The books my book's been reading

All the books* cited in Building the Benedict Option

*Mostly books, listed in order of first appearance

• After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre

• Company by Stephen Sondheim 

• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

• The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann, 1973-1983 by Alexander Schmemann

• 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater by Sarah Ruhl

• Gaudiam et Spes

• Bed and Board: Plain Talk About Marriage by Robert Farrar Capon

• Spiritual Friendship by Wesley Hill

• Washed and Waiting by Wesley Hill

• The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation by Rod Dreher

• The Wisdom of the Beguines by Laura Swan

• Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities by Elie Kaunfer

• What’s Wrong With The World by G.K. Chesterton

• Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton

• The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg

• Playborhood by Mike Lanza

• The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming by Fr. Henri J.M. Nouwen

• Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on Following Jesus by Fr. Jorge Mario Bergoglio

• The Messiah by Handel

• Letter to Diognetus

• From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

• The Power of Silence by Robert Cardinal Sarah

• Spiritual Friendship by St. Aelred of Rievaulx

• Captive Flames: On Selected Saints and Christian Heroes by Ronald Knox

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And somehow I never managed to get an explicit recommendation of The Little Oratory into the text, but I heartily recommend it.