What to Read After Great Lent
Readers who loved Great Lent by Alexander Schmemann keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Great Lent is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Great Lent
The Orthodox Church
The Orthodox Study Bible
The Orthodox way
Beginning to Pray
The Mountain of Silence
Becoming Orthodox
The gurus, the young man, and Elder Paisios
The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church
The Ladder of Divine Ascent
For the Life of the World
Christ the Eternal Tao
The Way of a Pilgrim
Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives
Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future
The Soul After Death
The Inner Kingdom
Between Heaven and Hell
Wounded by Love
The Triads
Nihilism
Gifts of the Desert
The Orthodox Church
Thirsting for God in a Land of Shallow Wells
On the Divine Images