Short Stories
- Everything That Rises Must Converge (1961) by Flannery O’Connor
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1953) by Flannery O’Connor
- Pigeon Feathers (1956) by John Updike
- A Sandstone Farmhouse (1990) by John Updike
Nonfiction
- The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx
- Das Kapital (1867) by Karl Marx
- The Gulag Archipelago (1973) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The Long Loneliness (1952) by Dorothy Day
- Lost in the Cosmos (1983) by Walker Percy
- Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) by Viktor Frankl
- Tribe (2016) by Sebastian Junger
- When Hell Was in Session (1975) by Jeremiah Denton
Philosophy
- The Abolition of Man (1943) by C. S. Lewis
- After Virtue (1981) by Alasdair MacIntyre
- Art and Scholasticism (1920) by Jacques Maritain
- Beyond Good and Evil (1886) by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Birth of Tragedy (1872) by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The City of God by Saint Augustine of Hippo
- The Degrees of Knowledge (1932) by Jacques Maritain
- Democracy in America (1835) by Alexis de Tocqueville
- The Drama of Atheist Humanism (1945) by Henri de Lubac
- Essays (1580) by Michel de Montaigne
- Fear and Trembling (1843) by Søren Kierkegaard
- Heretics (1905) by G. K. Chesterton
- I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (1999) by René Girard
- Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957) by Bernard Lonergan
- Lettres provinciales (1657) by Blaise Pascal
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) by René Descartes
- The Message in the Bottle (1975) by Walker Percy
- On the Consolation of Philosophy (524) by Boethius
- On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Pensées (1670) by Blaise Pascal
- The Republic by Plato
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) by Thomas Kuhn
- Summa Theologica by Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Summa contra Gentiles by Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Violence and the Sacred (1972) by René Girard
Poetry
- Choruses from “The Rock” (1934) by T. S. Eliot
- The Divine Comedy (1321) by Dante Alighieri
- The Dream Songs (1964) by John Berryman
- The Everlasting Mercy (1911) by John Masefield
- Faust (1808) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Fleurs de mal (1958) by Charles Baudelaire
- Four Quartets (1943) by T. S. Eliot
- The House of Dust (1920) by Conrad Aiken
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton
- The Prophet (1923) by Khalil Gibran
- The Spiritual Canticle by Saint John of the Cross
- The Waste Land and Other Poems (1940) by T. S. Eliot