{"id":256,"date":"2010-03-13T11:48:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T19:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?page_id=256"},"modified":"2010-03-13T11:48:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T19:48:37","slug":"nicks-catholic-classics-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/books\/nicks-catholic-classics-reading-list","title":{"rendered":"Nick’s Catholic Classics Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Around the year 2003 I got fed up with wasting my time reading mediocre books. As the Michael Card song goes, \u201cSo many books, so little time.\u201d I became determined to only read books that would have a life-changing effect on me. But first I had to find a way to know which books those were. So, I accumulated about thirteen lists of the greatest or most influential books ever written and counted which books appeared on the most lists, and then I ranked them. The logic behind this method is that by using many lists I can reduce the bias of individual critics or organizations, and come up with a more objective and comprehensive list. This process would have been a lot more time consuming without Robert Teeter\u2019s fantastic great books page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not long after that, I found Fr. Hardon\u2019s The Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan <\/em>and I decided to put together a list of great Catholic literature, based on the same logic. I found two more lists of Catholic\/Christian classics and added them to my initial thirteen. Here, then, are my sources for my Catholic Classics Reading List:<\/p>\n

Catholic\/Christian Reading Lists:<\/p>\n