Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind

Breaking Bread with the Dead

A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind

By
Alan Jacobs
Alan Jacobs
2020 • 192 pages

Ratings8

Average rating4.1

15

List

254 books

2020 Reads

hcnewton
hc.newton
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Junkyard Cats
Not Dressed
The Institutes of Christian Religion

List

92 books

2020 Library Love Challenge

hcnewton
hc.newton
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
Be Frank with Me
Stone Cold Magic
A Beginning at the End
The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant
Academ's Fury
Burn the Dark

List

1,039 books

Nonfiction

DebNance
Deb Nance
Barefoot Books World Atlas Sticker Book
Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World
Sinister Savannah
Deadly Spider Bite!
The Whaleship Essex: The True Story of Moby Dick
Skulls!
Half-Earth

List

76 books

Community

DebNance
Deb Nance
The Turquoise Table: Finding Community and Connection in Your Own Front Yard
Red at the Bone
Bear Came Along
Ogilvy
Aftermath
Bikes for Sale
Room On Our Rock

List

249 books

Books About Books

DebNance
Deb Nance
Shakespeare Wrote for Money
The Wednesday Wars
Better Than Life
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Biblioholism
Beowulf on the Beach
Bad Things Happen

List

91 books

Reading

DebNance
Deb Nance
Reading magic
More Baths, Less Talking
The End of Your Life Book Club
You've GOT to Read This Book!

List

78 books

Learning

DebNance
Deb Nance
Disrupting Class
From Where You Dream
Life-Size Zoo: From Tiny Rodents to Gigantic Elephants, An Actual-Size Animal Encyclopedia
Play
Work Hard. Be Nice.

List

235 books

The Classics Club

DebNance
Deb Nance
The Metamorphosis
The Remains of the Day
The Castle
The Cherry Orchard
Frankenstein
Essays
Appointment in Samarra

List

58 books

Philosophy

PeterseanEsq
Peter Sean BradleySupporter
Hannah Arendt
Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism
Dictionary of Scholastic Philosophy
The Mystery of the Supernatural

List

14 books

Literature

PeterseanEsq
Peter Sean BradleySupporter
The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction
The Odyssey
The Nothing Man
The Club Dumas
Ballads Weird and Wonderful
Contested Will

List

21 books

Nonfiction

PeterseanEsq
Peter Sean BradleySupporter
The End of the Day
Reformation Myths
The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
The Pirate
Ship of Fools

List

38 books

Philosophy

Alex.Shtarbev
Alex Shtarbev
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
Resistance, Rebellion and Death
Moral Tribes
Apocalypse Never
White Guilt
Lives of the Stoics
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

List

39 books

2026 Reading Plan

mrsreily
Mrs. Reily
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Orthodoxy
The Best Cook in the World Tales from My Momma's Southern Table
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
Rereadings
Empire of the Summer Moon

List

13 books

Education Literacy Literature and Language

mrsreily
Mrs. Reily
The Death of Christian Culture
The Restoration of Christian Culture
How to Read a Book
Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
Rereadings
Beauty in the Word