Recommended Books

Below you'll find our favorite books in several categories. We especially recommend the titles listed in bold.

God

• How to Think About God: A Guide for the 20th Century Pagan by Mortimer Adler
• On Being and Essence (De Ente Et Essentia) by Thomas Aquinas
• The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics by W. Norris Clarke
• Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology edited by William Lane Craig
• God: A Debate Between a Christian and an Atheist by William Lane Craig and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
• An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion by Brian Davies
• The Reality of God and the Problem of Evil by Brian Davies
• Aquinas by Edward Feser
• The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss by David Bentley Hart
• The Reality of God: The Layman's Guide to Scientific Evidence for the Creator by Steve Hemler
• The Existence of God by John Hick
• Making Sense Out of Suffering by Peter Kreeft
• A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
• Miracles by C.S. Lewis
• The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
• The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life by Armand Nicholi
• The Discovery of God by Henri de Lubac
• No One Sees God: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers by Michael Novak
• C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason by Victor Reppert
• The God of Faith and Reason: Foundations of Christian Theology by Robert Sokolowski
• New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy by Robert Spitzer

Man

• The Difference of Man and the Difference It Makes by Mortimer Adler
• Faith and Certitude: Can We Be Sure of the Things that Matter Most to Us? by Thomas Dubay
• Philosophy of Mind by Edward Feser
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
• Fides et Ratio: On the Relationship between Faith and Reason by Pope John Paul II
• Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body by Pope John Paul II
• The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
• Jacob's Ladder: Ten Steps to Truth by Peter Kreeft
• Three Philosophies of Life by Peter Kreeft
• Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview by J.P. Moreland and William Lane Craig
• Pensees by Blaise Pascal
• Faith, Hope, Love by Josef Pieper
• Reason to Believe: Why Faith Makes Sense by Richard Purtill
• An Introduction to Philosophy by Daniel Sullivan

Atheism

• Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies by David Bentley Hart
• On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision by William Lane Craig
• Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics by William Lane Craig
• God Is No Delusion: A Refutation of Richard Dawkins by Thomas Crean, O.P.
• The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism by Edward Feser
• Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins' Case Against God by Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker
• Answering Atheism: How to Make the Case for God with Logic and Charity by Trent Horn
• The Drama of Atheist Humanism by Henri de Lubac
• The Godless Delusion: A Catholic Challenge to Modern Atheism by Patrick Madrid and Kenneth Hensley
• The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World by Alister McGrath
• From Atheism to Catholicism: How Scientists and Philosophers Led Me to the Truth by Kevin Vost

Morality

• Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice by Francis Beckwith
• Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air by Francis Beckwith and Greg Koukl
• What is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense by Sherif Gergis, Robert George, and Ryan T. Anderson
• The Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae) by Pope John Paul II
• Veritatis Splendor: The Splendor of Truth by Pope John Paul II
• A Refutation of Moral Relativism: Interviews with an Absolutist by Peter Kreeft
• The Unaborted Socrates: A Dramatic Debate on the Issues Surrounding Abortion by Peter Kreeft
• Catholic Bioethics and the Gift of Human Life by William May
• Catholic Sexual Ethics: A Summary, Explanation, & Defense by William May
• Good News About Sex and Marriage: Answers to Your Honest Questions About Catholic Teaching by Christopher West
• Love and Responsibility by Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II)

Science

• Mind of the Universe: Understanding Science and Religion by Mariano Artigas
• The Believing Scientist: Essays on Science and Religion by Stephen Barr
• Modern Physics and Ancient Faith by Stephen Barr
• The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis Collins
• The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet by Thomas Dubay
• The Day Without Yesterday: Lemaitre, Einstein, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology by John Farrell
• From Aristotle to Darwin & Back Again: A Journey in Final Causality, Species and Evolution by Etienne Gilson
• The Road of Science and the Ways to God by Stanley Jaki
• The Savior of Science by Stanley Jaki
• Universe and Creed by Stanley Jaki
• Surprised by Meaning: Science, Faith, and How We Make Sense of Things by Alister McGrath
• Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution by Ken Miller
• Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism by Alvin Plantinga
• 'In the Beginning…': A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
• The Science Before Science: A Guide to Thinking in the 21st Century by Anthony Rizzi
• Chance or Purpose? Creation, Evolution and a Rational Faith by Christoph Schoenborn

Culture

• Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church
• In the Light of Christ: Writings in the Western Tradition by Lucy Beckett
• Catholic Spirit: An Anthology for Discovering Faith Through Literature, Art, Film, and Music by Michel Bettigole
• Why Catholicism Matters: How Catholic Virtues Can Reshape Society in the Twenty-First Century by Dr. William Donohue
• The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings by Peter Kreeft
• How to Read Churches: A Crash Course in Ecclesiastical Architecture by Denis McNamara
• The Da Vinci Hoax: Exposing the Errors in the Da Vinci Code by Carl Olson
• Through a Screen Darkly: Looking Closer at Beauty, Truth and Evil in the Movies by Jeffrey Overstreet
• Literary Giants, Literary Catholics by Joseph Pearce
• Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Building the Free Society: Democracy, Capitalism, and Catholic Social Teaching by George Weigel
• How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas E. Woods

History

• Christianity On Trial: Arguments Against Anti-Religious Bigotry by Vincent Carroll
• The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
• A History of Christendom series by Warren H. Carroll
• The Formation of Christendom by Christopher Dawson
• Religion and the Rise of Western Culture by Christopher Dawson
• History of the Catholic Church: From the Apostolic Age to the Third Millennium by James Hitchcock
• The New Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas F. Madden
• Seven Lies About Catholic History by Diane Moczar
• Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion by Ronald L. Numbers

Jesus

• Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony by Richard Bauckham
• Jesus of Nazareth trilogy by Pope Benedict XVI
• The Historical Reliability of the Gospels by Craig Blomberg
• Jesus Legend, The: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition by Paul Rhodes Eddy and Gregory Boyd
• The Lord by Romano Guardini
• The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus by Gary Habermas and Michael Licona
• Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?: The Resurrection Debate by Gary Habermas and Antony Flew
• Jesus-Shock by Peter Kreeft
• The Philosophy of Jesus by Peter Kreeft
• Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach by Michael Licona
• Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus by J.P. Moreland
• To Know Christ Jesus by Frank Sheed
• Life of Christ by Fulton Sheen
• Jesus and the Victory of God by N.T. Wright
• The Resurrection of the Son of God by N.T. Wright

Religion

• Catechism of the Catholic Church
• The Spirit of Catholicism by Karl Adam
• Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith by Robert Barron
• Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
• Catholic Christianity by Peter Kreeft
• Christianity for Modern Pagans by Peter Kreeft
• Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics by Peter Kreeft
• Handbook of Catholic Apologetics by Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli
• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
• Catholicism Pure and Simple by Dwight Longenecker
• Pope Fiction: Answers to 30 Myths and Misconceptions About the Papacy by Patrick Madrid
• Introduction to Christianity by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
• Making Senses Out of Scripture: Reading the Bible as the First Christians Did by Mark Shea
• Theology and Sanity by Frank Sheed
• Theology for Beginners by Frank Sheed