Peter Maurin's Reading List

The following books were recommended 
repeatedly by Peter Maurin in reading 
lists appended to his essays.






 

1. Art in a Changing Civilization, Eric Gill
2. Bourgeois Mind, The, Nicholas Berdyaev
3. Brotherhood Economics, Toyohiko Kagawa
4. Charles V , Wyndham Lewis
5. Catholicism, Protestantism and Capitalism, Amintore Fanfani
6. Christianity and Class War, Nicholas Berdyaev
7. Church and the Land, The, Father Vincent McNabb, O.P.
8. Discourse on Usury, Thomas Wilson
9. Emancipation of a Free Thinker, The, Herbert E. Cory
10. Enquiries Into Religion and Culture, Christopher Dawson
11. Fields, Factories and Workshops, Peter Kropotkin
12. Fire on the Earth, Paul Hanly Furfey
13. Flight From the City, The, Ralph Borsodi
14. Franciscan Message to the World, The, Father Agostino Gemelli, F.M.
15. Freedom in the Modern World, Jacques Maritain
16. Future of Bolshevism, The, Waldemar Gurian
17. Guildsman's Interpretation of History, A, Arthur Penty
18. Great Commandment of the Gospel, The, His Excellency A. G. Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S.
19. Ireland and the Foundation of Europe, Benedict Fitzpatrick
20. I Take My Stand, by Twelve Southern Agrarians
21. Land of the Free, The, Herbert Agar
22. Lord of the World, Robert Hugh Benson
23. Making of Europe, The, Christopher Dawson
24. Man the Unknown, Dr. Alexis Carrel
25. Nations Can Stay at Home, B. O. Wilcox
26. Nazareth or Social Chaos, Father Vincent McNabb, O.P.
27. Our Enemy the State, Albert Jay Nock
28. Outline of Sanity, G. K. Chesterton
29. Personalist Manifesto, Emmanuel Mounier
30. Philosophy of Work, A, Etienne Borne
31. Post-Industrialism, Arthur Penty
32. Progress and Religion, Christopher Dawson
33. Religion and the Modern State, Christopher Dawson
34. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, R. H. Tawney
35. Revolution Personnaliste et Communautaire (La), Emmanuel Mounier
36. Saint Francis of Assisi, G. K. Chesterton
37. Social Principles of the Gospel, Alphonse Lugan
38. Soviet Man Now, Helen Iswolsky
39. Temporal Regime and Liberty, Jacques Maritain
40. Theory of the Leisure Class, The, Thorstein Veblen
41. Thomistic Doctrine of the Common Good, The, Seraphine Michel
42. Things That Are Not Caesar's, Jacques Maritain
43. Toward a Christian Sociology, Arthur Penty
44. True Humanism, Jacques Maritain
45. Two Nations, The, Christopher Hollis
46. Unfinished Universe, The, T. S. Gregory
47. Valerian Persecution, The, Father Patrick Healy
48. What Man Has Made of Man, Mortimer Adler
49. Work and Leisure, Eric Gill