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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 (Herman Melville)
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
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Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn
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Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom!
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Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
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East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
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The Stripping of the Altars (Eamon Duffy)
The Stripping of the Altars (Eamon Duffy)
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Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
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The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
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The Imitation of Christ (Thomas À Kempis)
The Imitation of Christ (Thomas À Kempis)
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The Seven Storey Mountain (Thomas Merton)
The Seven Storey Mountain (Thomas Merton)
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The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels)
The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels)
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Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
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Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Max Weber)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Max Weber)
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
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The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
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A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
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Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
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Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
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After Virtue (Alasdair Macintyre)
After Virtue (Alasdair Macintyre)
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Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler (Mark Riebling)
Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler (Mark Riebling)
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The Irony of American History (Reinhold Niebuhr)
The Irony of American History (Reinhold Niebuhr)
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Diary of a Country Priest
Diary of a Country Priest
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop
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The Long Loneliness (Dorothy Day)
The Long Loneliness (Dorothy Day)
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Lord of the World (Robert Hugh Benson)
Lord of the World (Robert Hugh Benson)
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How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
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Just and Unjust Wars (Michael Walzer)
Just and Unjust Wars (Michael Walzer)
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The Idea of a University (John Henry Newman)
The Idea of a University (John Henry Newman)
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What's Wrong With the World (G.K. Chesterton)
What's Wrong With the World (G.K. Chesterton)
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The Way (Josemaria Escriva)
The Way (Josemaria Escriva)
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At Day's Close (A. Roger Ekirch)
At Day's Close (A. Roger Ekirch)
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Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved? (Balthasar)
Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved? (Balthasar)
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