The ‘danger’ of life in a learning community is that your reading list is ever expanding further than your expected lifetime! That’s also the delight, so here are some of our trustee, faculty, and friends’ reading lists for the coming year to add to your own. Maybe yours will change, and we’ll have some new book discussions to advertise – let us know! Watch this blog monthly for the second-Thursday round-up of books being read and recommended in our Academy community.

Ollie Bockwinkel

1. The Way of Beauty: Liturgy, Education, and Inspiration for Family, School, & College, by David Clayton

2. Fire Within, by Fr. Thomas Dubay (also strongly recommend his book Happy Are You Poor)

3. The 12-Week Year, by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington

4. Clockwork, by Mike Michalowicz (I have already read his Profit First and Fix This Next)

Aaron Williams

1. The Foundations of Nature, by Michael Dominic Taylor

2. The Risk of Education, by Luigi Giussani

3. The Space of Life Between, by Bede Jarrett, O.P.

4. The Politics of the Real, by DC Schindler

5. Greek Myths and Christian Mystery, by Hugo Rahner

6. Glory of the Logos in the Flesh, by Michael Waldstein

7. A few books by Elizabeth Goudge

Debbie Lee

1. The Joy of God; Collected Writings, by Sister Mary David

2. Contemplative Provocations, by Fr. Donald Haggerty

3. Elizabeth of the Trinity: Complete Works

4. On Acquisition of the Holy Spirit, by St. Seraphim of Sarov

5. The Poet and the Lunatics, by G.K. Chesterton

6. The Best Things in Life, by Peter Kreeft

7. Green Dolphin Street, by Elizabeth Goudge

8. Standing By Words, by Wendell Berry

9. Everything That Rises Must Converge, by Flannery O’Conner

10. 1984, by George Orwell

Sarah Winter

1. Night's Bright Darkness: A Modern Conversion Story, by Sally Reed

2. Dove Descending: A Journey into T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, by Thomas Howard

3. Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, by Rene Girard

4. Othello, by William Shakespeare

5. Through Shakespeare's Eyes, by Joseph Pearce

6. Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves, by Jason Evert

Lisa Corley

1. How Green Was My Valley, by Richard Llewellyn

2. Five Dialogues: Meno, by Plato

3. Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare

4. The Way of Perfection, by St Teresa of Avila

5. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, by Paul Tough

6. The Lion and the Saint, by Laura E Wolfe

7. Norms and Nobility, by David Hicks (here is a link to it free online.)

Luke Murray

1. Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living, by Charles Chaput

2. Food for the Soul, by Peter Kreeft

3. Live Not by Lies, by Rod Dreher

4. A Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

5. 1984, by George Orwell

Charlotte Ostermann

1. The Shallows, by Cal Newport

2. Heart of the World, Center of the Church, by David L. Schneider

3. A Godly Humanism, by Francis Cardinal George

4. Christus Vincit, by Bishop Athanasius Schneider

5. Life Under Compulsion, by Anthony Esolen

6. Night’s Bright Darkness, by Sally Read

7. Discerning Beauty, by Julian Carron

8. Portraits of Spiritual Nobility, by Tracey Rowland

McKay Stangler

1. Iron John, by Robert Bly

2. Kristin Lavransdatter, by Sigrid Undset

3. In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust

Fr. Nick Blaha

1. Jesuit at Large: Essays and Reviews, by Father Paul Mankowski, SJ

2. Witness to Hope, by George Weigel

3. The Cypresses Believe in God, by Jose Maria Gironella

4. Desolation Island, by Patrick O'Brian

5. Black Rednecks and White Liberals, by Thomas Sowell

6. Race and Culture: A World View, by Thomas Sowell

7. The Space of Life Between, by Bede Jarrett, OP

8. Not Under Forty, by Willa Cather

9. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, by G.B. Edwards

10. The Joys of Beekeeping, by Richard Taylor

We want to know what you’re reading! Please share your lists, recommendations, synopses and reviews for future Reader’s Round-ups. Send thoughts to: Editor@ChestertonAcademyKC.org

Print out these lists for future reference: one-page pdf - CASPN Community Reading Lists 2022

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