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The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à KempisIntroduction to the Devout Life by Francis de SalesThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienConfessions by Augustine of HippoThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan
141 books — 27 voters
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyArc of Justice by Kevin G. BoyleStories of Scottsboro by James GoodmanSimple Justice by Richard KlugerA Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
Compelling Cases
19 books — 2 voters

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. GainesOne L by Scott TurowSnow Falling on Cedars by David GutersonThe Trial by Franz KafkaSimple Justice by Richard Kluger
ABA 30/30
36 books — 9 voters
The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrieKrakatoa by Simon WinchesterThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward GibbonFoundation by Peter AckroydNathaniel's Nutmeg by Giles Milton
Histories of Countries
85 books — 24 voters

The Opium of the Intellectuals by Raymond AronThe Captive Mind by Czesław MiłoszMephisto by Klaus MannThy Hand, Great Anarch! India, 1921-1952 by Nirad C. ChaudhuriMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Cultural Amnesia: A Reading List
116 books — 7 voters
A Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayWill in the World by Stephen GreenblattI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouDown and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellOut of Africa / Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
Literary biographies
481 books — 98 voters

Memoirs and Selected Letters by Ulysses S. GrantCompany Aytch; or, A Side Show of the Big Show by Sam R. WatkinsMary Chesnut's Civil War by Mary Boykin ChesnutRebel Private by William Andrew FletcherFighting for the Confederacy by Edward Porter Alexander
American Civil War Diaries, Memoirs, and Letter Collections
118 books — 18 voters
How Green Was My Valley by Richard LlewellynSmashed, Squashed, Splattered, Chewed, Chunked and Spewed by Lance CarbuncleJude the Obscure by Thomas HardyReplay by Ken GrimwoodThe Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The obscure: Best books most haven't read (or even heard of)
537 books — 361 voters

The Day of the Jackal by Frederick ForsythAppointment in Samarra by John O'HaraThe Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest HemingwayThe Shining by Stephen KingThe Godfather by Mario Puzo
William S. Burroughs Recommendations: Fiction Books
40 books — 6 voters
John Adams by David McCullough1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Best American History Books
2,203 books — 2,588 voters


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