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Books like Pascal’s Pensées

What to read after Pascal’s Pensées by Blaise Pascal: 24 titles sharing themes of Renaissance, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Christian Church, and Catholic, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Top related books to Pascal’s Pensées

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Pascal’s Pensées.

The Hardest Part A Centenary Critical Edition — G a Studdert Kennedy

G. A. Studdert-Kennedy

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Christian Church • Essays

The Essential Pope Benedict XVI His Central Writings and Speeches

Pope Benedict XVI

Themes: Christian Church • Catholic • Essays

Pens閑s

Blaise Pascal

Themes: Renaissance • Catholic • Essays

The Hidden Encyclical of Pius Xi

Georges Passelecq

Themes: Christian Church • Catholic • Essays

The ‘Commentaries’ of Pope Pius II (1458-1464) and the Crisis of the Fifteenth-Century Papacy

Emily OBrien

Themes: Renaissance • Christian Church • Catholic

Let Us Dream The Path to a Better Future

Pope Francis

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Catholic • Christianity

The History Of St. Dominic Founder Of The Friars Preachers (1891)

Augusta Theodosia Drane

Themes: Catholic • Essays • Christianity

Monk’s Notre Dame

Edward A. Malloy

Themes: Catholic • Essays • Christianity

When We Were the Kennedys A Memoir from Mexico, Maine

Monica Wood

Themes: Catholic • Essays • Christianity

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Papal Indulgences Two Lectures (1852)

Robert Maguire

Themes: Catholic • Essays • Christianity

#11

Mistress of the Vatican The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope

Eleanor Herman

Themes: Christian Church • Catholic • Christianity

#12

Fatal Discord Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind

Michael Massing

Themes: Renaissance • Christian Church • Christianity

#13

God’s Secret Agents Queen Elizabeth’s Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot

Alice Hogge

Themes: Renaissance • Christian Church • Catholic

#14

Reading Augustine in the Reformation The Flexibility of Intellectual Authority in Europe, 1500-1620

Arnoud S. Q. Visser

Themes: Renaissance • Christian Church • Christianity

#15

Susanna Wesley The Complete Writings

Susanna Wesley

Themes: Christian Church • Essays • Christianity

#16

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding In Four Books; Volume 1 — John Locke

JOHN. LOCKE

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Essays • Literary Collections

#17

Heretics

G. K. Chesterton

Themes: Catholic • Essays • Christianity

#18

The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

Themes: Renaissance • Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Essays

#19

Europe and the Faith

Hilaire Belloc

Themes: Christian Church • Catholic • Christianity

#20

Evangelical Anxiety A Memoir

Charles Marsh

Themes: Essays • Christianity • Personal Memoirs

#21

Augustine A New Biography — James J. O’Donnell

James J. O'Donnell

Themes: Christian Church • Essays • Christianity

#22

The Confessions

Saint Augustine (of Hippo)

Themes: Christian Church • Essays • Christianity

#23

Early Christian Lives

Carolinne White

Themes: Christian Church • Essays • Christianity

#24

The Impossibility Of The Immaculate Conception As An Article Of Faith In Reply To Several Works Which Have Appeared On That Subject Of Late Years (1855)

Jean Joseph Laborde

Themes: Catholic • Essays • Christianity

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Renaissance, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Christian Church — the same threads that run through Pascal’s Pensées by Blaise Pascal. Among the authors featured: G. A. Studdert-Kennedy, Pope Benedict XVI, Blaise Pascal, Georges Passelecq, and others.