Summa Theologica
​ by Saint Thomas Aquinas (written  between 1265 and 1273)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1472)
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare (​1606)
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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
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The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton (​1948)
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Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
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Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
Simply Christian by N.T. Wright
Jesus and the Victory of God and The Resurrection of the Son of God by N.T. Wright
The Dark Night of the Soul by John of the Cross (128 pages)
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The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Dialogues of Plato by Plato
The City of God by St. Augustine
Confessions by St. Augustine
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The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1980)
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages by Umberto Eco (1986)
Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman (1864)
The Habit of Being by Flannery O’Connor
Collected Stories by Flannery O’Connor
The Four Cardinal Virtues by Josef Pieper
Summa contra gentiles by Thomas Aquinas
On Being and Essence by St. Thomas Aquinas
Catena Aurea by Thomas Aquina
Commentary on John by Thomas Aquinas
Commentary on Romans by Thomas Aquinas
Commentary on Job by Thomas Aquinas
The Silence of St. Thomas: Three Essays by Josef Pieper
​Aquinas by Frederick Copleston (1955)
After Aquinas by Fergus Kerr
Aquinas: God and Action by David Burrell
Sermons by Meister Eckhart (first published 1300)
Pensees by Blaise Pascal
The Death of the Messiah by Raymond Brown
The God of Faith and Reason by Robert Sokolowski
God Still Matters by Herbert McCabe
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Evil in Modern Thought by Susan Neiman
God Without Being by Jean-Luc Marion
Jesus and Judaism by E.P. Sanders
Faith, Science, and Understanding by John Polkinghorne
Passage to Modernity by Louis Dupre
The Way of Imperfection by Simon Tugwell
Ethics by James William McClendon
Upheavals of Thought by Martha Nussbaum
The Joy of Being Wrong by James Alison
Paradoxes by Henri de Lubac
Commentary on the Song of Songs by Bernard of Clairvaux
Symbolik by Johann Adam Mohler
The Good Wine: Reading John from the Center by Bruno Barnhart
About:
  • ​Robert Emmet Barron (born November 19, 1959) is an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in the United States of America. He founded the Catholic ministerial organization Word on Fire and hosted the PBS television series Catholicism, an award-winning documentary about the Catholic faith. He was previously the rector of Mundelein Seminary, which is part of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Sources:
  • ​https://www.wordonfire.org/wof-site/media/bishop-barrons-recommended-books-copy-2.pdf​
  • https://brandonvogt.com/philosophybooks/
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