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List of Top 10: Bishop Robert Barron’s Recommended Books
RANKING | ITEMS |
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#1 | MacBeth (William Shakespeare) |
#2 | Confessions (St. Augustine) |
#3 | Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton) |
#4 | Summa Theologica (Thomas Aquinas) |
#5 | The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri) |
#6 | The Seven Storey Mountain (Thomas Merton) |
#7 | Moby Dick (Herman Melville) |
#8 | The Trinity (St. Augustine of Hippo) |
#9 | On First Principles (Origen) |
#10 | Against Heresies (Irenaeus of Lyons) |

Bishop Robert Barron’s Recommended Books
RANK | ITEMS |
---|---|
#1 | MacBeth (William Shakespeare) |
#2 | Confessions (St. Augustine) |
#3 | Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton) |
#4 | Summa Theologica (Thomas Aquinas) |
#5 | The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri) |
#6 | The Seven Storey Mountain (Thomas Merton) |
#7 | Moby Dick (Herman Melville) |
#8 | The Trinity (St. Augustine of Hippo) |
#9 | On First Principles (Origen) |
#10 | Against Heresies (Irenaeus of Lyons) |
#11 | An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (Newman) |
#12 | The Spirit of Catholicism (Karl Adams) |
#13 | Catholicism (Henri De Lubac) |
#14 | The Glory of the Lord, Vol. 1-7 (Hans Urs Von Balthasar) |
#15 | Theo-Drama, Vol. 1-5 (Hans Urs Von Balthasar) |
#16 | Theo-Logic, Vol. 1-3 (Hans Urs Von Balthasar) |
#17 | Hearer of the Word (Karl Rahner) |
#18 | Insight (Bernard Lonergan) |
#19 | Introduction to Christianity (Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger) |
#20 | God Matters (Herbert McCabe) |
#21 | City of God (St Augustine of Hippo) |
#22 | The Rule of St. Benedict (St. Benedict of Nursia) |
#23 | The Philokalia, Vol. 1-4 (Maximus the Confessor Et Alia) |
#24 | The Sources of Christian Ethics (Servais Pinckaers) |
#25 | Ethics (Dietrich Von Hildebrand) |
#26 | The Four Cardinal Virtues (Josef Pieper) |
#27 | Faith, Hope, Love (Josef Pieper) |
#28 | The Cost of Discipleship (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) |
#29 | Sanctify Them in the Truth: Holiness Exemplified (Stanley Hauerwas) |
#30 | Homilies (Origen) |
#31 | On Genesis (St. Augustine of Hippo) |
#32 | Expositions of the Psalms (St. Augustine of Hippo) |
#33 | Commentary on the Gospel of John (St. Thomas Aquinas) |
#34 | Catena Aurea (St. Thomas Aquinas) |
#35 | Commentary on the Book of Job (St. Thomas Aquinas) |
#36 | Commentary on the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans (St. Thomas Aquinas) |
#37 | Sermons on the Song of Songs (St. Bernard of Clairvaux) |
#38 | Parochial and Plain Sermons (John Henry Newman) |
#39 | Jesus and the Victory of God (Wright) |
#40 | The Resurrection of the Son of God (N.T. Wright) |
#41 | The Joy of Being Wrong (James Alison) |
#42 | Theology of the Old Testament (Walter Brueggemann) |
#43 | The Theology of Paul the Apostle (James D. G. Dunn) |
#44 | Jesus and Judaism (E.P. Sanders) |
#45 | The Death of the Messiah: From Gethsemane to the Grave (Raymond E. Brown) |
#46 | Commentary on the Song of Songs (Origen) |
#47 | The Dark Night of the Soul (St. John of the Cross) |
#48 | The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart (Meister Eckhart) |
#49 | Apologia Pro Vita Sua (John Henry Newman) |
#50 | Story of a Soul (St. Thérèse of Lisieux) |
#51 | Ways of Imperfection (Simon Tugwell) |
#52 | Prayer (Hans Urs Von Balthasar) |
#53 | Paradoxes of Faith (Henri De Lubac) |
#54 | Contra Celsum (Origen) |
#55 | Summa Contra Gentiles (St. Thomas Aquinas) |
#56 | Pensees (Blaise Pascal) |
#57 | Symbolism (Johann Adam Mohler) |
#58 | Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England (Blessed John Henry Newman) |
#59 | The Everlasting Man (G.K.Chesterton) |
#60 | Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis) |
#61 | Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense (N.T. Wright) |
#62 | God Still Matters (Herbert McCabe) |
#63 | The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Conner (Flannery O’Conner) |
#64 | The Habit of Being (Flannery O’Connor) |
#65 | The Good Wine (Bruno Barnhart) |
#66 | Aquinas: God and Action (David B. Burrell) |
#67 | The Stripping of the Altars (Eamon Duffy) |
#68 | Passage to Modernity (Louis Dupre) |
#69 | The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco) |
#70 | Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (Umberto Eco) |
#71 | Philosophy as a Way of Life (Pierre Hadot) |
#72 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce) |
#73 | After Aquinas: Versions of Thomism (Fergus Kerr) |
#74 | God Without Being (Jean-Luc Marion) |
#75 | Ethics (James William McClendon) |
#76 | Evil in Modern Thought (Susan Neiman) |
#77 | Upheavals of Thought (Martha Nussbaum) |
#78 | Unapologetic Theology (William Placher) |
#79 | The Domestication of Transcendence (William Placher) |
#80 | Faith, Science, and Understanding (John Polkinghorne) |
#81 | The God of Faith and Reason (Robert Sokolowski) |
#82 | Philosophical Investigations (Ludwig Wittgenstein) |