Non-
This list is broken up into subject, but that isn’t very easy to do. Most of them come from the two bookshelves in my room that I call collectively “Eudaimonia.” This is the Greek word for living the good life, a life of excellence lived to the fullest. Since nearly anything can fall into that category, I’ve had to break up the list based on my overall assessment of what the book was about. Sometimes this was easy. Sometimes it was not.
Christianity:
C.S. Lewis: The undisputed master of common sense.
The Screwtape Letters
Mere Christianity
The Four Loves
The Problem of Pain
The Abolition of Man
The Great Divorce
A Grief Observed
Elisabeth Elliot
Passion and Purity
Arterburn and Stoker
Every Man’s Battle
Alex and Brett Harris
Do Hard Things
Peter Kreeft
A Refutation of Moral Relativism
The God who Loves You
John Eldridge
Wild at Heart
John and Stasi Eldridge
Captivating
Catholicism
Blessed John Paul the Great: This man was the greatest renaissance man of the last century: Poet, Actor, Athlete, Priest, Linguist, Philosopher, Mystic, and Charismatic Political and Religious Leader.
Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body (edited and with introduction by Michael Waldstein.)
Veritatis Splendor
Mother Teresa: A wise, beautiful and holy woman, and one of my greatest heroes.
A Simple Path
Total Surrender
Scott Hahn: One of the Greatest Catholic apologists of our time!
Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism
Understanding “Our Father”: Biblical Reflections on the Lord’s Prayer
Reasons to Believe
Hail Holy Queen
First Comes Love
Covenant and Communion
The Lamb’s Supper
Lord Have Mercy
Peter Kreeft
The Snakebite Letters
Everything you Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven
Angels (and Demons)
Three Philosophies of Life
Before I Go
I Surf, Therefore I am
Brother Lawrence
The Practice of the Presence of God
Thomas aKempis
The Imitation of Christ
St. Augustine
The Confessions
St. Francis de Sales
An Introduction to the Devout Life
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
Thomas Howard: A writer of the most gorgeously gratuitous wordplay.
Evangelical is not Enough
On Being Catholic
If your mind wanders at Mass
Fr. Dwight Longenecker
Mary: A Protestant-
Praying the Rosary for Inner Healing
The Gargoyle Code
Combat
Sun Tzu
The Art of War
Miyamoto Musashi
The Book of Five Rings
Forest E. Morgan
Living the Martial Way
Ltc. (Ret) Dave Grossman
On Killing
On Combat
With Gloria DaeGatano
Stop Teaching our Kids to Kill
Gavin DeBecker
The Gift of Fear
Bruce K. Siddle
Sharpening the Warrior Edge
David Klinger
Into the Kill Zone
Sgt. Rory Miller
Meditations on Violence
Great Biographies and Autobiographies
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa: The Private Writings of the “Saint of Calcutta”
Edited and with commentary by Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C.
Kathryn Spink
Mother Teresa: A complete Authorized Biography
Immaculee Ilibagiza, with Steve Erwin
Left to Tell (autobiography)
Led by Faith (autobiography)
Elisabeth Elliot
A Chance to Die: the Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
Dave Pelzer
A Child Called “It” (autobiography)
The Lost Boy (autobiography)
A Man named Dave (autobiography)
Richard B. Pelzer
A Brother’s Journey: Surviving a Childhood of Abuse (autobiography)
Carol Everett, with Jack Shaw
Blood Money: Getting Rick off a Woman’s Right to Choose (autobiography)
Fr. Gereon Goldmann, O.F.M
The Shadow of His Wings (autobiography)
Audie Murphy
To Hell and Back (autobiography)
George Wilson
If You Survive (autobiography)
Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire
Shake Hands with the Devil: the Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (autobiography)
Misc.
Kenelm Henry Digby
Maxims of Christian Chivalry
Nicholas Carr:
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains.
Sgt. Randy Sutton
A Cop’s Life
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