My dad, family, husband, enemies, friends...everyone basically...has said I am an extremist. I can do nothing little. Go big or go home. So, keeping with tradition, I present for you another book club list I plan to tackle this year.
CathLIT2019 Book Club (no official accountability partner yet)
1. A spiritual memoir - With God in Russia by Walter J. Ciszek, S.J.
2. A classic spiritual work - Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales
3. A book about Mary - True Devotion to Mary by St. Louis de Montfort
4. A book by a Catholic novelist - Helena by Evelyn Waugh
5. A book by a Pope - In the Beginning by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
6. A book by a Catholic woman - The Secret Diary of Elizabeth Leseur by herself
7. A book about liturgy - Nothing Superfluous by Fr. James W. Jackson, FSSP
8. A book by an Early Church Father - Didache
9. A conversion story - Something Other Than God by Jennifer Fulwiler
10. A book about apologetics - Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
11. A book by an Orthodox Christian - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
12. A hagiography - Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala by Michael Steltenkamp
13. A LONG Catholic book - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
*** as a bonus I'm going to read Frodo's Journey by Joseph Pearce (Blase said I had to.)
14. A book by a Catholic Philosopher - The Privilege of Being a Woman by Alice von Hildebrand
*** I have read this before about a decade ago. I feel the need to reread it.
15. A Catholic classic - Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson
16. A book by a saint - The Cross and the Beatitudes by Fulton Sheen
*** Yes, I know. Not a saint. Close enough.
17. A book by a Non-Catholic that all Catholics are reading - Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
18. A book about a Catholic Monarch - Saint Fernando III by James Fitzhenry
19. A recently published Catholic book - The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More by Haley Stewart
BONUS BOOK
20. A spiritual guidance book - The Discernment of Spirits by Timothy M. Gallagher, OMV
These books all total 7,383 pages. (panicking)
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