Socrates' Children: Contemporary: The 100 Greatest Philosophers
By: Peter Kreeft
4.41
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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1. The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ
By: Brant Pitre , Robert Barron
4.53
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
Over the past hundred years, scholars have attacked the historical truth of the Gospels and argued … read more
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2. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
By: Tom Holland
4.16
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
In the fifth century BC, a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it reg… read more
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- history
3. St. Francis of Assisi
By: G.K. Chesterton , Joseph F. Girzone
3.94
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, perhaps the greatest saint in the Christian calendar,… read more
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"The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant."-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god."-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any pr…"-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like…"-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
4. Aristotle for Everybody
By: Mortimer J. Adler
4.11
Format: 208 pages,
Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) taught logic to Alexander the Great and, by virtue of his philosophical … read more
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5. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton
2.67
Format: 166 pages,
G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more
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6. The Everlasting Man
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.16
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
What, if anything, is it that makes the human uniquely human? This, in part, is the question that G… read more
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"Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
"Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
7. The Consolation of Philosophy
By: Boethius , None
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more
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8. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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9. Introduction to Christianity
By: Pope Benedict XVI
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of Cardinal Ratzinger's most important and widely read books, this volume is a revised second e… read more
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10. The Spirit of the Liturgy
By: Pope Benedict XVI , Jon Saward , Joseph Ratzinger
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Considered by Ratzinger devotees as his greatest work on the Liturgy, this profound and beautifully… read more
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11. Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction
By: Roger Scruton
3.65
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
Father of the Enlightenment and the last guardian of the medieval world, Spinoza made a brilliant a… read more
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12. To Know Christ Jesus
By: Frank Sheed
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
This modern spiritual classic by Frank Sheed, the renowned author, publisher and lecturer, is broug… read more
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13. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
By: Mortimer J. Adler , Charles van Doren
3.98
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. I… read more
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"In short, we can only learn from our "betters"."-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
"A good rule always describes the ideal performance."-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
"The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used."-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
14. Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide
By: Edward Feser
3.71
Format: 435 pages, Paperback
One of the most influential philosophers and theologians in history, St. Thomas Aquinas was the fat… read more
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15. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
16. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
17. The Drama of Salvation: How God Rescues You from Your Sins and Brings You to Eternal Life
By: Jimmy Akin
4.00
Format: 231 pages,
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18. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor
4.27
Format: 197 pages, paper
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more
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19. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
20. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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21. Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah
By: Brant Pitre
4.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"Brant Pitre is one of the most compelling theological writers on the scene today." - Bishop Robert… read more
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- history
22. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
23. The Word on Fire Bible: The Gospels (Word on Fire Bible #1)
By: Robert Barron
4.88
Format: 592 pages, Leather Bound
The Word on Fire Bible is a groundbreaking series introducing readers to the strange, colorful worl… read more
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24. The Case for Catholicism: Answers to Classic and Contemporary Protestant Objections
By: Trent Horn
4.45
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
From Amazon: This is the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and thorough defense of the Catholic Churc… read more
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25. Socrates' Children: Contemporary: The 100 Greatest Philosophers
By: Peter Kreeft
4.41
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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26. On Kingship to the King of Cyprus
By: Thomas Aquinas
3.83
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
In the De regno, ad regem Cypri, an unfinished work, Thomas Aquinas planned to discuss two topics: … read more
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"Yet through virtuous living man is further ordained to a higher end, which consists in the enjoyment of God, as we have said above. Consequently, since society must have the same end as the individua…"-Thomas Aquinas, On Kingship to the King of Cyprus
27. The Tale of Snow White and the Widow Queen
By: Jonathan Pageau
4.68
Format: 52 pages, Hardcover
Snow White and The Widow Queen marks a re-awakening of the traditional fairy tale. Master of symbol… read more
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28. Can a Catholic Be a Socialist?
By: Trent Horn
4.19
Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition
This long-discredited economic philosophy is making a comeback, not only on college campuses and po… read more
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29. An Introduction to Prayer
By: Robert Barron
4.68
Format: 117 pages, Kindle Edition
Prayer fascinates us. Studies show that even atheists and agnostics sometimes pray. But what precis… read more
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30. Citizens Yet Strangers: Living Authentically Catholic in a Divided America
By: Kenneth Craycraft
4.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
It's hard — and getting harder — to figure out the proper relationship between our Catholic Faith a… read more
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