Peter Kreeft's Recommended Reading List
Autobiography:
St. Augustine – Confessions (NB: Dr. Kreeft stresses to make sure it’s the Frank Sheed translation)
Sheldon Vanauken – A Severe Mercy
Novels:
Dostoevsky – The Brothers Karamazov
C.S. Lewis – Till We Have Faces
Plays:
Robert Bolt – A Man For All Seasons
Thorton Wilder – Our Town
Epics:
J.R.R. Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings
C.S. Lewis – Chronicles of Narnia
Supernatural Fantasy:
C.S. Lewis – The Great Divorce
C.S. Lewis – Screwtape Letters
Science Fiction:
Walter M. Miller Jr. – A Canticle for Leibowitz
Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
Spirituality:
Brother Lawrence – The Practice of the Presence of God
St. Therese of Lisieux – The Story of a Soul
Apologetics:
Blaise Pascal – Pensees
C.S. Lewis – The Problem of Pain
Classical Philosophy:
Plato – Apology of Socrates
Ancius Boethius – The Consolation of Philosophy
Popular Philosophy:
G.K. Chesterton – St. Thomas Aquinas
G.K.Chesterton – Orthodoxy
History:
G.K. Chesterton – The Everlasting Man
Warren Carroll – Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness
Theology:
C.S. Lewis – Mere Christianity
St. Thomas Aquinas – Summa Theologica (NB: Dr. Kreeft recommends using a book that provides commentary to help break open this massive work. Check out his own A Summa of the Summa as a starting point!)
Poetry:
G.K. Chesterton – Lepanto
T.S. Elliot – The Waste Land
Taken from https://epicpew.com/peter-kreeft-shares-book-list/
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