• Sacred Scripture
  Bible, unabridged Revised Standard Version
  Horologion; Melkite Greek Catholic liturgy
  Liturgy of the Hours; unabridged
  The Jerusalem Bible, Readers Edition
• Poetry and Plays
  Vergil’s Aeneid; Sarah Ruden translation
  Songs for Pascha; St Ephrem the Syrian
  Dante’s Divine Comedy; Anthony Esolen
  Plays and Poetry; William Shakespeare
  Complete English Poems; John Donne
  Collected Poetry & Prose; Robert Frost
  Collected Plays 1944-1961; Arthur Miller
  The Shield of Achilles; W. H. Auden
  The Oxford Book of English Verse
  Collected Translations of Seamus Heaney
• Method
  Relativity & Cosmology; Christian Böhmer 
  When Topology Meets Chemistry; Erica Flapan
  Mathematical Methods of Mechanics; Arnold
  Ancient Roman History; Tacitus & Livy
  Benjamin Harrison; two biographies
  History & Eschatology; N. T. Wright
  Life & Letters of Father Pierre-Jean De Smet
  The Hundred Years War; Jonathan Sumption
  For the Life of the World; A. Schmemann
  Orthodox Christianity, v4; Hilarion Alfeyev
  Mimesis: Literature; Erich Auerbach
  The Anatomy of Criticism; Northrup Frye
  English Metaphor & Argument; Farnsworth
  Hannah’s Children; Catherine Ruth Pakaluk
  Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics; Pakaluk
  Dialogues and Ethics; Plato and Aristotle
• Exegesis
  Gospel According to John; St Theophylact
  Saint Paul’s Prison Epistles; Fee & Bruce
  The Normal Christian Life; Watchman Nee
  In the Beginning (John 1:1-18); A. Esolen
• Doctrine
  Catechism of the Ukrainian Catholic Church
  Summa Theologica; St Thomas Aquinas
  Catholic Theology; Thomas Joseph White
  Eastern Theology; Zizioulas, Solovyov, Palamas
• Prose
  The Confessions; Saint Augustine
  Don Quixote; Miguel de Cervantes
  Ivanhoe & other stories; Walter Scott
  Mansfield Park & Emma; Jane Austen
  Collected Novels; Nathaniel Hawthorne
  The Brothers Karamazov; Dostoevsky
  Moby Dick, or The Whale; H. Melville
  Various Novels 1881-1901; Henry James
  Lord Jim & Nostromo; Joseph Conrad
  The Age of Innocence; Edith Wharton
  The Human Condition; Hannah Arendt
  The Collected Works; Flannery O’Connor
  Novels 1926-1954; William Faulkner
  Solzhenitsyn Reader: Writings 1947-2005

• I’m ignorant and have much to learn.
• Reading one book helps in reading and enjoying another book.
• The cross-fertilization will occur naturally, no need to push it.

“One would be in a position to appreciate James better if one compared him with the dramatists of the seventeenth century—Racine and Molière, whom he resembles in form as well as in point of view, and even Shakespeare, when allowances are made for the most extreme differences in subject and form. These poets are not, like Dickens and Hardy, writers of melodrama—either humorous or pessimistic, nor secretaries of society like Balzac, nor prophets like Tolstoy: they are occupied simply with the presentation of conflicts of moral character, which they do not concern themselves about softening or averting. They do not indict society for these situations: they regard them as universal and inevitable. They do not even blame God for allowing them: they accept them as the conditions of life.” E. Wilson

“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”