I recently helped Fr. Robert Barron launch a new digital campaign called #AskFrBarron. Each month, he solicits questions through his blog and Facebook page and then selects a few to answer using video. He then shares one video answer per week on his Facebook page.
In this week’s answer, he covers one of our favorite topics here: books. One inquirer asked what his five favorite books were, and Father responded with his favorites in five different genres:
(If you can’t see the video above, click here.)
His favorites include:
- Summa Theologiae by Thomas Aquinas
- The Divine Comedy by Dante
- The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
In addition to those, you might enjoy these other book lists: