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2010

The Lays of Beleriand - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Book Nobody Read - Owen Gingerich
The Everlasting Man - G.K. Chesterton

2009

On the Place of Gilbert Chesterton in English Letters - Hilaire Belloc
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen
Present Concerns - C.S. Lewis
Beowulf (Rabsemen trans.)
Tradition: Concept and Claim - Josef Pieper
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization - Anthony Esolen
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
The Unity of Philosophical Experience - Etienne Gilson
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Triumph of the Therapeutic - Philip Reiff
Sword of Honour - Evelyn Waugh
Reflections on the Psalms - C.S. Lewis
Atheist Delusions - David Bentley Hart
The First Men in the Moon - H.G. Wells
The Story of Christianity - David Bentley Hart
Judge for Yourself! - Søren Kierkegaard
Empire of the Ants - H.G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
Heloise and Abelard - Etienne Gilson
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Dark Fire - C.J. Sansom
Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship - Robert Craft
Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
The Maytrees - Annie Dillard
The Weight of Glory - C.S. Lewis
Patrology, Vol.I - Johannes Quasten
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
The Tripods Attack! - John McNichol
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In Defense of Philosophy - Josef Pieper
Labyrinths / A Personal Anthology - Jorge Luis Borges
Plays - G.K. Chesterton
The Mass and Modernity - Jonathan Robinson of the Oratory
The Well and the Shallows - G.K. Chesterton
Maria Chapdelaine - Louis Hémon
Early Modern Catholicism - Robert S. Miola, Ed.
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche

2008

Gerusalemme Liberata - Torquato Tasso
Reinventing Gravity - John W. Moffat
Island of the World - Michael D. O'Brien
The Travels of Marco Polo - Marco Polo
Tides of War - Steven Pressfield
Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Maisie Ward
The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie
God's Secret Agents - Alice Hogge
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Brébeuf and his Brethren - E.J. Pratt
Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick
The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale - Various authors
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
Chaucer - G.K. Chesterton
From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne
The Closing of the American Mind - Allan Bloom
Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love - St. Augustine
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold - Evelyn Waugh
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century - Alex Ross
Autobiography of a Cathedral - Louis Howland
Kon-Tiki - Thor Heyerdahl
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Brendan Voyage - Tim Severin
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Johannes Climacus - Søren Kierkegaard
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Philosophical Fragments - Søren Kierkegaard 
Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton
Crusades: The Illustrated History - Thomas Madden, Ed.
Helena - Evelyn Waugh
The White Lioness - Henning Mankell
Einstein: His Life and Universe - Walter Isaacson
The Mabinogion - Anonymous
The Birds - Aristophanes
The Making of the Middle Ages - R.W. Southern

2007

Hard Times - Charles Dickens
The Autobiography of an Elizabethan - John Gerard, S.J.
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals - Immanuel Kant
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics - Immanuel Kant
Beowulf - Anonymous
Seasonal Round-up: Ghost Stories
The Spirit of Early Christian Thought - Robert Louis Wilken
The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
The Golden Epistle - William of St. Thierry
Smith of Wootton Major - J.R.R. Tolkien
Where All Roads Lead - G.K. Chesterton
The Golden Key - George MacDonald
The Present Age - Søren Kierkegaard
Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Letters - St. Ignatius of Antioch
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Studies in Words  - C.S. Lewis
The Children of Húrin - J.R.R. Tolkien
On Prudence - Josef Pieper
The Man Who Knew Too Much - G.K. Chesterton
Marking the Hours - Eamon Duffy
Dissolution - C.J. Sansom
First Letter to the Corinthians - Pope St. Clement I
Put Out More Flags - Evelyn Waugh
Tree and Leaf - J.R.R. Tolkien
Chaucer: A Brief Life - Peter Ackroyd
Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House - Eric Hodgins
Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Humanae Vitae: One Generation Later - Janet E. Smith
Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
The Beginnings of Western Science - David C. Lindberg
The Riemann Hypothesis - Karl Sabbagh
Icefields - Thomas Wharton
Scholasticism - Josef Pieper
The Narnian - Alan Jacobs
If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino
Edmund Campion - Evelyn Waugh
Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
Winston Churchill: A Life - John Keegan
A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
Heretics - G.K. Chesterton


2006

Murder in the Cathedral - T.S. Eliot
Tolkien : Man and Myth - Joseph Pearce
Either/Or: Part II - Søren Kierkegaard
Either/Or: Part I - Søren Kierkegaard
I Am Charlotte Simmons - Tom Wolfe
Dialogue with Trypho - St. Justin Martyr
Black Mischief - Evelyn Waugh
The Gunpowder Plot - Antonia Fraser
First and Second Apologies - St. Justin Martyr
Seasonal Round-up: Ghost stories
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
An Experiment in Criticism - C.S. Lewis
Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
Platitudes Undone - G.K. Chesterton
The Divine Comedy: Paradiso - Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio - Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Dante Alighieri
Dante - R.W.B. Lewis
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Discarded Image - C.S. Lewis
Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages - Etienne Gilson
The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
George Berkeley Round-up
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
The Peasant of the Garonne - Jacques Maritain
The Lighthouse - P.D. James
In Tune with the World - Josef Pieper
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
Life in a Medieval Village - Francis and Joseph Gies
The Cistercian Way - Andre Louf
The Use and Abuse of Art - Jacques Barzun
Cautionary Tales for Children - Hilaire Belloc
Introduction to Christianity - Joseph Ratzinger
Idylls of the King - Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Book of Her Life - St. Teresa of Avila
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Deus Caritas Est - Benedict XVI
The Odyssey - Homer
Happiness and Contemplation - Josef Pieper
The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Mozart : A Life - Maynard Solomon
The Point of View for my Work as an Author - Søren Kierkegaard
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
The Clerkenwell Tales - Peter Ackroyd

2005