Mr YouTube suggested I watch Peter Kreeft on the 10 books to read (before dying). Naturally he went on to more than 10, lots more.
I watched the video and noted the books.Then, in the comments I saw that others had done similarly.
I'll repeat them here for convenience, but Brandon Vogt captured them all. (I've marked those I've read <
The Confessions by St. Augustine (Frank Sheed translation) <
A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken
Novels
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky <
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis <
Plays
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Epics
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis <
Supernatural Fantasy
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis <
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis <
Science Fiction
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley <
Spirituality
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence <
The Story of a Soul by St. Therese of Lisieux
Apologetics
Pensées by Blaise Pascal
The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis <
Classic Philosophy
Apology of Socrates by Plato
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius <
Popular Philosophy
St. Thomas Aquinas by G.K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton <
History
The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton <
Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness by Warren Carroll
Theology
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis <
Summa Theologiae by St. Thomas Aquinas
Poetry
Lepanto by G.K. Chesterton
The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot
Bonus Book Recommendations
Autobiography
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis <
Novels
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens <
Plays
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Epics
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Supernatural Fantasy
Descent Into Hell by Charles Williams
Science Fiction
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury <
Spirituality
Abandonment to Divine Providence by Jean-Pierre de Caussade
Apologetics
Miracles by C.S. Lewis <
Classic Philosophy
Republic by Plato <
Popular Philosophy
Ethics by Aristotle <
History
City of God by St. Augustine <
The Formation of Christendom by Christopher Dawson
The Dividing of Christendom by Christopher Dawson
Theology
Theology of the Body for Beginners by Christopher West
Poetry
The Dream of Gerontius by John Henry Newman
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