Intellectual Formation

Too often we fail to keep our minds sharp. One way to do this is by reading something that is not required and has been seen by others as a good piece of literature. Therefore I am including Br. Randall's (Br. Randall was the librarian at the North American College for many years) list of books one should read in their lifetime. Of course we can dispute which books belong but this is at least a start. Pick one and take this time during Lent to read 15 minutes a day. You will be surprised how much you can get read when you just do it.

Austen, J. Pride and Prdjudice

Emma

Sense and Sensibility

Bennett, A. Old Wives' Tale

Clayhanger Trilogy

Bernanos, G. Diary of a Country Priest

Blackmore, R. Lorna Doone

Bronte, C. Jayne Eyre

Buck, P. Good Earth

Cather, W. Death Comes for the Archbishop

Chesterton, G.K. Father Brown Series

Collins, W. Moonstone

Woman in White

Conrad, J. Lord Jim

Cooper, J.F. Last of the Mohicans

Crane, S. Red Badge of Courage

Cronin, A.J. Green Years

Keys of the Kingdom

Defoe, D. Robinson Crusoe

Dickens, C. David Copperfield

Pickwick Papers

Tale of Two Cities

Great Expectations

Oliver Twist

Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment

Brothers Karamazov

Doyle, C. Sherlock Holmes

Fitzgerald, F.S. Great Gatsby

Flaubert, G. Madame Bovary

Galsworthy, J. Forsyte Saga

Greene, G. Labyrinthe Ways (Power and the Glory)

Heart of the Matter

End of the Affair

Hawthorne, N. Scarlet Letter

Marble Faun

House of Seven Gables

Hemingway, E. Old Man and the Sea

For Whom the Bells Toll

Hilton, J. Goodbye Mr. Chips

Lost Horizons

Howells, W.D. Rise of Silas Lapham

Eliot, G. Silas Marner

Mills on the Floss

Hugo, V. Les Miserables

James, H. Daisy Miller

The Ambassadors

Portrait of a Lady

Joyce, J. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Kipling, R. Kim

Lampedusa The Leopard

Lewis, S. Main Street

Arrowsmith

Dodsworth

Babbit

London, J. White Fang

Call of the Wild

Mann, T. Buddenbrooks

Manzoni, A. The Betrothed

Marquand, J.P. Late George Apley

Mauriac, F. Vipers' Tangle

Melville, H. Moby Dick

Mitchell, M. Gone With the Wind

O'Connor, E. Last Hurrah

Edge of Sadness

O'Henry (Porter) short stories

Pasternak, B. Dr. Zhivago

Paton, A. Too Late the Phalarop

Cry the Beloved Country

Potak, C. The Chosen

My Name is Asher Lev

Rawlings, M.K. The Yearling

Remarque, E.M. All Quiet on the Western Front

Roberts, K. North West Passage

Reade, C. Cloister and the Hearth

Scott, W. Hearts of Midlothian

Solzhentsyn, A. Cancer Ward

Day in the Life of I. Demoshevit

Inner Circle

Steinbeck, J. Grapes of Wrath

Stevenson, R.L. Treaure Island

Master of Ballantrae

Swift, J. Gulliver's Travels

Thackeray, W.M. Vanity Fair

Tolstoy, L. War and Peace

Anna Karenina

Trollope, A. The Warden

Barchester Towers

Undset, S. Kristin Lavransdatter

Waugh, E. The Loved One

Brideshead Revisited

Sword of Honor

Wharton, E. Age of Innocence

Ethan Frome

Wodehouse, P.G. Jeeves or -----

Wolfe, T. Look Homeward Angel

You Can't Go Home Again

the Fairy Tales of both:

The Brothers Grimm, and H.C. Andersen