“Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I founded empires but on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of people would die for Him.” —Napoleon
2021
- Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted by Justin Martin
- The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos by Sohrab Ahmari
- Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse by Mary Ann Glendon
- History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America by Bruno Macaes
- Memory and Identity by Pope John Paul II
- Marriage: The Mystery of Faithful Love by Dietrich von Hildebrand
- Three to Get Married by Fulton J. Sheen
- Anchor: God’s Promises of Hope to Parents by James Stenson
2020
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- The Day Is Now Far Spent by Robert Cardinal Sarah
- The Memoirs of Saint Peter: A New Translation of the Gospel According to Mark by Michael Pakaluk
- Submission: A Novel by Michel Houellebecq
- The Collected Works of Professor Edward C. Smith
- The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
- Man and Technics by Oswald Spengler
- Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman
- Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition by Roger Scruton
- The Way to Christ: Spiritual Exercises by Karol Wojtyla
2019
- My Ántonia by Willa Cather
- Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
- In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
- The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis by Alan Jacobs
- The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography by Alan Jacobs
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
- On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
- The Function of Reason by Alfred North Whitehead
- American Priest: The Ambitious Life and Conflicted Legacy of Notre Dame’s Father Ted Hesburgh by Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C.
- Sacrifice by René Girard
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- Stubborn Attachments by Tyler Cowen
- Genuine Friendship: The Foundation for All Personal Relationships, Including Marriage and the Relationship with God by Philip D. Halfacre
- Successful Fathers: The Subtle but Powerful Ways Fathers Mold Their Children’s Characters by James B. Stenson
- He Leadeth Me: An Extraordinary Testament of Faith by Walter J. Ciszek, S.J.
- Father, The Family Protector by James B. Stenson
- Christ, God’s Companionship with Man by Luigi Giussani
- The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
- Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
- Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity by Charles Marohn
- The Appearance of Power by Tanner Guzy
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- The Lord by Romano Guardini
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
2018
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
- The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For by David McCullough
- St. Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton
- Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
- Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis
- Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan
- The Death of the Banker: The Decline and Fall of the Great Financial Dynasties and the Triumph of the Small Investor by Ron Chernow
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
- To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism by Ross Douthat
- Travels in Alaska by John Muir
- You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
- And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O’Connell
- The All or Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work by Eli J. Finkel
- Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Sex, Marriage, and Monogamy by Mark Regnerus
- A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir
- Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir by Linnie Marsh Wolfe
- My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
- Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman
- The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
- Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
- Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker
- At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
- The Three Languages of Politics by Arnold Kling
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility by Patty McCord
- Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts by Jaron Lanier
- From the Corner of the Oval: A Memoir by Beck Dorey-Stein
- The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter by Michael Watkins
- The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise by Robert Cardinal Sarah
- The Soul of the World by Roger Scruton
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Ferguson
- The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
2017
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
- The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough
- Strangers in a Strange Land by Charles J. Chaput
- The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher
- Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
- The Song of Beowulf, translated by R.J. Gordon
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott
- No One Sees God: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers by Michael Novak
- Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
- On Power by Robert Caro
- The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton