Great Books
Consolation of Philosophy
Written in a cell by a man awaiting execution, and it is not bitter. For a thousand years this was the book Europe reached for when everything went wrong.
City of God
Rome fell in 410, and the survivors said it was the Christians' fault. Augustine took thirteen years and twenty-two books to answer them, and in the process changed what history...
Confessions
The first autobiography, and it is not addressed to you. Every sentence is spoken to God by a man who is not certain he can be honest with either of...
Meditations
The private notebook of the most powerful man on earth, written to nobody. He would almost certainly have burned it.
Enchiridion
Twenty pages, taken down by a student from his teacher's lectures, and still the most demanding book on this list. It tells you what is actually in your control. The...
