On this page, I separated only the best book choices in each area!
For each subject, I separated only 5 books that I consider to be the best in what they teach.
Classic Education
1. How to Read a Book
Despite the name sounding silly, it’s the best study book I’ve ever read! The concepts he brings here help to study better in any area of knowledge.
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2. The Intellectual Life
A book that gives the principles for you to develop an intellectual life through the search for wisdom and integrating it with your personal life.
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3. Dumbing us Down
Classic book showing how the school curriculum is more of a hindrance than a help, and showing alternatives for self-education.
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4. Trivium
This book shows how you can educate yourself through the classic Trivium subjects: grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
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5. Another Sort of Learning
This work, composed of a series of different articles, awakens the desire to develop a classical education.
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Psychology
1. 12 Rules for Life
Book that shows 12 steps to lead a more mature and meaningful life. Despite the title, it has a very deep philosophy behind it.
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2. Beyond Order
Sequel of the previous book, with 12 more tips about maturing and personal development. In my opinion, it’s even better than the first one.
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3. In Search of Meaning
A classic book by psychiatrist Viktor Frankl in which he recounts his experience in concentration camps and the foundations of logotherapy, his school of psychology.
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4. The 5 Love Languages
This psychology book is a true classic on how to better deal with the people around you. It will help you with your love life, relationships with parents, children, co-workers and more!
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5. Man and his Symbols
Carl Jung’s classic book where he and his cowriters addresses various aspects the nature of man and symbolic language.
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Philosophy
1. The Four Loves
Did you know that the word “love” can mean 4 things? Understand more about the meanings of love and the philosophical depth in these differences.
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2. The Abolition of Man
The most philosophical book by C. S. Lewis which, despite being short, makes a dense analysis of some current philosophical errors.
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3. Heretics
Book that shows the inconsistency of several modern thinkers, written by the traditional English author G. K. Chesterton.
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4. A Guide for the Perplexed
A very profound work, but one that can change your way of seeing philosophy. The book talks about how philosophy can be a path to self-knowledge.
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5. The Problem of Pain
In this profound book, C. S. Lewis talks about the problem of human pain: why do bad things happen?
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Theology
1. Mere Christianity
Introductory Book on Christianity. Very useful to clear the main doubts of the Christian faith and to understand more deeply about the religion.
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2. Orthodoxy
One of the great classics by author G. K. Chesterton showing the philosophical principles behind Christianity and how they combat the wrong notions of life we have today.
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3. Screwtape Letters
In this series of comic letters, you see how certain wrong notions we have can harm us and cause us to drift away from God.
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4. Reflections on Psalms
With his deep analytical skills, C. S. Lewis analyzes the main psalms of the Bible and their meaning.
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5. The Everlasting Man
Another book by G. K. Chesterton in which the author deepens his vision of Jesus Christ and the Church, against some modern thoughts of the time.
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