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Formation Reading List

A list of books that I intend to read in the next 18 months as side-reading during my initial period of formation as a Benedictine monk.
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Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
1
Herman Melville
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
2
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Huckleberry Finn
3
Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
Tom Sawyer
4
Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Mark Twain)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
5
Mark Twain
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
6
William Faulkner
Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Grapes of Wrath
7
John Steinbeck
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
East of Eden
8
John Steinbeck
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
9
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
10
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor (Flannery O'Connor)
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
11
Flannery O'Connor
The Stripping of the Altars (Eamon Duffy)
The Stripping of the Altars
12
Eamon Duffy
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
13
Miguel De Cervantes
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
14
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Imitation of Christ (Thomas À Kempis)
The Imitation of Christ
15
Thomas À Kempis
The Seven Storey Mountain (Thomas Merton)
The Seven Storey Mountain
16
Thomas Merton
The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels)
The Communist Manifesto
17
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
18
John Milton
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
19
George Orwell
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
20
Oscar Wilde
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Max Weber)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
21
Max Weber
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
22
Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
23
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
24
Ernest Hemingway
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
25
Daniel Defoe
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
26
George Eliot
After Virtue (Alasdair Macintyre)
After Virtue
27
Alasdair Macintyre
Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler (Mark Riebling)
Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler
28
Mark Riebling
The Irony of American History (Reinhold Niebuhr)
The Irony of American History
29
Reinhold Niebuhr
Diary of a Country Priest
Diary of a Country Priest
30
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
Death Comes for the Archbishop
31
Willa Cather
The Long Loneliness (Dorothy Day)
The Long Loneliness
32
Dorothy Day
Lord of the World (Robert Hugh Benson)
Lord of the World
33
Robert Hugh Benson
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
34
Just and Unjust Wars (Michael Walzer)
Just and Unjust Wars
35
Michael Walzer
The Idea of a University (John Henry Newman)
The Idea of a University
36
John Henry Newman
What's Wrong With the World (G.K. Chesterton)
What's Wrong With the World
37
G.K. Chesterton
The Way (Josemaria Escriva)
The Way
38
Josemaria Escriva
At Day's Close (A. Roger Ekirch)
At Day's Close
39
A. Roger Ekirch
Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved? (Balthasar)
Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved?
40
Balthasar
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