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