What I've Read in 2016.

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I thought I might share with you what I've managed to read (or re-read as the case may be) this year. If any of the titles interest you, I've provided a link to Amazon where you can purchase the book. If you've read any great books this year, make sure to let us know in the comments so our readers (and myself!) can check those out too.

If you have any questions about any of these books drop me a line in the combox and I'll try to answer all of them.

I'll be taking a break from blogging in January. See you all in February.

1. The Flying Inn - GK Chesterton

2. Born Standing Up - Steve Martin

3. Aristotle for Everybody - Mortimer Adler

4. The Gospel of Luke - Bible

5. Dante and Philosophy- Etienne Gilson

6. Dante and Catholic Philosophy in the Thirteenth Century - Frederic Ozanam

7. Rediscover Jesus - Matthew Kelly

8. Vita di Dante - Gio. Boccaccio 

9. Vita di Dante - Lionardo Aretino

10. Dante: A Life in Works - Robert Hollander

11. Dante: A Penguin Life - RWB Lewis

12. Chronicle of Florence - Dino Compagni

13. Unam Sanctam - Boniface VIII

14. Book of Wisdom - Bible

15. Faction & Civil Strife in Italy

16. Chronicle of Florence - Giovanni Villani

17. Vita Nuova - Dante Alighieri 

18. Epistles of Dante Alighieri

19. Euthyphro - Plato

20. Il Fiore - Dante Alighieri (attributed)

21. Inferno - Dante Alighieri (Hollander)

22. Book of Ben Sira - Bible

23. Book of Daniel - Bible

24. Fluent in Three Months- Benny Lewis

25. Purgatorio - Dante Alighieri (Hollander)

26. In un boschetto - Guido Calvacanti

27. Moneyball - Michael Lewis 

28. Eclogues - Dante Alighieri

29. The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene 

30. The Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius

31. Gorgias - Plato

32. The Four Loves - CS Lewis

33. Paradiso - Dante Alighieri (Hollander)

34. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 

35. Dante: His Times and His Work - Arthur John Butler

36. The Fractured Republic - Yuval Levin

37. Church of Spies - Mark Riebling

38 Till We Have Faces - CS Lewis 

39 Aeneid (book 6) - Virgil

40 Dante: The Story of His Life - Marco Santagata (my review is here)

41 Eclogues - Dante Alighieri 

42 Advent at the Gates - Mark Musa 

42 Inferno (selected canti) - Dante (Mandelbaum)

43 Purgatorio (selected canti). - Dante (Wicksteed)

44 The Poet's Dante - Hawkins & Jacoff

45 Scholastic Metaphysics - Ed Feser

46 Monarchia - Dante Alighieri 

47 Essays on Dante - Mark Musa (ed)

48 Odyssey - Homer 

49 Benedict XVI, Last Testament - With Peter Seewald

50 Jesus of Nazareth: the Infancy Narratives - Pope Benedict XVI

51 A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

52 A Christmas Carole - Charles Dickens 

53 The Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

54 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

55 Take Five. Mediations with Pope Benedict XVI.

Are you looking to read more in 2017? If so, here's some inspiration from the man who created Rome as we know it, Gianlorenzo Bernini:

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