
• Marion Mill Preminger, The Sands of Tamanrasset: The Story of Charles de Foucauld
• Jean-François Six, The Spiritual Autobiography of Charles De Foucauld

Charisms

Augustinian

• Henry Chadwick, Augustine of Hippo: A Life
• Romano Guardini, The Conversion of Augustine
• Emmanuel-Marie Le Febure du Bus, Desire and Unity: Augustinian Spirituality for Today

See also: Patristics

Carmelite

• Jean-Jacques Antier, Teresa of Ávila: God Alone Suffices
• St Teresa of Ávila, The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Ávila (3 Vols)
• St Teresa of Ávila. The Collected Letters of St Teresa of Ávila (2 Vols)
• Johan Bergstrom-Allen, Climbing the Mountain: The Carmelite Journey
• Adam Bucko, Holy Thirst: Essentials of Carmelite Spirituality
• The Carmelite Directory of the Spiritual Life
• Dorothy Day, Thérèse
• Alzinir Debastiani, The Promise & Vows in the Secular Order of the Discalced Carmelites
• Aloysius Deeney, Welcome to the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites
• Conrad De Meester, With Empty Hands: The Message of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
• St Elizabeth of the Trinity, The Complete Works of Elizabeth of the Trinity
• Guy Gaucher, The Story of a Life: St. Therese of Lisieux
• Henri Ghéon, The Secret of the Little Flower
• Didier-Marie Golay, Saint Thérèse of Lisieux: Living on Love
• Thomas Dubay, Fire Within: Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross and the Gospel – On Prayer
• Donald Haggerty, Conversion: Spiritual Insights Into an Essential Encounter with God
• Donald Haggerty, The Contemplative Hunger
• Donald Haggerty, Saint John of the Cross: Master of Contemplation
• Donald Haggerty, Contemplative Provocations: Brief, Concentrated Observations on Aspects of a Life with God
• Richard P. Hardy, John of the Cross: Man and Mystic
• St John of the Cross, The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross
• Ida Friederike Görres, The Hidden Face: A Study of St. Therese of Lisieux
• Kieran Kavanaugh, John of the Cross: Doctor of Light and Love
• Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, The Practice of the Presence of God
• St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), The Science of the Cross
• St Thérèse of Lisieux, The Letters of St Thérèse of Lisieux (2 Vols)
• St Thérèse of Lisieux, The Autobiography of Saint Therese of Lisieux: The Story of a Soul
• St Thérèse of Lisieux, Her Last Conversations
• Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, The Way of Prayer: A Commentary on Saint Teresa’s Way of Perfection
• Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, Divine Intimacy: Meditations on the Interior Life for Every Day of the Liturgical Year
• Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, Little Catechism of the Life of Prayer
• Ralph Martin, The Fulfillment of All Desire
• Iain Matthew, The Impact of God: Soundings from St John of the Cross
• Thomas Merton, The Ascent to Truth
• Jennifer Moorcroft, He Is My Heaven: The Life of Elizabeth of the Trinity
• Mark O’Keefe, Learned, Experienced, and Discerning: St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross on Spiritual Direction
• José Vicente Rodríguez, God Speaks in the Night: The Life, Times, and Teaching of St. John of the Cross
• Teresia Renata Posselt, Edith Stein: The Life of a Philosopher and Carmelite
• Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda, Edith Stein: The Life and Legacy of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
• Wilfrid Stinissen, Eternity in the Midst of Time
• Wilfrid Stinissen, The Holy Spirit, Fire of Divine Love
• Wilfrid Stinissen, Into Your Hands, Father: Abandoning Ourselves to the God Who Loves Us

Catholic Worker Movement

• Dorothy Day (Servant of God), On Pilgrimage
  Dorothy Day (Servant of God), The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
• Dorothy Day (Servant of God), All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day
• Dorothy Day (Servant of God), Loaves and Fishes: The Inspiring Story of the Catholic Worker Movement
• Dorothy Day (Servant of God), The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day
• Dorothy Day (Servant of God), From Union Square to Rome

Communion & Liberation

• Luigi Giussani, At the Origin of the Christian Claim
• Luigi Giussani, The Journey to Truth Is an Experience
• Luigi Giussani, The Religious Sense
• Luigi Giussani, The Risk of Education: Discovering Our Ultimate Destiny
• Luigi Giussani, To Give One’s Life for the Work of Another
• Luigi Giussani, Is It Possible To Live This Way?: An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence (3 Vols)

