Fr Z has tagged me with a meme. Well, I'm no literary critic and I don't read much fiction but I'll do my best - here goes, off the top of my head.
Three fiction books everyone should read:
1) Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge
2) R H Benson: Come Rack, Come Rope
3) Walter Scott: Rob Roy
Three non-fiction books everyone should read:
3) St Francis de Sales Introduction to the Devout Life
1) Broderick's life of Robert Bellarmine
2) Newman's Development of Christian Doctrine
Three authors everyone should read:
1) Seneca
2) St Alphonsus Liguori
3) G K Chesterton
I tag Fr Justin (Nova et Vetera) and Fr Ray Blake (St Mary Magdalen, Brighton).
6 comments:
Liked your book choices...
Take a look at your mention on my blog...courtesy of the Birmingham Oratory! All bloggers take note...we've got him for the weekend!
Benson's Lord of the World.
If you want to know that someone had it all figured out long before any of the rest of us.
A worldwide communistic state, suppression of religious freedoms, the CHurch going over to appease the enemy, government sponsored euthanasia centres...
the works.
And the guy died in 1914!
Yes! Finally I meet someone who is an admirer of Broderick's bio of St. Robert.
A great, great book.
What interesting selections, Father. Isn't there another part about books no one should read?
Mine list is here if you're interested to take a look.
I have to take exception to G. K. Chesterton being on the must-read list. I don't dislike the author per se; I don't see how anyone who routinely says with 90 words what can completely and more clearly be said with 20 words can be recommended as "required reading." The life of Saint Gerard Majella should be recommended before any work of Chesterton's.
Your list speaks volumes, Father.
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