Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

Many people are familiar with Father McCloskey's Lifetime Reading Plan.

This is my version. I haven't read everything on the list, but I trust Father's recommendations. Therefore, I haven't removed anything, but I have added about five.

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan
• Catechism of the Catholic Church – Catholicism Explained/Theology
• Adams – The Spirit of Catholicism – Catholicism Explained/Theology
• Augustine – City of God – Spiritual Classics
• Augustine – Confessions of St. Augustine – Spiritual Classics
• Aumann – Spiritual Theology – Spiritual Reading
• Baur – Frequent Confession – Spiritual Reading
• Baur – In Silence with God – Spiritual Reading
• Belloc – The Great Heresies – History and Culture
• Belloc – How The Reformation Happened – History and Culture
• Belloc – Survivals and New Arrivals – History and Culture
• Benson – Lord of the World – Literary Classics
• Bernanos – The Diary of a Country Priest – Literary Classics
• Bouyer – Spirit and Forms of Protestantism – Catholicism Explained/Theology
• Boylan – Difficulties in Mental Prayer – Spiritual Reading
• Boylan – Tremendous Lover – Spiritual Reading
• Burke – Covenanted Happiness – Spiritual Reading
• Carroll – Christendom I – History and Culture
• Carroll – Christendom II – History and Culture
• Carroll – Christendom III – History and Culture
• Carroll – Christendom IV – History and Culture
• St. Catherine –The Dialogues – Spiritual Classics
• Cervantes – Don Quixote – Literary Classics
• Chautard – Soul of Apostolate – Spiritual Reading
• Chesterton – Everlasting Man – Spiritual Classics
• Chesterton – Orthodoxy – Spiritual Classics
• Chesterton – St. Thomas Aquinas
• Chesterton – St. Francis of Assisi – Holy Men and Women
• Cizek – He Leadeth Me – Spiritual Reading
• Crocker – Triumph – History and Culture
• Caussaude – Abandonment to Divine Providence – Spiritual Reading
• Dante – Divine Comedy – Literary Classics
• Dawson – Christianity and European Culture – History and Culture
• Day – Long Loneliness – Holy Men and Women
• Day – Why Catholics Can’t Sing
• de la Colombiere – Trustful Surrender to Divine Prodivence – Spiritual Reading
• de la Palma – The Sacred Passion – Spiritual Reading
• de Sales – Introduction to Devout Life – Spiritual Reading
• de Sales – Treatise on the Love of God – Spiritual Reading
• d'Elbee – I Believe in Love – Spiritual Reading
• Dubay – Fire Within – Spiritual Reading
• Eliot – Christianity and Culture – Literary Classics
• Endo – Silence – Literary Classics
• Escriva – Christ is Passing By – Spiritual Reading
• Escriva – Way, Furrow, Forge – Spiritual Reading
• Escriva – Way of the Cross – Spiritual Reading
• Faber – All for Jesus – Spiritual Reading
• Garrigou-Lagrange – Three Ages of Interior Life, I – Spiritual Reading
• Garrigou-Lagrange – Three Ages of Interior Life, II – Spiritual Reading
• Granada – Sinner's Guide – Spiritual Reading
• Guardini – The Lord
• Guardini – End of the Modern World – History and Culture
• Hahn – Rome Sweet Home – Catholicism Explained/Theology
• Hildebrand – Transformation in Christ – Spiritual Reading
• Hildebrand – The Privilege of Being a Woman
• Hopkins – Hopkins: Poetry and Prose – Literary Classics
• John XXIII – Journal of a Soul – Holy Men and Women
• John of the Cross – Dark Night of the Soul – Spiritual Classics
• John Paul II – Crossing the Threshold of Hope – Misc
• Kempis – The Imitation of Christ – Spiritual Reading
• Knox – Enthusiasm – History and Culture
• Kreeft – Christianity for Modern Pagans – Catholicism Explained/Theology
• Kreeft – Refutation of Moral Relativism – Theology
• Lawrence of the Resurrection – Practice of the Presence of God – Spiritual Reading
• Leclercq – Love of Learning and the Desire for God – History and Culture
• Lewis – Problem with Pain – Spiritual Classics
• Lewis – Mere Christianity – Spiritual Classics
• Lewis – Screwtape Letters – Spiritual Classics
• Liguori – 12 Steps to Holiness and Salvation – Spiritual Reading
• Liguori – Uniformity with God's Will – Spiritual Reading
• Martinez – True Devotion to the Holy Spirit – Spiritual Reading
• Montfort – True Devotion – Spiritual Reading
• Lovasik – The Hidden Power of Kindness – Spiritual Reading
• Manzoni – Betrothed – Spiritual Reading
• Masson – Companion Guide to Rome – Misc
• Merton – Seven Storey Mountain – Holy Men and Women
• Merton – Thoughts in Solitude – Spiritual Reading
• Monti – King's Good Servant but God's First
• More – Sadness of Christ – Spiritual Reading
• Muggeridge – Something Beautiful for God – Holy Men and Women
• Neuhaus – Catholic Matters – Misc.
• Newman – Apologia Pro Vita Sua – Holy Men and Women
• Newman – Essay on Development of Christian Doctrine – Catholicism Explained/Theology
• Newman – Idea of a University – Literary Classics
• Newman – The Rule of Our Warfare
• O'Connor – Flannery O'Connor: Complete Stories – Literary Classics
• Ott – Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma – Catholicism Explained/Theology
• Oursler – The Greatest Story Ever Told – Spiritual Classics
• Percy – Lost in Cosmos – Literary Classics
• Percy – Love in the Ruins – Literary Classic
• Perquin – Abba Father – Spiritual Reading
• Pieper – The Four Cardinal Virtues – Catholicism Explained/Theology
• Phillipe – Interior Freedom – Spiritual Reading
• Ratzinger – Spirit of the Liturgy – Theology
• Ray – Upon This Rock – Theology
• Rice – 50 Questions on the Natural Law – Misc.
• Rohrbach – Conversation with Christ – Spiritual Reading
• Scupoli – Spiritual Combat – Spiritual Reading
• Sertillanges – Intellectual Life – Misc
• Sheed – Theology for Beginners – Spiritual Reading
• Sheed – To Know Christ Jesus – Spiritual Reading
• Sheen – Life of Christ – Spiritual Reading
• Sheen – Mary: The World’s First Love – Spiritual Reading
• Sheen – Priest is Not His Own – Spiritual Reading
• Sheen – Three to Get Married – Spiritual Reading
• Sienkiewicz – Quo Vadis – Literary Classics
• Stein – Woman – Misc
• Suarez – Mary of Nazareth – Holy Men and Women
• Tanqueray – Spiritual Life – Spiritual Reading
• Mother Teresa –Simple Path – Spiritual Classics
• St. Teresa of Avila – Interior Castle – Spiritual Classics
• Teresa of Avila – Way of Perfection – Spiritual Classics
• St. Therese of Lisieux – Story of a Soul – Spiritual Classics
• St. Thomas Aquinas – My Way of Life – Spiritual Classics
• Tolkien – Lord of Rings – Literary Classics
• Trochu – Cure of Ars – Holy Men and Women
• Undset – Kristen Lavransdatter – Literary Classics
• Walsh – Our Lady of Fatima – History and Culture
• Waugh – Brideshead Revisited – Literary Classics
• Wegemer – Thomas More – Holy Men and Women
• Weigel – Witness to Hope – Holy Men and Women
• West – Good News About Sex and Marriage – Theology