We Recommend…

Here are some of our favorite books, guaranteed to be good reading!

Emily: Well there are many books I love, so this is always hard. But here are things I always recommend to people :

• All of Jane. Entirely non-negotiable
• A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
• Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
• The Hours, by Michael Cunningham
• Til We Have Faces, by C.S. Lewis
• The Year of Pleasures and We Are All Welcome Here , by Elizabeth Berg
• Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon
• Helen of Troy, by Margaret George
• The Narnia books, by C.S. Lewis
• The Divine Comedy, Dante
• Shakespeare!!! Pick! (Well, the histories can be a bit dry, so maybe don’t start with those)
• Crossing the Threshold of Hope, by Bl. John Paul II
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
• Kristin Lavransdatter,  by Sigrid Undset (a third order Dominican and Nobel Prize winner!)
• On Being Catholic, by Thomas Howard
• Death on a Friday Afternoon, by Fr. John Neuhaus (transcendent–perfect Lenten reading)
• The Big Stone Gap series, by Adriana Trigiani. These are my people! (Well, the Scots. And the Italians. Not the mountain men.)

Nikita: There are so many books to recommend from History to Religious, and more (Edit as I look through my “library”):

• John Adams by David McCullough
• My Dearest Friend: John and Abigail Adams Letters
• 1776 by David McCullough
• God is Love by Pope Benedict XVI
• The New Wine of Dominican Spirituality by Fr. Paul Murray, OP
• Saint Dominic by Sr. Mary Jean Dorcy, OP
• Signs of Life by Scott Hahn
• Hail, Holy Queen by Scott Hahn
• The Story of a Soul by Saint Therese of Lisieux
• Pemberley’s Promise by Kara Louise
• Only Mr. Darcy Will Do by Kara Louise
• The Dreamer by Lora Innes (Comic Book)

Camille: Currently looking through her library but will update soon

• Until We Meet Again: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust Michael Korenblit and Kathleen Janger
• Anything by Pope Blessed John Paul the Great and Pope Benedict XVI
• 7 Secrets of the Eucharist Vinny Flynn
• Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light
• Mother Angelica Raymond Arroyo
• Redeeming Love: A Novel Francine Rivers
• The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila
• Story of a Soul St. Therese of Lisieux
• All the Literary Classics: Authors include Jane Austin, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens just to name a few