Books on Catholicism or Philosophy:

  • Architects of the Culture of Death (Wiker)
  • The Ball and the Cross (Chesterton)
  • The Bhagavad Gita (Unknown)
  • The Christian God (Swinburne)
  • Christ: The Eternal Tao (Damascene)
  • Does God Exist? (Kung)
  • Ethical Intuitionism (Huemer)
  • The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss (Hart)
  • Father Elijiah (O’Brien)
  • Forgotten Among the Lilies (Rolheiser)
  • I Don’t Believe in Atheists(Hedges)
  • Is There a God? (Swinburne)
  • The Gospel According to Tolkien (Wood)
  • The Great Divorce (Lewis)
  • A Hidden Presence (Caldecott)
  • The Holy Longing (Rolheiser)
  • How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization (Woods) (part 1 of synopsis series)
  • How [Not] to Speak of God (Rollins)
  • The Jesus I Never Knew (Yancey)
  • The Kingdom of God is Within You (Tolstoy)
  • The Last Superstition (Feser)
  • The Last Temptation of Christ (Kazantzakis)
  • Mere Christianity (Lewis)
  • Miracles (Keener)
  • New Proofs for the Existence of God (Spitzer)
  • On Job (Gutierrez)
  • The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Jaynes)
  • Orthodoxy (Chesterton)
  • Reason Informed by Faith (Gula)
  • The Return of the Prodigal Son (Nouwen)
  • The Ring & the Cross (Kerry)
  • Secret Fire: The Spiritual Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien (Caldecott)
  • A Severe Mercy (Vanauken)
  • Silence (Endo)
  • Something Beautiful for God (Muggeridge)
  • Somewhere More Holy (Woodlief)
  • The Stature of Waiting (Vanstone)
  • Why You Can Disagree and Still Remain a Faithful Catholic (Kaufman)
  • Anything by Daniel Berrigan
  • Anything by David Bentley Hart
  • Anything by Richard Beck
  • All of Barclay’s biblical commentaries.

Books on Political & Economic Theory:

  • Against the Gods (Bernstein)
  • Age of Inflation (Sennholz)
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death (Postman)
  • Antifragile (Taleb)
  • The Black Swan (Taleb)
  • The Catholic Ethic & the Spirit of Capitalism (Novak)
  • The Church & the Market (Woods)
  • A Conflict of Visions (Sowell) (synopsis)
  • Crash Course (Martenson) (synopsis)
  • Crash Proof 2.0 (Schiff)
  • Democracy: The God that Failed (Hoppe)
  • Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (Pape)
  • The Economic Laws of Scientific Research(Kealey)
  • The Economics & Politics of Race (Sowell)
  • Economics in One Lesson (Hazlitt)
  • Empire of Debt (Bonner)
  • Empire of Illusion (Hedges) (synopsis)
  • The Ethics of Money Production (Hulsmann)
  • Ethnic America (Sowell)
  • Free to Choose (Friedman, tv series)
  • Fooled by Randomness (Taleb)
  • The Great Deformation (Stockman)
  • Honest Money (North)
  • How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes (Schiff)
  • Human Action (Mises)
  • Intellectuals (Johnson)
  • Liberty or Equality (Kuehnelt-Leddihn)
  • Meltdown (Woods) (synopsis)
  • Metaphysics (Aristotle)
  • Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Theory (de Soto)
  • The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (Epstein)
  • The Most Dangerous Superstition (Rose)
  • The Myth of National Defense (Collection)
  • Myths of Rich & Poor (Cox)
  • Neo-Conned – Just War Principles: A Condemnation of the War in Iraq (Collection)
  • The Problem of Political Authority (Heumer)
  • The Revolution (Paul)
  • Rollback (Woods) (synopsis)
  • Social Sciences as Sorcery (Andreski)
  • Terrorism & Tyranny (Bovard)
  • Thinking Fast & Slow (Kahneman)
  • The Vision of the Anointed (Sowell) (synopsis)
  • We Who Dared to Say No to War (Woods) (synopsis)

Books, Just for Fun:

  • Angels & Demons (Brown)
  • The Bartimeus Trilogy (Stroud)
  • The Book Thief (Zusak)
  • A Brief History of Time (Hawking)
  • A Confederacy of Dunces (O’Toole)
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)
  • The Culture (Banks)
  • The Enneagram (Rohr)
  • Far from the Tree (Solomon)
  • Godel, Escher, Bach (Hofstadter)
  • The Goldilocks Enigma (Davies)
  • Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)
  • His Dark Materials (Pullman)
  • House of Leaves (Danielewski)
  • I Am the Messenger (Zusak)
  • Inheritance Cycle (Paolini)
  • Johnny Got His Gun (Trumbo)
  • Lord of Light (Zelazny)
  • The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
  • Lost in the Cosmos (Percy)
  • Mind, Brain, & Cosmos (Nagel)
  • The Mistborn Trilogy (Sanderson)
  • The Night Angel Trilogy (Weeks)
  • Ready Player One (Cline)
  • The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work(Gottman)
  • Shannara (Brooks)
  • The Silmarillion (Tolkien)
  • Snow Crash (Stephenson)
  • Thus Spake Zarathustra (Neitzsche)
  • Sphere (Crichton)
  • The Stand (King)
  • Thinking, Fast & Slow (Kahneman)
  • The Watchmen (Moore)
  • World War Z (Brooks)
  • Anything by Micho Kaku
  • Anything by H.P. Lovecraft
  • Anything by Leonard Shlain

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