The 10 Books Nobody Should Be Allowed to Die Without Reading
Autobiographies
8:30 Confessions, by Augustine with translation by
Sheed
11:12 A Severe Mercy, by Sheldon Vanauken (Seven Story Mountain, by Thomas Merton; or Suprised by Joy, by CS Lewis)
Novels
12:40 The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
14:04 Till We Have Faces, by Clive Staples L. (A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens)
Plays
15:36 A Man For All Seasons, by Robert Bolt
16:44 Our Town, by Thornton Wilder (Hamlet, by William Shakespeare)
Epics
19:44 Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
22:45 Chronicles of Narnia, by Clive Staples L. (Silmarillon, by J.R.R. Tolkien)
Fantasy
26:16 The Great Divorce, by Clive Staples L.
29:20 The Screwtape Letters, by Clive Staples L. (Descent into Hell, by Charles Williams)
Science Fiction
30:56 A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter Miller
32:00 Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury)
Spirituality
33:55 The Practice of the Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence
34:50 Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux (Abandonment to Divine Providence, by de Caussad)
Apologetics
36:00 Pensees, by Blaise Pascal
36:50 The Problem of Pain, by Clive Staples L. (In Defense of Miracles, by CS Lewis) Philosophy
37:55 The Apology of Socrates, by Plato
39:30 The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius (Republic, by Plato) Popular Philosophy
40:12 The Introduction to Thomas Aquinas, by G.K. Chesterton
41:20 Orthodoxy, by G.K. Chesterton (Ethics, by Aristotle)
History
43:10 The Everlasting Man, by G.K. Chesterton
44:00 Our Lady of Guadalupe: And the Conquest of Darkness, by Warren Carroll (The City of God, by Augustine)
Theology
45:00 Mere Christianity, by Clive Staples L.
45:45 Summa Theologiae, by St. Thomas Aquinas, with a condensed, edited version by Peter Kreeft (The Theology of the Body, by Christopher West)
Poetry
46:50 Lepanto, by G.K. Chesterton
47:33 The Waste Land, by T.S. Eliot (The Dream of Gerontius, by John Henry Newman)