Did you catch this wonderful lecture by Dr. Peter Kreeft??
For his assigned topic, Dr. Kreeft was supposed to recommend ten books to read before you die. But he couldn’t help himself. He instead proposed 26 books, stretched over 13 genres, with another 15 bonus titles.
You’ll find links to all the books below the lecture.
(Also, click here for Peter Kreeft’s recommended philosophy books.)
Book Recommendations
- Autobiography
- The Confessions by St. Augustine (Frank Sheed translation)
- A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken
- Novels
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis
- Plays
- A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
- Our Town by Thornton Wilder
- Epics
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
- Supernatural Fantasy
- The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
- The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
- Science Fiction
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Spirituality
- The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
- The Story of a Soul by St. Therese of Lisieux
- Apologetics
- Pensées by Blaise Pascal
- The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
- Classic Philosophy
- Apology of Socrates by Plato
- The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
- Popular Philosophy
- St. Thomas Aquinas by G.K. Chesterton
- Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
- History
- The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
- Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness by Warren Carroll
- Theology
- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
- Summa Theologiae by St. Thomas Aquinas
- Poetry
- Lepanto by G.K. Chesterton
- The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot
Bonus Book Recommendations
- Autobiography
- The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
- Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
- Novels
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Plays
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Epics
- The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Supernatural Fantasy
- Descent Into Hell by Charles Williams
- Science Fiction
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
- Spirituality
- Abandonment to Divine Providence by Jean-Pierre de Caussade
- Apologetics
- Miracles by C.S. Lewis
- Classic Philosophy
- Republic by Plato
- Popular Philosophy
- Ethics by Aristotle
- History
- City of God by St. Augustine
- The Formation of Christendom by Christopher Dawson
- The Dividing of Christendom by Christopher Dawson
- Theology
- Theology of the Body for Beginners by Christopher West
- Poetry
- The Dream of Gerontius by John Henry Newman