Excerpt from A Student’s Guide to Liberal Learning by James V. Schall, S.J. ISI Books, Wilmington, Delaware, 2000
SCHALL’S UNLIKELY LIST OF BOOKS TO KEEP SANE BY
Each of these books, I think, shows a certain profundity, a certain brevity, a certain charm. I have included books on play, on philosophy, on resources, on authority, on just about everything, including the seven deadly sins! Yet another book is on food, one on science, some essays, some theology, some history, some conversation.
Josef Pieper – an Anthology
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
J.M. Bochenski, Philosophy – An Introduction
Dorothy Sayers, The Whimsical Christian
E.F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed
Yves Simon, A General Theory of Authority
Eric Mascall, The Christian Universe
Flannery O’Connor, The Habit of Being: The Letters of Flannery O’Connor
Hilaire Belloc, Selected Essays
C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope
Peter Kreeft, Back to Virtue
Johann Huizinga, Homo Ludens
Conversations with Walker Percy
Henry Fairlie, The Seven Deadly Sins Today
Stanley Jaki, The Road of Science and the Ways to God