A good library, like a good friend, is more than a sum of its parts; it is one of the sharpest tools for cultivating the garden of the mind and the heart.
Below is a random selection of the books you'll find in my home. For the full list, it's best to come and see for yourself.
The Iliad — Homer
The Odyssey — Homer
The Aeneid — Virgil
Metamorphoses — Ovid
The Consolation of Philosophy — Boethius
The Three Theban Plays — Sophocles
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays — Aeschylus
The Golden Ass — Apuleius
Plutarch's Lives — Plutarch
Beowulf — Anonymous
Republic — Plato
The Symposium — Plato
The Last Days of Socrates — Plato
Nicomachean Ethics — Aristotle
Politics — Aristotle
Physics — Aristotle
On the Soul — Aristotle
The Art of Rhetoric — Aristotle
Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
Discourses and Selected Writings — Epictetus
Letters from a Stoic — Seneca
In Defense of the Republic — Cicero
On Living and Dying Well — Cicero
On Ends — Cicero
Against the Professors — Sextus Empiricus
The Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri
The Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer
Le Morte d'Arthur — Thomas Malory
The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli
Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes
On the Incarnation — Athanasius
Confessions — St. Augustine of Hippo
City of God — St. Augustine of Hippo
The Rule of Saint Augustine — St. Augustine of Hippo
Homilies on the Gospel of John — St. Augustine
On Christian Doctrine and Practice — St. Basil the Great
Basic Writings — Anselm of Canterbury
Selected Writings — Thomas Aquinas
Lives of Roman Christian Women — Various
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy — René Descartes
Leviathan — Thomas Hobbes
Pensées — Blaise Pascal
The Empiricists — Locke, Berkeley, Hume
Historical and Critical Dictionary — Pierre Bayle
Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet — Pierre Bayle
The Principles of Natural and Political Law — Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui
The Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith
Reflections on the Revolution in France — Edmund Burke
Democracy in America — Alexis de Tocqueville
The Federalist Papers — Hamilton, Madison, Jay
Fear and Trembling — Søren Kierkegaard
The Birth of Tragedy — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Communist Manifesto — Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
The History of Western Philosophy — Bertrand Russell
The Scapegoat — René Girard
Writings on Philosophy and Language — Johann Georg Hamann
The Origins of Totalitarianism — Hannah Arendt
Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity — Alasdair MacIntyre
A Secular Age — Charles Taylor
Cosmic Connections — Charles Taylor
Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand
Complete Works of William Shakespeare — William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost — John Milton
The Complete English Works — George Herbert
The Major Works — William Wordsworth
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley — Phillis Wheatley
Rilke's Book of Hours — Rainer Maria Rilke
The Waste Land — T.S. Eliot
Four Quartets — T.S. Eliot
Given — Wendell Berry
A Book of Luminous Things — Czesław Miłosz (ed.)
The Oxford Book of Christian Verse — Various
The Lord of the Rings — J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion — J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit — J.R.R. Tolkien
Tree and Leaf — J.R.R. Tolkien
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien — J.R.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia — C.S. Lewis
The Space Trilogy — C.S. Lewis
Till We Have Faces — C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters — C.S. Lewis
The Great Divorce — C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity — C.S. Lewis
The Abolition of Man — C.S. Lewis
The Weight of Glory — C.S. Lewis
Reflections on the Psalms — C.S. Lewis
A Preface to Paradise Lost — C.S. Lewis
God in the Dock — C.S. Lewis
Essays Presented to Charles Williams — C.S. Lewis (ed.)
The Figure of Beatrice — Charles Williams
War in Heaven — Charles Williams
Many Dimensions — Charles Williams
The Place of the Lion — Charles Williams
The Greater Trumps — Charles Williams
Shadows of Ecstasy — Charles Williams
Descent into Hell — Charles Williams
All Hallows' Eve — Charles Williams
Phantastes — George MacDonald
Lilith — George MacDonald
Saving the Appearances — Owen Barfield
The Napoleon of Notting Hill — G.K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday — G.K. Chesterton
The Ball and the Cross — G.K. Chesterton
Manalive — G.K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much — G.K. Chesterton
The Complete Father Brown Stories — G.K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy — G.K. Chesterton
The Everlasting Man — G.K. Chesterton
The Whimsical Christian — Dorothy L. Sayers
The Fellowship — Philip & Carol Zaleski
Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Demons — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Adolescent — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy
A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens
Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
Les Misérables — Victor Hugo
Seven Novels — Jane Austen
Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë
Middlemarch — George Eliot
Moby Dick — Herman Melville
The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
Little Women — Louisa May Alcott
Good Wives — Louisa May Alcott
Ulysses — James Joyce
East of Eden — John Steinbeck
The Big Rock Candy Mountain — Wallace Stegner
Foundation — Isaac Asimov
Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man — Ray Bradbury
1984 — George Orwell
Catch-22 — Joseph Heller
Collected Fictions — Jorge Luis Borges
The Name of the Rose — Umberto Eco
How to Travel with a Salmon — Umberto Eco
The Call of Cthulhu — H.P. Lovecraft
Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison
The Bluest Eye — Toni Morrison
The Color Purple — Alice Walker
The Joy Luck Club — Amy Tan
Watership Down — Richard Adams
The Once and Future King — T.H. White
Anne of Green Gables — L.M. Montgomery
Matilda — Roald Dahl
The Complete Stories — Flannery O'Connor
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories for Late at Night — Alfred Hitchcock (ed.)
