Need a summer book recommendation

[awalt]

Our parish book club is starting to think about a book for the summer. Since we don’t meet in July and August, we like something of at least 500+ pages to read - non-fiction. Last summer, we read George Weigel’s Biography of JP II (Witness to Hope). It was 900 pages so it took everyone the whole summer, but it was fantastic - a tough precedent to beat!

The Weigel book is about as tough a read as most of the club will like - nothing like the Summa would be accepted I am sure!

Does anyone have a recommendation of something lengthy, 500 - 1000 pages, Catholic, something to learn from, that we could read?

thanks!

 

[AquinasXVI]

Christ the King, Lord of History by Anne Carroll would be fun and a long. Christocentric history book.

Wisdom and Innocence. Life of GK Chesterton by Joseph Pearce is long also but a great delight to read.

I’m impressed…Witness to Hope is long. But Weigel writes so efficiently and clearly.

Theology of the Body…500 or so pages. Can’t go wrong there.

My Way of Life-Simplified Summa. Small but packed to the brim. It took me years to read it.

I think it’s neat you guys are courageous to read the big ones. God bless your group!

in XT.

 

[awalt]

Thanks! These are good ones, I have passed them on for people to be thinking about.

Everyone really enjoyed Witness to Hope last year. We could never have read that when we are doing a book a month! 3 months was perfect for it.

Someone I know mentioned “Name of the Rose”, which looks very good. There was a movie with Sean Connery. Anyone read that one?

 

[JMJ_Theresa]

How about Fulton Sheen’s autobiography?

 

[Mordocai]

Have yet to read it, BUT, I know it comes extremely highly recommended and am VERY excited to read this.
Christ, the Life of the Soul by Blessed Columba Marmion

Other notable books would be The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis and The Glories of Mary by St. Alphonis Ligouri (Ligouri Publications I believe publishes it, which that version I recommend)

Yay books

 

[mspencer]

I began reading this once some years ago, but if I remember correctly, “The Name of the Rose,” has an anti-Catholic element to it.

awalt:

Thanks! These are good ones, I have passed them on for people to be thinking about.

Everyone really enjoyed Witness to Hope last year. We could never have read that when we are doing a book a month! 3 months was perfect for it.

Someone I know mentioned “Name of the Rose”, which looks very good. There was a movie with Sean Connery. Anyone read that one?