YDM Library

Welcome to our virtual library! This is a list of books that we would recommend to youth on the various topics listed below. We have most of these books in the Youth Room and you are welcome to borrow any of them!

Apologetics/Understanding the Catholic Faith

  • Why We’re Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love, Trent Horn

  • What Catholics Really Believe: Answers to Common Misconceptions about the Faith, Karl Keating

  • Why I Am Catholic (and You Should Be Too), Brandon Vogt

  • Answering Atheism: How to Make the Case for God with Logic and Creativity, Trent Horn

  • Hard Sayings: A Catholic Approach to Answering Bible Difficulties, Trent Horn

  • Counterfeit Christs: Finding the Real Jesus Among the Imposters, Trent Horn

  • Life Is Worth Living, Fulton Sheen

  • Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?, Carl Olson

  • A Biblical Walk Through the Mass: Understanding What We Say and Do in the Liturgy, Edward Sri

  • Theology for Beginners, Frank Sheed

  • Theology and Sanity, Frank Sheed

  • Handbook of Catholic Apologetics, Peter J. Kreeft, Ronald K. Tacelli

  • The Real Story of Catholic History: Answering Twenty Centuries of Anti-Catholic Myths, Steve Weidenkopf

  • The Seven Big Myths about the Catholic Church: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction about Catholicism, Christopher Kaczor

  • Forty Anti-Catholic Lies: A Mythbusting Apologist Sets the Record Straight, Gerard Verschuuren

  • Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven but Never Dreamed of Asking, Peter Kreeft

  • Will Catholics Be Left Behind?: A Catholic Critique of the Rapture and Today’s Prophecy Preachers, Carl Olson

  • Behold Your Mother: A Biblical and Historical Defense of the Marian Doctrines, Tim Staples

 Evangelization/Sharing the Catholic Faith

  • How to Share Your Faith with Anyone: A Practical Manual of Catholic Evangelization, Terry Barber

 Prayer·

  • Finding True Happiness: Satisfying Our Restless Hearts, Fr. Robert Spitzer

  • When Women Pray: Eleven Catholic Women on the Power of Prayer, Kathleen Beckman

  • If Your Mind Wanders at Mass, Thomas Howard

  • Demons, Deliverance, and Discernment: Separating Fact from Fiction about the Spirit World, Fr. Mike Driscoll

  • Exorcism: The Battle against Satan and His Demons, Fr. Vincent Lampert

  • Prayer for Beginners, Peter Kreeft

  • Prayer Primer: Igniting a Fire Within, Fr. Thomas Dubay

  • Introduction to the Devout Life, St. Francis De Sales

Personal Growth/Culture

  • The Other Side of Beauty: Embracing God’s Vision for Love and True Worth, Leah Darrow

  • Extreme Makeover: Women Transformed by Christ, Not Conformed to the Culture, Teresa Tomeo

  • The Contraception Deception: Catholic Teaching on Birth Control, Patrick Coffin

  • How I Stayed Catholic at Harvard: 40 Tips for Faithful Catholic Students, Aurora Griffin

  • Disorientation: How to Go to College without Losing Your Mind, ed. John Zmirak

  • The Porn Myth: Exposing the Reality Behind the Fantasy of Pornography, Matt Fradd

  • Persuasive Pro-Life: How to Talk about Our Culture’s Toughest Issue, Trent Horn

  • Can a Catholic Be a Socialist?, Trent Horn & Catherine R. Pakaluk

Saints

  • Holy Handmaids of the Lord: Women Saints Who Won the Battle for Souls, Julie Onderko

  • A Family of Saints: The Martins of Lisieux, Fr. Stephane-Joseph Piat

Classical Christian Reads   

  • The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics