Reading material

Books I recommend. Each title links to Amazon.
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• How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization ↗Thomas E. Woods Jr.
• A Brief Critical Study of the New Order of Mass (The Ottaviani Intervention) ↗Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani & Cardinal Antonio Bacci
• Abandonment to Divine Providence ↗Jean-Pierre de Caussade
• Consoling Thoughts of St. Francis de Sales ↗St. Francis de Sales
• Marriage and Parenthood: The Catholic Ideal ↗Fr. Thomas J. Gerrard
• Prayer: The Great Means of Salvation and of Perfection ↗St. Alphonsus Liguori
• Rooting Out Hidden Faults ↗Fr. James F. McElhone, C.S.C.
• The Foundations of the Spiritual Life ↗Jean-Joseph Surin, S.J.
• The Life of Mary as Seen by the Mystics ↗Raphael Brown
• The Spiritual Combat and a Treatise on Peace of Soul ↗Dom Lorenzo Scupoli
• The Sinner's Guide ↗Ven. Louis of Granada
• Ways of Mental Prayer ↗Dom Vitalis Lehodey
• Europe and the Faith ↗Hilaire Belloc
• Isabella of Spain: The Last Crusader ↗William Thomas Walsh
• The Trinity ↗St. Augustine
• Sword and Scimitar ↗Raymond Ibrahim
• The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise ↗Darío Fernández-Morera
• White Gold ↗Giles Milton
• Rethinking the Enlightenment: Faith in the Age of Reason ↗Joseph T. Stuart
• On Christian Doctrine ↗St. Augustine
• The Israel Lobby ↗John J. Mearsheimer & Stephen M. Walt
• Why God Became Man ↗St. Anselm
• The Bright Ages ↗Matthew Gabriele & David M. Perry
• Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests ↗Walter E. Kaegi
• Islamic Imperialism: A History ↗Efraim Karsh
• Orthodoxy ↗G. K. Chesterton
• China's Saints: Catholic Martyrdom During the Qing ↗Anthony E. Clark
• Islam at the Gates: How Christendom Defeated the Ottoman Turks ↗Diane Moczar
• Doctrina Christiana: The Timeless Catechism of St. Robert Bellarmine ↗St. Robert Bellarmine
• The Medieval Housewife & Other Women of the Middle Ages ↗Toni Mount
• Light from Darkness: Nine Times the Catholic Church Was in Turmoil and Came Out Stronger Than Before ↗Steve Weidenkopf
• A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution ↗Orlando Figes
• Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain ↗Brian A. Catlos
• The Great Betrayal: Constantinople 1204 ↗Ernle Bradford
• Creating the Qur'an: A Historical-Critical Study ↗Stephen J. Shoemaker
• Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam ↗Raymond Ibrahim
• A Letter to Confused Catholics ↗Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre
• Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora ↗Ronald Segal
• Knowing the Love of God ↗Fr. Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.
• The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision ↗Henry Kamen
• Fighting for Christendom: Holy War and the Crusades ↗Christopher Tyerman
• Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History ↗Matthew S. Gordon & Kathryn A. Hain (eds.)
• The Camp of the Saints ↗Jean Raspail
• Was the Reformation a Mistake? Why Catholic Doctrine Is Not Unbiblical ↗Matthew Levering
• Before Orthodoxy: The Satanic Verses in Early Islam ↗Shahab Ahmed
• Engaging the Doctrine of Marriage ↗Matthew Levering
• The Perfectly Simple Triune God: Aquinas and His Legacy ↗D. Stephen Long
• The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics ↗Romanus Cessario, O.P.
• The Mind That Is Catholic: Philosophical and Political Essays ↗James V. Schall, S.J.
• Saints Are Not Sad ↗Frank Sheed (ed.)
• Christian Arabic Apologetics during the Abbasid Period (750–1258) ↗Samir Khalil Samir & Jørgen S. Nielsen (eds.)
• The Encounter of Eastern Christianity with Early Islam ↗Emmanouela Grypeou, Mark Swanson & David Thomas (eds.)
• Treatise on the Love of God ↗St. Francis de Sales
• The Siege of Vienna: The Last Great Trial Between Cross and Crescent ↗John Stoye
• The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe ↗Andrew Wheatcroft
• Saint Among Savages: The Life of Saint Isaac Jogues ↗Francis Talbot, S.J.
• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine ↗Ilan Pappé
• A Map of Life ↗Frank Sheed
• A Sword Over the Nile ↗Adel Guindy
• The Two Swords of Christ: Five Centuries of War between Islam and the Warrior Monks of Christendom ↗Raymond Ibrahim
• A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility ↗Taner Akçam
• Alta Vendita ↗Introduction by John Vennari
• Sermons for All Sundays of the Year ↗St. Alphonsus Liguori
• The Reign of Terror: Authentic Narratives of the Horrors Committed under Marat and Robespierre ↗Anonymous
• Jone's Moral Theology ↗Fr. Heribert Jone, O.F.M. Cap.
• The Fatherhood of St. Joseph ↗Fr. Joseph Mueller, S.J.
• Messiah: Old Testament Prophecies Fulfilled in Christ ↗Gary Michuta
• The Fount of Knowledge ↗St. John of Damascus
• On Genesis ↗St. Augustine
• Writings Against the Saracens ↗Peter the Venerable
• Bedside Book of the Saints ↗Fr. Aloysius Roche
• A Year with the Saints ↗Anonymous