9 must-read catholic books like Faith of Our Fathers A History of 'True' England by Joseph Pearce

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Faith of Our Fathers A History of 'True' England

By: Joseph Pearce

4.54

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The Catholic Church has been a part of English history since the arrival of Christian missionaries …

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1. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

By: John Taylor Gatto

4.15

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

A highly praised bestseller for over a decade, Dumbing Us Down is a radical treatise on public educ… read more

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  • history
"… nothing important can ever really be boring."

-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

"As redes operacionais tornam as pessoas solitárias."

-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

"I assign a type of extended schooling called “homework,"

-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

"Networks like schools are not communities, just as school training is not education."

-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

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2. Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God

By: Scott Hahn , Kilian J. Healy

4.36

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and enlightening new perspective on Mary, Mother of God, and her central importance in the … read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • catholic
"A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution."

-Scott Hahn, Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God

"Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel."

-Scott Hahn, Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God

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3. 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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  • christian
  • history
  • catholic
"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

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4. Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition

By: Karen Glass

4.36

Format: 224 pages,

The educators of ancient Greece and Rome gave the world a vision of what education should be. The m… read more

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5. The Door in the Wall

By: Marguerite de Angeli

4.88

Format: 242 pages,

The bells clang above plague-ridden London as Robin lies helpless, cold, and hungry. The great hous… read more

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6. 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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  • christian
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7. Orthodoxy

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more

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  • christian
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8. The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1)

By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Originally published in Norwegian in 1920 and set in fourteenth-century Norway, The Wreath chronicl… read more

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9. Farmer Giles of Ham

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Wayne G. Hammond , Christina Scull

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The editors of the best-selling rediscovered Tolkien novel Roverandom present an expanded fiftieth … read more

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10. Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism

By: Kimberly Hahn , Scott Hahn , Peter Kreeft

4.40

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

The well-known and very popular Catholic couple, Scott and Kimberly Hahn, have been constantly trav… read more

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  • christian
  • catholic
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11. Henry V

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more

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12. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren

4.28

Format: 916 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political… read more

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  • history
"An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,"

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

13. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven-- But Never Dreamed of Asking

By: Peter Kreeft

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

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14. Lord of the World

By: Robert Hugh Benson

4.60

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) was the youngest son of Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbur… read more

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15. Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection

By: Pope Benedict XVI

3.00

Format: 108 pages,

For Christians, Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God, who died for the sins of the world, and who ro… read more

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16. The Son Avenger (The Master of Hestviken, #4)

By: Sigrid Undset

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Powerfully written and filled with magnificent vignettes of the daily life of a medieval estate, 'T… read more

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17. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more

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"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

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18. Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

By: Cindy Rollins

4.75

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Being a mom can sometimes feel like an overwhelming job with endless tasks and lofty, unattainable … read more

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  • christian
"The truth is that all humans are always seeing something, paying attention to something, learning something. Perhaps, we are learning every sort of sexual innuendo known to man by watching endless re…"

-Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

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19. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.00

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more

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"Here my last love had died."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"No one is ever holy without suffering."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"I had been there before; I knew all about it."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

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20. 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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  • christian
  • history
  • church history
"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

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21. These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)

By: Bethany Jacobs

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A dangerous cat-and-mouse quest for revenge. An empire that spans star systems, built on the bones … read more

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22. Why Liberalism Failed

By: Patrick J. Deneen

3.86

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth c… read more

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  • history
"Individualism and statism advance together, always mutually supportive, and always at the expense of lived and vital relations that stand in contrast to both the starkness of the autonomous individua…"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

"Rather than promoting unrealistic standards for behavior - especially self-limitation - that could at best be unreliably achieved, Machiavelli propsed grounding a political philosophy upon readily ob…"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

"One of the main goals of the expansion of commerce is the liberation of embedded individuals from their traditional ties and relationships. The liberal state serves not only the reactive function of …"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

"A main agent of that liberation becomes commerce, the expansion of opportunities and materials by which not only to realize existing desires but even to create new ones we did not know we had. The st…"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

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23. Socrates' Children: Medieval: The 100 Greatest Philosophers

By: Peter Kreeft

4.54

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

This is the second of a four-volume history of philosophy . . . on ancient, medieval, modern, and … read more

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  • christian
  • history
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24. Socrates' Children: Contemporary: The 100 Greatest Philosophers

By: Peter Kreeft

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

This is the fourth and final part of Kreeft’s four-volume history of philosophy . . . on ancient, m… read more

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  • christian
  • history
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25. Socrates' Children: Modern: The 100 Greatest Philosophers

By: Peter Kreeft

4.40

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This is the third of a four-volume history of philosophy . . . on ancient, medieval, modern, and co… read more

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  • history
Cover of Terror of Demons: Reclaiming Traditional Catholic Masculinity by Kennedy Hall

26. Terror of Demons: Reclaiming Traditional Catholic Masculinity

By: Kennedy Hall

4.26

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

In this book, Kennedy Hall explores the traditional wisdom of the Catholic Church on all things per… read more

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  • catholic
Cover of The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives and Why the Church Was Right All Along by Jennifer Roback Morse

27. The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives and Why the Church Was Right All Along

By: Jennifer Roback Morse

4.39

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

The Sexual Revolution - and the breakdown of the Family - has brought misery to millions. In The Se… read more

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  • christian
  • catholic
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28. Socrates' Children: Ancient: The 100 Greatest Philosophers

By: Peter Kreeft

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

This is the first of a four-volume history of philosophy . . . on ancient, medieval, modern, and co… read more

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  • history
  • catholic
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29. Faith of Our Fathers A History of 'True' England

By: Joseph Pearce

4.54

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The Catholic Church has been a part of English history since the arrival of Christian missionaries … read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • church history
  • catholic
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30. John Fisher and Thomas More: Keeping Their Souls While Losing Their Heads

By: Robert J. Conrad Jr.

4.53

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1929, nearly four hundred years after the deaths of Saints Thomas More and John Fisher, G.K. Che… read more

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  • catholic
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31. How the Eucharist Can Save Civilization

By: Dr. R. Jared Staudt

4.33

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

The greatest civilizations have all sought immortality. From inventions to massive monuments, these… read more

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John Taylor Gatto

4.15

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4.36

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G.K. Chesterton

4.16

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Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray

3.77

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Elizabeth Enright

3.75

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