A Book List for Brie
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise – One of the greatest love stories!
The Confessions by St. Augustine
The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen – to be read with -Â The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
If on a winter’s night a traveler… by James Calvino
The Man who was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
The Divine Comedy by Dante
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Man’s Unconquerable Mind by Gilbert Highet
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer – Try to read them each in as short a time frame as possible: preferably one day each.
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence – Every mother of sons should read this.
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Lilith by George Macdonald
Typee by Herman Melville
A Canticle for Lebowitz – Walter Miller Jr.
Little Britches by Ralph Moody
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The Aeneid by Virgil
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Daddy Long-Legs by Jean Webster
Leepike Ridge by N.D. Wilson – Another good one for mothers of sons.