What to Read After The Desert Fathers
Readers who loved The Desert Fathers by Helen Waddell keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Desert Fathers 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 The Desert Fathers
The Orthodox Study Bible
Beginning to pray
Early Christian writings
The Desert Fathers
Conferences
Early Christian lives
The Wisdom of the Desert
Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)
On the unity of Christ
On the divine images
The Zohar
Spiritual Direction and Meditation
Whatever You Are, Be a Good One
Conjectures of a guilty bystander
The Ladder of Divine Ascent
The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church
Water from a Deep Well
The Way of a Pilgrim
The rule of St. Benedict in English
For the life of the world
The Everlasting Man
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Confessions
Orthodoxy