Divine Mercy

• The Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska

Dominican, Thomist & Neo-Scholastic

• St Thomas Aquinas, The Aquinas Catechism
• St Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (5 Vols)
• St Thomas Aquinas, Selected Writings
• Robert Barron, Thomas Aquinas: Spiritual Master
• G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas
• Frederick Charles Copleston, Aquinas
• Edward Feser, Five Proofs of the Existence of God
• Edward Feser, Aquinas (A Beginner’s Guide)
• Luciana Frassati, A Man of the Beatitudes: Pier Giorgio Frassati
• Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Knowing the Love of God
• Etienne Gilson, The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy
• Peter Kreeft, A Summa of the Summa
• Jacques Maritain, Art and Scholasticism With Other Essays
• Jacques Maritain, An Introduction to Philosophy
• Ralph McInerny, The Very Rich Hours of Jacques Maritain: A Spiritual Life
• Josef Pieper, Happiness and Contemplation
• Josef Pieper, Faith, Hope, Love
• Josef Pieper, Guide to Thomas Aquinas
• Josef Pieper, Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation
• Josef Pieper, The Four Cardinal Virtues
• Josef Pieper, Silence of St. Thomas
• Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
• Robert Sokolowski, The God of Faith and Reason: Foundations of Christian Theology

Franciscan

• Andrew Apostoli, Walk Humbly With Your God: Simple Steps to a Virtuous Life
• Gratien Badin, I Know Christ
• St Bonaventure, Works of Bonaventure: Journey of the Mind To God – The Triple Way, or, Love Enkindled – The Tree of Life – The Mystical Vine – On the Perfection of Life, Addressed to Sisters
• G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
• André Frossard, “Forget Not Love”: The Passion of Maximilian Kolbe
• Julien Green, God’s Fool: The Life of Francis of Assisi
• Benedict J. Groeschel, Arise from Darkness: What to Do When Life Doesn’t Make Sense
• Benedict J. Groeschel, A Drama of Reform
• St Maximilian Kolbe, The Writings of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe (2 Volumes)
• St Maximilian Kolbe, Aim Higher!: Spiritual and Marian Reflections of St. Maximilian Kolbe
• St Maximilian Kolbe, Will to love: Reflections for daily living
• Patricia Treece, A Man for Others: Maximilian Kolbe, Saint of Auschwitz, In the Words of Those Who Knew Him

Ignatian

• Pedro Arrupe, One Jesuit’s Spiritual Journey: Autobiographical Conversations With Jean-Claude Dietsch
• James Brodrick, Ignatius of Loyola: The Pilgrim Years
• Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me: An Extraordinary Testament of Faith
• Alfred Delp, Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons and Prison Writings – 1941-1944
• Timothy M. Gallagher, An Ignatian Introduction to Prayer: Scriptural Reflections According to the Spiritual Exercises
• Timothy M. Gallagher, Meditation and Contemplation: An Ignatian Guide to Praying with Scripture
• St Ignatius of Loyola, Personal Writings
• James Martin, Learning to Pray: A Guide for Everyone
  James Martin, Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity
• James Martin, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life
• James Martin, In Good Company: The Fast Track from the Corporate World to Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience
• James Martin, Jesus: A Pilgrimage
• Johann Baptist Metz, Poverty of Spirit
• Robert J. Spitzer, Five Pillars of the Spiritual Life: A Practical Guide to Prayer for Active People

Marian Devotion & The Holy Rosary

• Dan Burke, The Contemplative Rosary with St. John Paul II and St. Teresa of Avila
• Robert Feeney, The Rosary: The Little Summa
• Luigi Gambero, Mary and the Fathers of the Church: The Blessed Virgin Mary in Patristic Thought
• Benedict J. Groeschel, The Rosary: Chain of Hope
• Romano Guardini, The Rosary of Our Lady
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła ), Rosarium Virginis Mariae: Apostolic Letter on the Most Holy Rosary
• St Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła ), The Rosary Hour: The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II
• Louis de Montfort, The True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin
• Scott L. Smith, Pray the Rosary with Saint John Paul II
• Wilfrid Stinissen, Mary in the Bible and in Our Lives
• Hans Urs von Balthasar, Mary: The Church at Its Source
• Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Threefold Garland

Oratorian

• Ida Friederike Görres, John Henry Newman: A Life Sacrificed
• Ian Ker, John Henry Newman: A Biography
• St John Henry Newman, The Heart of Newman: A Synthesis
• St John Henry Newman, Loss and Gain
• St John Henry Newman, Meditations and Devotions
• St John Henry Newman, Prayers, Verses, and Devotions
• St John Henry Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons
• St John Henry Newman, An Essay in Aid of A Grammar of Assent
• St John Henry Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
• St John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua
• Jonathan Robinson, In No Strange Land: The Embodied Mysticism of Saint Philip Neri
• Roderick Strange, Newman: The Heart of Holiness
• Capuchin Zeno, John Henry Newman: His Inner Life