Gilead — Marilynne Robinson
Home — Marilynne Robinson
Jayber Crow — Wendell Berry
My Brilliant Friend — Elena Ferrante
Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Interior Chinatown — Charles Yu
The Leavers — Lisa Ko
Girl at War — Sara Nović
A Strangeness in My Mind — Orhan Pamuk
Laurus — Eugene Vodolazkin
The Poisonwood Bible — Barbara Kingsolver
Lost in the City — Edward P. Jones
The Sellout — Paul Beatty
Red Azalea — Anchee Min
The Glass Castle — Jeannette Walls
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone — J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — J.K. Rowling
The Bible (ESV)
Bibliotheca — Adam Lewis Greene (ed.)
Institutes of the Christian Religion — John Calvin
The 95 Theses and Other Writings — Martin Luther
Morning and Evening — Charles Spurgeon
The Valley of Vision — Arthur Bennett (ed.)
The New City Catechism — Various (TGC)
Every Moment Holy, Volume 1 — Douglas Kaine McKelvey
Every Moment Holy, Volume 2 — Douglas Kaine McKelvey
Every Moment Holy, Volume 3 — Douglas Kaine McKelvey
The Bruised Reed — Richard Sibbes
The Practice of the Presence of God — Brother Lawrence
Honest Advent — Scott Erickson
Advent Homilies — St. Augustine
Reversed Thunder — Eugene H. Peterson
Delighting in the Trinity — Michael Reeves
A Shot of Faith to the Head — Mitch Stokes
Systematic Theology — Wayne Grudem
Historical Theology — Gregg Allison
Pilgrim Theology — Michael Horton
How Should We Then Live? — Francis Schaeffer
The Pleasures of God — John Piper
This Momentary Marriage — John Piper
Jesus: The Only Way to God — John Piper
Redemption Accomplished and Applied — John Murray
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God — J.I. Packer
The Meaning of Marriage — Timothy Keller
Playing God — Andy Crouch
Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands — Paul David Tripp
The Relational Soul — Richard Plass & James Cofield
Garden City — John Mark Comer
Openness Unhindered — Rosaria Butterfield
Biblical Critical Theory — Christopher Watkin
Remaking the World — Andrew Wilson
The Resurrection of the Son of God — N.T. Wright
Paul: A Biography — N.T. Wright
Dominion — Tom Holland
The Sabbath — Abraham Joshua Heschel
God in Search of Man — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Spiritual Diary — Sergei Bulgakov
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy — Eric Metaxas
Through the Gates of Splendor — Elisabeth Elliot
Unbroken — Laura Hillenbrand
Alexander Hamilton — Ron Chernow
A Time of Gifts — Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Escape Artist — Jonathan Freedland
What My Bones Know — Stephanie Foo
Into the Uncut Grass — Trevor Noah
The Devil in the White City — Erik Larson
Thunderstruck — Erik Larson
The Last Duel — Eric Jager
They Thought They Were Free — Milton Mayer
The Dawn of Everything — David Graeber & David Wengrow
The Complete Essays — Michel de Montaigne
Collected Essays — James Baldwin
The Souls of Black Folk — W.E.B. Du Bois
The New Jim Crow — Michelle Alexander
Reading While Black — Esau McCaulley
Evicted — Matthew Desmond
The Warmth of Other Suns — Isabel Wilkerson
Stamped from the Beginning — Ibram X. Kendi
Minor Feelings — Cathy Park Hong
Amusing Ourselves to Death — Neil Postman
Why Liberalism Failed — Patrick Deneen
A Small Porch — Wendell Berry
The Farm — Wendell Berry
Think Little — Wendell Berry
The Unsettling of America — Wendell Berry
The World-Ending Fire — Wendell Berry
Leisure, the Basis of Culture — Josef Pieper
The Technological Society — Jacques Ellul
Against the Machine — Paul Kingsnorth
Seeing Like a State — James C. Scott
The Death and Life of Great American Cities — Jane Jacobs
Raising Cain — Dan Kindlon & Michael Thompson
Principia — Isaac Newton
A Brief History of Time — Stephen Hawking
Walden — Henry David Thoreau
The Mountains of California — John Muir
Wilderness Essays — John Muir
Beautiful Evidence — Edward Tufte
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information — Edward Tufte
The Dream Machine — M. Mitchell Waldrop
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering — Richard Hamming
High Growth Handbook — Elad Gil
An Elegant Puzzle — Will Larson
Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Martin Kleppmann
JavaScript: The Good Parts — Douglas Crockford
Thinking Recursively — Eric Roberts
Payment Systems in the U.S. — Carol Coye Benson et al.
The Creative Act — Rick Rubin
Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
Antifragile — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fooled by Randomness — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Checklist Manifesto — Atul Gawande
To Mock a Mockingbird — Raymond Smullyan
The Blue Fairy Book — Andrew Lang
Irish Folk Tales — Various
The Kalevala — Elias Lönnrot
A Grammar of New Testament Greek — James Hope Moulton
Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar — William D. Mounce
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess — Bobby Fischer
