General Christianity
The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, History by Dale C. Allison, Jr.
Holy Fable: The Old Testament Undistorted by Faith by Robert M. Price
Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth by Bart D. Ehrman
The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament by John H. Walton, Victor H. Matthews, and Mark W. Chavalas
The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament by Craig S. Keener
Against the Gods: The Polemical Theology of the Old Testament by John D. Currid
Hidden Riches: A Sourcebook for the Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East by Christopher Hays
The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Vol. 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600) by Jaroslav Pelikan
When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome by Richard E. Rubenstein
Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years by Philip Jenkins
The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity by Robert Louis Wilken
Looking for a Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions & Healing Cures by Joe Nickell
Encountering Mystery: Religious Experience in a Secular Age by Dale C. Allison, Jr.
Bible Commentary
The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century: Third Fully Revised Edition
Mark (The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries) [2 volumes] by Joel Marcus
Matthew (International Critical Commentary) [3 volumes] by W. D. Davies and Dale C. Allison
Catholicism
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Keys Over the Christian World by Scott Butler and John Collorafi
Teaching with Authority: How to Cut Through Doctrinal Confusion & Understand What the Church Really Says by Jimmy Akin
The Moral Wisdom of the Catholic Church: A Defense of Her Controversial Moral Teachings by Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D.
Confessions by Augustine
The City of God by Augustine
Catena Aurea by Thomas Aquinas
Summa Contra Gentiles by Thomas Aquinas
Aquinas’s Shorter Summa by Thomas Aquinas
Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary by Brant Pitre
Documents Illustrating Papal Authority A.D. 96-453 by E. Giles
The Case for Clerical Celibacy: Its Historical Development and Theological Foundations by Alfons Maria Cardinal Stickler
Letters and Sermons of Pope St. Leo I
The Gift of Infallibility: The Official Relatio on Infallibility of Bishop Vincent Ferrer Gasser at Vatican Council I by Rev. James T. O’Connor
Eastern Orthodoxy
The Papacy and the Orthodox: Sources and History of a Debate by A. Edward Sieciesnski
For the Unity of All: Contributions to the Theological Dialogue between East and West by John Panteleimon Manoussakis
East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church: From Apostolic Times until the Council of Florence by Henry Chadwick
The Epiclesis Debate at the Council of Florence by Christiaan Kappes
Orthodoxy and Catholicism: A Comparison by Dave Armstrong
The Filioque: History of a Doctrinal Controversy by A. Edward Siecienski
The Challenge of Our Past: Studies in Orthodox Canon Law and Church History by John H. Erickson
The Ecclesiology of St. Nicephorus I (758-828), Patriarch of Constantinople: Pentarchy and Primacy by Patrick O’Connell
Byzantium and the Roman Primacy by Francis Dvornik
Answering Orthodoxy: A Catholic Response to Attacks from the East by Michael Lofton
Protestantism
The Jews and the Reformation by Kenneth Austin
A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland by William Cobbett
Roots of the Reformation by Karl Adam
The Facts About Luther by Patrick F. O’Hare
The Human Faces of God: What Scripture Reveals When It Gets God Wrong (And Why Inerrancy Tries to Hide It) by Thom Stark
Philosophy
Aquinas: A Beginner’s Guide by Edward Feser
Duns Scotus – Philosophical Writings
Thomas Aquinas – Selected Writings
Proofs of God: Classical Arguments from Tertullian to Barth by Matthew Levering
A New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny
The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics edited by Robert C. Koons and Timothy Pickavance
Medieval Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction by Andrew W. Arlig
The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology edited by Jonathan Fuqua, John Greco, and Tyler Dalton McNabb
Real Essentialism by David S. Oderberg
The Theological Origins of Modernity by Michael Allen Gillespie
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 by Jonathan I. Israel
The Metaphysics by Aristotle
On the Soul by Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Politics by Aristotle
The Republic by Plato
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Thomistic Psychology: A Philosophical Analysis of the Nature of Man by Robert Edward Brennan
On the Anger of God by Lactantius
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
The Metaphysics of Good and Evil by David S. Oderberg
After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit
On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
Of the Immortality of the Soul by David Hume
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Baruch Spinoza
Unreasonable Faith: How William Lane Craig Overstates the Case for Christianity by James Fodor
Conversations of Faith and Reason: Modern Catholic Thought from Hermes to Benedict XVI by Aidan Nichols
World History
The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century by Paul Collins
Europe: A History by Norman Davies
Religion and the Rise of Western Culture: The Classic Study of Medieval Civilization by Christopher Dawson
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
The Slave Trade by Hugh Thomas
Jews/Israel
Jewish Business Practices: Sketches from Contemporary Social Life by Georg Ratzinger
