First off, Mr. Dreher has nothing to do with this page. I’m a mere subscriber to his Substack (here’s my referral link), and I’m constantly impressed by the number of books that get mentioned and discussed. There are a lot of smart people hanging around the comment section! This may be a fool’s errand since the number and variety of the books could keep someone busy pretty much every day, but here I go with trying to list some portion of those books that get mentioned. I can only hope that if Mr. Dreher ever stumbles across this page, he doesn’t have me kicked off the internet! 😂 (I have met him a couple of times – he is incredibly nice.)
Secondly, just so everyone is clear, the Amazon links below are affiliate links. I’ve put together and published other lists, even book lists, such as the White Rose one that was on my old website (and which I ought to update and republish) and so doing this has been in the back of my mind for awhile. However, but attaching it to affiliate links, it would be amazing if, through a project I might have done anyway, I might be able to earn a little, since every dime counts these days!
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Books by Rod Dreher
- Living in Wonder (2024)
- Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents (2020)
- The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (2017)
- How Dante Can Save Your Life (2015)
- The Little Way of Ruthie Leming (2013)
- Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and its Return to Roots (2006/2010)
Rod’s Mentions
(Dates indicate timeframe book was discussed; books with no dates came up multiple times)
- Apologetics
- Douthat, Ross
- Christian Worldview
- Isker, Andrew
- The Boniface Option (9/2023)
- Pageau, Matthieu
- Isker, Andrew
- Orthodox Christianity
- Church, State, and Western Culture State
- Smith, Christian
- Trueman, Carl R.
- History
- Alexievich, Svetlana
- Hibbert, Christopher
- The French Revolution (5/2025)
- Memoir
- Key, Harrison Scott
- Vance, J.D.
- “Woo” / Dark Enchantment
- Martins, Fr. Carlos
- Pasulka, Diana
- Sociology
- Ehrenhalt, Alan
- Kunstler, James Howard
- Psychology
- DeSmet, Mathias
- Rieff, Philip
- True Crime
- Technology
- Barba-Kay, Anton
- Places
- Horne, Alastair
- Seven Ages of Paris (6/2025)
- Liebling, A.J.
- Fermor, Patrick Leigh
- Horne, Alastair
- Fiction
- Alighieri, Dante
- Clarke, Arthur C.
- Childhood’s End (2/2025)
- Percy, Walker
- Raspail, Jean
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Toole, John Kennedy
- Undset, Sigrid
- Kristin Lavransdatter (11/2020)
- Vodolazkin, Eugene
Books in the Comments
Zone 2
Church Fathers/Theology
- St. Ignatius
Mary
- McHugh, John
Saints
- Undset, Sigrid
Christian Worldview/Philosophy
- Iyer, Sethu
- Freeman, Fr. Stephen
Christian History / The Church in History
- Ferm, Vergilius Anselm
- Larson, James L.
- Riebling, Mark
Orthodox Christianity
- Bouteneff, Vera
- Damascene, (Hieromonk)
- Johnson, Sandra
- Mathews-Green, Frederica
- Shevkunov, Archimandrite Tikhon
- Ware, Bishop Kallistos
Eastern Christian Churches
- Hausherr, Irenee
Roman Catholicism
- Pope Leo XIII
- Dubay, Fr. Thomas
- Garrigou-Lagrange, Fr. Reginald
- Martin, Dr. Ralph
Philosophy
- Han, Byung-Chul
- Peck, M. Scott
Commentary
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- West, Diana
Christian Esoterism
- Tomberg, Valentin
Dark Enchantment/UFO/”Woo”
- Burton, Tara Isabella
- Huxley, Aldous
History
- General
- North America
- United States
- Zinn, Howard
- United States
- Europe
- France
- Burke, Edmund
- Doyle, William
- Schama, Simon
- Russia/Soviet Union
- Alexievich, Svetlana
- Babel, Isaac
- Figes, Orlando
- Smith, Hedrick
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- The Gulag Archipelago (complete 3-volume set)
- France
- Africa
- Algeria
- Horne, Alastair
- Algeria
- North America
- World War I
- Horne, Alastaire
Current Events/Politics
Biography
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Cohen-Solal, Annie
Memoir/Autobiography
- Ciszek, Fr. Walter
- Ginzburg, Eugenia
- Graves, Robert
- Heggen, Ute
- Moehringer, J.R.
- Larina, Anna
- Mandelstam, Nadezhda
True Crime
- Keefe, Patrick Radden
Zone 1
Science
- Gonzalez, Guillermo
Math
- Paulos, John Allen
Plays
- Marlowe, Christopher
Myths and Mythology
- Schama, Simon
Zone 3
Cookbooks
- Wilson, Justin
Health and Wellness
- Sarno, John
Psychology
- DeSmet, Mathias
- Washburn, Michael
Zone 4 (Fiction)
- Arbery, Glenn
- Bacchelli, Riccardo
- Benson, Robert Hugh
- Bernanos, Georges
- Canetti, Elias
- Claudel, Paul
- Craven, Margaret
- Dostoyevsky, Feodor
- Flynn, Michael
- Geltner, Jonathan
- Helprin, Mark
- Houellebecq, Michel
- Hugo, Victor
- Huysmans, Joris-Karl
- Ishiguro, Kazuo
- Keegan, Claire
- Konrad, George
- Lewis, C. S.
- Mantel, Hilary
- Marshall, Mark
- Mauriac, Francois
- Melville, Herman
- O’Brien, Michael D
- Orwell, George
- Sienkiewicz, Henryk
- Solovyov, Vladimir
- Stone, Robert
- Taylor, Daniel
- Tolkien, J.R.R.
- Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
- Undset, Sigrid
- Vodolazkin, Eugene
- Vonnegut, Kurt
- Waugh, Evelyn
Poetry
- Eliot, T.S.
- Thomas, Sally
Zone 5
Educational Aides
- McGuffey, William Holmes
Business
- Trump, Donald J.
Zone 6 (Juvenile)
JUV Fiction
JUV Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Manning, Erin
- Rowling, J.K.
Zone 9
- Elliot, Paul
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