Visitandines

• St Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life

Orthodox Christianity

• Anonymous, The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way
• Anthony Bloom, Beginning to Pray
• Peter C. Bouteneff, Arvo Pärt: Out of Silence
• Vera Bouteneff, Father Arseny
• Tito Colliander, Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth
• John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent
• Kyriacos C. Markides, The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality
• Arvo Pärt, Arvo Pärt in Conversation
• The Philokalia: The Complete Text (5 Vols)
• E.H. Palmer (ed.), Writings from the Philokalia: On Prayer of the Heart
• Theophan the Recluse, The Spiritual Life and How to be Attuned to It
• Theophan the Recluse, The Path to Salvation: A Manual of Spiritual Transformation
• Hedi Rosma, In Principio: The Word in Arvo Pärt’s Music
• Sophrony Sakharov, Saint Silouan, the Athonite
• Tikhon Shevkunov, Everyday Saints and Other Stories
• Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
• Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Church
• Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way
• Kallistos Ware (ed.), The Art of Prayer: An Orthodox Anthology

Miscellaneous Christian Writings & Apologetics

• Pierre Barbet, A Doctor at Calvary: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ As Described by a Surgeon
• Robert Barron, Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith
• G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
• G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
• Paul Elie, The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage
• C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil
• C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress 
• C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
• C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
• C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
• C.S. Lewis, Miracles
• C.S. Lewis, Prayer: Letter to Malcolm
• C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
• C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
• C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
• C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
• Henri Nouwen, Sabbatical Journey: The Diary of His Final Year

Literature

• Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest
• Samuel Beckett, Endgame
• Samuel Beckett, Three Novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable)
• Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
• Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
• William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
• Humphrey Carpenter, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
• Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
• Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), ed. and trans. Charles S. Singleton (6 Vols)
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Eternal Husband
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler and Other Stories
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, Netochka Nezvanova
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Village of Stepanchikovo
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double & The Gambler
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from a Dead House
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
• Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
• Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
• Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
• Joris-Karl Huysmans, The Durtal Trilogy (En Route, The Cathedral, The Oblate)
• James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Peter Kreeft, The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings
• Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
• Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
• Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
• Cormac McCarthy, Child of God
• Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain
• Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
• Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
• Cormac McCarthy, The Gardener’s Son
• Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
• Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark
• Cormac McCarthy, The Road
• Cormac McCarthy, The Stonemason
• Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited
• Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
• Aylmer Maude, Life of Tolstoy
• Flannery O’Connor, A Prayer Journal
• Flannery O’Connor, Collected Stories
• Homer, The Iliad
• Homer, The Odyssey
• James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Giuseppe Mazzotta, Reading Dante (The Open Yale Courses Series)
• Ovid, The Metamorphoses
• Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
• Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
• Nick Ripatrazone, Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction
• Marilynne Robinson, Lila
• Marilynne Robinson, Home
• Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
• Marilynne Robinson, When I Was A Child I Read Books
• Marilynne Robinson, The Givenness of Things: Essays
• Marilynne Robinson, Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (The Terry Lectures Series)
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (8 Vols)
• Sophocles, The Theban Plays
• J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
• J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
• J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
• J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Humphrey Carpenter
• Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
• Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings
• Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul
• Leo Tolstoy, The Cossacks and Other Stories
• Leo Tolstoy, Master and Man and Other Stories
• Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories
• Leo Tolstoy, Last Steps
• Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy’s Letters (2 Vols)
• Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy’s Diaries (2 Vols)
• Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Boyhood and Youth
• Leo Tolstoy, The Cossacks
• Virgil, The Aeneid
• Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

Philosophy

• Aristotle, Poetics
• Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
• Aristotle, De Anima (On the Soul)
• Aristotle, The Art of Rhetoric
• Aristotle, The Politics
• Aristotle, The Metaphysics
• Frederick Charles Copleston, A History of Philosophy (11 Vols)
• John Finnis, Natural Law And Natural Rights 
• Søren Kierkegaard, Papers and Journals: A Selection
• Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
• Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
• Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death
• Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
• Ray Monk, Wittgenstein: Duty of Genius
• Blaise Pascal, Pensées
• Plato, Complete Works
• Robert Sokolowski, Introduction to Phenomenology