“TOLLE et LEGE | TAKE UP and READ”
-from the “Confessions” of St. Augustine of Hippo
LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
The Catholic Center at NYU has a library of Catholic titles for our students on a borrow and return basis. Our holdings aim to provide easy reference and personal access to foundational texts in Catholic theological and philosophical topic areas, as well as classics in Catholic apologetics, history, liturgy, sacred arts, and spirituality.
HOW TO BORROW TITLES
Students and Faculty are invited to visit The Catholic Center, and borrow books from our library on short term loan. Public access to a listing of our holdings is available here.
BOOK DONATIONS
We welcome donations of titles in the following fields:
Theology, Philosophy, Sacred Scripture, Apologetics, Church History, Saints and Hagiography, Liturgy, Sacred Arts, Fiction and Non-Fiction Literature, Current Political and Church Affairs.
If you wish to purchase books for our students to use, please see our Catholic Center Library Wish List here. Thank you!
We also welcome donations of theological and other periodical subscriptions in hard copy and digital formats:
First Things | The Thomist | Nova et Vetera | Communio | The Economist
If you or someone you know know anyone wishes to donate to the The Catholic Center Library collections, please email us at contact@nyucatholic.org Thank you!
CATHOLIC POETRY | A READING LIST
Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy (Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso)
St. Ephrem the Syrian | Harp of the Spirit: The Poems of St. Ephrem the Syrian | Hymns on Paradise
Benedict J. Whaled, ed. | Lyra Martyrum: the Poetry of the English Martyrs
George Manley Hopkins | Poems and Prose
Charles Peguy | Saints and Sinners: Poetry and Prose | The Portal of the Mystery of Hope | The Mystery of the Holy Inncents and Other Poems
St. John Henry Newman | Prayers, Poems, and Meditations
Catholic Fiction | A Reading List
Flannery O’Connor | Complete Stories
J. R. R. Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings
Sigrid Undset | Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath; II: The Wife; III: The Cross | The Wild Orchid
Evelyn Waugh | Brideshead Revisited | Helena
George Bernanos | The Diary of a Country Priest | Joy
Robert Hugh Benson | Lord of the World
Rumer Godden | In this House of Brede | Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy
Francois Mauriac | A Mauriac Reader | Viper’s Tangle | The Dark Angels
Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote
Shusaku Endo | Silence
Henryk Sienkiewicz | Quo Vadis
Walker Percy | Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book | Love in the Ruins
