Additional Topics for Recommended Reading

Medieval and Early Modern History

The Galleys at Lepanto by Jack Beeching
Characters of the Reformation by Hilaire Belloc
The Rule of St. Benedict by Benedict of Nurcia
The Great Siege: Malta 1565 by Ernle Bradford
Chronicles of the Crusades by Joinville and Villehardouin
Those Terrible Middle Ages by Regine Pernoud
Plutarch’s Lives
Thomas More: A Portrait of Courage by Gerard B. Wegemer

Modern European History

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor
Europe and the Faith by Hilaire Belloc
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
1917: Red Banners, White Mantel by Warren H. Carroll
The Guillotine and the Cross by Warren H. Carroll
The Last Crusade: Spain 1936 by Warren H. Carroll
The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution by Warren H. Carroll
The End of the Armistice by G. K. Chesterton
Heretics by G.K. Chesterton
What’s Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton
The Making of Europe: An Introduction to the History of European Unity by Christopher Dawson
Religion and the Rise of Western Culture by Christopher Dawson
A Popular History of the Reformation by Philip Hughes

American History and Government

Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll by Bradley J. Birzer
Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington by Richard Brookhiser
A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
Abraham Lincoln: A Biography by Lord Charnwood
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglas
Of Men and Mountains by William O. Douglas
Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The American Cause by Russell Kirk
Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk
A Time to Stand: The Epic of the Alamo by Walter Lord
1776 by David McCullough
John Adams by David McCullough
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough
Truman by David McCullough
Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution by James M. McPherson
Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides
April 1865: The Month that Saved America by Jay Winik

Roman History

Augustus: The Life of Rome’s First Emperor by Anthony Everitt
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder

Cold War

Churchill by Paul Johnson
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
A World Split Apart: Commencement Address Delivered at Harvard University, June 8, 1978 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Economics

Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country by William Greider
The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel

History of Western Thought

Treatise on Happiness by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Treatise on Law by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Consolation of Philosophy by Ancius Boethius
Saint Thomas Aquinas: ‘The Dumb Ox’ by G. K. Chesterton
The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
Scholasticism by Josef Pieper
Another Sort of Learning by James V. Schall
The Intellectual Life: It’s Spirit, Conditions, Methods by A.G. Sertillanges