“10 Books Nobody Should Die Without Reading”
A Lecture by Dr. Peter Kreeft
Immaculata Classical Academy | 2017
In this FSA Inspirations feature, we highlight a talk by Dr. Peter Kreeft, a philosophy professor at Boston College. While initially planning a talk entitled “10 Books to Read Before You Die”, Kreeft expands the list into his 26 necessary reads, grouped into categorical genres below. We are particularly interested in his selections on existentialism, poetry, spirituality, and faith.
Autobiographies
Confessions, by Augustine with translation by Sheed
A Severe Mercy, by Sheldon Vanauken
"Ten Books Nobody Should Die Without Reading"
Plato, "The Apology of Socrates," 399 BCE.
Jacques Louis David, "The Death of Socrates," 1787.
Saint Augustine of Hippo, "Confessions," 4th century CE.
Johann Baptist Straub, "St Augustine (of Hippo)," 1750-1760.
Blaise Pascal, "Pensées," 1670.
Augustin Pajou, "Blaise Pascal Mathematician and Philosopher," 1785.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov," 1880.
John Latham, "Observer IV," 1960.
T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land," 1922.
Carey Young, "Lines Made by Walking," 2003.