Living Together, Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages by Jonathan Elukin
The Israel Lobby by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
Against Our Better Judgement by Alison Weir
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A History by James L. Gelvin
Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001 by Benny Morris
America’s Defense Line by Grant F. Smith
Stealing the Atom Bomb by Roger Mattson
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
The Samson Option by Seymour Hersh
Eight Homilies Against the Jews by John Chrysostom
Jesus in the Talmud by Peter Schäfer
The Arians of the Fourth Century by John Henry Newman
Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years by Israel Shahak
Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture by Josh Lambert
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering by Norman G. Finkelstein
The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam by G.W. Bowersock
Islam
The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
John of Damascus, First Apologist to the Muslims: The Trinity and Christian Apologetics in the Early Islamic Period by Daniel Janosik
On Saudi Arabia by Karen Elliott House
A Mosque in Munich by Ian Johnson
Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam by Robert Dreyfuss
The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism by Trevor Aaronson
111 Questions on Islam: Samir Khalil Samir S.J. on Islam and the West by Samir Khalil Samir
Atheism
Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism by Paul Vitz
Economics
Catholic Social Thought: Encyclicals and Documents from Pope Leo XIII to Pope Francis
J IS FOR JUNK ECONOMICS by Michael Hudson
America’s Protectionist Takeoff by Michael Hudson
Debunking Economics by Steve Keen
An Economic History of the United States: From 1607 to the Present by Ronald Seavoy
Free Trade Doesn’t Work by Ian Fletcher
We Wanted Workers by George J. Borjas
The Debt-Deflation Theory of Great Depressions by Irving Fisher
Report on the Subject of Manufactures by Alexander Hamilton
Barren Metal: A History of Capitalism as the Conflict Between Labor and Usury by E. Michael Jones
The Global Minotaur by Yanis Varoufakis
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Capital by Karl Marx
Clue to the Economic Labyrinth by Michael Flurscheim
The Stability of Prices by Simon Nelson Patten
America
Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
Who Are We? by Samuel P. Huntington
Protestant, Catholic, Jew by Will Herberg
Taboo: 10 Facts You Can’t Talk About by Wilfred Reilly
Black Rednecks & White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
Trump Revealed by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher
The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs by Douglas Valentine
Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by Terry Reed and John Cummings
American Civil War
Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson
Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War by Harry S. Stout
Seven Myths of the Civil War edited by Wesley Moody
The Genesis of the Civil War: The Story of Sumter (1860-1861) by Samuel Wylie Crawford
Kennedy Assassinations
The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh
Kennedy’s Quest for Victory by Thomas G. Paterson
The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton by Jefferson Morley
With Malice by Dale K. Myers
Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi
Warren Commission Report
On the Trail of Delusion by Fred Litwin
The Forgotten Terrorist: Sirhan Sirhan and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy by Mel Ayton
Organized Crime
Double Deal by Michael Corbitt and Sam Giancana
Supermob by Gus Russo
Lucky Luciano, The Man who Modernized the Mafia by Tony Scaduto
Red Mafiya by Robert Friedman
Dark Quadrant by Jonathan Marshall
Rome
Julius Caesar by Philip Freeman
Cicero by Anthony Everitt
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy
Plutarch’s Lives
Livy’s The History of Rome
Greece
The Story of Greece and Rome by Tony Spawforth
The Histories by Herodotus
The Trojan War: A New History by Barry Strauss
China
On China by Henry Kissinger
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Yang Jisheng
Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962 by Yang Jisheng
Russia
Russia and the Universal Church by Vladimir Soloviev
A Short History of Russia: How the World’s Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin by Mark Galeotti
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
World War I
The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade by Philip Jenkins
The Great War and the Death of God by Charles A. O’Connor III
World War II
American Heritage History of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose and C. L. Sulzberger
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman
Hitler, the War, and the Pope by Ronald J. Rychlak
Churchill And The Avoidable War: Could World War II Have Been Prevented? By Richard Langworth
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker
Science
Science Was Born of Christianity: The Teaching of Fr. Stanley L. Jaki by Stacy Trasancos
Male, Female, Other?: A Catholic Guide to Understanding Gender by Jason Evert
Lucifer Curves: The Legacy of Lead Poisoning by Rick Nevin
The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives by David B. Yaden and Andrew Newberg
Fiction
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon
Hell House by Richard Matheson
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and John Ciardi
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Iliad by Homer and Robert Fagles
The Odyssey by Homer and Robert Fagles
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Maurice by E. M. Forster
Blindsight by Peter Watts
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane