The Garden Library

A reading list that trains and deepens our capacity to console the loneliness of God, and prepares us to enter into, and remain in, friendship with Him and his people. Reflections on readings can be found in our journal, The Hour.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church


The Holy Bible


Confessions

Expositions on the Psalms


The Philokalia

St. Augustine

Last Meeting of Sts. Benedict and Scholastica

Second Book of Dialogues, Ch. 33-34


Pope St. Gregory


He and I

Gabrielle Bossis

The Furrow

Friends of God


St. Josemaria Escriva


The Ladder of Divine Ascent

St. John Climacus


Letters of the Saints

Patron Saints

Ascent of Mount Carmel

Dark Night of the Soul

Spiritual Canticle


St. John of the Cross

The Interior Castle

The Way of Perfection


St. Teresa of Avila


Introduction to the Devout Life

St. Francis de Sales


Spiritual Exercises

St. Ignatius of Loyola


Story of a Soul

St. Therese of Lisieux

The Power of Silence

The Day is Now Far Spent


Robert Cardinal Sarah


The Idiot

The Brothers Karamazov

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky


Franny and Zooey

J.D. Salinger


Middlemarch

George Eliot



Silence

Shusaku Endo


And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden

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And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden ·