Favourite authors & their works

Jewish Issues & Imagination

Appelfeld, Aharon – Blooms of Darkness, For Every Sin, Laish, Suddenly Love, The Conversion, The Iron Tracks, The Retreat, and The Story of a Life* Berkovits, Eliezer – With God in Hell: Judaism in the Ghettos and Deathcamps Buber, Martin – Hasidic Tales Burger, Ariel – Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom* Gillman, Neil – The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought Halevi, Yossi Klein – Letters to my Palestinian Neighbor Heschel, Abraham Joshua – God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism, Human: God's Ineffable Name, Man is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity, "The Patient as a Person,"* The Sabbath, Who is Man?*

Kass, Leon – Genesis: The Beginning of Wisdom, Leading a Worthy Life: Finding Meaning in Modern Times Lapide, Pinchas – The Resurrection of Jesus: A Jewish Perspective*
Levenson, Jon. D. – Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life*  Maimonides, Moses – Treatise on Resurrection Oz, Amos – Dear Zealots, Judas Pinsker, Shachar M. – A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture* Sacks, Rabbi Lord Jonathan – Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times Senesh, Hannah – Her Life and Diary by Hannah Senesh   Soloveitchik, Joseph B. – Out of the Whirlwind: Essays on Mourning, Suffering, and the Human Condition, Worship of the Heart: Essays on Jewish Prayer, “Catharsis," "Majesty and Humility"
Weiss, Bari – How to Fight Antisemitism Wiesel, Elie - Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends, Open Heart  Zeitlin, Steve – Because God Loves Stories: An Anthology of Jewish Storytelling

Christian Thought & Tradition

Athanasius – Life of Saint Anthony Augustine – Confessions, On the Free Choice of the Will Avila, St. Theresa of – The Book of Her Life, Interior Castle  Chesterton, G.K. – Orthodoxy* Dante – The Divine Comedy Delp, Alfred – Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons and Prison Writings 1941-1944*  Halík, Tomáš – Night of the Confessor: Christian Faith in an Age of Uncertainty, I Want You To Be: On the God of Love Hildebrand, Dietrich von – Aesthetics, Beauty in the Light of the Redemption, Graven Images: Substitutes for True Morality, In Defense of Purity, Liturgy and Personality*, Jaws of Death: Gate of Heaven, Morality and the Knowledge of Ethical Values: A Study of Some Fundamental Issues of Ethics, My Battle Against Hitler, The Dethronement of Truth, The Heart, Transformation in Christ Leiva-Merikakis, Erasmo – The Way of the Disciple Lewis, C.S. – A Grief Observed,  Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, The Abolition of Man, The Four Loves, The Latin Letters, "Meditation in a Toolshed,"* "The Weight of Glory"

Mosebach, Martin – The 21: Journey into the Land of the Coptic Martyrs  Mounier, Emmanuel – Personalism Multiple Authors – Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His People  Nouwen, Henri – Adam, Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life, The Lonely Search for God, The Return of the Prodigal Son, Who are we? O’Connor, Flannery – Prayer Journal  Pieper, Josef – Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power, Divine Madness: Plato’s Case Against Secular Humanism, Faith, Hope, Love, In Search of the Sacred: Contributions to an Answer, In Tune with the World: A Theory of Festivity*, Leisure, the Basis of Culture, Living the Truth Quenon, Paul – In Praise of the Useless Life: A Monk’s Memoir Ratinzger, Joseph – Values in a Time of Upheaval, The Feast of Faith, "On The Meaning of Sunday"* Sarah, Cardinal Robert – God or Nothing Sertillanges, A.G. – The Intellectual Life Stein, Edith – Life in a Jewish Family, The Hidden Life: Essays, Meditations, Spiritual Texts*
Utrecht, Daniel  – The Lion of Munster: The Bishop Who Roared Against the Nazis
Varden, Erik – The Shattering of Loneliness: On Christian Remembrance*
Wojtyła, Karol/John Paul II – Considerations on the Essence of Man, Ethics Primer, Love and Responsibility, Lublin Lectures, Man in the Field of Responsibility, Person and Community: Selected Essays*, The Acting Person, "The Jeweler’s Shop," "The Radiation of Fatherhood" | The Acting Person, "A Meditation on Givenness," * Centesimus Annus, "Dies Domini," Fides et Ratio, "Letter to Artists," "Letter to Families," Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body, "Meeting with the University Students of Krakow," Salvifici Doloris,  Sollicitudo res socialis, Veritatis Splendor

Memoirs & Biographies

Abuelaish, Izzeldin – I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity* Ahmari, Sohrab – From Fire, By Water Appelfeld, Aharon – Table for One: Under the Light of Jerusalem* Arendt, Hannah – Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess Baldwin, James – The Fire Next Time  Bashir, Yousef – Words of my Father: Love and Pain in Palestine* Brunson, Andrew – God’s Hostage: A True Story of Persecution, Imprisonment, and Perseverance Doerr, Anthony – Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World  du Boulay, Shirley – Cicely Saunders: The founder of the Modern Hospice Movement* du Plessix Gray, Francine – Simone Weil Fadell, Joseph – The Price to Pay: A Muslim Risks All to Follow Christ  Fadiman, Anne – Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Reader  Hemesath, O.S.F., Caroline B. – From Slave to Priest: The Inspirational Story of Father Augustine Tolton (1854-1897) Hildebrand, Alice von – The Soul of a Lion: The Biography of Dietrich von Hildebrand*, Memoirs of a Happy Failure Hillesum, Etty – An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork*  Jacobs, Alan - Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Life Jonas, Hans – Memoirs* Keegan, Marina – The Opposite of Loneliness*  Kurdi, Tima – The Boy on the Beach: My Family’s Escape from Syria and Our Hope for a New Home Makary, Marty and Ellen Vaughn – Mama Maggie: The Untold Story of One Woman’s Mission to Love the Forgotten Children of Egypt’s Garbage Slums Massad, Hanna – Pastor from Gaza McAleer, Tony – The Cure for Hate: A Former White Supremacist’s Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion Mansour, Hussein Aboubakr – Minority of One: The Unchaining of an Arab Mind  Murad, Nadia – The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State  O’Sullivan, Sean – Both My Houses: From Politics to Priesthood Pieper, Josef – No One Could Have Known: An Autobiography of the Early Years* Ratzinger, Joseph – Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977* Sankovitch, Nina – Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Celebrating the Joys of Letter Writing, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading Setbon, Jean-Marie Elie – From the Kippah to the Cross: A Jew’s Conversion to Catholicism   Sheen, Fulton J. – Treasure in Clay by Fulton J. Sheen   Singh, Harnarayan – One Game at a Time: My Journey from Small-Town Alberta to Hockey’s Biggest Stage

Thistle, Jesse – From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way*
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth – Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World* Weigel, George – Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II* Weil, Simone – Letter to A Priest, Gravity and Grace, The Need for Roots, Waiting for God Zantovsky, Michael – Havel: A Life

Philosophy & Political Theory 

Arendt, Hannah – Men in Dark Times, Between Past and Future, The Origins of Totalitarianism including “Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government”*, Responsibility and Judgment, The Human Condition*, The Promise of Politics, The Last Interview and Other Conversations, Eichmann in Jerusalem, Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, The Correspondence with Karl Jaspers 

Aquinas – De Regno Bastiat, Frédéric – “Declaration of War against the Professors of Political Economy,” The Law Burke, Edmund – Reflections on the Revolution in France, "Speech to the Electors at Bristol"  Burke, Thomas Patrick – The Concept of Justice: Is Social Justice Just? Cooper, Barry – The Restoration of Political Science and the Crisis of Modernity de Tocqueville, Alexis – Democracy in America Gregg, Samuel – On Ordered Liberty: A Treatise on the Free Society Hayek, F.A. – The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism Havel, Vaclav – “Stories and Totalitarianism," Summer Meditations, "The Power of the Powerless" Hughes, Glenn – A More Beautiful Question: The Spiritual in Poetry and Art* Huizinga, Johan – Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture Machiavelli, Niccolò – The Prince, Mandragola
Ortega y Gasset,  José – The Revolt of the Masses Orwell, George – 1984, Animal Farm, "Politics and the English Language" Otteson, James – Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life Plato – Meno, Euthyphro, Apology, Gorgias, The Symposium, The Republic Plutarch – Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Scheler, Max - Resentement, Person and Self-Value: Three Essays Smith, Adam  – The Theory of Moral Sentiments Strauss, Leo - Natural Right and History, On Tyranny, Persecution and the Art of Writing, "What Is Political Philosophy?" Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War Walsh, David – Guarded by Mystery Voegelin, Eric – Anamnesis, Autobiographical Reflections, Hitler and the Germans, "Immortality, Experience, and Symbol, " "In Search of the Ground"*, "Liberalism and Its History," Order and History (Volume 1): Israel and Revelation, Political Religions, Science, Politics, and Gnosticism*

Literature and Moral Imagination

Antoon, Sinan - The Baghdad Eucharist, The Corpse Washer Camus, Albert - The Plague 

Chekhov, Anton - "Misery"
de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine – "Letter to a Hostage,"* The Little Prince, Wind, Sand, and Stars Doerr, Anthony - All the Light we Cannot See Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov*, The Double, Notes from Underground   Le Guin, Ursula – "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"*  O’Connor, Flannery – Wise Blood Nafisi, Azar – Reading Lolita in Tehran, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books Morrill, Natalie – The Ghost Keeper  Rilke, Rainer Maria – Stories of God*
Tolstoy, Leo – The Death of Ivan Ilyich*
Wolfe, Tom – I Am Charlotte Simmons, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

Bioethics, Cancer, Genetics, Suffering & Death

Bellarmine, Robert  – The Art of Dying Well Byer Shainman, Amy – Resurrection Lily: The BRCA Gene, Hereditary Cancer & Lifesaving Whispers from the Grandmother I Never Knew Camosy, Charles C. – Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality  Chochinov, Harvey Max – Dignity Therapy: Final Words for Final Days Diat, Nicholas – A Time to Die: Monks on the Threshold to Eternal Life* Grant, George – Technology and Justice   Halkin, Hillel, After One-Hundred and Twenty: Reflecting on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition Jonas, Hans – The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology*, The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age, Mortality and Morality: A Search for Good After Auschwitz* Kass, Leon – Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs, "L’Chaim and its Limits: Why not immortality?"* Leclerc, Eloi – The Desert and the Rose: The Spirituality of Jeanne Jugan McKay, Amy – Daughter of Family G: A Memoir of Cancer Genes, Love and Fate Meilaender, Gilbert – Bioethics and the Character of Human Life, "I Want to Burden My Loved Ones"* Mozersky, Jessica – Risky Genes: Genetics, Breast Cancer, and Jewish Identity Muir (O’Malley), Leilani – Whisper Past: Childless After Eugenic Sterilization in Alberta  Nouwen, Henri – Aging: The Fulfillment of Life*, Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Giving Queller, Jessica – Pretty is What Changes: Impossible Choices, the Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny Rilke, Rainer Maria – The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation  Saba, Paul – Made to Live: A Physician's Journey to Save Life  Snead, O. Carter – What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics   Spaemann, Robert – Love & the Dignity of Human Life: On Nature and Natural Law , Essays in Anthropology: Variations on a Theme, “Begotten not made”

Elie Wiesel – Open Heart