books

some books i've read, most recent at the top

2025:

• 1984 by George Orwell

• Death by Meeting by Patrick Lencioni

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful by Joseph Pearce

2024:

• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

• The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

• The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Heroes of the Catholic Reformation by Joseph Pearce

• Life of the Beloved by Henri Nouwen

• Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist by Brant J. Pitre

• Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne

• Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

• Heretics by G.K. Chesterton

• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

• The Contagious Catholic by Marcel LeJeune

• Round the Moon by Jules Verne

• From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne

• Divine Renovation by Fr. James Mallon

• The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

• Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton

• The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton

• Father Brown: The Essential Tales by G.K. Chesterton

• The Glories of Mary by Alphonsus Liguori

• The Power of Love by Fulton J. Sheen

• Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary by Brant J. Pitre

• Literature by Joseph Pearce

• Three to Get Married by Fulton J. Sheen

• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

• Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway

• Lost on a Mountain in Maine by Donn Fendler

• Reflections on the Psalms by C.S. Lewis

• Life and Holiness by Thomas Merton

• First Comes Love by Scott Hahn

• A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

• The Way of a Pilgrim and The Pilgrim Continues His Way

• The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig

• Animal Farm by George Orwell

• To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

• Silos, Politics and Turf Wars by Patrick Lencioni

• Surrender! by Fr. Larry Richards

2023:

• Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway

• The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

• Doors in the Walls of the World by Peter Kreeft

• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

• He Leadeth Me by Walter J. Ciszek

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

• How to Resist Amazon and Why by Danny Caine

• The Jeweler's Shop by Karol Wojtyla

• Gift and Grit by Andrew and Sarah Swafford

• Called to Love by Carl Anderson and José Granados

• Gift and Mystery by Pope John Paul II

• Becoming Trader Joe by Joe Coulombe

• Love and Responsibility by Karol Wojtyła

• Koala by Danielle Clode

• The Seven Levels of Intimacy by Matthew Kelly

• Happiness in This Life by Pope Francis

• Ages of American Capitalism by Jonathan Levy

• A Biblical Walk Trough The Mass by Edward Sri

• The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber

• When You Suffer by Jeff Cavins

• The Art of Living by Edward Sri

• Be Healed by Bob Schuchts

• Saint John Paul the Great by Jason Evert

• Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara

• Theology for Beginners by Frank Sheed

• Purple Cow by Seth Godin

• How the Fathers Read the Bible by Mike Aquilina

• Love is Patient, but I'm Not by Christopher West

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

2022:

• Where We Got The Bible by Msgr. Henry Grey Graham

• The Bible Compass by Edward Sri

• Dare to Lead by Brené Brown

• Hail Holy Queen by Scott Hahn

• Be A Man by Fr. Larry Richards

• Forged in Crisis by Nancy Koehn

• Rome Sweet Home by Scott & Kimberly Hahn

• The Influential Mind by Tali Sharot

• The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive by Patrick Lencioni

• What Does God Want? by Fr. Michael Scanlan

• The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman

• The 5am Club by Robin Sharma

• 33 Years in the Holy Land by Antonin Sertillanges

• A Civilization of Love By Carl Anderson

• This Is Marketing by Seth Godin

• Guadalupe, A River of Light by Carlos Caso-Rosendi

2021:

• Spiritual Warfare and the Discernment of Spirits by Dan Burke

• Our Lady of Guadalupe by Carl Anderson & Eduardo Chavez

• Parish Priest by Douglas Brinkley & Julie M. Fenster

• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 

• The Lamb's Supper by Scott Hahn

• Influence by Robert B. Cialdini

• How to Make a Good Confession by John A Kane 

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

• How to Pray Like Mary by Sonja Corbitt

• Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi

• On Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 

• Crossing the Threshold of Hope by Pope John Paul II

2020

• Joy to the World by Scott Hahn

• Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1884 by Karl Marx

• Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

• Captivating by John and Stasi Eldredge

• Men, Women and The Mystery of Love by Edward Sri

• The World's First Love by Fulton J. Sheen

• Sidereus Nuncius by Galileo Galilei

• The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis

• The Priests We Need to Save the Church by Kevin Wells

• Loved As I Am by Sr Miriam James Heiland

• The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis

• The Name of God is Mercy by Pope Francis

• Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius

• The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

• Our Father by Pope Francis

• Wild at Heart by John Eldredge

• St. Padre Pio: Man of Hope by Renzo Allegri

• Ave Maria by Pope Francis

• Praying the Rosary Like Never Before by Edward Sri

• Between the Savior and the Sea by Bob Rice

• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

• The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

• St. Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton

• The Aeneid by Virgil

• No Greater Love by Edward Sri

2019:

• The Prince by Niccolo Machiaveli 

• St. Rita of Cascia by Fr. Joseph Sicardo

• The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis

• The Odyssey by Homer

• The Catholic Gentleman by Sam Guzman

• Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis

• The Problem of Pain by  C.S. Lewis

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Story of a Soul by St. Therese of Lisieux

• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

• The Incredible Catholic Mass by Martin von Cochem

• God is Young by Pope Francis

• Educated by Tara Westover

• Why We're Catholic by Trent Horn

• Why I Am Catholic by Brandon Vogt

• Broken and Blessed by Fr. Josh Johnson

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