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 conversion.

1) Joseph Pieper - an Anthology
2) G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
3) J.M. Bockenski, Philosophy - an Introduction
4) Dorothy Sayers, The Whimsical Christian
5) E.F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed
6) Yves Simon, A General Theory of Authority
7) Eric Mascall, The Christian Universe
8) Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: The Letters of Flannery O'Connor
9) Hilaire Belloc, Selected Essays
10) C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
11) John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope
12) Peter Kreeft, Back to Virtue
13) Johann Huizinga, Homo Ludens
14) Conversations with Walker Percy
15) Henry Fairlie, The Seven Deadly Sins Today
16) Stanley Jaki, The Road of Science and the Ways to God
17) Conversations with Eric Voeglin
18) Herbert Butterfield, Christianity and History
19) Henry Veatch, Rational Man
20) Leon Kass, The Hungry Soul

James V. Schall, S.J., A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning