What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
–Thomas Carlyle
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Rome Sweet Rome, Scott and Kimberly Hahn
Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI
The Courage to be Catholic, George Weigel
The Cure d’Ars, Abbe Francois Trochu
Basil Moreau: Founder of Holy Cross, Gary MacEoin
The Death of a Pope, Piers Paul Read
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Introduction to the Devout Life, S. Francis de Sales
The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, Daniel H. Pink
The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton
My Life with the Saints, James Martin, SJ
Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta, Brian Kolodiejchuk, ed.
Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros
Spring 2009 Semester Reading List
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Odyssey, Homer
The Tempest, Shakespeare
Beowulf, transl. Seamus Heaney
Ring of the Nibelung, Wagner
Tristan und Isolde, Wagner
Pensees, Pascal
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Miller
On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche
Utilitarianism, Mill
The Ethics of Authenticity, Taylor
Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant
After Virtue, MacIntyre
Fall 2008 Semester Reading List
Wheelock’s Latin (6th Ed.)
Thirty-Eight Latin Stories, Groton
Confessions, S. Augustine
Five Dialogues, Plato
Fides et Ratio, John Paul II
New Aristotle Reader
The Republic Plato
Summa Contra Gentiles, S. Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica, S. Thomas Aquinas
Western Philosophy from Antiquity to Middle Ages, Jordan
On the Incarnation, Athanasius
Spirit of Early Christian Thought, Wilken
Lourdes, Harris
Guadalupe, Elizondo
The Miracle Detective, Sullivan
Miracles, C.S. Lewis
The End of the Affair, Greene
Writings on Religion, Hume
The Cult of the Saints, Brown
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
–Michel de Montaigne
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
–Rene Descartes
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
–Charles W. Eliot
Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.
–Spanish proverb
