A Peter Maurin Reading List

According to Dorothy Day, some of the books Peter Maurin had her read were the works of "Fr. Vincent McNabb and Eric Gill, Jacques Maritain, Leon Bloy, Charles Peguy of France, Don Sturzo of Italy, (Romano) Guardini and Karl Adam of Germany, and (Nicholas) Berdyaev of Russia." Among the writers upon whom Maurin drew were Peter Kropotkin and Emmanuel Mounier. Other titles included Catholicism and the Appeal to Reason by Leo Paul Ward, Humanity's Destiny by Denifle, Christian Life and Worship by Ellard, The Spirit of Catholicism by Karl Adam, Beauty Looks After Herself by Eric Gill, Art and Scholasticism by Maritain...and The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc.

Sheehan, Arthur. Peter Maurin: Gay Believer. Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1959.
Miller, William D. Dorothy Day: A Biography. San Francisco: Harper & Rowe, 1982.
Maurin, Peter. "Catholic Radicalism: Phrased Essays For The Green Revolution". New York: Catholic Worker Books. 1949.

The following books were recommended repeatedly by Peter Maurin in reading lists appended to his essays.

• Art in a Changing Civilization, Eric Gill
• Bourgeois Mind, The, Nicholas Berdyaev
• Brotherhood Economics, Toyohiko Kagawa
• Charles V, Wyndham Lewis
• Catholicism, Protestantism and Capitalism, Amintore Fanfani
• Christianity and Class War, Nicholas Berdyaev
• Church and the Land, The, Father Vincent McNabb, O.P.
• Discourse on Usury, Thomas Wilson
• Emancipation of a Free Thinker, The, Herbert E. Cory
• Enquiries Into Religion and Culture, Christopher Dawson
• Fields, Factories and Workshops, Peter Kropotkin
• Fire on the Earth, Paul Hanly Furfey
• Flight From the City, The, Ralph Borsodi
• Franciscan Message to the World, The, Father Agostino Gemelli, F.M.
• Freedom in the Modern World, Jacques Maritain
• Future of Bolshevism, The, Waldemar Gurian
• Guildsman's Interpretation of History, A, Arthur Penty
• Great Commandment of the Gospel, The, His Excellency A. G. Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S.
• Ireland and the Foundation of Europe, Benedict Fitzpatrick
• I Take My Stand, by Twelve Southern Agrarians
• Land of the Free, The, Herbert Agar
• Lord of the World, Robert Hugh Benson
• Making of Europe, The, Christopher Dawson
• Man the Unknown, Dr. Alexis Carrel
• Nations Can Stay at Home, B. O. Wilcox
• Nazareth or Social Chaos, Father Vincent McNabb, O.P.
• Our Enemy the State, Albert Jay Nock
• Outline of Sanity, G. K. Chesterton
• Personalist Manifesto, Emmanuel Mounier
• Philosophy of Work, A, Etienne Borne
• Post-Industrialism, Arthur Penty
• Progress and Religion, Christopher Dawson
• Religion and the Modern State, Christopher Dawson
• Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, R. H. Tawney
• Revolution Personnaliste et Communautaire (La), Emmanuel Mounier
• Saint Francis of Assisi, G. K. Chesterton
• Social Principles of the Gospel, Alphonse Lugan
• Soviet Man Now, Helen Iswolsky
• Temporal Regime and Liberty, Jacques Maritain
• Theory of the Leisure Class, The, Thorstein Veblen
• Thomistic Doctrine of the Common Good, The, Seraphine Michel
• Things That Are Not Caesar's, Jacques Maritain
• Toward a Christian Sociology, Arthur Penty
• True Humanism, Jacques Maritain
• Two Nations, The, Christopher Hollis
• Unfinished Universe, The, T. S. Gregory
• Valerian Persecution, The, Father Patrick Healy
• What Man Has Made of Man, Mortimer Adler
• Work and Leisure, Eric Gill